I'm SHOCKED at the new MOSCOW | Moscow Vlog 2023

Donna back in the center of Moscow so excited to be here look how beautiful it is I'd actually forgotten just our absolutely stunning this place is um so yeah I feel like an absolute tourist though I've not been here for three years I've forgotten how to suit everything I can't order a taxi and I forgot how the Metro works I forgot I had to scan in and out I actually had no idea where I was going to pop up then but I've actually popped up right next to the Kremlin so I'm going to re-jig my ideas

around today because I was gonna go I was going to head down into about uh Street where I used to live because I used to live here on Arbor Street um but I'm not going to do that I'm going to go to the Kremlin first of all because we're here so far no striking differences except pretty quiet it's Sunday so we'll forgive people for not being out perhaps but it definitely feels very quiet and the other thing that I've noticed just straight away serious lack of men my age around a lot of women a l

ot of elderly people a lot of young people but obviously not a lot of people my age rich devastatingly sad okay so I think when I pop out of this other side here I think we're going to pop it right in front of the Kremlin [Music] still blows me away how amazing this is so quiet I can't believe how quiet it is the first military poster I imagine we're going to find a lot more of those today but like I say just seriously quiet very few people around I don't know whether that's typical or because i

t's Sunday but that's the first serious observation that it's seriously quiet compared to what it usually is or what it was when I was last here [Music] [Music] foreign okay well it's definitely safe to say that it's much busier up here much more lively but still I've got to say quite quiet compared to what I'm used to usually there'll be like things happening up here maybe like a little Carnival or a winter winter festival or just something there's usually something going on up here it feels li

ke it almost feels like the soul has been sort of taken away just feels quiet feels sort of a little bit somber almost but you can't take away from the Beauty look at it just absolutely looking it around us so here behind us this is some Basil's Cathedral just simply breathtaking and it's obviously such a famous landmark in Moscow here behind us here we have the edge of the uh the Kremlin wall not actually in the Kremlin wall I'm in the I'm on the other side of it now to get in you have to pay w

hich I'm not going to do I'm curious as to put in this house there behind us I'm curious how much time he spends there these days and on the other side here we have this beautiful building which if I remember correctly is gum shopping center which now brings me on to my next thing that I want to check because I've heard obviously everyone's heard that all the brands have been stripped from Russia in fact I was looking at it this morning and it's up to a thousand brands have left Russia as part o

f the sanctions so it's going to be interesting to have a little look around here yeah gum shopping center so it's gonna be interesting to look around here where you where there used to be really high-end Brands Western Brands loads of cool shops so uh I think this is going to be a real test to see what is still here if there is and what it's been replaced with absolutely we have the Burberry window and just nothing inside you see all the way through the store there's actually nothing in the who

le store it's the same for Chanel next door although there are a few bags still here probably waiting to be sold so that's an ominous sign from Burberry straight away foreign [Music] well I don't know what people are talking about there's there's still so many shops here I've only seen a few but they're all still here [Music] I've only seen Burberry that's completely closed the rest of them have still got everything in the shop fronts and yeah this looks exactly like what it looked like come on

Blanc even [Music] I don't understand I really was expecting to come into this place and it'd be like a graveyard but this just looks like exactly how I left it this does not make sense Rolex amiga New Balance even Gantt I don't understand I was fully expecting to come in here and have like a wow factor on the video to be like look look how everywhere's closed but it's not it's just everywhere's open it is its own wow factor but definitely not the wow factor I was expecting I decided to leave th

e shopping center and take a little strolled over to arbat Street where I used to live [Music] now when you're here in Moscow there's literally only one way to get around in my opinion and that is these little cool scooters so just download yourselves the whoop that looks a little bit like this just like any sort of Taxi app just come next to it scan yourself in and then off you ride super cheap uh and super fun best way to get around if you ask me [Music] thank you [Music] okay I am on New arba

t Street this is the road parallel to the road where we used to live we used to live just on the other side of this road between our old our back street but we do have our very first big upset right on this road here I think it was either this shot there or the one next to it used to be the best burger place in Moscow it's called um Black Star Burgers and it was literally the best burger place I'd ever been to but I've just driven all the way here for the best burger ever and it's not here so th

at is a big shave Black Star Burger where have you gone maybe you've just relocated maybe you've been kicked out who knows but we're on new Albert Street so there's loads of places that I can go uh oh oh Black Star Burger is here it's just further up okay Black Star Burger I'm still here thank God well like I say everywhere as far as I'm aware everywhere looks exactly the same and I mean honestly exactly the same you wouldn't even know that there was a big W going on people are still living thei

r normal lives no fear on the street there's no extra military on the street there's a few extra military I mean the people that I'm seeing they're like kids like 18 year old kids just oh it's much smaller than it used to be they're like 18 year old kids that have just been drafted probably in their military uniforms and it's marched up and down streets but other than those and maybe a couple of extra policemen there's literally no extra forces on the street so it doesn't feel any in any way int

imidating it literally feels exactly the same I can't put my finger on what's different because there is something different but in terms of the shops the people the restaurants Everything feels the same [Music] um not spicy french fries maybe cheese ball it's french fries no cheese balls thank you guys [Music] okay let's head on to older Street there and see what's see what's happening over there I imagine there's going to be a few changes here because this is where there was a lot of Western b

rands so let's see what it's like now okay well here's the first one it's behind us here on this corner it used to be a Domino's Pizza I'm not sure what that says now but it looks like it's still a pizza restaurant what what's happening quite a lot of the time is I think they obviously have the menus they have the uh the recipe they have the ingredients and they have the supplies so they changed the name and then just call it something new sorry they changed the uh change the name give it a Russ

ian name and then just stay open okay so that's the first one I can see opposite is directly opposite the shot that's closed see just there I'm not sure what that was but that's got the shutter down now [Music] well just like before nothing's changed looks busy loads of people knew what about his sorry older but it's kind of famous for its younger crowd it's Arty crowd so there's a lot of hipsters and young people that hang around here playing music and just hanging out which is really nice and

I can still see that today yeah not a lot of changed it's a beautiful sunny day so that obviously a lot of people on the street there's more people here than there were near the Kremlin until you get right into the Kremlin area so that's interesting but this is a very popular little Street I love walking up down here we've got so many good memories [Music] well another thing that's a little bit interesting if you can just see over my shoulders a couple of policemen now I thought if I was just go

nna be walking down the street clearly filming into a camera I thought maybe they'd have a few questions for me or at least you know tell me to put it away maybe or just asked just hassle me a little bit but really nothing honestly nothing I cannot get over this it's been completely different to what I was expecting in a positive way I mean without getting into any politics whether that's a good or a bad thing but for me it's nice to have some nostalgic moments we'd have to walk down here and fe

el like not a lot has changed [Music] we go another Stars coffee it's just behind me here it used to be the Hard Rock Cafe and it used to be where you could get the best ribs in Moscow or at least my favorite rooms so that's obviously change as well someone could tell what that says that'd be great that's a shame that's gone one of the one of the 1000 companies that are out there we go we're starting to tick them off we've got Starbucks we've got Domino's we've got uh Hard Rock Cafe and I assume

we've got McDonald's McDonald's was just on this corner here so let's uh let's Rush down there see what's taking that place [Music] okay so this was the Madonna's window you can see probably they just stuck a little sticker over the top of that little red uh canopy I used to say McDonald's but they've still got the window let's see and they've still got the little old Graphics that were on the bins see that that's the old graphic that was on the bin let's see what its name is then what have we

got I do not know what that says let me ask someone sorry what's what's the name now what's it called just McDonald's but what does it actually say this says thank you it's pneumatology yeah what does it actually say though it sounds like a taste and the camera oh okay cool worse than McDonald's oh what the food really interesting so I thought maybe they would keep the same menu it looks very similar right yeah same same size because of War McDonald's took a lot went away go away from Russia don

't spot to work yeah sure and uh Russia boats no some Russian company boats McDonald's and made a new brand new brand yes but it is first time it was pretty good but yeah just very bad such a typical conversation with most Russian people super friendly super happy super like wanting to talk to foreigners and I imagine like most of them not supporting the Big W okay my day here is drawing to a close it's getting to nearly five o'clock which is when I need to jump back on the metro to get to the t

rain in time but I decided to take one last little trip down to the river uh so I'm gonna jump back on the whoosh scooter and head down to the river can't come to Russia can't come to Moscow without at least seeing Gorky Park and seeing the river so I'm just on the hunt now for a scooter and I'm gonna jump on [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] so this was one of our favorite things to do oh man Moscow in the summertime you just cannot beat it there is no City like it I promise you it's abs

olutely gorgeous so this is the river this is the river it cuts through Moscow separating the North and the South and also it's housing and also is home to Gorky Park Gorky Park being moscow's biggest I love us um Gorky Park being moscow's biggest part and a really cool Park but you can actually start to see it just open my right shoulder now it's huge loads of fun loads of people just doing so whoa look at this I was not expecting that I was not expecting that that's the first shower I've had s

ince Friday morning because of the flights I've all been on thank you I'm not sure what that was about so here's goalkeeper so as I come over the bridge you can see for the first time just the scale of it I'm curious how big it is compared to like Hyde Park or any other big Central Parks and big cities um I doubt it's as big as say uh hide or Central but it is still massive it's really good congestion on the bridge there we go okay so I've got nine percent left on this battery I'm gonna try and

show you a little bit of water park [Music] thank you [Music] well what better way to end this video than a little bit of barley behind me I didn't even know this was here but this is all I mean about this part just little things just get put up here here and there the last time I was here there's like a big skateboard uh like Center here and then like a big competition so this is really cool look how many people are playing as well love this park so I'm gonna have a little bit of fun here in my

last half an hour and guys and I see you in another video hopefully you've enjoyed this next video will be in ninja grad I'll see you there peace out