🇵🇱 For CHEAPER than a UK train I flew to POLAND

stick around to the end of this video

because we're gonna see if I can go to

Poland check out a brand new city brand

new country that I've never been to

visit some football teams eat some food

see a great City all for less than a

train ticket within the UK considering

it's five in the morning it's actually

quite light out here yeah I'm absolutely

knackered I'm exhausted this morning but

I did a video very very similar to this

um where I visited Denmark

um all for less than a train ticket from

Glasgow to Brighton my mate invited me

to an FA Cup match down in Brighton but

I just couldn't go in the end the cost

of just the train alone was absolutely

extortionate check out what I said

during that video earlier this year

we're gonna see if I can go to Europe

have an amazing time visit different

stadiums fly there get a hotel all the

things involved in taking a trip to

Europe all for less than the price of a

return train ticket from Glasgow to

Brighton a friend of mine suggested that

I go with him to Brighton away in the FA

Cup he like me is a Liverpool fan and he

suggested that I go down with him and so

I thought yeah why don't I have a look

at it I don't think I could go in the

end because of the other fixtures that

I'm needing to see

um within Scotland that weekend however

I thought I wasn't going to drive all

the way down from Glasgow to Brighton

that is a huge Trek why didn't I check

out how much the train is going to be so

the game is on Sunday so if I wanted to

leave Glasgow on Saturday get there the

day before and leave the day after it

was gonna cost me upwards of around 186

quid an off-peak return was 186 yeah

we've got 186 pounds and my flight back

from Poland is about

26 hours after my flight there so we

have around 24 hours basically got a day

in Poland it's a football channel so

we're gonna check out at least hopefully

one football team we went to two in

Copenhagen

um but yeah we're gonna be visiting the

stadium which hosted the Euro police

final between Man United and Villarreal

as well as checking out Poland too so

let's get in the terminal check-in and

hopefully

grab a little bit of sleep on the plane

there we go

one small step for Sam North

one giant leap for the adventures here

we go taking my first steps inside of

Poland and we gotta get on a bus

we have to find the way out I wonder how

much it's all going to cost and where

we've actually gotta go

here we go

are we gonna take the Pocky egg are we

gonna take the auto bus or a taxi I

think it's got to be

the blue let's go

one ride for all lines 480s Lottie

um let's buy one of those

now obviously I'm gonna tell you

everything at the end of the video how

much it will cost but 480 I've just

checked revolute that's the perfect

thing about revolute again it's not

sponsored by revolute wish it was

um 92p I did 2p to get the bus uh to the

airport has unreal value here

thank you

I just met two of the nicest English

guys who um weren't on my flight they

were in coming one from Stansted Airport

and they'd been to Poland numerous times

they didn't want to be on the Vlog but

they just brought me down here which is

apparently the main street of gadance

and it is absolutely beautiful look at

this

Poland my first ever steps inside of

Poland I feel like uh at the airport

it's not real it's not like really

really inside the country but now look

at this look at these buildings here

we will be going to uh the football club

in a second and it is where man united

played Villarreal like I already said in

the Europa League final uh quite

recently look at this we've got a

massive cathedral in the back and this

is I think one of the main epicenters

for uh for World War II as well so I'm

gonna find out a little bit more about

that but we need a coffee first still

had one

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although it's called Dance Canal it

hasn't always been the case it used to

be called the free city of Danzig which

is actually a German word I think for

Gdansk and it actually used to be more

populated by German people but I think

it would have been Prussia back then

though

um in those times but it's changed hands

a lot down here as a lot of Poland and

it specifically changed a lot and it's

been this way it is today since the end

of World War II three pound 84 for the

coffee they last quite a lot but we are

in oh look at that down there quite a

touristy area here here we go this is

the World War II museum the main

entrance is this way we're going to go

in in a second but I believe is this an

air raid show where it says it might be

does make sense that that would be like

an air raid shelter that they've kept

from the war

can't come to Poland and not check out

stuff about World War II and you'll see

I'll show you on a map right now where

Gdansk actually is right in the north of

Poland on the coast as you can see but

it is basically slap bang in the middle

of where sort of Warring superpowers

have been for centuries your Russia's

yeah Germany's Impressions all the way

back to when uh Russia was ruled by the

SARS and uh yeah Germany was Prussia and

then all throughout World War One World

War II

um this has been a really troubled part

of the world but it's amazing to be here

now in such peaceful times considering

what this area has been through down the

years 29 zloty five pound 50 ish to get

in here and um seems like a massive

Museum

but here we go the second world war was

the most tragic conflict in the history

of humanity was launched by the

totalitarian regimes of Germany and the

Soviet Union which Incorporated with

each other they committed acts of

unimaginable cruelty and crimes in the

name of Lawless ideologies so there was

some great stuff in the museum um that I

got some clips of that I'm going to give

you a voiceover for just now obviously

you can look into World War II yourself

what started it what ended it and stuff

but there were so many things even from

like Gdansk itself so like the object

objects on screen right now are from

gdank's prison

um which is where people were held

during the war Polish people obviously

um polish prisoners were taken there

um and obviously not treated very well

um by the powers that be at the time

this was a huge part of the coast which

um Poland was trying to defend after

Germany attacked Poland on the 1st of

September 1939 that's what set off the

second world war Poland's allies France

and Great Britain declared war on

Germany two days later but didn't launch

the agreed-upon offensive on the Western

Front just then

um according to Hitler's orders the

objective of attack was to obliterate

polish statehood or the military

operations which were aimed equally at

the armed forces and civilian population

were to be conducted with the utmost

brutality Joe Germany and the Soviet

Union actually work together on

partitioning Poland and on the 17th of

September the Soviets too invaded Poland

and that did complete the partition of

Poland in those early stages of the war

um Poland and Lithuania were to be in

the third reich's sphere of influence

while the Soviet Union was basically

given Latvia Estonia Finland Romania and

Central and Eastern Poland so sorry yeah

the west of Poland and Lithuania were

sort of under Germany's control but

absolute or atrocities that these people

these poor people and the Jewish people

went through they were humiliated they

were coerced into cutting off each

other's beards

um the cities of Poland were bombed by

German luftwaffe there was so much

discrimination against the poor people

of Poland they were put in Freight cars

like this one and sent to concentration

camps all around the country but yeah

like I showed you on the map earlier

um it's quite a key location

strategically and thus played a big

important part in World War II almost a

quarter of Poland's entire population

died between 1939 and 1945 absolutely

mad stuff and what a museum that is in

there I sadly couldn't spend as much

time in there as I wanted

um it's currently quarter past two and I

want to get down to the stadium and have

some food and show you some other things

as well but you could honestly spend

four or five hours in there genuinely I

went around fairly quickly but I hope I

did enough Justice of the um of the

story during the war to show you

especially like particularly linked back

to Gdansk as well but Poland in general

I mean absolutely destroyed during the

war when the Soviets and the Germans

were allies in the early days they cut

up Poland and kept pieces for themselves

and then once Germany turned on the

Soviet Union and then the Soviet Union

obviously fought back against Germany

that's when the tide of the War chains

in Germany started to lose bit of its

battle for most of its power and then

the war eventually came to an end

because of that I suppose

Poland was in the middle of it again so

even when the Soviets and the Germans

were getting along Poland's in the

middle of it all some disastrous effects

on the country and then obviously when

Germany and the Soviets were fighting

probably just as bad if not worse for

them all the concentration camps the

Holocaust the genocides of the poor

Jewish population as well but yeah you

can learn more about it if you're going

to come to Gdansk in this incredible

museum for five quid as well you could

spend hours and hours in there sadly I

don't have the time today but I feel

like after that I need a beer

what about Gdansk the city is it a nice

place people should come more it's 1 000

years old history wow it is the Amber

way from the penis

through the Vienna through the Rome

through the Nepali from thousands of

years yeah they sell ambers there is

fish Marks here well there was the fish

market yeah in the 15th century there

was a lot of fights about nice yeah yeah

because there was German there was no

strike yeah there was a Russian the

Russian burned the town in 95 and where

they where they came to rescue us yeah

they burned the town and they had to

rebuild we have to reveal it's a

beautiful city as well it's like new and

old this is 500 years old 500 years old

even a little bit more wow they they

they used to be in 1481 1482 yeah and

should more people come and visit grants

oh sure but there's many people here in

the summer yeah there's crowded so much

there was maybe four or five years ago

the guys was like the visitor was 6

Millions per season

the bee is great the people are nice the

prices are fantastic as well and the

weather's amazing look at this but um

how lucky are we how lucky are you to be

watching this YouTube video noxus my

Channel watch me in general like after

seeing what we just saw in that museum

how lucky am I just to be sat here in

these peace times in Poland and get

dance used to be a free City then it was

obviously occupied for so long and uh

has changed hands down the years but now

it is a part of Poland and um you know

it's it's a beautiful place to come and

visit we're so lucky to be sat here I

want you to stop whatever you're doing

right now

um and look around you maybe you're on

the train to work maybe you're watching

at home maybe you're watching on your

phone or your laptop just to take in

what is surrounding it just take in

um your home or your commute or whatever

and just appreciate how lucky you are

um just to be sort of living in the time

that you are compared to obviously the

people that um that we just saw in that

museum sadly still not eating anything

yet we're gonna have this quickly now

two pound fifty beer you can't beat that

now I know the um

Airport bus was like 90p

but Uber seems very cheap as well so

we're gonna grab an Uber when we did

this video in Denmark the flight was

cheap the hotel was cheap ish

um but everything there was quite

expensive whereas here I feel like we're

gonna get a great bit of value honestly

still quite a bit to play with too so

um yeah let me order this Uber and we'll

get get down to the ground this is a

football channel after all do you like

collector dance

oh you're from Ukraine okay right

fernandinho

um

how long have you been in Poland

since the since the war in Ukraine

do you think you'll ever return

you hope to yeah

so shakhtar

even before the war

they were playing in Kiev

they play their football matches in Kiev

for a number of years

what a cool guy I mean and I was just

saying about how lucky we should feel

after visiting the World War II museum

he's from Ukraine he's here as a refugee

from the donbass region which if you

know your stuff about the what's going

on out there right now Jesus anyway what

a cool guy but we give him giving him a

tip on Uber a really nice person anyway

here we are look at this at Poland's

golden Stadium the pole sap plus Arena

home of lekia gadansk here are lucky

gransk in the table look at them they

are are they going to get relegated I

think they've got three games left

and they're nine point yeah they're oh

11 points away yet they're going down

they're going to get relegated and

they're playing this huge Stadium

um but let's go and see if we can get

inside

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when was The Stadium built

okay then you shared that with Ukraine

yes this construction is local like a

base like a skeleton of the ship yeah oh

nice okay and so it's Amber because that

is the city's Stone you say yeah is the

shape of our stand as you can see in the

middle is slightly higher in the corners

yeah because it's the shape of the wave

final for the Europa League was here

yeah recently

it's Manchester United shirt

and oh yeah they played Villareal in the

final so Gdansk this is when you had the

Euros yeah

yeah oh this is in the city right that's

the cathedral yeah this is uh on our Old

Town yes I saw that earlier today we

have some memory flags for example this

is

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for Barcelona you can see here this is a

sign of

um Leo Messi oh is that messy there yeah

yeah that is messy wow

Messi Alexis and where's Neymar

um

Ah that's Neymar

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foreign

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a lot of the players in Poland religious

so they'll come and pray before again

actually it was a rule from the UEFA but

if you want to have a Euro on your

Stadium you need to have this kind of

place oh it says Euro 2012 on there

that's why we have this kind of place is

this what it looks like when it's full

yeah this is from that much as I said

the biggest

biggest and there was a 37 000 people

first in Poland a hybrid one oh a first

hybrid pitch in Poland okay cool that

means that is made 70 of the real grass

and they're 30 of the fake one okay cool

yeah that's why we change it after about

the three to four years yeah but of

course it depends on how much it was

used it feels very big from here when

you're down there so it feels very big

yeah and it's 42 000. yeah exactly and

if you look closer to the middle of our

you can see that it's slightly higher

than the rest yeah

is it to drain the water yeah yeah okay

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that was Unreal

you're not going to believe how much

this tour costs this is Braga prices

honestly and how weird is this every

time I do a tour for this price it's

always a private tour it's the same at

Braga let me just load up revolute four

pound 82 I think the Braga one was six

Euros which is like a Fiverr as well

less than five pound for a stadium tour

there and it's actually really really

good as well so yeah this Stadium here

was built for the Euros in 2012 and it

is an absolute beast and I like that

they've like put some um thought into

the design like it's meant to look like

a bit of a ship they have the wavy sort

of seat design to

um as a as like a nod to the waves of

the see I guess and then the gold or the

Amber from the outside is because uh the

Amber Stone is the stone of Gdansk

anyway it is currently

435 all I've had today is a coffee and a

beer

when you think of Poland this isn't the

first thing you think of is it 20

degrees beaches Blue Water

fine sand

if that sells beer

and food

I think we may have just found Poland's

most scenic restaurant 61's Lottie four

a water

elec

or in football in terms are positive

obviously a view like this and the food

that's about to come which I shall show

you this has been like this Channel's

took me to some weird and wonderful

places but

yeah this has got me up there with one

of the best 11 pounds 40.

just had a couple of Lex couple of

poznans down by the beach

what's a place this is and before we get

back to Scotland in the morning how long

have we got to my flight what is it now

it's uh almost seven o'clock my flight's

at seven o'clock in the morning so I

have to go to the hotel at some point

check in and like the best thing about

these um really really short stays I

have this is the only bag that I need to

bring with me

um I'm gonna get another Uber you know

it's so cost effective and they get you

straight to where you need to go

um yeah I need to show you the hotel

don't I and then we'll get back to

Scotland in the morning and I will wrap

up how much everything has cost I think

they'll be pleasantly surprised

right so there's the airport that we

came into this morning and uh yeah my

booking on booking.com says I should be

around here

Goss skin

uh let's try and find it

it's a weird one

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I know you're in a proper hotel when you

get real key but here we go

for 40 pound a night you get

a few bugs on the floor and a picture of

a waterfall TV a little TV up there I

don't think we're gonna be able to watch

it from the angle let's go on bathroom

watch

hassle do the job we've got about

six or seven hours in here we until we

need to well our flight's a little bit

later than that but yeah we're gonna

have to

do something about the bugs but

it's all right it's a budget trip so my

flight is actually at 5 30 in the

morning I've just checked I've checked

in and yeah something I usually do when

I come away is like on Ryanair you can

book to have an extra bit of baggage or

like choose your seat and get priority

board and it's like one little extra

add-on you get all that stuff it usually

costs like 20 30 quid per passenger

didn't do that today

um or for this trip

um just because I want to keep costs

down obviously literally just got this

bag with me boxes socks camera stuff

laptop chargers that kind of stuff

um and I've not booked my seat so I've

got an ioc

um again just like I did today so that's

fine I'm not middle that's absolutely

perfect but

um yeah I check out of here at what

three four in the morning

it's gonna be a rough one but um yeah

I'm gonna edit the stuff from today and

I'll see you in the morning and maybe

see you when I get back to Scotland not

sure how this vlog's panning out yet but

um yeah we'll go through all the costs

and see if it costs less than a train

ticket within the UK oh what a long day

I got up at what 3 50 this morning I

think it was um I was in the airport at

like just after four flight was at 5 30

but we've made it back to Scotland I've

edited pretty much all the video right

up until this part now so I'm gonna

reveal how much everything cost I had an

amazing time out in Poland but firstly

we had Airport parking that was 19

pounds 99 Pence then my flight was 77

pound 33. well I did this for Denmark

the flight was only 30 quid so I already

spent like a lot more just on the flight

itself the hotel 40 pounds and 49p the

bus from the airport just 92p the coffee

that I had was eight uh sorry three

pound 84. the museum was five pound 57

the beer that I had after the museum two

pounds 70 my first Uber including a tip

was four pound eighty one the tour of

the stadium was just four pounds and 82

Pence that is unreal my Uber from the

stadium to the beach was three pound 86

including a tip and then my food two

beers and a water at the beach was 14

pound 45 and then my Uber from the beach

to the hotel at night was seven pound

seventy six and what did it all come to

I've totaled it up and I actually can't

believe I didn't try to hit 186 I tried

to just go there not spend too much

um and get sort of in and around that

region it came to 186 pound and 54 P

pretty much on the nose from what that

train ticket would have cost me when I

did this video originally what I was

thinking of going from Glasgow to

Brighton so for just the train from

Scotland to Brighton we had all that

stuff everything that you've seen in

this video was just the cost of the

train if I wouldn't have had like one

extra beer here or maybe I'd have got a

bus instead of an Uber it would have

come under that amount um I may have

been able to get a cheaper hotel if I'd

have booked it in time I booked the

hotel a day before I booked the flights

like a week before so maybe if I'd have

booked it further in advance I would

have saved a bit of money maybe going at

different times of year you'd save money

as well

um so yeah what a great challenge this

has been I absolutely love these types

of videos where I go to completely new

places as you may be able to see through

my videos I don't just love the football

I love the history of places the

geography everything like that and to

mix it all together these are genuinely

like my favorite videos to film I

absolutely love it if you want to check

out that Denmark video then I will leave

it on screen right now yeah do go and

check it out it'll either be here or

here either side of my head

um yeah if you haven't already seen that

one similar challenge to this

um where I try to see some football and

some culture within Copenhagen all for

less than that price that I just showed

you there so yeah thank you so much for

watching till the end please do click on

that Denmark video and goodbye