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Surviving In World Most Expensive Country
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Mar 27, 2025
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It's so symbolic that the 100 pound of survival, no one has a beggar's hand on it
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It's like, please, please help me. Alright, so I'm surviving 48 hours in the most expensive country in the world with 100 francs
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Wish me luck. Alright, first thing I want to do right now is find somewhere to stay
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It's freezing cold and I don't fancy spending the night on the streets
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I'm not sure how much 100 franc can get you here. So I need to crack on with the research
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Once I've sorted out somewhere to stay, then I can walk around, explore the city and just be a tourist
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This thing is like weighing heavy as well. So if I can drop this off, it will leave me more freedom to explore
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All right, so the prices of hotels here are absolutely ridiculous
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£270 per night. £150, £300. So definitely no hotel on the list
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We can't afford it, right? So we're going to have to resort to hostels. our saving grace hopefully i can find one within our budget leaving me with some extra money to
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actually eat and explore the city let's see all right so i found a hostel that's fairly economical
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it says hotel but it's actually a hostel hello hi i would like to book a room for the night if i can
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the cheapest one i possibly can 43.35 43.75 yeah okay we are breaking into the mula all right so checking is at three so i've got
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just a bit of time to either walk around and explore the city see what else there is to do
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or i can just spend that time in here relaxing getting to know the hostel 43 franc for our
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hostel leaving us with 57 franc for the remaining time here okay so it's actually a really nice
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hostel um they've got chill areas they've got a bar they've got a tv they've got um drinks and
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sandwiches and your everyday stuff i guess then you also get like private pods either to do some
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work or to kind of just have a meal all right so there seems to be a guest kitchen and laundry room
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let's check it out so it almost feels like a home so if you booked a hostel like this you pretty
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much have everything you need to survive you can wash your clothes you can cook your own food
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you've got the fridge you can store your stuff i'm guessing all the stuff in there are for
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people who stay here so you can actually live here although the price is a bit pricey so
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43 franc for a night. You times that by 30, you get maybe 700 franc
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for the month. Is it? 700 franc for the month. What times three
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12, 1,200. I think you can get a one-bedroom flat for that price back home
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1,200, easily, right? So that is a no-brainer. It says detox water
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It's got some oranges and some lemon in it I feel like a complete noob
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Because I feel like I'm confusing something here I'm not sure what the dynamics of my body position is supposed to be
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Is it supposed to be curved with the thing or? Thank you, thanks
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okay so i'm in the room this is my bed it's a fairly decent room um four beds i thought it was
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gonna be six but it four which isn too bad it got two almost like twin size beds almost like a hotel and then you got the bunk bed so i in the bunk bed looks fairly clean looks stylish and modern so happy days roommate is cool as well can complain
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all right so the one plus so far is a free transport card when you book accommodation
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in Geneva. So I've got free travel for my stay here. Happy days. Let's explore
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Yeah, okay, thanks. It smells absolutely amazing in here. I just walked into a chocolate shop. I'm going to
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see if I can get any free samples at all that they've got on show. Thank you so much
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much okay so this is a milk chocolate sample at least there aren't any samples today but
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the lovely lady gave me one from the from the shop hello
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thank you so much thank you bye bye it tastes a little bit like bueno
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but almost like richer Alright, so I've just arrived at the lake and here you can feed the swans
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There are quite a few of them around. Now, there aren't any barriers at the lake, so I'm wondering if people are allowed to just go in and swim with the swans
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I know there are places in Switzerland or in Geneva that you can swim
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I'm not sure if this is one of them. All right, so it'd be great to find somewhere to eat, preferably on a budget
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Hello. Hi. Hi. Hello. Hello. Hello. I was hoping to get some food
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All right, so everywhere I've walked into so far are either closed or they don't have vegetarian options
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But I'll keep looking. Hopefully I can find somewhere to eat on a budget
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Hello. So the lady said vegetarian options are very popular here. That's why they're sold out
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So everyone here just eats up all the vegetarian options. I don't know why. I'm like, what the heck
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I'm over here thinking, oh, there aren't any vegetarian options. But they're all finished because everyone loves them so much
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Right, so I found some way I could get some food. It is a bit tricky, though, because they have two different menus
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So a takeaway menu and an eating menu. Now, the prices for takeaway are a lot cheaper than the prices for eating in
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Takeaway pizza is 12 francs. Eating is 18 francs. So that's 6 francs difference for sitting
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I've ordered takeaway 12 francs. We're going to take the box find somewhere maybe by the river and just sit down and have lunch
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Okay, so they further explained that the tax that they pay When it's takeaway, it's a lot less than the tax that they pay when it's in-house
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So it's all to do with the service. So that's what the price difference is about
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So this is actually pretty filling but if I don't finish this now I'm gonna have to lug
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the box around and that's the last thing we want. Finally we made it
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I'm not usually one to leave the crust but I've had enough jaw exercise so I'm going
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to pass. All right, so I kind of just walked up to this boat cruise and just walked in
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She opened the door for me and I just walked in and now I'm on the boat cruise. I have no idea where the boat is going, but I'm going along for the ride
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Why not? So I think it's a transport system. It takes people from one side of the river to the other side of the river I got nothing to do so I might just go back and forth a few times and enjoy the tour
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All right, so currently back at the hostel. And funny enough, there isn't a lot going on in Switzerland
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I was thinking there would be, like, I don't know, at least activities to do, or, like
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fun things or sights to see or like people around but it really isn't it's more of a business
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type of city it's like really chilled um at least in Geneva I don't know about other places
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I'm in Switzerland but right now this is the hostel I can walk around and try and like find a bar or find a club or find like a comedy club or like
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something to do. Currently on the bus going into the central we'll walk around we'll see if there's
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anything happening anything popping off anywhere but so far Geneva is pretty dry
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okay this is like the busiest streets in the whole city so if there's nothing to
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do on this street there's no hope for today everything seems closed even from
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like 3 4 p.m. most restaurants were out of food they all ran out of food at 3 4
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p.m. Imagine that freaking like 8 p.m. Everything's closed, it's shut down, go to bed. What is
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going on here? There's nothing going on, it's police patrol. Alright, so I found some bars with some people in there, but not really the type of action
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you're looking for. Although it is a Wednesday night, so I shouldn't really expect too much
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either sort of thing. How's it going? I'm good, thanks. What time do you guys close
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Midnight. Midnight. Does it get busier? No. No? Just like that. Alright. There you have it
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Hey man. Nice one, bro. Nice one. Okay, so I mean they said it themselves really. It doesn't
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really get busy that's about it morning day two
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all right we're in the central let's grab some breakfast but it's why I found a
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really cool place to have breakfast it's called Green Gorilla and apparently
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it's like a healthy eating vegan cafe somewhat I'll see what they've got on the
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menu and we're gonna have breakfast Happy happy days that was a delicious breakfast I actually paid 4 euro 80 or 4 franc 80 for
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the coffee and he gave me the bowl for free he goes it's on the house it might be time
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to go jump in the river. So I think this might be a good location to go for a swim in the lake
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Okay so I see someone in his swimming trunk so this might be a good location for a dive
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I'm guessing you can dive off of there. There's no one else here doing that so I don't know if
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I want to be the only one. It is fairly cold I don't know how many degrees it is. Let's see
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11 degrees which isn't too bad. Alright let's go for a swim
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And that is all the excitement there is for me today I would have loved to actually swim around and spend like longer in the water
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But I have a flight to catch. So we gotta go. But honestly, it wasn't so bad
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It wasn't as cold as I thought it would be. Apparently it's six degrees. I could have handled it
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If anything, it was more the fear of the water itself than the cold. I need to overcome that at some point
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But yeah it was actually a really fun experience Definitely on the list
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And I'm coming back to actually swim around This is a sandwich with guacamole, tomatoes, crispy onions
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And sauce on top of it This and the drink cost about £12.90
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I'm gonna ask how much it is, but 12 to 13 euros
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There's really nowhere to just kind of sit down. They're all to go, you just grab it and go sort of thing
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And even this alone costing 12 euros. Can you imagine? Welcome to Switzerland
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All right, so apparently there's an old town that you can walk around and there's a tower where you can see the 360 view of the city
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I think it's up this road and I don't know. Let's go check it out
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We have some time to kill, so why not? This is a proper workout
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We're up this hill. I found a cathedral. As you can tell, I'm out of breath
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I seem to climb however many stairs. Sorry. We're walking through a cathedral in Switzerland, in Geneva
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I'm guessing this is where we get the tickets. There's quite a few people in queue. I might have to jump over the queue
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Okay, I got my ticket. It costs 7 franc, which is about maybe 6 pounds, 5 pounds, something like that
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So we're going to hedge up the tower. I'm rushing a bit because I'm about to go on a horror adventure by myself
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Of a tower in Switzerland. This is like a labyrinth, this place
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It's just mad confusing. I don't know where to go. Sauti. Want the power
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And there you have it. The best view of the city. Oh my God
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Oh my God. Okay, let's go
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Let's have a good one. It was a fun exploration of the cathedral and the heights
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Is that about that? We're off to the apples. it's been a fun two days kind of somewhat not completely two days but it's been fun
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managed to do quite a few things the budget i didn't get close to even finishing it i think
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we ended at 79 franc for two days if i stayed the night tonight then i would have been in trouble
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because i would have had to get a hostel for another 43 um frank and i wouldn't have been
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able to so they either had to stay on couch surf or on tinder or sleep on the streets and that is
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what you can do in geneva with 100 francs over two days if you like this video give a big thumbs
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next one. Peace
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