The top 10 weirdest islands (in the UK)
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
- Note: This video is supposed to be light hearted. Don't take offence if I have called your favorite island weird. Also the word "weird" can in some ways be considered a positive.
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when you say the airport doesn't even fly to london you must consider the fact that most people who dont live in london have no desire or need to ever go there.
you go once or twice in your life and know its not worth going back to.
It's not just a matter of "just" going to London. London has more international flights than any other city in the UK, so it kind of makes sense to go there to travel abroad. Although that group may be small as well, but I'm just trying to explain Beno's possible reason for mentioning it.
I agree I avoid London like it still has the plague there 🤣
UK is a pretty Interesting place
the smallest Inhabited island of the Scilly isles has just 3 roads with a Combined length of 0.5 miles and yet everyone has a car
Beno, you are such a madlad, I love your videos and your craziness
Correction:
from the isle of sheppy you can get a train to and from london victoria. the last time i travelled on it, it used 6 car networkers (465+466). it does skip swale but there is a train to and from london
Yes, in the morning and evening direct to London
I was referring to back in the days when there was only the old bridge. But even today there are only a couple of trains direct to London. It would be better if the hourly 395 that terminates at Faversham went to Sheerness instead.
@@benolifts very true
liked your video,some useful info.this is from an 'islophile'who has been on 1118 islands, (a few from your list) .portland is a 'tied' island though!
In Essex, we've got Mersea Island, Canvey Island, and Foulness. Foulness is only open to the public at limited times, and large parts of it are used as military firing ranges. No supermarkets or pub. Nb on Sark, just one type of motor vehicle is allowed- tractors.
Foulness Island is a very strict army place as its got security all round it.
funny fact with the isles of scilly is if your keeping your car on the island you dont have to tax or mot your car. from what was said on the devon & cornwall cops program. very strange
My Dad has been to the Isle of Man and I have been to Guernsey 🙂 I loved the blue postboxes and yellow phone boxes in Guernsey as well as the number-only vehicle registration plates!
Is the island of sodor on the list?
Is the island of Atlantis in here?
The island of sodor is soooo weird, it can't even get on the list, I mean talking trains is far enough, but literally everything talks, apart from the buildings and the poles, but the Trees do, the narrator hides in the Trees and narrates with a megaphone
@@thefatcontroller4094 yes and it has another island with talking trains
The isle of Man, I believe famous Bass player Mark King from Level 42 lives there. Could also be isle of Wright, can’t remember exactly but it’s one of the two from what I’ve had heard once on the radio. Shetland has definitely got room for a pony, those Shetland pony’s are really tiny horses. In The Netherlands the town Urk in the noord-oost polder used to be and island until it was connected by the mainland in the 1950’s when it was joined by the creation of the polder. The people there are a bit inbred as well, they are very religious but many of them are also massive drug addicts which are two things that seem to contradict each other.
Fantastic stuff. I didn't know they still ran Isle of Wight hovercrafts. Cool.
Anybody up for visiting the Isle of Portland, dressed as a rabbit?
What about Barra where the planes have to land on the beach because there is no runway
Yeah these islands certainly sound quite interesting. How many have you been to? Maybe you should invest in a plane of your own. Then you can fly to some of these islands. In fact if you really and seriously consider that, try the x-air. it is a two person aircraft, meaning you and someone else could fly somewhere. It’s also nice and cheap. A brand-new one would set you back AU$25,000. But you can pick one up secondhand for as low as AU$8000. I’m not sure how much that is in pounds. And they are about AU$25-AU$30 an hour fuel and maintenance. They all run on normal unleaded petrol, and are they are usually an oil injected 2 stroke engine. As it is in the category of UltraLite, a pilots license is not very expensive. Or you could probably get away with flying without one as long as you stayed out of controlled airspace. They are really that easy to fly. You don’t even need a license to fly them if you’re in the United States. I Hope this helps.
Beno would probably like PPG for sure!
SnapPilot what is ppg? Is it something to do with your private pilot license in the UK?
You should go to the channel island of Alderney! It is filled with old abandoned dangerous forts and loads of abandoned islands.
By the way, you forgot to say that Saint Michael mount is the British equivalent of Mont Saint Michel in France
Supermarket advert terms-and- conditions-wise I've only seen 'Excludes Gibraltar', not 'Excludes Isle of Wight' 🤔
You should have included St. Georges near Looe, THIS ISLAND IS WEIRD! They wanted to build a theme park on it even though it has NO WAY of getting there unless you have a private boat, and only 5 people live on the island.
Last thing: why the heck would anyone ever travel in a non-stop flight from London to the Scilly isles? Do you realise how economically inconvenient that would be?
One of my mates went to lindisfarne and he just made it because the tide was coming in while he was on the causeway and if the taxi he was in was slightly slower or it left 4 seconds later him and his family would be stuck
Great video! I live near Portland (and a lot of my family are from it), Portland is a peninsular hence the ‘funny (Chesil) beach’ you mentioned which has always connected it to the mainland. This means it sadly isn’t an island (and never was or at least not within a few million years), It is a very weird place though.
It's a great place full of interesting things , I love those fraggles
Another weird thing about the Scilly Isles is that iirc it has a bus route using Optare Solos!
ive been to Orkney (once)
and ive been to Lindisfarne quite a few times (in fact I live close enough to that "island" that it is possible to go there for a day trip, although its borderline day trip distance)
and I was born on the isle of wight, and lived there until I was 8 (and up until I was 12 I would sometimes visit the island)
out of all 3 of the islands ive been to, I would say the isle of wight is my favourite (as its the only island that ive been to where I won't get bored after a few hours)
EDIT: and its a shame one of my favourite places on the isle of wight has closed down permanently (Seaview wildlife encounter, used to be called flamingo park, and some of the road signs up until it closed down STILL called it flamingo park)
EDIT 2: Seaview Wildlife Encounter closed down in November 2015 from what I have been able to find out online
EDIT 3: I remember that quite a few times when I was with my sister we would go into the cafe in the hospital on the island, and I remember the hospital had an interesting layout, and the floor "numbering" was A B C, and there were 2 lifts
also, I hope to go back to the isle of wight at some point in the future, as there are a few places where I hope to get some photos
and I remember the ferries had 3 car decks, the middle deck wasn't used very often, and none of the lifts on the ferry served the middle car deck, so if you requested to be near the lift (and because of my mum, my parents always had to request this, as my mum couldn't manage the stairs) you would be put on the top or bottom car deck (C deck or E deck)
the passenger wheelchair lift went between B deck and C deck, and the main lift went between B deck, C deck, and E deck
as far as I know, the middle car deck was D deck, and on all 4 of the colour coded staircases there was a door to access this deck, but I don't know for sure
EDIT 4: Just in case anyone doesn't realise which ferry service I am talking about, it is Red Funnel
oh, and Seaview Wildlife Encounter was a bit like a zoo which didn't have any of the usual zoo animals
Perhaps I should shut up now, my comment is getting quite long
if for some reason anyone is interested in hearing more about the isle of wight from me, then let me know somehow
My favourite uninhabited island I've been to is Hilbre Island just off of the West coast of the Wirral. It has a lighthouse on it and a few buildings. It's beautiful but I'd say it's weird because it looks like it could be a Mediterranean island. The shore next to it is surpsingly pretty too, with a pine wood with a sand floor!
weird! are there any pubs on the Scily Island or whatever
2:22 this is giving me come outside vibes
Nice vid
Good effort, what checks did you make regarding inbreeding, is it listed on Wikipedia 😂
Go to Sheppey for an hour 😉trust me
@@mrhaggit Thanks to your reply I re-watched this 6 months later, it's one of Beno's finest non-explore comedy rants! One of my best mate's from Sheerness but I can confirm he spread his seeds to posh Dublin and the circle is broken, their kids are charming and intellectual, not chavs.
@@gigteevee6118 haha , I live right near Sheppey !
My best friend went to the Isle of Wight ages ago 🙂
Surprised Canvey Island didn't make the list
And I live near Canvey Island 😂
Also st marys island because everyone is radioactive
Ryanair has a 737-700 (shorter version) and could probably land at the Isle of Man. The 737-700 is only used for training purposes on Ryanair.
I've been to the Monach Islands. Beat that!
ive been to 1118 islands... beat that😃😃
Nearly got blown all the way to the Newfoundland, while standing on a sea cliff in St Kilda.
Beat that! ;)
There is also a strange bus service to Lindisfarne that's timetable is amended by the tide times.
Beno the cartoon character your a legend.
You can go to Manchester from Shetland
We use Red Funnel (from Southampton to East Cowes) to get to Isle of wight
I love how you show a map of the orkney islands it says Twatt
Can't drive on the Isles of Scilly? Damn, the locals really are silly
Barra Island because the plane lands on the beach
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Great video, mersea island is a bit weird
weird island of UK is Pitcairn Island
Well if you consider those island remote.... you need to travel more. cant beleive im saying this to you beno!
Give me a suggestion
@@benolifts aratika
@@benolifts or if you want to stay in egland :Pitcairn!
@@benolifts barra Island where the plane lands on the beach
@@benolifts Tristan Da Cunha
Majaro
Saint Helena
Tuvalu
I've been to Orkney before.
My aunt and uncle moved there 💀
Personally I wouldn’t like it because of how dull it is
12:10 Even the town names are weird.
First. HA
Go Ahead. HA
Abellio. HA
John Rauner do I care HA
@@master_playr3537 Did I ask. HA
John Rauner yes
Hey Austin this is guys
Hey Austin this is Isle of Grain
KoneLift34 Gotta love Norwich 👍
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