American Couple Reacts: Bristol, England! BEST City in The UK? FIRST TIME REACTION! *LOVE THIS*
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- American Couple Reacts: Bristol, England! BEST City in The UK? FIRST TIME REACTION! LOVE THIS We have looked at quite a few places in the United Kingdom now & we certainly have a lot more to look at. However, this place, this city, has REALLY got us thinking. This felt like it could honestly be our future home! Bristol is incredible! So many gorgeous places, lots to do, rich history, incredible culture, it truly seems like it could be the perfect place for the next chapter in our lives. This video really called to us & especially to Natasha. She has been speaking about it for a week since we recorded this and smiles every time! We absolutely loved this episode & hope you will too. Let us know if you live in Bristol & what else we should check out about this city that captured our hearts. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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We have looked at quite a few places in the United Kingdom now & we certainly have a lot more to look at. However, this place, this city, has REALLY got us thinking. This felt like it could honestly be our future home! Bristol is incredible! So many gorgeous places, lots to do, rich history, incredible culture, it truly seems like it could be the perfect place for the next chapter in our lives. This video really called to us & especially to Natasha. She has been speaking about it for a week since we recorded this and smiles every time! We absolutely loved this episode & hope you will too. Let us know if you live in Bristol & what else we should check out about this city that captured our hearts. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Hey ladies - I love your videos & this one is my favourite as I’m a Bristolian born & bred.
I live 5 miles from the centre, but I’m close to the countryside. In fact the Cotswolds is a short drive up the road. Castle Combe is about 25/30 minute drive. Bath is only a 15 minute drive. I’m very blessed to live here. I know this region very well, I go walking regularly to various local spots, so if you want anyone to show you around I’m very happy to help out my favourite reactors x0x
@tinkertoke You are so lucky!! We are 100% serious about our new found love of Bristol!! 😍😍
Imagine how much of Britain you could visit if you moved here. Do it! Rent out your house move over for a couple of years, it would be great if you were over here. (If only it was that easy) :) x
I am local to Bristol (see my comment for more :P ) if/when you come over to Bristol let me know and I'll give you a bit of a tour, you both definitely have a "Bristol vibe" about you
It’s in a perfect location too. On the crossroads of two major motorways, you are close to London, Devon and Cornwall, The Midlands and South Wales. And of course, the Cotswolds. Bristol is a perfect sized City. Big enough to have everything a city should have, but not too big. Cities like Manchester and Birmingham are too big. Oh, and we have an airport too so we’re only an hour from Paris and Amsterdam, and two hours from Barcelona, Milan and Prague. I wouldn’t live anywhere else
I lived in Bristol for 14 years and was a bus driver so got to see the area so well. There is so much more not covered. There’s the rich entertainment from theatre, comedy clubs night clubs bars pubs . music , hot air balloon , boat festivals . Also Bristol has so many places within easy reach like Bath , Wells, cheddar gorge, Cardiff & Welsh coast the list goes on most important the people are friendly. 😊
Britain is changing fast in 50 years time the white British will be the minority google it & youtube John Cleese London no longer an English city same with Bradford etc
We need to chat!!!
As a Londoner,Bristol is England’s best kept secret.
Worked there for a while in the early 80’s and didn’t want to leave.
Around every corner there’s something else amazing to see and do.
Thoroughly recommended ladies,and when I win the lottery,I’ll bring you both over to the greatest country in the world,including Brizz’l.
Warning: you won’t ever want to leave our green and pleasant land.
Cheers drive!
I’m a bus driver too, unfortunately around the Wakefield/Ponty area, would love to have beautiful scenery like Bristol all day, would make the day nicer ❤❤
'Arcade' is a name for a vaulted ('arched') passage. Meaning one lined with shops it is from 1796. 'Mall' meaning a shopping centre is from 1962.
We also have your regular video game arcades here as well. Well, like everywhere, they are fewer and fewer these days.
Many shopping arcades were originally open streets which were later covered with an arched roof to protect shoppers, rather than a purpose built shopping center/mall.
Yep. Basically a street covered by an arched roof.
Mainly because a covered street is required in places it rains and rains and rains
There's actually parts of Bristol buried under New York. During the Bristol blitz there was obviously a lot of rubble created also during this time America was ending ships over with supplies for the UK but they couldn't travel back empty so they needed something to fill the ships so they used the rubble and when they got to America the rubble was used as a material to build on and thats how built waterside plaza in New York.
Interesting
Bristol is one of the most expensive places to live outside of London. Property prices are high in the city and thousands of people on the housing waiting list! Traffic is a nightmare and Bristol is second to London for congestion.
Yes Bristol is amazing, most people who move here end, up staying here.
It's like a tiny London. But Friendlier, it's multi cultured, diverse, and welcoming to all. A long and rich Maritime and Aeronautical history (Concorde!! You can visit her in the hangar in Filton) If you love the Cotswolds, Glastonbury, Stonehenge or Wales it's not a long drive to get to any of those places. You'll love it, please come!!
I am surprised at Natashas choosing a large city like Bristol as her place to live. I thought that the many
beautiful quaint villages and seaside towns was more her "thing", however, Bristol is not far away from any of
the above !
We both like villages but we are both city girls!
Will have to tempt you across the water from Bristol to Cardiff @@TheNatashaDebbieShow
It's better than London! 😊
Just how is diverse a plus.
As a born and bred bristolian. What i love is how easy and quick it is to get to the countryside. But i would recommend the bristol to bath cycle path, or the pill path.
Google the annual hot air balloon event in Bristol
That's the path to Pill, not some narcotic walkway. Well it could be I guess. The choice is yours. 😄
@@andrewgarrett7100 still a great walk
Yep..I'm a proper bristol boy too.. he's right.. people who have never been mock the city, but change their view once they visit.
Hi guys, she forgot to mention that the world famous supersonic concorde was designed and built in Filton, Bristol and the French ones built in France. Love you both,
Nick from Bristol England x
A little info for you girls. The Great Britain ship was the world's first ever iron ship. The Cliffton suspension bridge also by Brunel is the world's first ever iron suspension bridge. He also built the Great Western railway with its many bridges and tunnels.
Another great Bristol man is Samuel Plimsol who saved many thousands of lives by the Plimsol line that is still found on ever ship in the world, this is the safe loading line painted around the side of the ship, when the line touches the water the ship is fully loaded. Prior to this overloaded ships foundered loosing thousands of lives.
She failed to show an old inn on Welsh Back, called the Llandoga Trow, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island while living there. At the opposite end of Welsh Back is another pub called the Hole in the wall. An author met a sailor who had been marooned on an island. The author was Daniel Defoe and the book was Robinson Crusoe. Two great books written one hundred yards apart. Bristol was also the birthplace of Blackbeard, the pirate.
Bristol also has an amazing music scene, and it's known as the Bristol Sound.
It's Definately worth looking at Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He was light years ahead of anyone in engineering. His boat was 100 years ahead of its time. When they decided to start building big bridges in new york the first was Brooklyn bridge and the American designers and engineers came to the UK to look how Brunel did it. His ship got breached but the passengers never even felt a ripple. The boat was safe because of his superior design (if the titanic had copied his design it would not have sunk). The cliftkn suspension bridge was his design and the first of its kind in the world. Bristol is certainly worth visiting.
Seconded, Brunel is well worth diving in to
He’s my hero he did so much for this country he unfortunately died before the bridge was finished but an amazing feat in those days, when they built the M5 bridge over the estuary it didn’t meet in the middle and that was with modern technology
The SS Great Britian was abandoned as a hulk in the Falkland Islands and left to rot . You will have to look up the story of it to find it's history of how it was found and bought back to UK on a floating harbour to be restored . It is an amazing ship , I saw it when it was in it's first stage of repair . And by the way my eldest daughter was born in Bristol in 1963.
I went to see the Great Britain in 2007 and next to it in the harbour was Matthew. The Great Britain has been renovated to a high standard.
I keep meaning to get to see her. I lived in Trowbridge when I saw her being brought back on a barge under the Clifton bridge
Aww cute reactions today and always so polite about Great Britain thank you 🇬🇧 😊
Edit : thank you for the ❤ that made my day lol 😅
The bronze tables where the merchants did their deals, (the “nails”), is where the expression “pay on the nail” comes from. Also Bristol was the site of the first American Consulate, in Queen Square.
An arcade is a covered passageway usually with a glass roof. There are a lot of Victorian shopping arcades in UK cities. They are the forerunner to the modern malls.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an engineering genius. Not only did he design the Clifton Suspension Bridge AND the SS Great Britain (the first iron hulled screw propeller ship in the world, as seen in the video...) but he built an eight foot gauge steam railway from London to Bristol, including digging the famous Box Tunnel....
The suspension bridge is not Brunels design
Bristol is great, been for a couple of visits and love it , it’s got a feel all of it’s own , it’s beautiful, people are nice and lots to do and see . ❤
Britain is changing fast in 50 years time the white British will be the minority google it & youtube John Cleese London no longer an English city same with Bradford etc
Hi Ladies, as usual, your video choices for reactions never disappoint. One fact usually overlooked about Bristol, is that it is the home of Aardman Animation Studios, the people that brought us Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run, to name a few. I don't know if the public have visiting occasions here, but I think it would be a great place to see. Keep up the good work.
And Morph! Although he did die in a warehouse fire!! :(
I hope Gillespie and the others survived, but am not holding my breath.
[NODS] And of course an occasional writer for Wallace and Grommit was Bob Baker, who was one half of "the Bristol Boys", as they were known in the 1970s at the BBC: Bob Baker and Dave Martin wrote several "Doctor Who" stories, and created the character of K9, amongst various other TV credits. This early experience in writing for an intelligent robot dog stood Bob in good stead for later writing the silently long-suffering genius, Grommit. =:o}
Fun fact, I know a friend of Banksy's scaffolder apparently they rehearse erecting the scaffolding, painting and disassembling the scaffolding offsite away from the actual location to check how long it will take to do the artwork to see if they can do it unseen in time.
I’m not surprised you like what you see, it’s a real gem and is well connected to visit other great parts of England.
Bristol has a very bohemian vibe, that’s very similar to Brighton on the south coast.
I hope you do follow your dreams, and join us here. You’ll be very welcome if you do. 💙 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
If I didn't love Chester I would move to Bristol tomorrow. I've been going down there for years & my best girlie mate lives there now. Going to a gig there in December!
So much of the UK is outstandingly beautiful. Being born here I tend to take these things for granted like walking past a 700 year old church without a second glance or crossing 900 year old tri corner bridge across the road. I feel so privileged to live on this wonderful interesting, historic island
Hi ladies a born and bread Bristolion here so glad you like our little city . It’s not such a bad place to live . Cost of living here is not cheap with housing the most expensive out side of London . The coloured houses on the docks you liked are quite pricey but mostly it’s because of the location and the views of the city dock area . But if your visiting the city we do have lots of different price hotels and the one in Clifton you said must be to expensive is in fact not over priced . Our beautiful Bridge makes a lovely back drop for the international Balloon festival which is held here every year . With all places it has its faults but over all it’s not a bad place to live with lots of green space in and around the city and easy access to other places from here by Train , bus , air as we also have and international airport . We are also the home of Concord the beautiful supersonic plane which was made in this city and has her own museum with concord 002 as the centre piece. There is so much more to see and do hope you make it here on your travels X
I think you'll find Bath property is even more expensive.
@@FTFLCY You would think so but no it’s not x
My mother was stationed just a few minutes walk from the Clifton bridge and she decided to test herself by going to the bridge and looking over - she hadn't a head for heights. After steeling herself for the experience, she had a "Whoa!" moment and decided that one look was quite enough for her sensibilities. Although they shifted her about quite a bit whilst she was in the ATS - 1941-February '46 - Bristol was her favourite stationing and she was also there the longest. She had fond memories of the place and it's people and although she never had the opportunity to visit back afterwards, if the city was on the television or mentioned, there was a bright emotion at the memory. "Bristol!", she would say. I have in my family archive her books, photos and postcards and diary - with Winston Churchill on the cover - from her time there.
My Thanks to your Mother my friend. We owe the Men & Women of that generation a Debt that cannot be repaid enough. My own Mother worked in a Munitions Factory, making Shells. But with regards to Bristol, I learnt a lot watching this. I have worked, all over our country but never had occasion to go to Bristol, only skirt around it, something that I will have to remedy after watching that 👍
@@stephensmith4480 A munitions factory? Yikes! Full credit to your mother with that task! When you think what the politics of nations get people to go through and they're still doing it! You wonder when and if the human race will actually learn? I've just read of the health report on the state of the planet's capability of sustaining human life and yet there are idiots still willing to throw missiles at each other and it's astounding! They seem to have no grip on reality, only on their own self-deification. I have a friend and colleague who lives in Bristol - born in 1957 - and he remembers there were still areas of the city still with bombed out buildings in the early 60s. I suspect the same in numerous other cities, Coventry and Dresden. Total madness and all the lives lost. Sorry for the rant, but the species confounds me. I hope you get your visit to Bristol some day. 👍👍
My Grandad used to work as maintenance on the bridge just after the war used to climb up with no harness or safety gear at all.
@@wayneprewett6114 I'm getting vertigo just thinking about that!
@@josefschiltz2192 That wasn`t a rant my friend, it was common sense and I agree with you totaly. I was born in 1959 and grew up in Liverpool. My Family are all from around the Docks Area and I have been told by my Mum and Aunties just how bad it was. The Blitz destroyed large parts of Liverpool, especially around the dock area and I can still remember the slum clearances going on up until the 70s when all the old terraced houses, some from before the 1st WW were being demolished to make way for new housing and in certain parts, the Bomb craters were still evident. My Mum told me a story about My Grandmother, she was born in Ireland. The Air Raid Warnings were going off at all hours of the day and night and one particular night, my Grandmother refused to take her Daughters, my Mum & Aunties to the shelter, she told the Air Raid Warden that she was not dragging her girls out of bed anymore and that they were staying put in their Home and if God Decided that they were going to go, they were all going to be together. I just can`t even imagine being in that position. Best wishes to you my friend.
I live down the road from Bristol and can't quite believe they left out Christmas Steps, the Bristol Old Vic theatre and the Aquarium and the Zoo.
I'm from London and went to Bristol on a day trip. It's a brilliant city with a really cool vibe. And everyone sounds like a pirate.
Hi Natasha and Debbie, How about you do a video on your own Queen City of Cincinnati. I think we UK fans of yours would love your take on your own city. I think I read that it is one of the top places to live in the US.
When we saw the "nails" outside the Corn Exchange, what we didn't get told was that the merchants used to put a sample of their corn on the nail and then a buyer would put his money on the nail as well and so came the expression "Pay On The Nail"
One place the lady didn't mention was The Bristol Old Vic Built in 1766 as a place where the people of Bristol could come together, Bristol Old Vic is the oldest continuously working theatre in the English speaking world.
And the Llandoger Trow! (Look it up, it has it’s own Wikipedia entry!)
And hippodrome is 111 years old
Didn't show the lovely old buildings of Old Market or King's Street, what about Christmas Steps, St Mary Redcliffe etc etc and every Bristolian knows it the river AvUN not AvON would be good a tour by a Bristolian with a good accent.
Hi Debbie and Natasha!! Born and bred Bristolian here!! She missed tonnes of stuff to see and do. Bristol is very cosmopolitan and cultural. Also laid back and very Liberal. [Maybe like San Fransisco??]...It isvery hilly. The place with all the colourful houses is Hotwells and Totterdown. It is also a very green city with lots of forests and parks. The most famous is Durdham Downs up by the Avon Gorge and is owned by the city!! Sports wise it has 2 football teams Bristol City & Bristol Rovers [meh] a rugby team a basketball team and it is home to Gloucestershire Cricket Club. While areas like Clifton are very expensive there are plenty of areas that are affordable!! When you come to Great Britain and visit Bristol I will happily be your guide!!!!
I moved to Bristol as a teenager. lived here for 60 years and still love the vibe.
The Bristol basin on the FDR Drive in NYC is built on rubble from the bombed buildings of Bristol that was put on Liberty ships that needed ballast for the return journey back to NY, so a part of NY is built on the 81,830 destroyed Bristol houses of WW2 Bristol.
Grew up in London and studied in Edinburgh and as good as both cities are I will never regret moving to Bristol,1 minute you can be in the city centre and 10 minutes later in beautiful countryside,I’ve even started to speak like a Bristolian
My son is studying in Bristol and it’s a very alternative city. Creative and hippy. He will stay there after graduation as he loves it.
Hi Ladies,
Bristol, "pronounced Brizzle by the locals" is a port city on the River Avon in the "West of England". The river Avon (from the Welsh word Afon which means “river”). is navigable from Avonmouth, a large Sea Port on the Bristol Channel.
Bristol was once a very busy port where ships would sail from the centre of Bristol to all parts of the known World. Bristol was once a very active port, including the shameful slave trade...
Major shipping now takes place at Avonmouth, but Bristol can still be reached by Sea.
Bristol, in my opinion, is probably the best small city in all of England. There's lots to see and do.
Go check it out.
Bristol really comes to life in August during the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, the largest free event in Europe!
"comes to life".. more like "comes to a standstill" for these festivals. I avoid going anywhere near the centre/docks/ coronation road when they are on!
I'm so happy you're finally starting to look at more places in the South. Please, PLEASE check out The South Downs Way! It's a beautiful walk that starts in gorgeous Georgian town of Eastbourne, takes you along the rolling South Downs coastline, through historic towns and villages and breathtaking scenery and ends in the mediaeval city of Winchester. You would love it.❤
Bristol has two sides to it - the touristy, historic, artsy stuff, but it is not Bath, it has an edgy, real, urban side to it also. In the 80s it was the first city to spark the wave of inner city riots in mainly Afro Caribbean neighbourhoods and there are still many poorer parts to Bristol that have socio-economic challenges. But I would not live anywhere else and some of the most interesting and cutting edge activity lies in the communities that tourists rarely go visit.
Bristol has Bristolians too. Bath has less and less Bathonians as they're getting pushed out due to the housing stock being bought by rich Londoners and such like.
@@rob-fb5xs like they were going to accept a cheaper offer. Come on mate, live in the real world.
Bath has always been an unreal city going back to the Romans and Jane Austin, a spa town, tourist destination, part of the 'season' etc' a city that belongs to outsiders and the poor old born and bred Bathonians have historically either had to put up with it or cash in. A nice thought though, the majority of petty crimes committed in Bath are by Bristolians (as all the Bathonians have left) - someone has to do it.😄
@@johnoconnor5259 as a Bathonian I couldn't have said it better mate 😂
bath got its poor parts
I moved to Bristol in 1991, although I now live halfway between Bristol and Bath. Bristol is a great place to visit with loads more to see than the great video showed, it has great diversity excellent pubs, and a great music scene especially in the Fleece and Firkin. Property is more expensive in the city centre and areas like Clifton, but as a whole the Average house price is £390K, those modern coloured apartments off of Cumberland Road are going to cost around £500K. You will be made very welcome in Bristol, and if you get a chance go and see the band called the Wurzels, and don't forget we have the Cotswolds and the Mendips with Cheddar gourge on the doorstep as well as Bath, and if you like pretty places Bradford on Avon and Castle Coombe are really pretty.
the Wurzels at the Fleece was one of the best gigs I've ever been to
@KnowPorcelain1 That'll be Keynsham then?
@@EscapeMCP saltford
An arcade is a structure made by enclosing a series of arches and columns. The word's roots go back to the Latin word "arcus," which means arc or bow.
An arched, covered passageway with shops or stalls on the sides is also called an arcade and was a precursor to the shopping mall. The Burlington Arcade in London opened in 1819 and was the first shopping arcade of its kind in Britain. It still exists and is the longest covered shopping street in England. As more of these shopping arcades opened, they also began offering games and eventually the word's meaning came to include video arcades, where you can play coin-operated games.
I'm an adopted Bristolian of 24 years. My favourite places are Arnos Vale Cemetery , St. Nicholas Market and Welshback/King Street.
I’m from Bristol and lived there for 50 years.
House prices… high in the very nice areas like Clifton and Redland, obviously cheaper elsewhere. Much cheaper than the south east.
I’d have a look at the area around Long Ashton (close to the place with the big house and deer park). Great access to the centre and countryside around. Move a few miles out and prices drop near nailsea. A nice enough commuting town.
Bristol has a world class university which means a large and healthy student population keeping things fresh and meaning plenty of night life. It’s commercially successful too, with lots of restaurants, theatre and many cultural attractions.
Honestly, it is a beautiful city, and I’d argue the best place to live in Britain.
Bath is about 45 mins drive away (20 by train) which is, in my opinion, only rivalled for beauty by Florence in Italy.
I’ve had the pleasure of living in Bristol of Bath, in Clifton (4 houses down from the Hotel by the Suspension Bridge) and next to Bath Abbey.
I’ve moved to the south coast (wife’s work) and I love coastal Devon because it’s so beautiful, but Bristol and Bath have to be the best cities in Britain. Exeter is lovely too, down here.
Edit… negatives, it depends which area you live in. House prices are on the high side. Which is why I suggested living just outside. £350k will get you something quite nice.
Look on rightmove.com.
If it looks too cheap, there’s a reason and it’s usually to do with where it is.
The coloured houses date from the sailing days, sailors painted theirs so they could see them as they came back on the boats.
Love the way your 'We're coming to visit' is changing to 'We're moving in'.
Welcome to you both.
Like a lot of cities and towns in the Uk. They are all full of history and good food and lovely people. I have lived in the UK all my life. Worked in the UK, the States and Switzerland. There is just something about Britain. The people mainly, dinner in nice pub, the countryside. My favourites are Edinburgh, Llandudno, Norfolk, Bristol, Cambridge and anywhere along the south coast. This Sceptred isle never ceases to surprise me. I do miss Rupert the Bear though. If you know you know.
Bristol is just as fantastic as you imagine. Great video ❤
as a bristolian who has lived here all my life, I love it here! it’s only 2 hours to london, under an hour to cardiff/wales and cornwall/devon isn’t to far either. its not the cheapest place with clifton and some of the posher villages but there are defo some areas that are quite cheap to live. she missed a couple things like park street and the city centre but thought it was a good video. also recommend you search up the bristol international balloon fiesta! happens every aug x
Love your videos ladies... I'm a Welsh exile who has lived in Bristol since 1978..... Fantastic place (albeit like most larger towns it has a few less savoury sides) but all in all it's a great place to live. I'm just outside the old County of Bristol 'city limits' in South Gloucestershire which forms part of 'Greater Bristol'.... I can see the Hills of my homeland Wales on the horizon across the Severn Estuary and able to travel from my location into the centres of both Bristol or Bath by car in about 20 minutes: Would be a pleasure to meet you both
I live in Essex & absolutely love ❤️& will be forever grateful 🙏 to the Bristol Southmead hospital ( over 3 hours away from here) . The amazing NHS Brain surgeon there saved my husband’s life 7 years ago when he suffered a brain aneurysm in Minehead whilst away with his brother for a darts weekend .
We intend to return one day to visit & enjoy the City together , under infinitely better circumstances. ❤xx
Bristol is a Cosmopolitan city with a young vibe great music scene and foodie paradise .
with lots of gangs, drugs, prostitution, homelessness and violent crimes 3rd to Manchester and East London :)
I live in Bristol, and sometimes I forget just what an amazing place it is, I guess you get used to the things you see everyday, so - thank you for this video.
Bristol plays an important part in US history as Brunel was the first engineer to construct the elements of an integrated transport system. Europeans emigrating from Northern Europe crossed the North Sea and took the train to London where they joined the Great Western Railway service to Bristol. Upon arrival, they moved directly to ships that took them to New York. Brunel solved a whole host of engineering problems to facilitate this journey.
Bristol was very wealthy due to its merchant navy which was well known for efficient trade, in fact prior to WWII Bristol was ranked above Bath for architectural importance by John Betjeman. The centre of the city was ripped out by German bombing and the immediate replacement buildings were of poor quality due to lack of funds. Fortunately, many of these buildings have now been demolished and the centre is now vibrant, even if the traffic is a bit of a nightmare.
Bristol's importance as a port declined after the contract for transatlantic postal services was awarded to Cunard operating from Liverpool, but it still has a strong connection with advanced engineering. Much of the design of Concorde took place in Bristol and a strong capability in aerospace technologies remains up to the present.
My father was a lecturer at Bristol University, he also was involved in the design/build of Concord airplane at Filton & was involved in the reclaimation of the SS Great Britain. Sadly he passed in 1973
I live in Bristol and it is a great city and you have the whole of the beautiful west country nearby.
I studied at the University of Bristol. Beautiful grounds and an amazing vibe for students. Great mix of old and new
I grew up in Bristol in the '60s but probably wouldn't recognise it now, it has been so tarted up. It used to be a working port and ships came right up to the city centre. Now the tobacco bonds in Hotwells, where my Dad used to work, have been turned into 'luxury flats'. Until WW2 Bristol was a mediaeval city that inspired the poet Chatterton, but it was bombed to hell in the war and now the only mediaeval street left is Christmas Steps - which your guide failed to mention. Near the top of the steps is a pretty little square of almshouses in the Burgundian style and with it's own chapel. If you should visit the Blaise castle estate in north Bristol, look out for Blaise hamlet. This is a small collection of quaint cottages around a green which were built as retirement homes for the estate servants. Not far away, in the area of Sea Mills, is a Roman harbour.
If you look into most old cities in the UK, you will find a lot of old historic places. We tend to take it for granted because we see it every day. Where I live there are several big halls, a moated manor house (ruins) and old villages which go back to the 1400s. The village I live near to goes back before the Domesday book was written which is a thousand years ago. A church which goes back to Anglo Saxon times, so much to see yet taken for granted.
As well as the Cathedral, Bristol has another fine and very beautiful medieval church of similar hugeness: St Mary Redcliffe.
Here you will find a brass plaque set into the floor amongst the choir stalls marking the burial place of Richard Amerike, merchant and sheriff of Bristol who was reputedly a major financial patron of explorer John Cabot's voyages to North America. Some writers have speculated that the name "America" may have originated from this source (cf Tasman's Van Diemens' Land) and not from the first name of Amerigo Vespucci (if it's not the case, it's something of a coincidence😮).
Also, the corpulent Dr Samuel Johnson, the famous wit, writer and compiler of the earliest widely-circulated English dictionary, became stuck (wedged on both sides) as he struggled to ascend the narrow and narrowing spiral staircase of the church tower and was forced to retreat when he was visiting in the 18th century!😂
Bristol was the city that made the whole of the UK accept standard GMT time, we had time zones which the trains could not deal with so the time zone GMT was stretched to incorporate Bristol
I lived in Bristol for a while. I recommend the pubs down at Hanham Mills by the river on a Sunday, its lovely.
I lived in Bristol for 10 years. Best city ever! People that live there LOVE living there ❤️❤️
Never ever thought to visit Bristol during my gap year and other visits to the UK but staying there for a few days is definitely a must do next trip. Amazing city, had no idea! I saw narrowboats at the start so that's the icing on the cake to.
Bristol is at the heart of the "West Country" of England. It's a great City with a great history and fantastic local culture. Liberal, tolerant, laid back with a great nightlife, art, food and music scene. It's also close to the city of Bath, and a short drive away from some of the best coastline and beaches in the country and also amazing rural countryside. Plus, pretty good access to the north and rest of the country and London.
It's cheaper than London but not cheap.
Thanks both, I love watching your reaction videos - love to think that you follow your gut as I don't think you would be disappointed with a visit to Bristol.
Mall
(Pronounced as in ‘shall’.)
A shaded walk serving as a promenade.
A game from the 1600’s with a ball and a mallet was called pall-mall, similar to the previous Italian game ‘pallamaglio’.
A London street from Trafalgar Square is called Pall Mall. Another close by is called The Mall (still pronounced as in shall or pal) and that one is the road to Buckingham Palace. The Mall was once an open alley where they played pall-mall.
Traditionally we seem to have always pronounced ‘mall’ differently, maybe because of the word ‘maul’ which means something rather less delightful.
Properties in Bristol had an overall average price of £399,677 over the last year. The majority of sales in Bristol during the last year were terraced properties, selling for an average price of £392,259. Flats sold for an average of £278,244, with semi-detached properties fetching £440,770.
What is an arcade in British English?
an arched covered passageway or avenue (as between shops)
chiefly British : a building that includes many shops.
There are many shopping arcades in the UK in various British cities. Many were built in the Victorian era and have glass roofs, similar to the old style conservatories. Shopping mall is a term used for the modern style of building for shopping centres. You should do a video on Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He was a prolific engineer of the industrial revolution, undertaking many projects during his lifetime. I have staled with friends living in Bristol, and it is a lovely city with lots to see. I was there in August during the annual hot air balloon festival, which was an amazing experience. Bath is only a half hour journey away, and then you can travel westwards through Somerset, Devon & Cornwall.
I am playing catch up so I watch the old postings one day and then come for the new clips. I am English to my very bones. I worked for many years as a holiday rep. Worked in Spain Italy Greece and numerous European destinations and a lot more further away. As beautiful as these countries are there is no place like England. You don't appreciate what you take for granted until you'v worked abroad. I love your channel some reactors are insulting us without the knowledge. You are a lovely couple
As a Bristolian. I’m proud that decided to watch this video about my amazing city
I've lived in ristol for over 40 years, and that video only scratched the surface. There's St. Mary Redcliffe Church, which makes the Catherdral look ordinary, there are historic harbourside pubs such as The Ostrich (rumoured to have been where one Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) used to drink before his pirae days. Plus the Landoger Trow where Robert Luois Stephenson wrote Treasure Island and The Hole In The Wall where Daniel Defoe met Andrew Selkirk and was inspired to pen Robinson Crusoe.
Another historic pub is The Seven Stars, where William Wilberforce stayed when writing his research into the Slave Trade which inturn lead to its abolition. Right next door is the famous Fleece music venue, talking of which...
Bristol has one of the richest music scenes in the UK, all genres are catered for from classical and jazz to punk and metal and dance music of all forms. There are over 100 venues across the city and gigs and club nights every night of the week.
There's more to street art than Banksey. There area around Nelson street in the city centre is now a permanent street art gallery that attracts artists from all over the world and the suburb of Bedminster hosts the anual Upfest street art festival.
On top of all that (and more) Bristol is a very diverse city that is on the whole well integrated and the multicultural result is a huge diversity of shops and eateries right across the city. Bristolians are on the whole a fairly friendly welcoming people and most folks fit right in.
Downsides? Well it's expensive. Rents are among the highest in the UK outside London, and housing to rent or buy is in very high demand and often not easy to secure. The public transport is crap, the buses are over crowded and unreliable, the rail network is limited and the road system prone to grid lock. There is talk of a new underground railway or light rail or tram system being built... but these ideas have been in the planning stages since at least the 1970's with NOTHING ever being put into practise. This is mainly down to the local council who regardless of politcal affiliation are a bunch of self serving wasterals who are more keen to butter their own egos and brown nose powerful interest groups such as the Society of Merchant Ventures than work for those who elected them.
There is a huge divide between the affluent area of the city such as Clifton and Leigh Woods and much poorer area such as Southmead, Shirehampton and St Judes which are areas of high poverty, crime and deprivation. But every city has it's underbelly I suspose.
Why not come and pay the place a visit, I did 40 plus years ago and I'm still here!
Great summing up ! (59 years here born n bred)
I live in penzance Cornwall, and often go to Bristol to use airport to fly to places in Europe! Check out penzance if you can lovely little place, with a great bay , including st. Michael's mount , beautiful ! ( when it's not raining ) ! ❤
An Arcade is a shopping street covered with an arched roof. Bristol is lovely but like all cities it does have its own seedier side. Natasha if you love this, check out Bath, it is one of my favourite places in the West Country, it even has an American museum.
Oh, the American Museum is like nothing else here in England. It is just fabulous. It celebrates colonial times in the original 13 British colonies, and the gradual waves of migration to post-Revolution USA. It's one of the best museums I have ever been to, and I shall never forget it. The house and gardens are gorgeous. There is a recreation of Washington's Mount Vernon garden. Please do go if you get the chance. I believe it is funded by the American government. It is very different from our British museums......more of a living recreation of earlier times. 🇬🇧🤗🇺🇸
With Bristol the Cotswolds are on your doorstep and the countryside around the area is stunning, weather wish it’s a little bit more rainy then most areas due to its geographical location.
Property prices have increased over the years, becoming more expensive then they ever were.
2 bedroom standard house £300,000+
3 bedroom standard house £400,000+
A house with a bit more character to it you can add £100,000 - £150,000 on to it.
Something breathtaking, ie the crescent or the modern coloured house you loved, your looking at £750,000 -£1,500,000
The best way to describe Bristol is a condensed London, everything you could possibly want all in one place…..
For me there’s two main drawbacks…..
1) getting in and out of Bristol, traffic is a total nightmare.
It’s okay once your in there, it’s just arriving and leaving!!!!
2) I’ve always found it to be gloomy 🙁 “weather wise”
Grey, wet and miserable…..
Lol, but it’s still beautiful!
Really glad to hear you support local businesses, use them or lose them.
I grew up in Bristol and even though not always I currently live and work there. It has a very metropolitan and multicultural vibe and seems to be constantly reinventing itself whilst holding on to its history. Two of the major events that happen there are the Ballon Fiesta and the St Paul's Carnival which in and of itself shows what a oddly snd pleasantly diverse city it is.
Do you know the term ‘ship shape in Bristol fashion’.? It was because it was such a busy port the boats had to strictly line up to squeeze them all in. They should have got a local to do the video so you can hear the accent. 🎶”I’ve got a brand new combine harvester” 😁
Born and bred in Bristol but haven’t lived there in decades, would go back in a heartbeat.
What a beautiful place. Move there now and get a guest room so Roz and I can stay. Its only 209 miles away. Lots to do, castles, parks and cathedrals, arcades etc. Great reaction Natasha. You were gobsmacked. 😊
If you love Bristol then you must research Isambard Kingdom Brunel - what a legend!
I agree 🙂
Bristol also has it's own international airport; anyone used to major airports might be surprised at the tiny two-lane road they find themselves heading into town on.
. . . and no rail connection.
Really handy bus every 10 minutes to Bristol though, there is that...
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Might have international in the name but as only 16 airlines serve Bristol airport and only 3 of them actually being foreign it can't really be classed as a truly international airport.
omg airport snobbery? As those planes generally fly to other countries I reckon it qualifies:) @@martinwebb1681
Hi girls. The castle thing by the bridge is the Clifton Observatory. If you are continuing your Great Britons seriesvyou should do Brunel, he was an amazing character
25:56 'Arcade' is an architectural term and refers to a series of arches and columns sometimes covering a space which may be used for shops or houses
Arcade are undercover shopping areas that date back to Georgian and Victorian time . They have small independent shops .
They were an improvement on the open kiosks that were outside .
Most cities hsve these they fell out fashion but are now restored to their original purpose upscale shops . Imagine the arcade in Victorian Dresses going about .
There are some beautiful arcades in both London (not a surprise) - The Leadenhall Market is like some giant arcade and in Birmingham. And Cardiff is known as the city of arcades.
My family have strong links to Bristol. My dad's family were living there back into the early 1800s. His parents lived there when I was growing up, so we were always taking a car ride over to visit them. Back when I was a kid in the 80s, the city was a bit of a dump in places, but it's been getting an upgrade over the last 20 years or so.
And now I go there regularly for my job. Also, in November, I'm going up to see one of my favourite Japanese bands play in a small room that holds about 150 people. I saw them in the same room last year 🙂
The SS Great Britain survived for a long time as a coal scow, then as a base for whalers on the Falkland Islands, and was eventually recovered back to Bristol, to the dock she was built in, mostly repaired (sections are still rusted through, to show how she was found), a replica of her original steam engine installed, and steadily improved upon over the years, until now she could have a movie made in her about the trips across the Atlantic taking emigrants and passengers to the USA and many other places.
Must go to Bristol now, writes down on list. Fantastic video girlies Natasha looks excited and was picturing herself there. So many hidden gems here in the UK. Well done excellent reaction that's why I love you both ❤
Hi guys.
Congratulations on 70k subscribers. 100k soon to come.
Still loving the content and banter.
Hope you make it over here soon.
Big love from London, England 💕🇬🇧
What a treat of a video, sitting here watching this in my house in Bristol
Hi. An arcade is like a mall with line shops, but it will have an arched ceiling, and it will more than likely date from the late 1700's, early 1800's. Arcades were built to house tiny shops and businesses who combined resources to pay for the space and amenities while enjoying the benefits of constant foot traffic.
The Autumn season ( fall ) is my favourite season too Natasha, the UK will soon be awash with the colours of Autumn 🍂🍁. Do make sure that you get around the beautiful countryside as well as the many historic Cities, Towns, and Villages of the UK ☺️. Just hope the videos live up to expectations when you come over.
The best place to visit for autumn trees is the National Arboretum at Westonbirt in nearby Gloucestershire. Gorgeous!
We'll likely never leave our home town because of our family but my husband and I have always said, if we were going to, it'd be for Bristol or the isle of skye. Such beautiful places :)
She missed explaining about the aeroplane in the museum.
Bristol was a maker of aircraft from just after the Wright brothers (that one shown was the Bristol Boxkite, unless I miss my guess), and the Bristol aircraft company made many types Blenheim, Beaufort, Beaufighter, and many more. through WWI, WWII, and long after.
Nearby is the Westland aircraft company, that now makes helicopters, over closer to Taunton in the South West of Britain.
Both my wife and I were born in Bristol, we met in Bristol, and married in Bristol, we have lived here all our lives, I am 65 and she is 63. I have travelled to many places in the uk whilst I was working but do not think we would move anywhere else, (perhaps a bungalow with a sea view on the Isle of Wight is the exception 😄😄).
Yes there are some deprived areas of the city, like there is in all big cities but there are many more interesting places than most here. From where I live I am 4 minutes away from Bristol Downs, 10 minutes from the Suspension Bridge and Observatory and just10 minutes from Blaze Castle. If we want to go for a drive towards the coast in the evening there is Portishead, Clevedon and Weston-Super-Mare, all only a short ride away.
At the top of the Clifton Observatory (the place where the entance is to the cave/tunnel) is a "camera obscura". This is an enclosed troom with a timy hole which acts as a camera and projects an image onto a large round table. The top rotates and you can see wonderful images of the surrounding city and countryside. It costs about £5 per person.
One in Edinburgh too.
Bristol and Somerset as a whole is the most beautiful part of the UK. I live in a place called Bridgwater which is 40 minutes away from Bristol and to answer your question "is it expensive?" The west country is one of the most affordable places to live x
Back in the early noughties I was trying to find affordable places to live. One week, as my holiday, I just started driving westward from London and visiting estate agents in every town I passed. I plotted the housing costs against distance from London, and while there was definite downward trend, the projected price-vs-distance didn't meet my budget until halfway across the Irish sea! =:o}
if you look at the annually listed national house price indexes by region the sw is one of the more expensive!
I've lived in Bristol for 40 years, it's a great place with a unique vibe. Like anywhere it has it's down sides (it's housing is expensive, the traffic is horrible) but overall it's a great place to be
Aww this was great to watch! Bristol is where I am from so it was lovely to see you discovering what I think is one of the best places in the UK!
There is so much more that this city has to offer other than what was shown. The actual culture of the city is so rich, with incredible entertainment, night life, bars, clubs and my personal favourite the Theatre. I’d love to see you do more videos on the city, maybe finding ones by actual Bristolians that know more of the lesser known places to see other than the big landmarks like this video. There is SO MUCH to discover.
After living in California for over 20 years, it was lovely seeing the City I get up in. I love your videos, keep doing what you’re doing because you’re both awesome…🥰
Just outside Bristol is a giant shopping centre called 'The Mall'. The whole area in and around the city has so much to do. 🙂
I was born & raised in Bristol, but I moved to Derbyshire aged 15 … I have taken my Derbyshire born & raised daughter there a number of times; Growing up in Bristol I couldn’t wait to leave the place, but when we moved to Derbyshire I have now got a love for my home town (well city). Now my husband has passed away & my daughter has grown up & flown the nest I haven’t been there, because it breaks my heart going alone.
Lovely place, great video. Many Thanks
Thank you too!
Born and brought up in Bristol! So pleased you felt a connection it's a fabulous place! X