The duo behind Going to World goes on a eight-day road trip across Romania. What sets their journey apart is not the usual highlights, but their deliberate choice to step into places where daily life is harder, quieter, and more revealing than any guidebook promises.
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The face of the channel, Nicole, doesn’t shy away from realities. In Bârlad, Nicole visits a family struggling to make ends meet on a few hundred euros a month. She shows their bare rooms, listens as they speak of hunger, and acknowledges how thin the line between survival and despair can be. She doesn’t sensationalize it — instead, she frames it as part of Romania’s truth, a story worth witnessing. For this, we congratulate her.
Her path winds far beyond tourist comfort zones. In Jurilovka, a fishing village on the Black Sea, she notes how one restaurant and an endless horizon define life there. Among the ruins of Argamum fortress, she lingers with stray dogs, feeding them scraps of bread, noticing details most travelers would pass over. In Constanța, she dwells on the decaying casino — a monument to another era, crumbling but still full of presence.
Nicole’s eye is consistently drawn to contrasts: bustling markets where farmers sell eggs and honey; the blunt humor of conversations in Suceava and Iași; the modern wind farms spinning across Dobrogea. Where others might simply film scenery, she insists on showing both the sunny and the shaded sides of Romania — the beauty of tradition and the weight of poverty, the kindness of strangers and the silence of forgotten ruins.
What makes Nicole’s work remarkable is not the scale of her audience, but the focus of her gaze. She chooses honesty over polish, real lives over easy stories. In doing so, she reveals a Romania that is complex, raw, and human — and that takes courage.
