what's up you guys and welcome back to the channel this is a little extra video that we decided to
do because we received loads of messages from you guys over on instagram asking why we are in
poland and how safe poland actually is with the situation that is going on next door basically
how the situation is with refugees and immigrants and all of that obviously we
have only been in poland for two weeks we're nowhere near the border at the moment we're
in the south of poland actually in krakow and we just thought we might give you a little bit of a
walk and talk type of video just easy going to explain the situation at the moment yep absolutely
so we've been as naomi said in krakow now for two weeks we're coming up actually onto our third week
in poland tomorrow we're moving to a new town that's further south here in poland and we're
super excited to check that place out it's a very interesting place but as naomi said you guys have
been sending over message after message asking us what the situation is actually like because we are
well aware obviously of what's happening next door it's not that far away you can definitely feel
energetically here there has been kind of a shift in energy people are a little bit on the low side
vibrationally you can feel it in people they're a little bit on the fearful side going about
their daily life and we've been outside walking exploring seeing things around here
in krakow for quite some time i'm going to turn this around give you guys a little bit of a view
of what we're walking around in right now this is just a neighborhood where we are actually staying
at here in krakow it's a beautiful place lots of greenery and lots of locals actually around here
because that's something that i kind of want to touch on here at the start of this video a lot
of the accommodations here uh in and around all over poland actually has gone up in price airbnb
booking.com all of the typical places that you would book your accommodation they've all gone up
in price and that's simply to do with the higher influx of people that are coming into the country
immigration a lot of things a lot of different factors obviously inflation as well is happening
across all of europe currently at the moment so that's obviously going to factor in as well
in terms of the accommodation costs people raising their prices like we noticed we were in albania
not that long ago staying in an airbnb we booked a one month airbnb in a beautiful coastal
destination in albania and we only played we only paid 230 something euro for the entire month here
in poland we booked two weeks in krakow and we had to book a place that was well outside the center
and we paid a lot more than 230 euro we paid around 500 euro for those two weeks so
double the cost for two weeks less time in the place itself so that gives you an idea guys of the
cost of living it's definitely going up and i'm sure it is probably affecting or starting to
affect some of the locals here in poland generally speaking though the reason why we wanted to make
this video this little quick walk and talk video i'll turn you guys back around so you can see more
um poland is as safe as the rest of europe and what do i mean by that
i understand poland is very very close to the current situation that's going on next door
but if that situation does get any worse so if that situation does come across in to poland or if
the situation does come across into somewhere like romania or anywhere that's in the european union
all of europe is going to be involved in that situation so that's what i mean
poland is right now as of today today is the 18th of may 2022 and it is about as safe as the rest
of europe is so if you're in ireland england or sorry england's not a part of europe anymore
they got away from us ireland spain portugal france anywhere like that um you're about as safe
as we are right now walking through poland so think about it very true and um just in terms of
notable noticeable things maybe in krakow itself first of all check out this amazing market here
little look at my local market really cute and in terms of noticeable changes maybe that we see
at the moment here in krakow obviously you do see a lot of cars that have a ukrainian license plate
but that really doesn't really change much it says ua instead of pl on the license plate that
is about the extent of what you see in terms of cars you do see a lot of people
that have suitcases but um to be honest those people could be tourists as well unless you
walk up to that person listen to the language they're speaking so if you understand ukrainian
or you know what ukrainians sound like you might know okay these people are ukrainians
but unless you do that these people might as well be just normal tourists visiting poland you do
see loads of tourists such as germans italians turkish people whatever people from all over
the eu really visiting poland at the moment as well so these people that dog is not happy
so you do see loads of tourists around here but they might be refugees or they might just be
normal tourists visiting the area so unless you actually walk up and ask them you wouldn't
know the difference really and it doesn't really give you a different feeling about
the city or the area as well they're just normal people coming from rough times
absolutely yeah we met a ukrainian guy as well when we were in albania and we
had a beer with him and the situation is horrible that's going it's going on over there
but there's nothing that we can do about it realistically being where we are and
there's nothing that the people of poland can do obviously the polish government can take action
and if they want the european union can take action if they want but that's all up to them
for us right now and for the people of poland i suppose all we can do is keep living exactly
so if you are sitting at home right now wondering can i visit poland this year to be honest if
you're from the european union i don't think that it makes that much of a difference if the eu
decides to get involved uh big time let's say with soldiers and weapons and whatever
all of the european union will be involved um and that's not only poland that's going
to be germany that's going to be sweden or denmark or france all of the countries
really and then everybody is at danger it's not only going to be poland per se
so yeah i do think poland is probably as safe right now as all of the eu yeah 100 guys so
all these messages all these people that are worrying stuff like that war
um situations like war economic downturn stuff like that it's always going to happen
at some stage in everybody's life you're going to probably experience it if you're luckily enough
you won't experience it but all we can do right now is keep living keep exploring keep seeing
new countries if you do get the chance and we would actually encourage you guys to come
check out krakow check out the rest of poland if you do get the chance and what i would like to say
is well if you do come across ukrainians actually walk up to them and try and start a discussion
like try and start a conversation not necessarily a discussion um and understand what they feel like
what the situation is like for them because i do feel like a lot of them might be by themselves for
example um traveling by themselves and they just need somebody to talk to and not feel alone so
if you do meet somebody definitely walk up to them ask if you can help ask if they would just want to
grab a coffee somewhere and have a conversation just to understand really what it is like for them
and see if you can help maybe definitely guys so we're gonna keep this one short and sweet
my name is luke my name is naomi we are the two mad explorers and this is your reminder to keep
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