Cieszyn and Český Těšín: one town, two countries, for Steve and Alicja

A border-town day trip, with a one-star bus, a castle tower and a near lock-in at a brewery, was followed by a first try on e-bikes around Żywiec.

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One Town, Two Countries. Life On The Border Between Poland and Czechia...

Among the travel channels nearest its size, SteveMarsh had the second-biggest week, behind only Chris Howett, who is having a very large one. Two uploads did the work, both from the late-summer trip through southern Poland that Steve has been filming with Alicja.

The first went to Cieszyn, a town split by the Olza river into a Polish half and a Czech one, Český Těšín. The description sets out the plan: arrive by a bus it gives one star, explore, have a local lunch and "maybe sneak in a beer or two", then take the train across the border. The beer nearly ended the day early. The pair came close to being locked inside a brewery, and that is the moment the comments keep returning to, with old jokes about Scandinavians crossing borders for cheaper drink. Local viewers filled in the background: the cat statues come from a Polish children's book series set around the town, and the hole in the old tower was a prison cell, not a well. More than one viewer also admits to shouting at the screen as Steve climbed down a steep ladder facing forward.

Three days later came a gentler Sunday in Żywiec, renting e-bikes for the first time, riding out to the lake and ending with dinner on the town square. It is the newer of the two, and right now it is drawing views faster than the border town did.

The Route 666 bus from Hel to Kraków, posted a fortnight ago, is still collecting viewers too. Both new videos opened with well over 100,000 views on their first day, and the week added about 1,000 subscribers to a channel just under 400,000.

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The videos drawing views on SteveMarsh right now

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The numbers

Here is how SteveMarsh's week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

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2,256,952

SteveMarsh

1,371,492

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1,294,051

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462,211

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158,229

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141,032

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103,989

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47,394

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35,012

subscribers

397,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

126,466,285

views per day

316,938

typical day: 262,136

first-day views of each video posted this week

One Town, Two Countries. Life On The Bo…

173,815

How Poles Do Weekends. Our First Time o…

129,478

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

em

439,000

Samuel and Audrey - Trave…

437,000

Chris Howett

407,000

The New Travel

405,000

SteveMarsh

397,000

Suitcase Monkey

395,000

Bus Off with Josie

393,000

Indian Blogger in Canada

374,000

World Wild Hearts

374,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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