today we are going to be living out game
of thrones irl to some this is an
enchanted fortress called the bruvnik
and to others it's known as king's
landing we'll show you why croatia may
be your next destination but it all
starts with a quick week of vacation
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now where does a travel vlogger go when
he wants to take time off of travel well
my ideal vacation was this place right
here croatia is somewhere i've always
wanted to visit ever since i was a kid
and so i began planning what would be an
incredible road trip from split to the
island of brash and of course down to
this world famous castle this video is
going to give you serious inspiration
for your croatia trip
we have just set foot in croatia welcome
to the city of splits and it's my first
time in this country it's blue water
it's rugged cliffsides and it's very
medieval not to mention it's literally
where they filmed some of these castle
scenes in game of thrones he's not a
real game of thrones fan like i am i
finished the whole thing i'm a hardcore
fan what was the name of the city in the
show let's see if you're a real game of
thrones fan
anyways this is so charming like romeo
and juliet that's probably where it
happened right there now this is all
originally built from back in the roman
emperor empire
i don't know 1700 no no sorry
so oliver split you'll see some of the
ancient artifacts left by the roman
empire and right here is some of the old
walls that you'll find like a little
tiny bit of rome so right beneath the
roman walls it begins you feel like
you're going into the cellar the torture
chamber let's go get me some torture
devices
if you're looking for souvenirs this is
definitely a cool place to do it
so back in the roman days this is
actually where they used to store food
and it also used to be at times a
landfill that's what one of the
shopkeepers just told me which i find
very conflicting why would you store
your food where you throw your garbage
but hundreds and hundreds of years later
still being used but for a very
different purpose
a bizarre purpose it is
oh wow
that might have been your best plan
you've ever made
and if you come out here or just in time
for a split sunset sounds like a flavor
at an ice cream parlor
ah speak of the devil there they are the
roman legion they like picked really
tall people
i'm still growing i swear it's the hill
they're standing on the hill
choice is easy so what's it going to be
bronze or vlogger
bronze is looking pretty cute
so ruby found this very beautiful
beautiful restaurant and look it's like
all under here under the beautiful big
trees this is incredible these are the
biggest gnocchi's ever oh my god it
looks so good it smells so good
wow yeah so much more than gnocchi
there's so many different ingredients
really really good
yeah thanks uh whoever parked here
really really appreciate that
good morning guys and another beautiful
day here in split and one of the hidden
gems that we found was actually some
place i just booked online had a bunch
of hugely positive reviews but not too
many because it's pretty new and
everything's walking distance from here
now i want to show you this place and i
want you to picture it for how it looks
because we've destroyed this place but
it does get two thumbs up for me very
nice bed and breakfast style place the
owner's so sweet and every now and then
you can hear a peacock there's like 30
local peacocks in the region
we're checking out of the hotel it's
time to go experience split's own little
brother it's tiny little island right
off the coast of it and we've got a
ferry to catch and as always we're about
to miss it
so just 30 minute ferry away from split
is brush and it's this large island
where we're gonna be spending the next
few days now we have to take the slobo
because we came with a car and that's
gonna take about two hours to get across
but you can already see it getting
across is super cheap it's only like
three to four dollars but with a car
around thirty dollars not too bad though
we're here to get some really delicious
wine for a boat today we're gonna have
this is stina winery antonio has been an
incredible help so we've just tried like
four or five different wines and he just
woke up you guys time to show me
check this out this was the level of the
y and this was made in austria so this
is a century-old company yeah is this
where my wine came from yeah
cool so if you're like me you probably
didn't know a whole lot about croatia
before watching this video one of the
things i've come to learn is that the
food here is like italian level it's so
so good the wine here
also one of their highlights got
ourselves three liters of wine from
white to bread and uh now we're gonna go
meet up with our friends now hands down
the best experiences in travel are when
you get to see a destination through the
eyes of a local and it just so happens
that friends of mine have a home in the
island of brash the next few days my
camera hardly made an appearance and
most of my time went pretty much
unrecorded but take my word for it this
is a special part of the world
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now we're on our way back to split and
from split down south to dubrovnik got
about a three and a half hour drive to
get there and although my vacation's
over i gotta say it's a blessing when
i'm just as excited to go back to work
as i am during my time off so of course
there's a beautiful fruit stand and we
must stop these peaches peaches peaches
so good oh
the fig like this are you
oh my god the birds are delicious
this is so fresh
so this is something very cool about
road tripping through croatia you
actually might end up in another country
and we are now in a country by the name
of bosnia and herzegovina this little
town is called nym and i think this is
really important because it could save
you 75 euros the rental car company was
trying to charge us 75 just to have
permission to cross through this little
tiny split of land i luckily read a blog
and the guy was like if you come through
niem you're not gonna have to pay it and
truth be told we just crossed the border
and they didn't need the permission next
stop dubrovnik literally 10 minutes and
we're crossing back into croatia
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wow three and a half hours of driving
from split and i can already say
worth it this is honestly one of the
most incredible cities i've ever seen i
know what you're thinking girl why don't
you let your guard down like put down
those walls now you might just think
she's been hurt in the past but truth is
that is actually why this is a place
that's been invaded by pretty much every
nation it was first created by the
byzantines it was taken over by the
venetians then the ottomans then the
french the english germans literally
everyone's been here so obviously these
walls aren't working that great but they
did stop a lot of other people now while
the castle may have survived all the
occupiers over the centuries there's one
last foe it must face and that is the
tourist
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oh my gosh
i thought those were statues they're
people this town is so lively there's so
much going on right now
okay so basically if you are cool and
you come here there's a fountain where
you can drink holy water from
so you go from the busy walkways all the
way to cutting into these little alleys
and you can find all these little
restaurants bars hidden in here we've
actually been following this one guys
recommendations frank about croatia by
the way we love you frank if i ever meet
you i'm gonna shake your hand one of the
best ice cream places is dolce pita so
of course we're gonna try it dessert
before dinner let's see if frank is read
about this one
so
so creamy and delicious
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so what you're not going to get from
being in the city at least the old town
is the sunset so right now the sun sets
basically all the way in the west where
it normally goes unless i checked right
now we have probably about 20 30 minutes
left of good light so we're making our
way to the edge of the wall this is a
bit of a tease we must be close i can
see the water this is where they'd have
archers basically posted up or even
artillery depending on the era but they
would use these as a way to shoot what's
down below the amount of effort that
went into defending this place is
incredible and it's beautiful to see
that it's still standing today you
definitely get the feel that there's
actually some local homes left here
which is really cool there's something
so special about this place
so we just found this little gate that
got us through the wall after walking
around the entire wall i'll tell you
it's not easy to find a good viewpoint
and tonight's sunset is literally what
magic is made of look at those colors
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this is such a cool spot guys i don't
think many people know about this spot
look for this restaurant cliffside this
place is so beautiful
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ruby did a lot of research before we got
here for where we should have dinner
tonight and this has brought us to
restaurants of rubnic we're right above
the street level and they've got this
incredible ambiance in here first
impressions of this restaurant
everything sounds delicious michelin
recommended from 2017 and on with
michelin portions yeah that's exactly
what i was gonna lead on to they got us
i'm gonna go right to the chase here 72
hours that's how long this is slow
cooked for this looks like the most
incredible cut of lamb you could ever
ask for
wow very sophisticated pairings like
when you eat that yeah you don't get a
ton but like the way the balsamic mixes
with the ravi i don't even know what was
in there anyways that's why i'm not a
chef it was super good i ordered
tiramisu uh baby
i don't see my dessert can you please go
find it meal was great dessert
disappointing was it worth 125
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maybe okay so
round two
we uh weren't happy with our dessert at
the last place this is what i call a
redemption story you cannot end the
night with a bad dessert
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good morning guys starting the day off
right with a beautiful view and today is
literally our final day here there's
something very interesting that i want
to show you right here now as i
mentioned this is king's landing it's
where they filmed a lot of game of
thrones and this staircase is known as
the staircase of shame i haven't
actually seen this part of the show i
didn't make it that far but there's this
one scene where one of the characters is
basically being booed and having all
sorts of garbage thrown at her as she
walks down these stairs and into the
village completely nude
wow a drink that even the fans can get
behind we have come back to the spot we
were at last night for sunset but the
difference is this time we get to fully
experience it you gonna take it away
three two one
i got it
this is what a european vacation is
meant to look like
so this summer between the grease series
that we did this trip to croatia one of
the things we've come to see a lot of
that typically i'm not quite used to is
actually beaches that look like this
everything is rock you don't really have
these white sand beaches that you see in
the tropics and you know it's different
i wouldn't say i prefer but it does come
with some beautiful water this whole
mediterranean i've just come to fall in
love with it i'm still waiting out for
the world's most perfect beach i don't
know where it is just yet it's a give
and take so in the name of european
taste testing
this is one of the summer drinks of the
continent you see a lot of aperol spritz
something that you never really see
anywhere else today i'm going to try it
out it's okay i kind of like it
we're back at it this might be a new
thing for me wow
this is some serious portions all i'm
gonna say is i spent a few hours today
deciding what to eat and i think i made
the right decision why did they give us
gum with this meal
i don't know that is for the unions we
take care about everything thank you
that's that's much appreciated
especially when somebody i date loves
onions after most meals it's just like a
three or four hour period where there's
no kissing
oh my gosh this is so good like we're
not a food channel here but i'm gonna
just pop on here real quick and say just
come all that was about 50 euros a
person but we got drinks we got amazing
food a little bit too much of it and wow
i'm leaving very satisfied as we ate our
last croatian dinner it was time to get
ready to make the road trip back to
split you are lit don't bother him he's
gonna bite it's all right sorry
i don't i'm sorry the world is a big
place but i know someday i'll be coming
back to dubrovnik so three hours on the
clock to get back to split which is
perfect because we have two hours and 47
minutes left in my audiobook right now
we're listening to atomic habits by
james clear it's all about becoming one
percent better than we were the day
before until we're in a drastically
different place by building up good
habits and uh i'm doing actually a book
study with lost creator academy so i've
got a workshop i'm hosting in two days
so time to get into the book and i'll
see you guys when we make it to split
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you're not gonna believe this i have
never seen this in my life we've just
got back to split and i'm not joking
when i say the most affordable place in
all split was 300 us dollars a night i
even went on a hostile booking website
360 euros so luckily i started searching
by map and i found something in a
surrounding area i had to drive about 40
minutes out but i found a bed for 75. i
just feel so bad for budget travelers
that showed up last minute anyways let
this be a cautionary tale of what
happens when you do europe last minute
can backfire
hello
there's nobody here all right so this is
probably where serial killers would stay
but
that's just the carpet carpet's a little
creepy
oh god the lights just turned off
why the bed is not made it's a bit weird
when the windows open and the bed's
fully undone we can just shower and go
sleep in the car
i don't feel comfortable right now at
least we have a blue carpet that feels a
little bit more safe i think about red
carpet just really screamed like
don't come what do we have this time
look at that
something my grandparents would have
loved it's perfect vintage vibes right
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you never like to see that but anyways
see you guys in three hours
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and that is why you just might be coming
to croatia unbelievable trip by the way
if you want a good alternative check the
grease series and guys if you want to
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