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Thanks for stopping by once again, Loners! In this video, we looked at some extraordinary places that are within the UK. If you have been to these places or have any other hidden gems to mention please do so in the comments! If you enjoy our content please make sure to like and subscribe. Thank you all! - Zábava
One massive omission was The Lake District. In my opinion not just the most beautiful area of England (and there's some hot competition) but one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Agreed. I spent a week in Keswick last year with university... it certainly is gods country...
Be sure to bring some water proof clothing though
Definitely...I'm in Wigan only just over a hour away. Been hundreds of times.
@@4Kandlez You're not kidding I'm fed up of it.
They should definitely react to the lake district
It’s a shame the Lake District, the Cotswolds and the West Country (Devon, Somerset and Cornwall) weren’t in the video because they’re all epic.
Can't believe they were leftout
They’d need at least an hour to get every beautiful place in the uk
One thing you have to realise is that a lot of British people LOVE to moan about London and other places in our own country lol. It's just the way we are. We whinge about everything and take the piss out of everyone.
We DISOWN London, we dont just moan about that hellscape.
@@MrNelliboyand which parts of London have you actually been to? if you've ever been there that is.
London is great nothing wrong with it. Full of history and many other things @MrNelliboy
I used to live and work in London for about half of each month, always enjoyed it. The rest of the time was spent on the coast of Mid-Wales.
When I retired, I missed my little part-time London home.
@@Richardssong18london is great who you kidding whats great about it? if you go there on a saturday you get modbbed by pro terrorist groups. And apparently londons history is mis information.
Your choice of subjects and your comments made me subscribe, but the layout of the screen is horrible: 1/8 for the video you're reviewing and 7/8 for the both of you.
Some people view this on a cellphone, imagine!
My suggestion: When you are watching, let the video fill the screen, with you both on a small part. Before and after the watching, you both fill the screen.
If more people think, this might improve viewing your videos then give this comment a like 🙂
I'm one of those watching in miniature technicolour 😂
they need to watch other reactors.the video needs to be a bigger part of the screen and they need to be small.reverse it.
with this vid cause it was so small you don't get to see the full impact of the beauty.
No Lake District ,no Peak District , no Yorkshire Dale's, no Yorkshire moors in no Yorkshire or Northunbelrland , in fact half the country is missing !!!
The Lake District is a must see .
No it isn't, I live there, it's full of sheep shit and rains all the time
With her sarcasm, she would fit right in, in Britain
true dat
Well, she does look like she could use some free healthcare and a blood transfusion.
Lmao
As a Brit there are many places not on the list, the list in the video in my opinion is also beautiful. Check out;
Cotswold area
The Lake District
Oxford
Cambridge
The lochs in Scotland
Portmeirion Village In wales
I could give you so many recommendations, we are a nation with lots of diversity.
Thank you Jasmine,i'm an old frenchman (61) Always interested by UK countryside and History , Hope this couple follow your comment,have a nice day , from North east France 🇨🇵
I’m from Oxford and grew up in the Cotswold-y area
Interesting fun fact, Loch Ness(of Nessie fame), contains more water than every lake in the whole of England and Wales combined.
You have to pay to go into Eilean Donan castle. It's just over $12 to get in.
And the depth of Loch Ness's deepest points are OVER 800 foot deep... which is TWICE the average depth of the North Sea !!! 🤔 😊
He missed a hell of a lot of good places. Southern England had some wonderful sites - The New Forest - designated a royal forest by William the Conquerer in 1079. Over 71,000 acres of forest and heathland with ponies (and cattle & donkeys) roaming free on the common land. Less than an hour away is the South Downs National Park - rolling chalk hills stretching 628 square miles over 3 counties. Beautiful landscapes and loads of history. The ancient city of Winchester, Hampshire has a great cathedral. 10 miles away is Alresford known for it's watercress beds and it's heritage steam railway.
Pound for pound there are unbelievable areas of Britain...you could spend 10 yrs over here and not even scrape the surface...thousands of years of history and a lot of it hidden
The narrator said Mount Snowdon is 10,085 meters high. That's higher than Everest and clearly not true. It's 1085m.
So im probably concurring with one or two other comments below - so here goes for England ( im an Englishman so guess Im biased ) starting in Cornwall - 1 Tintagel Castle - King Arthur`s Castle and Merlin North Coast of Cornwall - whilst in cornwall St Michael`s Mount Island - Fowey and Looe old fishing ports - The Minack Theatre , Port Isaac and finally Charlestown - made world famous for filming of old frigates and BBC Poldark series - lock system to keep old tall sail boats in this quaint little village - DEVON - Burgh Island 1920s Art DEco Hotel that get cuts off from the tide and used in Agatha Christie novels - Clovelly beautiful devon coast village - Falmouth - Dartmoor where Sherlock Homes " Hound of the Baskervilles " there is I believe an actual Baskerville Hall - Barbican and The Hoe in Plymouth - SOMERSET - Bath old City with the Roman Baths and beautiful shops - Montacute House , National Trust House - Glastonbury Tower , linked with King Arthur and King Alfred and of course The largest Music Festival in June THE GLASTONBURY MUSIC FESTIVAL going on for 60 plus years - Exmoor a beautiful Moor with Tarr steps and little hamlets with with pubs - Wookey Hole in the cheddar caves of the Wookey Witch and Cheddar Cheese -WILTSHIRE Stonehenge of course - Stourhead Gardens - Avebury ancient stones smaller scale to stonehenge and lovely village made famous by Dr Who in the 1970s with the most popular Dr who Tom Baker - GLOUSTERSHIRE - Cotswolds lower Slaughter and Upper and Bourton on the water and Bilbury - these are world famous places and can be a bit touristy when its nice weather - there are some beatiful walks around and skirting the cotswolds - DORSET - Corfe Castle built by the Normans and destroyed after English Civil war - it has beautiful walks around hill tops and village with steam Railway , - Lyme REgis with the beautiful cobb harbour made famous by the film The French Llt Woman in the late 70` , Gold Hill in shaftsbury made famous of the Loaf of bread TV Ad - Jurassic Coastline of Durdle Door and Chesil Beach - Poole Sandbanks famed for where the rich go and muliti millionaire Houses on the Beach - but has great sailing , boating - studland Bay with its great beaches and nature reserves and of course OLD HARRYS ROCKS - there are some great cycle rides across the Heath to Corfe Castle - you will need to use the Chain Ferry to get across - Poole has the 2nd largest natural deepest harbour in the world . Thats it for the West .. I hope thats wetted your appeitite .. but with England you have to be prepared for all weathers .. so definitely bring shorts and T shirts - but you will definitely need waterproof jacket , fleece and other warm clothings because it can get wet even in the summer time - well this is england a😀😀fter all .
Lake District, Cotswolds, Peak District, North Yoor Moors, Robin Hoods Bay, Cornwall, Devon, Snowdonia...... the list goes ever on!
I live near the mountain in the shot where the word Snowdonia was on the screen, it's called Tryfan and the first expedition team to successfully summit Everest used it for training, it has no footpaths to the summit as it's just one big lump of jagged rock, so you have to scramble up using your hands, it's a cool place to visit and the worlds fastest zipline is just down the road too, you can get up to 125mph on it, the ponies in the next shot are the famous Carneddau wild ponies, they live up in the mountains all year fending for themselves then once a year all the local farmers round them all up so they can have a health check. Even though I live in the middle of nowhere in the mountains I love London, it's an awesome city, I'm an artist so I love going down there to look around all the art galleries.
I've visited Stonehenge during the summer solstice - you watch the sun go down then you stay up all night and then on the longest day, the sun rises over the heel stone...magical!
Cornwall , check out St I'ves , porthcurno , minack theatre , and Devon x
St Ives is lush, two parts to it. Although it's the only Tate Gallery that charged me admission (£10), strange for a legacy gallery funded by a millionaire's trust fund. I was barred from the £40 million roof top development next to the café, 'staff only' apparently. I think it's also the only place where the seagulls hunt in packs, they're ferocious. Had the best ever pasty down by the harbour, so not all bad.
Scotland is well worth a visit. Edinburgh best place to base yourselves, and it's not a big country so it's easy to get around. The train journey from Edinburgh to Glasgow takes 50 minutes. You can also get a train to the Highlands, or hire a car and drive around. It would take approx 3 hours to drive from Edinburgh to Inverness (the capital of the Highlands).
Only word of caution, the Edinburgh Festival takes place in August. It's the biggest arts festival in the world and attracts a huge number of visitors, which in turn means accommodation costs go through the roof.
I went on a road trip by bus between cities for a week: Bristol, Bath, Oxford, Birmingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh. Honestly cannot say which was best and have to see. They were each very different. Depends what you want to see. Bristol student city, active. Bath frozen in Victorian times. Oxford the assumed elitism in beautiful architecture. Birmingham the big, active, industrial but gentrifying city. Liverpool the Beatles and the port. Edinburgh the Scottish middle age city.
We drove to the Isle of skye last month through the Scottish Highlands in our Audi TT ... jaw dropping scenery and roads! We've climbed snowdon too, also amazing !
I live on the Jurassic Coast, and got married on the Isle of Skye! The UK has such an amazingly varied landscape. Come on over, you'll love it. 🇬🇧
I live in england, have been to scotland many times, done ben nevis, swam in loch ness, did survival coarses up there, Scotland is of the charts for beauty
15:04 the Isles of Scilly. It's tropical there because of the Gulf Stream. It's sunny over the year.
Sub tropical. And no, most of the time it's overcast. As you drive down through Cornwall to get there, you can see the occasional sign outside of peoples houses offering sub tropical plants for sale. Also the sub tropical gardens in Penzance, the town you leave from to get to the isles. And, of course, St Michaels Mount. A castle on a mount in the bay.
Let's not exaggerate, the isles have an average of 1689 hours of sunshine a year, London has 1460. That's an average of 0,6 hrs a day more sunshine as London. Furthermore the isles don't have a tropical climate but an oceanic one, meaning mild winters and mild summers, summer temperatures are mostly lower as on mainland UK, the highest ever recorded temperature was 27.8 °C, not quite tropical I'd say. But it still sure beats living in Stoke, Slough or Bradford tho.
@@laziojohnny79 I grew up in Penzance. We have the same weather. Yes, the climate is mild which allows us to grow sub tropical plants. But it also means we are the first to get the clouds formed over the Atlantic. Believe me, the amount of sun we get isn't that great. Even the days we get a good amount of sun, the sky is half filled with clouds. But the advantage is it takes the edge off of heatwaves. I never once had to sleep with the window open back home, which I am having to do now that I live in the middle of England. But that could just be climate change. I would also take a guess that we are the least likely place in the UK to get snow. Not so great when I was a kid.
@@SarthorS I live in the Netherlands and sub tropical plants thrive here as well and we also have an oceanic climate. Snow and ice as seen in the 20th century seem to be a thing of the past here as well.
Just to let you know. Geologists say that Scotland was part of North America, once upon a time.
I live on the border between Devon and Cornwall, I only have to drive ten minutes in any direction to find views that blow you away. This video does show the UK as it is, but there are a million other places just as amazing, any video that covers everything would be weeks long....
An Interesting fact about Stonehenge is that if you put your phone on the altar stone in the centre and play the ringtone, inside the circle you can hear it but outside you won't. I took a bunch of students there a few years ago and their conclusion was it must have been a stone age rock festival venue. lol, kids
Another interesting thing about Stonehenge is that if you go in the morning and leave in the afternoon you'll find you've wasted half a day lol 😂
I cannot believe he didnt mention the TT motorcycle races on the Isle of Man. He barely even touched the East Coast or the middle of the UK. I`m from Derbyshire and there are World Heritage Sites apart from the Jurassic Coast. I live near one of them!!
nah, no-one visits Derbyshire. I think he did a decent job
I've seen a few Americans react to the TT and they just can't get their heads around it. Quite easily the most exciting and dangerous motorcycle racing in the world, by far. Also I think it's one of the biggest revenue streams for the IOM with competitors and spectators travelling from all around the world.
the bloke that's narrating has no idea he just listens to other comments, stone hedge where's that, wells where's wells, if your looking for history its got to be Northumberland
I would avoid the cities if you visit the UK (Edinburgh and York excluded, they are great), The Scottish Highlands, Lake District, Parts of Wales, Yorkshire, Devon and Cornwall and the South Coast are the kind of places to go IMHO.
Add Chester to that. And maybe Brizzle.
You seem to forget some people love cities and visiting them for the culture, range of activities, leisure, restaurants, bars, events etc…. I recommend Birmingham afew times to visitors and they absolutely loved the city, its history, mix of very old and ultra modern architecture, welcoming friendly people and the quality of its food offering and very late night life… not everyone wants to visit castles and windswept hills lol though Birmingham has some wonderful stately homes and green spaces/woods to explore if wanted… 👍🏼
Don’t avoid Manchester, it’s literally rated the best city in the UK..
The UK has a much higher proportion of green space to urban areas than the US. There is a lot of stunning countryside.
When the US has many national parks over twice the size of Wales …are you quite sure?
@@bucklberryreturns I said “proportionately”, not in terms of area. Obviously, we have less green space in that sense. But relatively speaking, the percentage of our country that is rural compared to the percentage of our country that is urban is much greater than it is in the US.
The castles have to be maintained, whether they’re in ruins or intact, so there is usually an admission fee with a gift shop, cafe etc incorporated into them somewhere. They’re everywhere in the UK.
Not all are maintained, loads in Scotland are abandoned and in a state of disrepair.
It's possible there are more abandoned castles in Scotland than maintained
Top 10 places of mine will always include Isle of Skye - it's a whole other world during the summer truly feels like youre in a fairytale, the sky and sea are so blue you feel like you're on another planet.
Your reaction was better than the source video. People from the North of England and Midlands have reason to not fawn over London, but it's a must-see. Amazing city, which includes the Palace of Westminster, not "West-mini-ster" .. and there's no such place as "Stonehedge", or "Holyrod" Park, and Mt. Snowdon is 1,085m (10,085m would be taller than Everest). Other than that ...
Makes you wonder how many of the places he's actually been to.
@@Shoomer1988We'll considering he's stood there in most of his video's.
@@mattsmith5421 Only two of them
There are over 4 thousand castles in Greater Britain
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His pronunciation of place names leaves a lot to be desired, but they’re good videos, and he’s very complimentary of the UK. He also clearly does his research. There are a lot more locations in England he could’ve included, but I guess budget is the thing.
I wouldn’t take the mix reviews of London from your mates from Birmingham seriously. As someone from outside London who has ended up there, we all have bit of a chip on our shoulder about London due to its economic dominance, but after living there it is a brilliant place (although at the expense of many uk city’s)
Same can be said of most Londoners ( who haven’t been there ) saying Birmingham is awful, dirty, not nice etc… it’s none of those, majority of locals are very welcoming, friendly… the city is very cosmopolitan and happening these days and its range of cafes/restaurants/bars are absolutely outstanding, interesting mix of very old buildings and ultra modern ones, lots of green spaces and always something going on be it the worlds third biggest st Patrick’s day, uk best Pride weekend, the best uk Christmas market and biggest German Christmas market outside of Germany to many gigs, concerts, theatre shows, cultural festivals etc, etc…. A very underrated city but where tourism has massively increased
The weather can vary a lot in the UK. It can be icy cold with Arctic winds. It can be mild, wet and windy from Atlantic fronts. Or it can be a scorching heatwave from winds coming up from the Sahara. Or anything in between. It all depends upon the shape and location of the Jet Stream. It's generally wetter in the west on the Atlantic coast and drier in the east along the North Sea. Though in Winter, the winds off the North Sea can be brutal. May, June, September and October are usually the more comfortable months.
As an ex-Londoner, I can say that London is one of the best places in the world to visit - it is the world's largest cultural/racial melting pot and has some of the best art, theatre, history, cuisine and nightlife you'll find anywhere in the world - amazing if you're a visitor (even better if you're a visitor with money!). However, living in London is a totally different story. Your average resident rarely takes advantage of this wealth of riches because come the weekend they are broke (cost of living in London is crazy high compared to anywhere else in the UK) and dog-tired (Londoners work longer hours and have longer commutes than anywhere else in the UK).
EDIT: I'd definitely add York to your list of places to visit: one of the UK's most beautiful historical cities boasting one of the finest cathedrals in the country.
There would be the summer solstice festival performed at Stone Henge by druids each year. The hole structure was a pagan religious site and the stone circle is all that is left of what was originally a massive complex that covered miles around the main structure. Just take on board the fact that some of the stones were transported to this site from Wales in England during the Stone Age period, the stones themselves you see above ground is only a fraction of the true size of the stones as the majority is underground. The stones weigh 25 tones individually so when you consider the vast distances they were transported to get them to there final destination is amazing in itself.
You was talking about Summer Solstice when your aloud in the stones for that evening and night, people queue for days lol
Jurassic coast does not consist of chalk cliffs but sandstone. The World Heritage Site extends from Orcombe Point in Exmouth, Devon, and continues for 95 miles until Old Harry Rocks, near Swanage in Dorset. The picture of the white cliffs is called the Seven Sisters. Seven Sisters Country Park is situated at Exceat, near Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 4AD. The Park is well served by buses from Brighton/Seaford/Eastbourne, and from further along the coast. All buses stop at the Park entrance. There are regular rail services from London to Brighton, Seaford and Eastbourne.
They stopped Stonehenge free festival in the 80s. I went a couple of times. You may be thinking of Glastonbury which is massive
I live in the Isle of Man.... it's an amazing country, but it's not part of the UK though so probably shouldn't be in the video. Easiest way to get a Manx (someone from IOM) person mad is to refer to the UK as 'the mainland' - as the Isle of Man is independent, IOM is the mainland and UK is just 'across' 😂
I live in the same county as the Jurassic coast. Even the inland parts of the county are beautiful. Bronze Age burial mounds, Iron Age hillforts,Medieval castles and Abbeys in small towns nestled in the rolling fields and woodlands. It has a storehouse of old and mysterious local folklore and legends. It's a magical little corner of the country that has managed to retain its Ye Olde England charm in the face of modernity.
Where to visit depends on what type of holiday you're looking for - hiking/touristy/music/drinking/etc
If you do make it to Scotland, keep in mind that travel times can be longer than you'd expect - make sure you're going by Google's estimated timing and not by distance (many of our roads haven't been upgraded for speed). Public transport is your friend in the cities, but might need a car for some of the more 'out of the way' places
Also, take note of Sunday trading hours - can be very different to the rest of the week
Game of Thrones was shot only in Northern Ireland, their studios are in Belfast and you can visit them. I live on the Antrim coast and three of their locations are very near me. I lived in London for 30 years and it used to be wonderful but all my favourite clubs and other places have been bought and knocked down by big corporations. They've actually torn the character and heart out of the city.
That's interesting to hear! That sucks about the clubs being torn down though. Brian always mentions a club called Printworks in London
I am English and the UK is the best place in the world
Weather wise think of seatle we are on par with them. And rain wise nyc, Rome +sydney all get more rain than we do.
There are care takers and property managers but there’s a right to roam in the UK which allows the public to access wilderness to include using paths in private properties.
There are so many beautiful and varied areas in the UK, these are just a few of the mainly remote ones.
Mount Snowdon does not have an elevantion of 10,000 meters! Its 1000m,
It's best not to ask British people about what the UK is like... As we literally are blessed to live here... yet we also love to put it down and moan about everything.
The thing to remember with this video is it's HIS TOP 10. Everyone is different & there's lots of other places not mentioned. As has been said the lake district, peak district, Yorkshire dales, Cotswolds, Norfolk Broads, cities like York, Bath, Oxford etc. All I would say is do your research & don't try to do everything in one trip...
The festival at Stonehenge is older than the USA. Druids congregated there before the Romans invaded. I went t the Solstice celebration at Winter and Summer between 1988 and 1992, before the police shut it down. It was awesome.
It is so difficult to do anywhere justice in a video like this. I like going to London occasionally but it is always nice to leave. It is definitely better for tourists.
The festival at Stonehenge is held at the solstice and it is a Druid (pagan) thing. It is supposed to be on a ley line which is a line of natural power.
Most places are on a "ley line" if you draw a line connecting things on a good map.
London is a collection of villages that have grown together. If you stay in London in one of these village areas you will experience a whole different vibe to doing the tourist thing.
London is a fantastic city, only New York City and Tokyo come anywhere near it. we love to moan about everything its what we do. i wouldn't want to live there too big and noisy for me 17,000,000 people in such a small area makes me dizzy but its amazing to spend a week.
London was a fantastic city
@@4Kandlez It still is. just because its only 50% white doesn't make it any less great.
Big ben is the name of the bell inside the tower not the actual clock,the tower was originally called the clock tower but got renamed Elisabeth tower
to answer your question, most of these seemingly remote castles double up as 5 star hotels and are incredibly well maintained.
You ask about folk guarding places........it depends, if it's just abandoned ruins you can explore, some of them are kept for viewing,some are free entry.
In Scotland we have a law called 'right to roam' it allows anyone to travel on any land unless it's a private garden, commercial property or private business etc.
If you own land people have a right to walk and camp on your land as long as you follow outdoor etiquette.
It means if your driving and you see a hill or waterfall or loch, chances are you can walk right up to it and even swim.
I actually live 8 miles away from the UK's largest Roman Ampitheater. The main City has a wall going all around it that actually follows the original Roman wall. In the UK we see castles all the time, so we're used to them.
Like any country, there's so many places to visit in the UK that it's really hard to pick one. Most tourists naturally head for London but it really is just the worlds biggest tourist park and while I'd definitely advise to spend at least a day there, don't waste your entire trip in it. It's expensive and is just the same as any other Alpha Global city with slightly more famous buildings. For me personally, my favourite part of the UK is Northern Ireland and it's amazing Antrim Coast.
I've always meant to look into that waterfall dropping into the sea. All rivers end up in the sea but most erode the land down to sea level. It either hasn't been there long enough or it is a very hard rock.
London: it is an amazing city. You can spend weeks there alone. Not as 'pretty' as (say) Paris, but a lot more going on.
Add the Lake District, the Cotswolds, the Peak District, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, The Yorkshire Dales, Northumberland and Hadrian's Wall; for cities - York (just gorgeous), Chester, Bath...
Snowdon is not over 6 miles high! It is 1085m (0.67mi) tall.
I don't have to imagine living in a place like that :) Glad you like the look of our island.
Please could you make the video you are watching bigger so that we could actually appreciate what's on the screen. Some other reactors are actually flipping the screens so that they are in a small box and the main attraction covers the majority of the screen. Thanks. Btw, Mount Snowdon is one thousand and eighty five metres and NOT ten thousand as the narrator claims.
12:28 it’s lit up so yeah it’s significant and being preserved, I’d hazard a guess. But if it was a shell of a tower down the road that was on someone’s land you could probably buy it tomorrow and renovate it. There’s an old ruin of a monastery out in woods where I’m from that you can go hang out in completely freely, it’s on public land. That’s Ireland and the UK baby
The festival at Stonehenge will be the summer solstice 20/21 June also the longest day and the start off summer, great event and atmosphere 😊😊 ,the on the 21st December that is the winter solstice, shortest day and start of winter, these 2 dates are the only time you can go inside the stones and touch them,other times when you visit you can only walk round them, I recommend the summer event if you visit UK, love your channel too guys 😉😁😁
Thanks for the info!
You asked someone in Birmingham about London. Next, ask someone in Chicago about New York :) Yes, London is touristy and expensive, but it's astonishing - as Samuel Johnson once said, if you're tired of London, you're tired of life. But people from the Midlands or north of England won't say good things about it ever :) A top ten... you could make a top 100 and still not be done. Oxford, Cornwall, Cambridge, the Lake District, York, the Cotswolds, Liverpool, Manchester, Cardiff, Durham, the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales, the South Downs...
Central London is touristy - London is 3 x bigger than NYC, so if you get out of the ventral district, it is beautiful and not busy. (The rest of the UK bad mouth it but yet, it is often voted in top 3 favourite cities in the world. It is also the 2nd most visited city, for a reason) Game of Thrones was filmed in Northern Ireland, my friend worked on rigging for it)
London, The Cotswolds, The Lake District, York and Edinburgh tend to be on most Americans site seeing tours. Best to catch York during the Jorvik festival. I used to scuba at Capernwray in the Lake District, beautiful place, you simply have to take photos
80% of game of thrones was filmed in Northern Ireland (mainly winterfell) including nearly all of the studio sets
A travel tip for the UK: rent a car, buy the Bed and Breakfast guide and take it easy when you drive on the wrong side of the road 😁
(when booking a B&B it's good to call because they can often give you contacts to nearby B&Bs you can try)
For a decent Scotland trip you should have a couple of weeks.
One nice tour you can do in a week is heading to Cornwall from London. Some things to visit on that trip: Winsor (near London), Stonehenge, Salisbury/Salisbury Cathedral, St Michaels Mount, Tintagle Castle, Eden Project etc. Many of the coastal villages are incredible picturesque but the roads are windy so it takes a fair amount of time to get around.
On the night of the summer solstice people like druids and others with a spiritual interest gather at Stonehenge. I've never been, but I've read in the past that some of the 'worshippers' like to dance around the stones naked.
Most Castles are open to the public,some are free to enter,some you may have to pay to enter ,Monuments/Castles and Stately Homes are usually maintained by one of the conservation organisation like The National Trust ❤ .
Good to know!
@@loners4lifeif you do ever visit the UK, become a member of the national trust and then you get in free to all the places they look after. It's not expensive to join either so if you plan on visiting a few places you'll save a fortune.
Too which I'd add, if you plan to visit a lot of castles and stately homes, then an annual membership can save you money.
Most National Trust sites cost £15 per adult. An annual membership for a couple is £150 and some change. That gives entry to over 500 sites including free parking and discounts on things like steam ferries on Lake Coniston. So every national trust site you visit after your fifth, will be 100% free.
London is a strange one, in every sense. As a visitor, it has everything. Glamour, culture, history, the best food in the world and more vibrancy than any other city. The greatest city on Earth. And one of the worst. Check out 'Baker Street', a song by Gerry Rafferty. No-one puts it better.
Mount Snowdon in Wales has an elevation of 1,085 meters ( 3,560 feet) not 10,085 metres.
There are many places throughout England that weren't mentioned on the video , I know he was picking his favourites however the Lake District and the Cotswolds are a must see in my opinion.
There are celebrations at Stonehenge for Midsummer and Midwinter. Historically, Midwinter was the more popular - although it seems like there were no celebrations at Stonehenge itself, but at the settlement of Durrington a couple of miles away. At some times (we are talking 3000BC. by the way), there could be thousands of people gathered over midwinter, some coming from as far away as Orkney.
Assuming you were visiting the whole UK some time in the northwest visiting Liverpool and Manchester would be very worthwhile and then you could head up through the lake district to Scotland. Manchester and Liverpool are 2 great cities about an hour apart both very different to each other. The lake district is an incredibly beautiful national park.
Whitby, where Dracula landed...
nearly all these places can be visited, some are free, some at a cost, alot of these places, you can pay for a yearly ticket, from the national trust, which then allows you to vist as much as you want for a year,
Lake district , Peak District, cotswolds villages , Cornwall fishing villages are all worth a look at guys 😊.
7:37 Mount Snowdon is elevated 10,085 meters? 🤔What does that mean? From the deepest lake around to the top of the mountain?
I looked it up, it's 1,085 meters. Not so high, but apparently still high enough to be called Snowdon (snow mountain).
When you say Mount Snowdon, you are saying Mount Snow Mountain. 👍
Na it’s 108,500 meters, the camera angle makes it look much smaller ❤😂
Great stuff, if you like hiking. But if you want to have fun might I suggest a few more. Camden Town market in London. Full of quirky shops and good pubs. Liverpool the home of the Cavern Club. Where the Beatles graced the stage. Along with hundreds of pubs having live music.
I am surprised he included Isle of Man seeing as it has NEVER been a part of the UK! But, it is where the Gibb Brothers of the Bee Gee's were born!
Whatttt no way! That's cool to hear haha
It is interesting that he stated that Snowdon was 10,085 metres high. This, of course makes it significantly higher that that whippersnapper, Mount Everest! And it has got a railway track to the top; eat your heart out Himalayas!
That's wild!
Yeah guess a decimal point went wrong! 😂
@@djs98blue Not the decimal point, just too many zeros.
The U.K. is definitely more than London, we have some beautiful villages, countryside and beaches. Check out North Devon coastline and surrounding areas plus the Peak District which is wild and rugged. We maybe be a small island but it’s beautiful as well.
Stone henge is cool I live 1 1/2 hours away but my office n 10 mins from it go once a month have to drive past, its so cool and gives me shivers driving past it
Scotland has right to roam so you can walk or camp anywhere you want there are no trespass laws, there are conservation works done by the national trust
Mount Snowdon is now called Yr Wyddfa :)
Not to the majority of Brits it's not.
@@jillosler9353 Even mountains are changing genders....🤣
It was always called Yr Wyddfa, the national park just made a decision to use Yr Wyddfa as it's official name from now on, and to use Eryri for Snowdonia too, it doesn't change anything, it's not law, it just means the national park will always use the Welsh names from now on. It's actually never been called Mount Snowdon, just Snowdon, don't know where people get the Mount bit from.
@@markjones127 How do you pronounce it? Is it even worth my English self trying, or will I be laughed out of Wales? 😅
@@inkayork3331 To be fair we prefer people to try and pronounce it, it's better than the others who just seem to get angered by the fact a Welsh language seemingly still exists, I say others, but I mean the English, EVERY other nation on planet earth respects the fact there's a Welsh language, they even admire it, so 99% of the time when you hear complaints it's English people for some strange reason, it's best if you just type into YT how to pronounce it and listen to someone Welsh saying it, it's pretty easy, down south they've done the same thing with the Brecon Beacons which is now 'Bannau Brycheiniog', now that is a mouthful! 🤣
London is also one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in!
I never knew Snowdon was 10 thousand and eighty four meters, so dam high.
If you want some fun and nightlife rather than scenery then check out Blackpool on England's NW coast.
Six miles of sandy beaches, three piers with all the fun of the fair and the iconic Blackpool Tower (the British Eiffel Tower !). Lots of attractions such as a circus, Sealife centre and Blackpool Pleasure Beach a rollercoaster theme park . Lots of arcades and slots, great nightlife and cheap accommodation. It's our version of Atlantic City or Coney Island. We call it the Vegas of the North and most Americans don't know it's there.
Snowdon, or Yr Wyddfa, as it's actually called is One thousand and eighty five metres not ten thousand and eighty five metres as stated. If it was 10085m it would be more than 1200m higher than Mount Everest (Chomolungma).
Can't beat London for galleries and museums - come and see some of what we've looted from around the world!
When i go to these places i play a game of listening out for Americans saying likes of "oh im scottish". When they're born and raised in US, always cracks me up
Americans not expecting someone to say that London is their most favourite city in the world!; that's obviously got to be an American city!!. 😂🤣
Haha, the narrator said Mount Snowdon is 10 thousand & 85 meters😂thats higher than Everest...I think he meant 1 thousand & 85 (1085) meters. Wales would certainly have more tourists if that was the case.
It's Stonehenge NOT Stonehedge, Summer and Winter Solstice.
surprising that someone who says it he favourite place got it wrong, and as he has spent the last 3 1/2 years exploring Britain.
Once you see Big Ben, you don't cross the bridge to see Westminster, NOT MINISTER, it's on the same side of the River.
Birmingham would be an anti-climax compared to London!
Write a list out of things that interest you in life, absolutely anything, then google those topics in the UK.
Art, galleries a plenty in London, Egypt, Rosetta Stone, Sutton Hoo ship burial at the British Museum.
Cleopatra's Needle and the Statue of Queen Bodica and her daughters, who went to war in a Chariot against the Romans, are on the North of the Thames @ Victoria Embankment by Big Ben. 10 Downing St, the residence of The Prime Minister, is just around the corner in Whitehall, as is Horseguards parade, a little further down. Walk through the Parade to St James' Park, turn right and walk to the end of the road and turn left up the Mall, past St James' Palace to Buckingham Palace. Alternative route to Buck House, past Horse Guards up to Trafalgar Sq, named after the battle of Trafalgar, 1805, where the Brits beat the French and Spanish in a Naval battle, and Nelsons Column, Admiral of the fleet. Also, if art is your bag, man, The National Gallery. Turn left up the Mall to Buck Hse or right to Covent Garden, for eateries, shopping,
Or walk up Pall Mall to Lower Regents St and turn Right towards Piccadilly Circus and Regent St. On your right is the swinging 60's iconic Carnaby Street. Keep walking North to Oxford St for 1.25 miles of shopping.
Of course feel free to stop at any of or ALL of the pubs, where you can partake of a little pastime that we call a Pub Crawl!
Start out early the next morning for The Tower of London and Tower Bridge, south of the River you can walk past "More London", Shakespeare's Round House and across the River is The Monument of the Great Fire of London in 1666. Visit the Borough (Burra) Market for food from all over the world. The Shard, have a drink in the Garden Bar on the roof. Or go all the way down the River, by the Tube (choob, not toob) or the Ubet Boat to Battersea Power Station and go up lift 22(?).
Stonehedge was used to stop the neighbours from peering over. And yes its official mt Snowdon is the tallest mountain in the world.
And it's got a railway! The Himalayas need to get their act together!
Ventnor in the Isle of Wight... Microclimate. The whole island is pretty. ❤