Путеводитель по транспорту Европы: Приложения, штрафы и как сэкономить | Венгрия, Австрия, Испания

Путеводитель по транспорту Европы: Приложения, штрафы и как сэкономить | Венгрия, Австрия, Испания

Here it is, here it is, a Moscow metro car. A pristine resort town. A dude in a suit is walking. It’s 40 degrees above zero, and he’s wearing a blue suit. Who told you we weren’t late? The train is supposed to arrive in 46 minutes. I’m giving it a chance. If you thought you knew something about chaos, then you don’t know anything about it unless you’ve been to the Barcelona train station. Hello everyone, you’re on the Rukaveshka channel. A channel about culture, travel, and history. Today, I decided, as David Lynch suggested in the Eraserhead commercial, to sit on the couch surrounded by toys. Unfortunately, I don’t have Foody Woodpecker, but I do have Hannibal Lecter, and, for example, Hannibal the Rabbit. But today is not about that, not about Hannibal the Rabbit. Today’s video is a bit unusual. I’ll talk about train travel, and a little about plane travel in Europe. I’ll share a few, perhaps they’re called life hacks. I’ll tell you where we were going from where to where, what apps we used, where it’s easier to buy tickets, where it’s more difficult , and generally how it all works, where it’s best to travel, where it’s best not to travel, and what times it’s best not to travel. I’ll also tell you about travel points, train stations, station repairs, train delays , and other such things. Basically, galloping across Europe, as they say. Let’s go! So, let’s begin our journey. We’re from the city of Subotica. It’s a border town on the Serbian-Hungarian border . In February 2026, they promise to launch a direct connection between Budapest and Belgrade, so this route will be much, much faster. In general, they even say they’ll sell tickets from Belgrade to Vienna , and the journey takes about six hours, I think. We probably traveled about 12 hours. Well, here we go, basically. We’ll start our journey from Subotica. There’s a diesel train from Subotica to Szeged, a Hungarian city. Actually, there are two types. I think they’re both made in Russia, from what I’ve read in the comments to my videos. One is a typical Moscow metro train, and the other is a diesel freight train or something like that. It’s also a four-car commuter train, so it’s pretty small. The most important thing to know is that if you want to travel from Subotica to Szeged, or further into Europe via Szeged—a wonderful border town I’ll tell you about in a separate post—there’s one thing you need to know. Don’t buy tickets online. First of all, Serbian Railways doesn’t sell them online. The easiest option is to go to the train station in Subotica. There’s a booth there. Go up to the booth and pay a mere pittance, maybe 3 dollars, 3 euros, or something like that. So, I have my phone in my hand, let’s open the Hungarian Railways app, it’s called MAV, yes, the abbreviation is MAJAR, something like “railways ,” basically, in Hungarian. Let’s open it and take a look, they’ve updated it now, by the way, before this it was really balahtoni, it was really 90s, now at least it looks normal. And now let’s look at Subotica. Do you have Subotica here? Yes. Yes, Szeged. How much is a ticket now? I have a video recording. The ticket costs… So, a train passenger. It’s very strange, why do I… for some reason it also offers a bus to the Tisza River, I don’t understand at all. Although here it is obvious that there is Subotica, there is Szeged. Why another bus somewhere else? Ticket not available. Okay. Everything didn’t go according to plan. Okay, let’s look, for example, at December 8th. Ticket not available. So, at the time of recording the video, there’s only one option left: go to a booth and buy a paper ticket, which will still be cheap. So, let’s go. This time, the Moscow metro took us on a gallop across Europe. I’ll hand over to our correspondent, Anatoly. Anatoly. Here it is, here it is, the Moscow metro car. Well, this beautiful little car will now take us to Szeged, Hungary. The journey takes about an hour, well, an hour and a half from the border . In short, an hour and a half from the Baltic Station to Stroganovo Station, literally. Well, let’s go. Okay, here it is, the city on the other side of the border. Here’s the Szeged train station. Well, here you can immediately feel, yes, the difference from the Saturday, beautiful Szeged, which is in dire need of repair. You can really feel where the money is, and where it isn’t. Well, I have half an hour. Let’s take a little stroll. As I already started saying near the train station, here you can really feel that, well, no matter how it sounds, yes, you are in Europe. Simply because it’s cleaner around here; I’ve already seen tons of street cleaners around here. Well, everything is neat, even though Hungary isn’t exactly my top tidiness ranking . But yes, it’s a real difference . And check it out, the tram is old. Just like the trams in Subotica and Novisad . There’s some kind of cafe there, too. But the funny thing is, you leave the station and immediately see these beautiful new trams parked near the station, opposite the station, ready to pick you up right away. They make everything better on the tram, yes. They can even make a small town look better. And if that town is also clean and tidy, then it’s doubly so. Right, I think I was just passing through there. There’s a stunning cathedral there. Well, let’s go there. And even though there are some worn-out walls here, some uneven asphalt, some trash, some homeless people—I don’t know if there are any, by the way .
Well, there probably are. It’s just hot now, they’ve hidden in their holes. Despite all this, it still feels like the city is, well, clearly richer. I’m not even talking about Budapest, yes, there’s Budapest, Dvograd to compare. Well, if you compare two border cities, roughly the same size, sitting slightly larger, then, again, it’s night and day. And this despite the fact that, as the Serbs themselves tell me, Hungary also has rampant corruption. Well, like, ours is higher, but everyone in Hungary is healthy too. Well, despite all this, I see a clean, I would even say, the cleanest, what do you call it, a clean little resort town, without a sea. Oh, by the way, there’s the Tisza River, right there. But I won’t have time to walk there; I just got out before the train to take a little stroll and show you what goes on here, how they live, what they breathe, what they eat. This is the central cathedral. Of course, Subotica can’t compare in beauty to the Gradská Kuchka, absolutely not. But for me, it probably can’t compare, because I love Hungarian Art Nouveau, Arnuva, that monogram-like gingerbread style. But it’s still incredibly cool, of course. Well, and here, we ‘ll go over it with a little gift. We have various figures here. I’ll definitely include in the caption why they’re here and who they are, but right now, as a tourist, it seems to me that they’re some local Hungarian honorary or not-so-honorary residents. Well, everyone knows this guy. I was a big fan of his even as a kid. They sold audio cassettes of classical music, and they were sold at the Stroganov railway station. I keep thinking about it, this station, and I don’t find a comparison in every video, because I spent my childhood there. They were sold there in the village of Siversky, I lied, not in Stroganovo itself, but Siversky nearby. In the music store, they had audio cassettes with classical music, among other things. I remember picking up a sheet music there. I was pleasantly surprised. He was, of course, a rock star of his time. If you read the history of the Farenzelist. There’s some kind of stage here. We were there last year, and this stage was here. I understand that it’s either set up for the summer or is here all the time. It’s so beautiful there, look. It’s truly something else . Your phone won’t pick it up, of course, but you can see it more or less here. People always make fun of me in Europe because every country has its own flag everywhere. My friend and I joked that it’s because the countries are small, like you’re driving through Europe like a hobo, as they say. And so you know where you are, you look out the window and see, ah, the Hungarian flag, that means I’m in Hungary. So, it’s scorching hot. Now we’re heading towards Austria, then towards Spain. They’re predicting forty degrees in Spain. I feel like I’m going to die there. Although, I don’t know, I feel more or less nothing from the 40s in Novosradi and the Subbotitsa, but 40s in St. Petersburg is death. I don’t know what it’s like in Madrid, we’ll see. Well, you see, it’s all in the details. Landscaping, yes, there’s no trash lying around. The buildings, well, almost all of them are untidy. I saw a couple of old buildings, but most likely they’ll all be restored. There’s a sense of neatness. It’s collected in small details; some are sloppy little things, some are neat. And you kind of put them on a scale, yes, two pans of a scale, and you get a general opinion. The general opinion is neat. We just went and had coffee in a cafe. I was so glad that they don’t smoke in the cafe, that they pour us, damn, a huge mug of coffee, like in Russia we’re used to drinking by the bucket. Here they also poured us a bucket of this coffee. Serbs drink black coffee, little ones like Italians. And here, oh, how the fuck did they give you that coffee? Anyway, I was glad to finally be in a place where you don’t have to worry about whether they smoke in the cafe or not. So, I showed him a little, told him a little, and that’s it, I’m off to the train, and we’re off on a wild ride across Europe. And over there, I think, there’s Natasha. If I’m, if my minus three isn’t deceiving me. No, that’s some guy. Okay. I forgot what to say. What else is different is the smell. The smell of one city is different from another. I mean, Serbia probably smells stronger. And not in a good way. Well, I mean, in every sense of the word. They smoke a lot, because of that they wear a lot of cologne and don’t feel like they’ve washed themselves in perfume, yeah. Perfume requires just a little spray, but they actually wash themselves. And here, it seems, there’s less smoking and the cars are newer, so it smells better. These are my observations. Tourists who come to Hungary for the first time, on the first day, walk around and take down all the signs, because they can’t understand what’s written at all. Everything is so magical and fabulous. Well, this car, I hope. Oh, a normal train. And last time we rode on one like this. In general, we were like kings now. Well, then we board the train to Budapest and, actually, we ride through the fields for half a mile, enjoying the views around. Enjoying the names of the stations without knowing Hungarian is quite difficult, because even pronouncing them at first glance is impossible. But my friends here, Serbs who live in Sobotica, they explained this word. What’s unclear here? We learned it at school, it’s all very simple. For us, it makes us laugh and wonder how anyone can pronounce it. In fact, the names there are quite simple. Little church chamber station and so on. A small house. The trains are different. Last time, last year, we were on one of these, you know, it was missing a reserved seat. It was a diesel freight train, and behind it… These old carriages were traveling. This time, I don’t know, we were lucky or unlucky. I didn’t even understand where it was indicated in the app, in that same one. What type of train is it? Maybe they indicate it more clearly in the new app. Well, in Hungarian, it’s completely unclear. Anyway, this time we were on a really good, cool, high-speed train. Regarding delays, I also wanted to say that in Serbia, more or less, everything runs on schedule. That is, you get on a bus, and the bus leaves at one o’clock. You get on it, 15 minutes to, they let you on reliably, at 10 minutes to, at the latest. You get on, and at exactly one o’clock the bus leaves. The further into the forest, the thicker the partisans are, and the worse things will be. Once you get closer to Spain, it’ll be total chaos. I’ll tell you. There was a delay here, but it was minimal. In the video footage, you’ll see it there for about three minutes, probably. We arrived in Budapest in scorching heat, 40 degrees Celsius, and this left its mark on our next journey from Budapest to Vienna. You’d think, yes, Vienna is a financial center. Well, Germany is a financial center. Well, a financially developed country, everything is beautiful, there’s no trash on the streets. The trains should be amazing, but nope. I’ll tell you why later. Okay, let’s go. 37 degrees Celsius . Hello, Budapest. Last time we came here, we went inside the station. Now it’s something else and the platforms are very narrow. These aren’t really platforms, but some kind of kiskun halash . I need to look at a map. Can you look at a map? Are we in New York or something? These are all cobblestone streets. One after another. I think this is where Zhenya and I were, I think this is here. A familiar place. You’ve got all the seats. Zhenya and I were here. Who are we here with Zhenya ? We’re all here with Zhenya . I can hear the jealousy. A guy in a suit is walking. It’s 40 degrees above zero, he’s wearing a blue suit. He’s totally fine here. A hat. Everyone’s really crossing here. There’s no crossing, but everyone’s crossing. Let’s go. There he is, running, 40 degrees above zero, in black. On the sunny side. This is the design code of Budapest, Hungary. Stick everything on it. Budapest’s public transportation is a separate attraction, and understanding it is easier than it seems. The first thing you need to do is download the Budapest Go app. It’s your best friend; you can plan a route and buy a ticket here. Forget about searching for change at the machines. Just buy your ticket in the app and scan the QR code when you board the transport. It will be either outside near the door or near the driver’s cabin. On the metro, QR codes are near the turnstiles. Speaking of the metro, be sure to ride the yellow M1 line. This is the oldest metro in continental Europe. The carriages look like toys. And if you want a panoramic view of the Danube, take tram number 2. Important: the ticket inspectors here are very stern and love to catch tourists. If you have a paper ticket, be sure to validate it immediately upon entering. In Budapest, they’re strict about this. If they don’t punch a hole in your ticket or punch it, be prepared for a fine. And here’s the most interesting thing: I’ve traveled everywhere in northern Serbia, at least from Belgrade upwards , and I’ve always had mobile coverage. Now, there’s 5G coverage. Surprisingly, as soon as you enter the European Union, the network stops working altogether. That is, it works in some stations, but sometimes it’s just not there between stations. Sometimes there’s some 3G , and sometimes there’s none at all. It’s like you’re driving through a tunnel for 20 minutes and there’s just silence. No connection. It’s absolutely astonishing to me. Don’t you just install a tower? Or how does that even work? Why is this here, but not there? You’re supposed to be more developed, right? In short, it’s some weird thing, completely incomprehensible to me. And why isn’t there a network? It doesn’t work anywhere. Not only was there no network coverage in Hungary, but in Austria, I think, the coverage is even worse. And in Spain, I won’t even mention it. You can travel for half an hour without a network. It’s abnormal. The amazing is right around the corner, as they say. Our column is “The Amazing is Right Around the Corner.” And then we got onto that terrifying train, which left me stunned. The most important thing is that I bought a ticket for this train through that same Mav app. I must have made a fatal mistake and should have bought it through the Austrian Railways app. It’s called, I’ll tell you now, I probably don’t even have it. Yes, I don’t have it, I’ll give you the caption what it’s called. Maybe the trains there would be better. Perhaps the Hungarians are taking revenge on the Austrians for the years of occupation during the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I don’t know. Well, basically, this train, this nightmare, couldn’t be called anything other than a GAZ-Wagen. The temperature was plus 40, let me remind you. The train consists of several cars. In front is this diesel tractor, what is it called? A freight train. Then come these old cars, like, you know, the ones in the movie Murder on the Orient Express. They look like this, only ugly. But you get the idea. Later I discovered that there were two cars in the back with air conditioning. In our cars, the vents only opened at the front and back of the car. You know, these vents, the ones you don’t open like that to get a good breeze, but these vents that open 30 degrees and blow air upwards, scorching hot, naturally, because everything in the car is scorching hot. And that’s it. And you’re sitting in this steamy place, soaking wet from head to toe. There are children in it, there are old people in it. I don’t even know how they got there without heart attacks. Maybe they did have heart attacks. And I can’t imagine what a fuss there would be if they put a car like that on the train between St. Petersburg and Moscow, for example. How they would drive Russian Railways crazy. How they would apologize later. How many newspapers would write about it. How many reports would be filmed about it. It would be a working system. Here, no one cares. Well, I mean, I’m riding like a sack of potatoes thrown into a corner in the heat. No windows, no doors. And I’m like, okay. I’m not even going to complain. Anyway, after about 30 minutes of this languishing in a pot, yeah, they must have made jellied meat out of us. Natasha and I went into the neighboring cars, the ones at the back, where there was air conditioning. And where, by the way, was the working toilet? Just one. I found one for the entire train, this one, there were probably 8 cars, one working toilet in the last car. Plus 40, to let something like this in, it’s either… Or it’s the norm, then it’s… Then I completely doubt the mental capacity of the people who run all this. Or this is some kind of nonsense that no one paid attention to, except for disgruntled Russians, of course. That is, us. These are some kind of gypsies. Hello. Hello, Vienna. So, we traveled for 12 hours. And it’s impossible to travel in this sweatshop. Assholes. They slipped us some counterfeit. What, should we go looking for where to go? Vienna’s public transport works perfectly, like everything else in Austria. Well, except maybe this weird train. The system is unified. The metro, trams, and buses. For payment and navigation, download the Veinmobile app. I hope I pronounced it correctly. But if you’re an active tourist, I recommend taking a closer look at the Vienna Citycard. It not only gives you unlimited travel for 24 hours, 48 or 72 hours, but you also get decent discounts at the museum and even the cafe. There are no turnstiles in the Vienna metro; everything is based on trust. But don’t get too comfortable; checks are frequent and the fines are steep. If you have a regular ticket, validate it in the blue box before entering the platform. And a life hack: you can travel almost the entire historic center by tram along the Ring, admiring the palaces right from the window. There’s another very interesting life hack—well, not really a life hack— that many people know about, millions of people know about it, but I’ll tell you because, for example, Misha, with whom we were walking around Tarragona and to whom we were also going, didn’t know that it’s possible to fly to Slovakia, but to Austria. What I’m talking about is Vienna Airport, it’s such a huge hub. Bratislava’s airport is very small, and there are also trains there, but I wanted to say that flights are more expensive. Vienna is such a huge hub, and it’s incredibly convenient. You fly into Vienna Airport, for example, from somewhere in Europe, hoping that sanctions will be lifted from Russia someday . You arrive and need to get to Slovakia, say, Bratislava. You don’t have to search for tickets to Bratislava on aggregators; you search for tickets to Austria, to Vienna. You fly to Vienna, and a bus pulls up there, which takes you to Bratislava in just half an hour. The distance there, if you look at a map, in case you didn’t know, is literally miles away. Prospekt Prosveshcheniya and Kupchino are literally miles away. And why am I even saying this? We wanted to visit our daughter in Bratislava, and there are two routes from Vienna to Bratislava. It’s either take the train, which is slightly more expensive, or take a regular Flixbus, or there are a million of those buses, and get to Bratislava in an hour, just like the train . And in our case, we got exactly to where we needed to go. Otherwise, we would have had to walk. But here we took a bus, to Mliva, Nyvy, I don’t remember. It’s in the video about Bratislava; we arrived right on time. And we were going through the airport, the bus stopped for about 15 minutes, all the planes got off, and we continued on. So people don’t even bother flying to Bratislava; it’s much more convenient for them to fly home via Vienna. Such distances are ridiculous. That’s something else worth mentioning. In the video about Belgrade, about Yugoslavia, about Sava Venets, sitting at the Belgrade train station, I said at the end of the video how surprising it is that they don’t have left-luggage offices. And I was told in the comments that this is normal for Europe because it’s done for security reasons, yes, to prevent terrorists from bringing anything in there. But there are supposedly no restrictions. And here’s the amazing thing. Again, I don’t understand the logic. That is, it doesn’t exist here, so I don’t understand it. This really didn’t happen at the train stations in Belgrade or Budapest, and I didn’t see it at the Vienna train station either . There were no storage lockers. But 99% of bus stations have storage lockers. And it was the same here. Sasha and I went to a storage locker and put her suitcase away without any problems. I don’t understand, at the train station it’s security, but at the bus station what does it mean? Well, you either lock it everywhere, or open it everywhere. It’s very strange. Well, secondly, based on the fact that you can’t leave a suitcase at regular train stations, there are zones around the city, special lockers where you can for a fee, just like at the train station in Russia. There’s a separate room, building, apartment, office, where you can leave your suitcase for a fee. Meanwhile, we switch to our correspondent Anatoly at the Bratislava bus station. A fast-paced, businesslike hamster tries to check his luggage. A cheerful, businesslike hamster returns. What, where? Outside. It’s so logical, right? There are indicators everywhere that help us find what ‘s outside. We’ve put a premium on the robot. What do you mean here? Robots have taken over the world. A robot will make you coffee if you want. In Vienna, getting to the airport is actually quite convenient. There’s a separate high-speed train from the city center without stops, as far as I remember. It really zips to the airport. There’s just an express train that goes to the airport every half hour. We left on that, I think. Yes, we have a low-cost airline, it was very early, and we rode on the first train, like on a boat, flew into the airport, and completely calmly boarded and flew to Spain. It’s quite convenient in Spain; there’s a metro right at the airport. It’s all pretty typical in Madrid, pretty much the same, a bit dirty. It doesn’t serve the function of a museum there; it’s simply there to transport people around the huge city of Madrid. But it’s worth mentioning that the Madrid metro is also amazing, in that I’ve never seen so many defibrillators anywhere in my life. There are defibrillators on every corner, and I understand that Madrid residents know how to use them. Yes, if someone’s feeling unwell, like they’re having a heart attack, you run over, and, well, I don’t know how, I’ve never seen anyone having a heart attack that required a defibrillator, but maybe, yes, it would save a life than waiting for an ambulance to come down, to navigate those endless Madrid underground corridors . And not just in Madrid, in Barcelona too, you can walk for, damn, half an hour underground at a crossing. It’s a whole other city. I think Luc Besson should have filmed his subway there; it’s a real underground city. That’s one of the pros, but one of the cons is the impossibility of buying a proper ticket the first time if you don’t live in Madrid and don’t know how it works. For some reason , the metro there is called the metrobus, although I thought a bus was like a bus, but okay, metrobus, you have to click somewhere, anyway, I didn’t click, I bought it, it’s all wrong, it was in a video about Madrid, watch it if you haven’t seen it, but I’ll insert a bit of my indignation here, anyway. Here’s a transport card, it cost 10 euros, damn it. Okay, insert it. So, wait, how do I select English? Well, and this is what I ran into, what should I get? Nine est, what is that? And here’s the metrobus, ten viajas, black, yellow. Who did the design? Okay, good. Sin ticket. Let’s try removing the card. Gracias, yes, please, always happy to. Go ahead, go ahead, switch over. Well, you’ve already appreciated the design, right? Okay, English. Insert the card. Oh, I can see her map, great, English, what’s next? Metrobus, ten rides. Metrobus, in short, I couldn’t figure out what the hell that was for a long time. It’s just the metro, a metro train is called a metrobus. Well, by the way, we bought a ticket, spent 14 euros, bought the wrong one. There’s a button here; if you bought the wrong ticket, you can press this button and an employee is called. An employee came and refunded the money to our card and bought us, yes, yes, yes, he bought us a ticket himself, showed us where to press. If it weren’t for him, I would have had no idea. The Madrid metro is one of the largest in the world, a veritable underground state. To use it, you first need to buy a red plastic Torreya Hamulca card from a machine. The card itself costs 10 euros and is rechargeable. You can load it with 10 rides at once; it’s called a metrobus, don’t get confused like I did with a metrobus, and it works out significantly cheaper than buying single tickets. By the way, one such card can be used by several people at once, simply by passing it to each other at the turnstile. It’s difficult to pay cash on Madrid buses, and it’s impossible to pay with large bills, so this red card will save you there too. And remember, Zone A is enough for regular trips ; don’t overpay for long-distance fares. So, from Madrid, we went to Barcelona, ​​or rather, we lived in Girona, so we went from Madrid to Barcelona and then changed trains and went to Girona. It was also possible to get there by direct train, by the way, but here I want to talk about train pricing in Spain, because it’s amazing. In Serbia, in Russia, Russian Railways, in Serbia, the Serbian railway, in Hungary—I don’t know what it’s called, I can’t pronounce it—in Austria. The price of the ticket, you buy it, you know how much it will cost, it cost that much on Friday, it will only cost that much on Monday and Wednesday. In Spain, it’s different. Tickets for the same train on different days can cost 80 euros more than each other. It’s completely free. I think the difference can be as high as 100 euros. So I had to do it this way, because a direct ticket to Girona on the same train was more expensive than if I’d bought two tickets from Madrid to Barcelona and then the same train from Barcelona to Girona, which would have cost 40 euros more. These are the amazing stories of our little town. It’s pretty strange to me. Well, we’re used to planes having different prices, you have to catch special offers, travel as you need, fly, but I ‘ve never seen anything like that with trains . Spain, for me, was a revelation, of course. Barcelona’s system is similar to Madrid’s, but with its own peculiarities, with its pros and cons. The main lifehack for tourists is the Ticazual ticket, which gives you 10 rides on the metro, buses, and trams—the best value. And, unlike in Madrid, this ticket is unique, so two people can’t share a single card . The entire tourist center and the main attractions, including the Sagrada Familia and the beaches, are located in Zone 1. Tickets can be purchased from vending machines at any metro station; unlike those in Madrid, they’re intuitive. Be careful on the metro; Barcelona is famous not only for its Gaudi architecture but also for pickpockets, so keep your bags close. It’s best to buy high-speed train tickets well in advance, as the price can jump significantly on the day of travel. Locals who ride commuter trains often don’t buy anything at all. If the conductor shows up, you can buy a ticket directly from them, and if not, you can just skip the ticket. That’s the deal. There’s a machine there where you take a pump, your number lights up, and you go to the ticket office and buy a ticket. Although you can buy it here, too. But it’s better, of course, to use the app than all this. It’s still a mystery to me—I’ve been here for four days now—why they can’t sell tickets, well, just stamp them. Why do you have to take a ticket and stand in line here? No, it’s not exactly an outrage, but I really don’t understand it. So, you go up, buy a ticket, and go. What else do you need? But no. Being late in Spain is a separate thing. That is, a train can arrive 10 minutes early, or it can arrive half an hour late, that’s completely normal. Well, Lena told us about this, we’ll switch to her now. She’s my friend, we were walking around Girona, there’s a video from Girona on the channel, take a look if you haven’t seen it. Well, we came to Spain last year, we came this year, and there’s endless renovations going on at the train stations. Atocha Station in Madrid—I think it still stands, in these scaffoldings, just as it always did. The station in Barcelona—that’s how I said goodbye to it last time—is still standing. I also made a separate video about these renovations, about the amazing toilets and so on. Well, by the way, the toilets there are really cool, but you still have to find them. This is Barcelona train station. If you thought you knew something about chaos, then you know nothing about it unless you’ve been to Barcelona train station. Basically, it’s just a huge square building, yeah, what could go wrong, basically everything. There are completely incomprehensible signs here, and they change places , I don’t know, every two hours, probably. Like you know, in horror movies, a room is rebuilt. There are constant renovations here, you see, right? The toilet is to the left, on this sign, the toilet is to the left, but in reality, it’s to the right. Well, that’s one example. Tons of turnstiles, tons of frames, it’s unclear where to go, some commuter trains, some not. Basically, if you want to get into chaos, yes, it’s here, it’s here, it’s just the lair of Warhammer: Chaos War. I’ve already removed the microphone, but everything is for the people, you see, there are comfortable benches to sit on. It’s just, in short, I don’t know, I’ve never seen a station like this in my life. It doesn’t look like a station, but rather like some kind of dive. The Spanish version of Polak, so we’re standing there waiting for our train, it’s 4 minutes away, and it hasn’t arrived yet. Here it is, Figueres. Rena, please tell me. What do you want? There are two platforms, 14 and 13. Hey, guys. They’re both occupied, where should we send it? Why were they late? Who told you they were late? The train is supposed to arrive in 46 minutes. I’ll give it a chance. It’s still 43. Tell me what version of this is. One platform is free, they’ll send the 14th now. What version of Polak is this? Like it doesn’t have to arrive on time? Well, it doesn’t have to. Seasoned locals say it used to be even worse. Now, if there are delays, it’s by minutes , not hours. Honestly, I’m starting to get nervous. There’s this thing about Renfa, the Spanish state railway network. There’s Rudoliés, the Catalan railway network. If something happens, they talk to each other. Well, that’s them… It’s very convenient. And the Catalans say, if only we were independent, everything would work better here. But it’s all because of Madrid. No, well, it’s convenient, yes, it’s convenient. No, I’ve never seen a train like that. Well, do you want to go down to the platform so we can be more at ease? Let’s go, I’ll definitely be more at ease. Otherwise, they might not have put it on the board. Okay, Lena. No, I remember, I told you about it before, but I didn’t tell it on camera. Natasha and I were going to the airport, and the train arrived 20 minutes early. You just misunderstood something in the schedule. Well, of course, yes. One train actually passed our station, and someone made a fuss, I think. You have a sauna here. Yes, that’s why you don’t want to stand and lie on the platform, because this is not an airport. A specialized airport. Model, model, let’s see. Model? Is that it? Fourteen, see? Fourteen. Let’s go to the temple, no? Thirteen. It’s over there. Why is it so hot here? Where aren’t they? It’s some kind of hell here. I don’t know, maybe in Barcelona they consider platforms not comfortable places to be, and there’s no point in being comfortable here. Arrive – leave. Arrive – leave. Well, there are renovations there, maybe that’s why. And the renovations were last year, as I recall. No, in Barcelona there is no clothing either in the metro or at the train stations. Well, there is in the metro cars. In the cars, yes. And here they are different too. The railway stations located within the railway station area belong to the ADIF company. So. And the carriages belong to Rudolya, let’s say, in this case. Ah, and they take care. But these don’t. Yes, and these, well, like, they talk to each other, like, they are obliged to help someone . The train arrives. Here it is. Sinservicio. No service. No service of what? And why is it so slow? This is MDI, media distance, yes. It’s faster than RZh11. Well, let’s go. Let’s take a seat for four now. Let’s go straight here. There are power outlets, tables. That’s why it cost more, right? MDI, yes. They go faster and are more comfortable, basically. They speak Catalan. They speak Catalan. Then they repeat in Spanish. Then they repeat in English. So there’s no point in complaining. We had a case like that. There was a system here last year. Unfortunately, they recently completely abolished it. With commuter train passes that you buy for four months for 20 euros. And you travel on the chosen line between two stations. An unlimited number of trips. The minimum is 16. Each round trip. That counts as each trip. If you’ve fulfilled all these conditions, you get your money back. So we bought these passes at the ticket office with cash. And then, when we’d fulfilled all the conditions, that’s it, we’re good little bunnies, we went to the ticket office and said, give us our money back. They said, oh, there’s some kind of error here. It’s popped up, you can’t get something back here. Go to another station. This happened in Figueres. I arrived in Girona. The guy there also said, there’s some kind of error, but nothing. Write this down, here’s your document, write a request to get this money back. He took these passes, took this piece of paper, didn’t give anything in return. He said, wait for a letter. No confirmation. Nothing happened. A month passed. Two passed. Three passed. The fourth began. I was starting to think, well, maybe I’m a loser. Maybe I should be more persistent and ask somehow . They still won’t give it back to me, and you can only return it within a year. And then I’ll miss it, and they’ll say, why didn’t you tell me before? I wrote them a letter saying, well, I went to the station, they took everything from me, didn’t give me anything back, all I had left were the receipts for these travel cards. Here are the receipts, I sent photos. They even responded within a week, saying, well , let’s please, check something in more detail. They said, well, you didn’t keep anything, you didn’t keep anything. Okay, fine, I have the receipts, fine. A man from Madrid, from Renf, called me back several times, checked, checked. And then one day he called and said, well, that’s it, I’ve decided the matter, go to the station in Girona, tell them, you know, show them your documents, your name, your surname, and they’ll pay you the money. He says, oh my God, thank you very much, my dear man. And was this supposed to happen simply, like, automatically? Yes. Yes, yes. And I went to the station, they said, oh, yes, yes , Elena, yes, here’s your money, that’s it, please. I left satisfied. Three months later, letters arrive from Barcelona. We’ve reviewed your application, which we accepted at the station in Girona, and you can come and get your money. Well, I didn’t. I didn’t decide a second time. Seven months, or what? Yes, I mean, the whole thing took seven months in total, and I thought, well, what am I so nervous about? I raised the whole of Madrid, raised the whole of the station in Girona. The letters, they would have arrived anyway, but what? And there were restrictions everywhere. These are the frames that I can’t stand , which, of course, don’t really have any meaning in themselves, except for collecting a huge crowd in front of them. It’s certainly very safe. It smells like home, and there are police, security , and checkpoints everywhere. Spain is just like a bro in this regard. And there’s no network. Of course there’s no network. Why do we need a network on a train? We have a network at home, yeah, for fishing, I guess. Why the hell is there no internet between stations? You can’t even watch the video with the crab. It was stolen. It was stolen. I don’t know. No internet. It’s the same thing in Hungary. It was the same thing in Hungary and in Austria. That’s how it is. Did the video with the crab work? Yeah, right. The video worked with the crab. The crab hasn’t arrived yet. Look at the sealed bags with the iPhones. So, where’s the crab? And in St. Petersburg, in Tops, in general, probably anywhere where there’s crab riding, there’s a parallel business. That’s all. Divers retrieve these submerged phones for a certain amount of money. This is what they’ll deliver for 8,000. But we can’t look because of Spanish internet. And a friend of mine stole an iPhone in St. Petersburg. Oh, looks like. But they haven’t found it. They haven’t found it. But they couldn’t find it for money. Cool, crab. What people. Reeds, damn. What are these people? That’s cattail. A defibrillator. Yes, defibrillators. For some reason, in Madrid they have them at every metro station, but here I haven’t seen a defibrillator in the metro. And in Girona, for example, I haven’t seen one in Barcelona. And somewhere in Barcelona. Well, in Madrid there really is a defibrillator at every station . And for some reason in Barcelona they use these paper tickets, which you have to insert into these machines that open these gates for you. Tickets always get stuck. And, of course, it’s our karma. Natasha’s tickets got stuck. Everyone had already left, and Natasha was standing there with a guy, fiddling around, trying to get these tickets out. It’s a strange system, basically. Why can’t they do it like in Madrid? Just swipe it and go. It’s unclear. It’s the same on the metro and on the trains. It’s all the same. That old thing. I have flashbacks to the Soviet Union. From the 90s, when you had to validate this ticket, which would get stuck everywhere. Well, validating it was one thing, but inserting it was another thing entirely when you had to pass through this machine and come out the other side, already stamped. And that’s where something went wrong. The rules here are truly astonishing. People are standing there and can’t get out because they’re not working. They don’t eat the tickets, they don’t let you pass. We also decided to take a bus to the seaside. To Laura del Mar, I hope I pronounced it correctly. Again, mañana, the Spanish version of the Serbian half-aku. But for some reason, with the Serbian half-aku , everything is fine; it leaves on schedule. Mañana is one of those things that, well, well . But we’ll go, don’t worry, we’ll go someday . Anyway, the bus, as always, left late, just like the trains. I thought that in Serbia they don’t drive cars and buses very strictly according to the rules, but then I was completely shocked when a bus full of people going to a resort area, twice we almost crashed into a car, once into a truck, a huge truck, no, just no, no looking around, we will just go into the truck when there was already this much left to the truck, it braked and started honking for some reason, although it was coming out from the side, as if the truck was driving on the highway, this one from the side into it, surprisingly close, of course, I am stunned. Of course , there is no point in talking about any adherence to the schedule, give or take 15 minutes, there are free Russian speakers in an hour, what is an assumption? I suppose they tried , by the way, if you’re in Girona, remember that you won’t be able to order a taxi online, you’ll have to call a local taxi service and speak Spanish, which, of course, we don’t know, so I tried to call one through, I think, either Bolt or Uber, or something like that, I’ll attach screenshots, they assigned us a car for 5 am, I tried to call because we had a low-cost airline that was flying out at 6 am, I tried to call, they assigned us a car, something struck me here, that something was wrong here, everything was going too smoothly, I also called a car through Get Transfer, they said, that’s it, wait, the car will arrive, well, just in case, we asked Lena what time the first bus leaves, she told us the schedule and we realized that the first bus just arrives at the Girona airport to the first low-cost airline, so I’m not really worried anymore, went to bed and what do you think? Of course, the taxi was cancelled 10 minutes before departure, which means at 5 am I was supposed to go out somewhere, obviously, and run around in a panic, looking for a car and a taxi, and the get-transfer was cancelled and they said, oh, we don’t have drivers, which means they had drivers yesterday, but at 10:05 they don’t have drivers anymore, so keep in mind, there is a normal bus there, well, not a normal one, it also didn’t leave on schedule. Now there will be a separate connection from the bus station, from 5 am everything also went off schedule and it’s very unclear, so, on our Kremlin 3.38, the first bus to the airport leaves at 4 o’clock, this is the bus station and here you can also enter the bus station, bus 4, let’s see what time the bus station opens from 5, but it’s not visible here now, I hope it will be visible in the editing, from 5.15 now the question is, how do you leave from a closed bus station at 4 o’clock? and there the bus will arrive, but of course there is no announcement about it if it weren’t for the security guard, we would have been walking in circles like that, we returned to Serbia through Zagreb, it’s much faster, more convenient and, most importantly, cheaper, much cheaper, there is a shuttle bus from Zagreb airport, it’s very spacious, comfortable, there is a fee and then I remembered Belgrade airport in Serbia where all the transport is free, you just get off and go here we had to pay, I don’t remember how much, 10 euros, I don’t think Zagreb made much of an impression on us, it’s a very small city, you can see that the city was once not the main one and now it’s a separate country, it’s like the capital, but I didn’t really understand this city, it’s very small, we were there for 2 days and in half a day we walked around everything and for a day and a half we just sat in cafes, because it also started to rain, but in Zagreb there are wonderful blue, huge trams that you can take to any point in the city, but it’s important to remember that you need to buy a ticket from the driver or, as it’s called, the tram driver is with the tram driver and you have to validate it there are these, now I’ll show you these thin pieces of paper that need to be validated as you can see, it costs 80 euro cents as you can see, it’s not validated because we didn’t know about it anyway, it turns out we rode without paying but we paid, yes, 80 euro cents for each one that’s all you need to know about Zagreb transport the transport is great the bus station is not so great, a very old Yugoslav, dirty, smelly, terribly smelly station and, of course, no schedule we left for Belgrade 10 minutes late well, anyway, we then caught up at the border because the bus was quickly let through, and it passed but, in general, that was, of course, also, I’m already like, okay well and, finally, the Belgrade Zoo and, finally, the Belgrade bus station Belgrade new Belgrade station everything is fine, on schedule and the most pleasant thing is, You’re riding on a train and sitting next to the driver, and his door to the carriage is open and he’s with someone. He’s chatting, the train is moving, and they’re bringing him coffee. I hope you find this information useful. Here ‘s a video of an unusual format with me today, Hannibal Lecter. There was a cat lying here, you haven’t seen it. Here it is, here it is, my co-host , she was like a prompter in the theater, telling me what to say. Anyway, goodbye everyone. I hope you enjoyed it. Subscribe to the channel, like it. If you’re a rich Pinocchio, you can subscribe to Busti, but it’s completely optional, although they release additional videos and more extended versions of the video. Bye everyone, see you later, right? Yes! See you later.

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Главная боль путешественника — это поезда в жару. Я расскажу, как мы ехали из Будапешта в Вену в +40°C в вагоне без кондиционера, и почему это хуже любой сауны. Мы разберем транспортные системы Вены и Будапешта: какие приложения скачивать (BudapestGO, WienMobil), где обязательно компостировать билеты, чтобы не нарваться на огромный штраф, и почему на вокзалах Австрии нет камер хранения.
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00:00 — Начало путешествия: Суботица и старый вагон
01:41 — Едем в Сегед: почему билеты лучше брать в кассе
05:10 — Первые впечатления от Венгрии: чистота и трамваи
11:00 — Проблемы с мобильным интернетом в поездах ЕС
16:15 — Жара в Будапеште и нюансы общественного транспорта
19:54 — Адская поездка в Вену: вагон-сауна без кондиционера
23:40 — Вена: идеальный транспорт и отсутствие турникетов
24:40 — Лайфхак: как добраться в Братиславу через аэропорт Вены
26:30 — Почему на вокзалах Европы нет камер хранения?
29:00 — Метро Мадрида: дефибрилляторы и покупка карты Metrobus
33:40 — Странное ценообразование поездов Испании: как сэкономить
34:55 — Транспорт Барселоны: билет T-casual и карманники
37:40 — Вокзал Барселоны — логово хаоса и навигация
43:00 — История о том, как Лене возвращали деньги 7 месяцев
49:18 — Поездка на море и опасное вождение автобуса
50:50 — Жирона: почему такси Uber и Bolt не приедет утром
52:50 — Загреб: синие трамваи и скука в Хорватии
55:40 — Финал Евротура и возвращение домой
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