Hi, if you wanted to feel at home, 80 miles directly north is my home town Peterborough. East of us is an area called the fens. That land is below sea level and used to be swamp! Its now our main source of crop growing as the soil is so good. Its something that surprised when i first got to Orlando in 93 for the first time. We had the reverse culture shock and got so many weird looks when we walked along international drive as there were no paths! We got the same look in Jay in maine, it was like are you mad. It was just what we were used to. That said we certainly jay walked a few times😂. I loved visiting the USA but ill not get back now due to ill health
Enjoyed this random walk. Congrats on the subscriber count, you popped up in my recommendations so it’s working! Surprised to hear that Leadenhall was the inspiration for JKR’s Diagon Alley, I always thought it was based on The Shambles in York which is in the north of England. Google it, it looks like a film set but it’s a genuine medieval street. Amazing. Cheers!
It's quite difficult not to notice (The) Monument (to the Great Fire of London)... but if I was you I'd blame it on jet lag! Really like your channel - I'm pleased that CZcams recommended it to me.
That big glass building that you walked past looks to be Lloyd’s of London. An ancient insurance company that insures most of the shipping in the world . Even an unassuming building can have a fascinating history. Several films have been filmed inside the building, including James Bond.
@@freddiemac1438 it does and I thought that did a bit. It’s almost opposite the entrance to Charing Cross rail station and I thought that where they were passing by on the way to St Paul’s. I could be wrong but I used to use that station frequently and know that part of London quite well. Actually now I come to think of it is that Coutts ? Confused now
It was great to see you wandering through the city, with just a general idea of where you're going, it is a great way to find unexpected delights. I worked in Bishopsgate for many years and loved just wandering about, finding small 500 year old pubs in hidden yards, or Roman ruins in situ next to a local newsagent and so much more, all squeezed in between the gaps of the monolithic glass office blocks. To increase your London trivia knowledge, the London Bridge that was sold to an oil tycoon in the late 1960s was called New London Bridge. It replaced what is now called Old London Bridge (the one with houses and shops on it, commonly seen as a backdrop in Shakespeare film adaptations). It stood from the beginning of the 1200s until the mid 1800s, which included being partially consumed by flames during the Great Fire Of London. The Old Bridge was incredibly narrow and crowded, and was becoming structurally unsafe, impacted by the increase in both the amount and size of traffic bought on by modernisation. The Victorians built New London Bridge to replace the crumbling one and allowed for the traffic increase, which worked for some time, partially because additional bridges were built during this time, but eventually the bridge needed to be widened again. The much wider Modern London Bridge was designed in the 1960s, and this is when the New London Bridge was sold, and shipped brick by brick to America. Apologies for the short novel, but I love the history of London and can get carried away. You can also probably tell I've been on a few city walks. I will say that as far as aesthetics are concerned., America got the better side of the deal by a long way.
Excellent video, and different from many on here. You make it interesting and it's as if I was with you and you are talking to me. The Thames is pronounced T-ems. I know you don't mind me correcting you for next time.
No not at all and I also don’t care, because, I keep calling it “Tames “ someone needs to hit me with a bat until I get it right 😂🤣🤣 thank you for the kind words lol.
@@Trippingthroughadventures I won't lie though. Britain is in a horrific place at the moment. morale in the entire country couldn't be much lower after 14 years of a terrible government. Would love to be able to view London through the eyes of people who don't know every sordid, sleazy, corrupt and cruel detail our politicians in charge have inflicted on us here.. things will be better soon, after the next election.
@@IntoTheWhite04 sadly this is going on in our country as well. It’s gotten to a point where no matter what you do or where you go. It’s something political or a political agenda behind it. The American government is not only good at corruption but polarizing its citizens to create division over it. But Americas such a melting pot of people, there’s no true moral standard or decorum to fall back on. But that’s something we could get demonetized for hours over 😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures yep, America is in a pretty bad place and I fear what'll happen when trump gets back in... I also fear what'll happen if he doesn't.. absolutely mad that the only 2 candidates you can find for the job are the two that are running. Anyway... Ignorance is bliss so I'm glad you had a great time in London.. I've only been to NYC in America, twice, and was staring in disbelief at everything there as well...
There’s a lot more people with the same thought process in America than you would think, truthfully your seeing arguments among around 10% of Americans on governmental and social issues. I’m a staunch conservative, and my view on a view on a few social issues is… i will talked broadly see if you can figure it out. 1. Who goes to public libraries anymore? 2. What bathroom did they go in before we made this a thing? 3. If I tell someone they can’t do something, that opens the door to tell me I can’t do something. 4. Can we revisit the social issues once it becomes affordable again to be social. Thus my political opinion. 😂🤣😂 but you watch the news, I’m not suppose to thank that way at all. I’m suppose to be angry and offended.
Oh yea the real history blew my socks off I don’t know how well a lot of those vlogs will turn out, coming from a country that history starts so late.. and then you come to England and it’s like here’s a castle from 1000 year ago. Here’s a mummy from 2,000 years ago. Kind of leaves you speechless, I really didn’t know how to process it all. Lol
@Trippingthroughadventures Well most of the Egyptian Mummy are at Least 2000 BC .Glad you visited The British Museum. We didn't Pinch all that Stuff for Nothing then .But it's free to visit in a Beautiful Building.
hhhhhahaha i love your sense of humour, its very english. i would of suggested the British Museum, the Imperial War Museum, The National Gallery, Hyde Park, there is so much. Go to Windsor. All depends on your interests i suppose. Must visit Westminster Abbey and St Pauls Cathedral. Hope you had a wonderful trip and come back soon.
The Monument to the great fire of London was built in the 1670s. The fire started in a bakers shop near the site in 1666 and destroyed quite a lot of the city, including St Paul's cathedral. The St Paul's you see today is the replacement to the one destroyed by the fire.
So in America we have, the pilgrims the revolutionary war, the Native American wars, Wwi, wwii, Korea, Vietnam. And tons of stuff that happened all around it during those times. How do you guys even start deciding what to teach in schools lol ? What we consider our defining moment of independence in America, could be classified as one of many failed business ventures to England. It’s just mind blowing the history
@@Trippingthroughadventures I was born in Belfast & class myself as Irish, but London & the UK really does have some amazing history , even if there have been lots of failed business ventures.
You should visit Blenheim Palace in the town of Woodstock Oxfordshire the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill and his grave in the next door village Bladon at St Martins Church ❤😊
Now I’ve got to look up the Balloon Museum in London, which I’d never heard of before. This was an excellent walk, and so interesting. Thank you. It relates to inflatable or balloon art, not hot air balloons, which is what I imagined it to be. When my husband and I lived in Wiltshire, we were driving back from somewhere at night, right in the countryside (near Old Sarum; a prehistoric site), and these huge coloured inflatable moon and stars slowly inflated (and then deflated again) from behind a hillock. My husband was so shocked that he nearly drove into the side of the road. We just had to stop and go to look, and it was such a surreal experience, but oh so beautiful.
I love London, try and get to Covent Garden, from therr you can walk down to The Strand and onto Trafalger Square. The tube is quicker than the buses, roads get quite congested.
Best walk is from Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge on the South Bank...so much to see ...Shakespeare globe, the Golden Hind, Tate Modern, Clink, HMS Belfast, Roman Ruins....etc etc
@glastonbury4304 agree, I used to walk from Monument to Waterloo on a regular basis. The advantage of walking over London Bridge is that you can look up and down the Thames at the more attractive bridges (especially good views at dawn and dusk IMHO)
we teach our kits to Look Right, Look Left and if all clear, cross. The USA bought the wrong bridge which is funny. I believe they thought they were buying Tower Bridge lol. Its an easy mistake lol
Idk how true it is but heard the same thing he thought it was the tower bridge not London bridge. Funny enough though, if you ask most American to describe London bridge they would describe tower bridge. Which is equally impressive, because the only bridge Americans could really describe in America is the Golden Gate Bridge, lol. I’ve been next to the Brooklyn bridge at least 10 times, I couldn’t draw it for you lol.
Nobody is going to bother you if you're drinking alcohol while walking along the streets of London unless you're being rowdy or appear unable to look after yourself. It's not permitted on public transport but even there you'll often be ignored unless you do something to draw attention to yourself. Changing subject, the wise thing is to look both ways when crossing any road whatever the signs say; especially now we face the silent menace of e-bikers and e-scooterists' self-entitlement to proceed almost as the crow flies.
That makes sense it was nice being in a country that treats people as adults lol 😂. In America most places have strict drinking laws. …. Yes we know what you mean with e-bikers! We had a close call with one. lol
Those posts are probably just for parking control and you can really drink anywhere if you are not causing a nuisance. Some areas do have a public space area where drinking is forbidden but that is usually to counter antisocial behaviour. They are not always enforced unless you are drunk.
So many parts of that video was cut cuz I called it “ Lee in hall, Lee hall “ I mean if that name was a person they would have some abuse charges against me 😂 come to think of it…. Out of all the places we went to, the only one I probably pronounced right was “pub “ 😂🤣😄
lol chalk that one up to camera shock, I’ve heard it pronounced a 100 times just in that moment, my mind went blank lol. Now all the other towns and places. I’m Londons new Jack the Ripper with how I’ve mutilated those names😂🤣😂
@Trippingthroughadventures Not Mad after all Accent changes every 12 miles in the UK. Plus the words for the same items. Than you have Two Languages in England alone Cornish from Cornwall English. Then Welsh fr Wales. Gallic fr Scotland. Its a bloody mine Field ..
@user-ze5tu4ck1t nice to meet you we are from Orlando Florida and you should feel very proud to be from a place as lovely as England it is a beautiful place.
@Trippingthroughadventures I am very Proud of my Country and Pleased to welcome our American Cousins. And Allies. Next time you visit Try Northern England 🏴. York is my Favourite City .I was up There a couple of weeks ago. It has Roman history. Viking ( it was the Viking Capital) And its a medieval city. York Minster is my favourite Cathedral. Still has the Medieval Walls around it intact.
Hi, if you wanted to feel at home, 80 miles directly north is my home town Peterborough. East of us is an area called the fens. That land is below sea level and used to be swamp! Its now our main source of crop growing as the soil is so good. Its something that surprised when i first got to Orlando in 93 for the first time. We had the reverse culture shock and got so many weird looks when we walked along international drive as there were no paths! We got the same look in Jay in maine, it was like are you mad. It was just what we were used to. That said we certainly jay walked a few times😂. I loved visiting the USA but ill not get back now due to ill health
Enjoyed this random walk. Congrats on the subscriber count, you popped up in my recommendations so it’s working! Surprised to hear that Leadenhall was the inspiration for JKR’s Diagon Alley, I always thought it was based on The Shambles in York which is in the north of England. Google it, it looks like a film set but it’s a genuine medieval street. Amazing. Cheers!
I think u 2 are great ,my new favourites on utube .enjoy your adventures
It's quite difficult not to notice (The) Monument (to the Great Fire of London)... but if I was you I'd blame it on jet lag!
Really like your channel - I'm pleased that CZcams recommended it to me.
100% jet lag and excitement I called it a memorial we filmed that at around 24 hours no sleep 😂🤣😂🤣😂
That big glass building that you walked past looks to be Lloyd’s of London. An ancient insurance company that insures most of the shipping in the world . Even an unassuming building can have a fascinating history. Several films have been filmed inside the building, including James Bond.
Wow that is really cool! We had no clue.
I don’t think it is - Lloyds looks like a petrol refinery
@@freddiemac1438 it does and I thought that did a bit. It’s almost opposite the entrance to Charing Cross rail station and I thought that where they were passing by on the way to St Paul’s. I could be wrong but I used to use that station frequently and know that part of London quite well. Actually now I come to think of it is that Coutts ? Confused now
It was great to see you wandering through the city, with just a general idea of where you're going, it is a great way to find unexpected delights. I worked in Bishopsgate for many years and loved just wandering about, finding small 500 year old pubs in hidden yards, or Roman ruins in situ next to a local newsagent and so much more, all squeezed in between the gaps of the monolithic glass office blocks. To increase your London trivia knowledge, the London Bridge that was sold to an oil tycoon in the late 1960s was called New London Bridge.
It replaced what is now called Old London Bridge (the one with houses and shops on it, commonly seen as a backdrop in Shakespeare film adaptations). It stood from the beginning of the 1200s until the mid 1800s, which included being partially consumed by flames during the Great Fire Of London. The Old Bridge was incredibly narrow and crowded, and was becoming structurally unsafe, impacted by the increase in both the amount and size of traffic bought on by modernisation. The Victorians built New London Bridge to replace the crumbling one and allowed for the traffic increase, which worked for some time, partially because additional bridges were built during this time, but eventually the bridge needed to be widened again. The much wider Modern London Bridge was designed in the 1960s, and this is when the New London Bridge was sold, and shipped brick by brick to America.
Apologies for the short novel, but I love the history of London and can get carried away. You can also probably tell I've been on a few city walks.
I will say that as far as aesthetics are concerned., America got the better side of the deal by a long way.
Excellent video, and different from many on here. You make it interesting and it's as if I was with you and you are talking to me. The Thames is pronounced T-ems. I know you don't mind me correcting you for next time.
No not at all and I also don’t care, because, I keep calling it “Tames “ someone needs to hit me with a bat until I get it right 😂🤣🤣 thank you for the kind words lol.
Really enjoying your innocence whilst discovering my home city for the first time. We take it all for granted but it is wonderful.
You live in an amazing place that really shook the way we viewed the world. You are very blessed and lucky to live where you do.
@@Trippingthroughadventures I won't lie though. Britain is in a horrific place at the moment. morale in the entire country couldn't be much lower after 14 years of a terrible government. Would love to be able to view London through the eyes of people who don't know every sordid, sleazy, corrupt and cruel detail our politicians in charge have inflicted on us here.. things will be better soon, after the next election.
@@IntoTheWhite04 sadly this is going on in our country as well. It’s gotten to a point where no matter what you do or where you go. It’s something political or a political agenda behind it. The American government is not only good at corruption but polarizing its citizens to create division over it. But Americas such a melting pot of people, there’s no true moral standard or decorum to fall back on. But that’s something we could get demonetized for hours over 😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures yep, America is in a pretty bad place and I fear what'll happen when trump gets back in... I also fear what'll happen if he doesn't.. absolutely mad that the only 2 candidates you can find for the job are the two that are running. Anyway... Ignorance is bliss so I'm glad you had a great time in London.. I've only been to NYC in America, twice, and was staring in disbelief at everything there as well...
There’s a lot more people with the same thought process in America than you would think, truthfully your seeing arguments among around 10% of Americans on governmental and social issues. I’m a staunch conservative, and my view on a view on a few social issues is… i will talked broadly see if you can figure it out.
1. Who goes to public libraries anymore?
2. What bathroom did they go in before we made this a thing?
3. If I tell someone they can’t do something, that opens the door to tell me I can’t do something.
4. Can we revisit the social issues once it becomes affordable again to be social.
Thus my political opinion. 😂🤣😂 but you watch the news, I’m not suppose to thank that way at all. I’m suppose to be angry and offended.
Cant wait for you to see the Real history.
Oh yea the real history blew my socks off I don’t know how well a lot of those vlogs will turn out, coming from a country that history starts so late.. and then you come to England and it’s like here’s a castle from 1000 year ago. Here’s a mummy from 2,000 years ago. Kind of leaves you speechless, I really didn’t know how to process it all. Lol
@Trippingthroughadventures Well most of the Egyptian Mummy are at Least 2000 BC .Glad you visited The British Museum. We didn't Pinch all that Stuff for Nothing then .But it's free to visit in a Beautiful Building.
@@user-ze5tu4ck1t see I needed someone like you while was walking through there lol
Congratulations on hitting your subscriber goal! Be safe and have fun!🎉
Thank you we are having a blast
hhhhhahaha i love your sense of humour, its very english. i would of suggested the British Museum, the Imperial War Museum, The National Gallery, Hyde Park, there is so much. Go to Windsor. All depends on your interests i suppose. Must visit Westminster Abbey and St Pauls Cathedral. Hope you had a wonderful trip and come back soon.
The British museum’s will be coming up in our vlogs in will be a more depth look almost emotional lol
The Monument to the great fire of London was built in the 1670s. The fire started in a bakers shop near the site in 1666 and destroyed quite a lot of the city, including St Paul's cathedral. The St Paul's you see today is the replacement to the one destroyed by the fire.
My favourite statue in London.
Been up it 3 or 4 times & the views are superb.
So in America we have, the pilgrims the revolutionary war, the Native American wars, Wwi, wwii, Korea, Vietnam.
And tons of stuff that happened all around it during those times.
How do you guys even start deciding what to teach in schools lol ? What we consider our defining moment of independence in America, could be classified as one of many failed business ventures to England. It’s just mind blowing the history
@@Trippingthroughadventures I was born in Belfast & class myself as Irish, but London & the UK really does have some amazing history , even if there have been lots of failed business ventures.
Glass building is the Shard. Lloyds of London is not glass and has all the services on the outside of the building.
We was staying next to one the called “the girkin” I guess because it’s looks like a pickle lol.
You should visit Blenheim Palace in the town of Woodstock Oxfordshire the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill and his grave in the next door village Bladon at St Martins Church ❤😊
The real 'Diagon Alley' is in the City of York!
So far we have got York, a few different places in Edinburgh, and a few other places we didn’t realize this was such a debatable topic.
Now I’ve got to look up the Balloon Museum in London, which I’d never heard of before. This was an excellent walk, and so interesting. Thank you.
It relates to inflatable or balloon art, not hot air balloons, which is what I imagined it to be.
When my husband and I lived in Wiltshire, we were driving back from somewhere at night, right in the countryside (near Old Sarum; a prehistoric site), and these huge coloured inflatable moon and stars slowly inflated (and then deflated again) from behind a hillock. My husband was so shocked that he nearly drove into the side of the road. We just had to stop and go to look, and it was such a surreal experience, but oh so beautiful.
The original bridge is in Lake Havasu City in Arizona.
I didn’t know that until I got here I got to research that lol
I love London, try and get to Covent Garden, from therr you can walk down to The Strand and onto Trafalger Square. The tube is quicker than the buses, roads get quite congested.
Best walk is from Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge on the South Bank...so much to see ...Shakespeare globe, the Golden Hind, Tate Modern, Clink, HMS Belfast, Roman Ruins....etc etc
@glastonbury4304 agree, I used to walk from Monument to Waterloo on a regular basis. The advantage of walking over London Bridge is that you can look up and down the Thames at the more attractive bridges (especially good views at dawn and dusk IMHO)
i would keep to the well lit areas.
Luckily the areas we walked was pretty desolate of people and seemed more upscale so we didn’t stray to far from that🙂
we teach our kits to Look Right, Look Left and if all clear, cross. The USA bought the wrong bridge which is funny. I believe they thought they were buying Tower Bridge lol. Its an easy mistake lol
Idk how true it is but heard the same thing he thought it was the tower bridge not London bridge. Funny enough though, if you ask most American to describe London bridge they would describe tower bridge. Which is equally impressive, because the only bridge Americans could really describe in America is the Golden Gate Bridge, lol. I’ve been next to the Brooklyn bridge at least 10 times, I couldn’t draw it for you lol.
Nobody is going to bother you if you're drinking alcohol while walking along the streets of London unless you're being rowdy or appear unable to look after yourself. It's not permitted on public transport but even there you'll often be ignored unless you do something to draw attention to yourself. Changing subject, the wise thing is to look both ways when crossing any road whatever the signs say; especially now we face the silent menace of e-bikers and e-scooterists' self-entitlement to proceed almost as the crow flies.
That makes sense it was nice being in a country that treats people as adults lol 😂. In America most places have strict drinking laws. …. Yes we know what you mean with e-bikers! We had a close call with one. lol
Those posts are probably just for parking control and you can really drink anywhere if you are not causing a nuisance. Some areas do have a public space area where drinking is forbidden but that is usually to counter antisocial behaviour. They are not always enforced unless you are drunk.
Love the vids, great memories ❤
This video was so helpful everyone subscribe to this guy he’s old fashioned
The oldest of fashion
The real london bridge is in lake havasu in America.
Leadenhall market is pronounced Led en Hall
So many parts of that video was cut cuz I called it “ Lee in hall, Lee hall “ I mean if that name was a person they would have some abuse charges against me 😂 come to think of it…. Out of all the places we went to, the only one I probably pronounced right was “pub “ 😂🤣😄
@@Trippingthroughadventures If you come back go up to the top of The Monument. It's fantastic
Will do
The Thames is pronounced as 'Tems' in London and across the UK. Not 'Thaymes or 'Tames'
lol chalk that one up to camera shock, I’ve heard it pronounced a 100 times just in that moment, my mind went blank lol. Now all the other towns and places. I’m Londons new Jack the Ripper with how I’ve mutilated those names😂🤣😂
Thames is Pronounced Temms.
I’m going to make a lot of Brit’s mad in this series with my pronunciation lol
@Trippingthroughadventures Not Mad after all Accent changes every 12 miles in the UK. Plus the words for the same items. Than you have Two Languages in England alone Cornish from Cornwall English. Then Welsh fr Wales. Gallic fr Scotland. Its a bloody mine Field ..
Had you Found out yet the Museum's are Free yet .You can see Egyptian and Aincient Greek. Aincient British, Roman and much more for Nothing.
No we found out two days after this was shot at the British museum
@@Trippingthroughadventures Love it .Nothing Like a Nice Surprise.
@@user-ze5tu4ck1t I can’t lie though i would of paid big money, to see the things i seen in there lol
@Trippingthroughadventures Great .But to see it all would take a week I Think .
You mean LEDenhall (that’s how it’s pronounced) market !
So led like a lead pencil?
@@Trippingthroughadventures yup!
@@Trippingthroughadventures and Thames pronounced ‘tems’
Always back down in a fight with a car - you will not win 🤣
That’s very true 😂
Actually the Aincient Greeks named it and the Romans copied.
That’s why we are “Tripping” through adventures 🤣 ain’t always 100% but we embrace it lol
@Trippingthroughadventures It's all good mate I'm enjoying your videos from London. I'm a bit further North from Derbyshire. Pronounced Dar be sher .
@user-ze5tu4ck1t nice to meet you we are from Orlando Florida and you should feel very proud to be from a place as lovely as England it is a beautiful place.
@Trippingthroughadventures I am very Proud of my Country and Pleased to welcome our American Cousins. And Allies. Next time you visit Try Northern England 🏴. York is my Favourite City .I was up There a couple of weeks ago. It has Roman history. Viking ( it was the Viking Capital) And its a medieval city. York Minster is my favourite Cathedral. Still has the Medieval Walls around it intact.
York is a place I would like to go to next next time we want to venture more north.