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Rowntree was a British company. They were bought out by nestle.
If you like tended grass,like me,try walking in it barefoot.You'll love it.
Thank you for great postings
Also old stone pavings in summer which absorb suns heat but do not get too hot. they then radiate this warmth to your feet after the sun has set. NOT modern concrete paving though because this gets much too 9painfully) hot to stand or walk on.
On hot summer days you can fry an egg on concrete.Make sure it's clean and oiled first,like a griddle..
Do you still call your phone a cell phone as in America or mobile as in the uk
Rolls and potato scone with lorne sausage for the win 😋 👌
And it works the other way. As a Brit I've loved seeing some of the birds of the USA, the Robin, Cardinal. the Hummingbirds..... and so many more. Good to hear you're learning about and enjoying our bird life. Just now we've got the summer migrants arriving from Africa. Just great. Love your videos. Great to hear your take on life here. Keep them coming.
Countryside: one thing I noticed about North America is that there aren't many footpaths/bridleways across farmland, woods etc. Go anywhere in the UK with an Ordinance Survey map and you see a web of pathways so you can go from village to village (pub to pub) across fields etc. I get the feeling that if you tried this in the States you would find yourself on the wrong end of a gun!
Farm land is private property in the UK too, but the footpaths going through it is a public right of way, so you can go walking in the countryside. This was fought for by the Ramblers Society and many working class people in the early 20th century, so that they could breathe in the fresh air and enjoy the greenery after working all week in sooty, polluted factories. The biggest demonstration was the Mass Trepass of 1932 on Kinder Scout mountain, in the Derbyshire Peak District. Eventually a law was passed that everyone has a right to walk in the countryside, as long as they are peaceful and don't leave litter, always close gates and don't disturb the animals. Keep your own dog on the lead at all times. It's called the Countryside Code and most people obey it. Those who don't end up in court with a hefty fine.
I grew up in the UK but lived in Arizona for 3 years. I totally missed the greenery, as you describe, and also the countryside. Even though Arizona is breathtakingly beautiful, and has everything from desert to high mountains with pine forest, there's something magical about rolling green hills and a little ancient country pub or church. :)
I remember in the long hot summer of 1976 the grass turned more than brown, and actually looked like it was dead. If you looked over fields under the moonlight it was like they were covered in snow. Once it rained again, the grass was back to lush green in a couple of weeks.
I was living and working in London then, it was the only time I've seen the Royal Parks and the squares brown. The Ice Cream sellers made a fortune, yes you've guessed, they went up in price as the heatwave went on. Inflation was already into double figures before the heatwave, it just got worse almost daily as crops failed and livestock died from the heat countrywide. I think that was the only time a nationwide hosepipe ban and water restriction has been in place.
@@tonys1636 Global warming, eh? :-)
You're showing your age, Jon.. ;-)
@@wessexdruid7598 We have not had such a prolonged heat wave since, there are about 10 years in every century that break heat, cold and rainfall records. The Thames has not frozen over in London since pre Victorian times, for the ice to be thick enough to hold fairs on it, it has frozen since but not to that thickness as faster flowing since the embankments have narrowed it. UV levels have already broken records this year (for the time of year) due to Ozone depletion, that is due to Global Warming.
I don't have to show my age, it does that for itself without any help.
@@tonys1636 Indeed - the climate has always changed. I don't understand this arrogant notion that we can make it stop changing now.
Hi Kaylin hope I've spelt your name correctly, apologies if not. So pleased you like living here it's always nice when someone says positive things about our country. In Britain so many of our own people slag off this country, so when someone says positive things about it it makes me appreciate it all the more. I've always wanted to see real America as there is some breathtaking scenery; no interest in going to L.A.! If you enjoy hiking I recommend the South West Coast path. The section from Fort Henry which is a WW2 gun emplacement built by the Canadians to Lulworth Cove is fantastic on a nice day but be sure to take plenty of water as it's a 19 mile hike. You'll love it, it's also very challenging. Take care, best regards,
Martin.
You are correct about the green. After spending a spring week in a very brown Canada, my heart soared on the drive home from the airport through lush green fields. Suddenly, I REALLY appreciated it.
It’s only over the last twenty years or so that Hash Browns have become part of a usual U.K. breakfast and therefore shouldn’t be included in a “traditional” advertised U.K. breakfast. They are one of the US staples that have been taken up since the late 1990’s in the U.K. but it’s taken a long time to emerge.
@@ftumschk 👍
But what a superb addition to the Great British Breakfast...cooking my own I always add a couple...To be fair as a multiple Cardiac Event survivor and now going all out to beat the big C, I'm well past caring about the heart attacks anyhow! (sadly I don't do the Fry Up every day any more, though i did for over 30 years...cause and effect obviously!)
@@cogidubnus1953 👍
Exactly! Grinds my gears when anyone says a traditional breakfast has to include Hash Browns. When I was a kid they would include fried bread and occasionally Bubble and Squeak, assuming there was any leftover mash and veg to make it! Not sure whether those items were officially "traditional", but my family always added them.
So wait she's saying the best part of an English breakfast is the American part ? .... Everyone in the the u.k. I'm sorry...this is just as bad as when Joe Biden went to Ireland and said he was glad his ancestry left... Builders tea is amazing ....also short bread ( biscuits ) ... If you kick her out we kind of understand .
Even although you have been with us for over ten years, you have not lost your enthusiasm for the wonders that we often take for granted. I relish seeing this country through your eyes.
Museums did try charging an entry but people went crazy, so they gave up.
I had a holiday in Florida and was surprised by how different the grass was, it made me realise how nice our grass is in the UK.
A place worth visiting in Wales is the village of Portmeirion. It is where the series The Prisoner was filmed. If you have never heard of The Prisoner it is worth visiting as it is gorgeous. It is based on Italian buildings and is mostly painted in pastel colours.
Also, if you've never heard of The Prisoner, you should watch it because it's great and possibly more relevent to day than when it was made.
@@Stephen-Fox Absolutely!
I remember going there a few times when my children (now in their 30s) were children, and it was just somewhere to go. Now I'm older and old enough to have watched the Prisoner as a series when I was a child I love having the memories of going there. That's the thing as a British person, it's just a normal day out and you don't appreciate having access to all that we have. It takes somebody else to point out the greenery, castles and access to free information and museums. Hash brown I love, as a child I remember 'Grater cakes' which were fried shredded potatoes and onion. Maybe they were a rip-off from hash browns, but I also loved them.
It is wonderful to see the UK through your eyes and experience's, no matter how trivial you feel it is, it reminds me how lucky we are really. Thank You xx
No need for an apostrophe there as it is just plural.
Con way. Just like it sounds.
@@fionagregory9376 I see that SOOOO many times on the internet!
I 100% agreed with the countryside and “rolling hills” in England. I have been all over the US. There are some extraordinary countrysides here too, but all in all UK has us beat!
60 days until I leave for England!!!!!!
Come hike the coast to coast, it's just magical.
Walking the wonderful footpaths of the South of England has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life. Rolling hills, little woods, hedgerows, livestock pasture and waving fields of wheat and barley - then a country pub with a crackling fire and a refreshing pint - paradise!
It's heartwarming to hear how much you love it here. I lived in AZ for 3 years and it's stunning there, with the desert and mountains, grand canyon etc. I think what the UK lacks in wilderness, we make up for in countryside.
A friend from Texas has absolutely fallen in love with Yorkshire, but the Peak Distict and the Scottish highlands are phenomenal too
Seems bizarre to hear this from a UK perspective, because it's almost all farmland, while the US has vast wildernesses, forests, mountains, etc, with all the wildlife that we long since eradicated in Britain.
Hash browns aren't a traditional English thing. I can't remember ever seeing them before McDonalds had them in their breakfasts. The British hash brown is what British people think is an American thing. I know so many people that were confused when they went to the states, because American hash browns don't look like the ones we get
Quite right. I was briefly working in a Little Chef circa 1980, and hash browns were explained to us as an American import.
I didn't realise that our hash browns are different from American ones. As an old chap I still regard them as an American import. Traditionally a full English breakfast would include sliced fried potatoes (usually boiled potatoes left over from yesterday's roast dinner) and a slice of fried bread. I remember being outraged when I was first presented with one of those strange little brown triangles. I've grown accustomed to them now and I suppose they are easier to produce in a commercial kitchen that slicing up yesterdays spuds. With regard to your hat - very American. I hate it. But I am a grumpy old git!
Amen to that Brother
Yeah, the irony with the whole hashbrowns malarkey that's kicked off recently is that American hashbrowns are so much closer the traditional English breakfast potatoes as compared to the triangular things that suddenly appeared about 30 years ago. I'd only ever had hashbrowns when I'd visited America up to that point, so when I ordered hashbrowns and got one of those... things... I was very confused! I love 'em these days, though.
British positivity (and weather chat):
It’s going to rain tomorrow.
Oh well, it’ll be good for the garden.
I always think that our wonderful Springs are our reward for having lived through another dreary winter. Good video, by the way
English breakfast the best in the world.
Sunday dinner is the food of champions :)
The weather we talk about a lot :) Is what makes a country side so green and wonderful.
Agreed!
Kaylin if you like daffodils you have to go to the UK's ancient woodland between now and May when the bluebells start to bloom. You can walk into one of these woodlands and see a massive carpet of blue stretching out between the trees across the floor of the woods
The entire west coast of Great Britain is beautiful the UK countryside is supposedly the best countryside in the world according to a lot of naturalists such as Sir David Attenborough
Thanks for the tip, I love bluebells! Will definitely try to go!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial Please, please don't pick them though. They don't last very long, and I think it's technically breaking the law.
@@davidcopplestone6266 I think its only illegal to dig them up, but it is just not acceptable to pick them of course, you have to leave them for other people to enjoy.
It's also unlucky to bring bluebells indoors in English folklore, because they're a favourite flower of the little people.
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial if you want to see flowers go to Carmarthenshire botanical garden in Wales
We visit Wales nearly every year and have done for the last thirty years. If you love beaches, spend a week at Rhossili it is spectacular.
Totally understand the love of seeing Daffodils. I grew up with seasons, spent a year in Southern California and returned north in the spring to seeing Daffodils everywhere. It was like seeing them for the first time, and I could appreciate how beautiful they are!
Like that you love how green the UK is. 🌳
Did you know that, with over 8 million trees, or roughly one tree per person living in London, that London is technically a forest? 🌳🌳🌳
Around 21% of London is covered with trees and it only needed 20% to be classed as a forest.
Thanks for giving a thumbs-up to Aberystwyth. As a place to spend three years as a student it's in a class of its own. Sadly, this morning's bird watching experience was not so good -a passing kestrel decided to demolish one of my resident blackbirds in the middle of my patio.
Great to have a kestrel though, beautiful birds.
The British countryside you describe reminds me of a verse I read at school (sixty years ago) that describes this land as the “green and sceptre’d isle”. Aren’t we lucky.
The first area of ‘Outstanding Natural Beauty’ to be so designated in the UK was the Gower Peninsular in west Wales.Check out for example Rhossili Bay to give a flavour if the area.Great US post.
Traditionally Fried Bread was part of an English Breakfast not Hash Browns! HBs were an import from America, probably because the bread is fried in the remaining fat and juıces left in the pan afetr cooking the EB. Obviously not too healthy. Nice to see a different American import enjoying the UK.
I just love fried bread, favourite part of my fry-up, yummy yummy 😋
Remember, the seasons are fundamental to English Gardens, of which we all very proud.
Love how your starting to say we 😊😉take for granted our green countryside.when I go to different parts of the U.K. I miss dry stonewalls to break up the fields.that’s the northener in me 😍good show again 👍
Stone walls are not only in the North. Here in the Cotswolds there are hundreds of miles of Cotswold dry stone walls and it is the biggest area of outstanding natural beauty in the country.
@@valeriedavidson2785 how could I forget the beautiful Cotswolds 🙄🤷♂️
Do love hash browns on breakfasts also black pudding
@@michaelslater2211 I am pleased you appreciate the Cotswolds. I live right on the edge of them. There are no other villages quite like them. The yellow, golden stone!!
If you like the coast, come up to Northumberland. There’s heritage route with plenty of castles, fishing villages and plenty of long beaches. Just below South Shields there’s a pub built into a cliff and if the tide is out, you can walk under the arches of the sea stack in front of it.
Beamish is close-ish too i believe. Great open-air Museum
Arbea too. Great example of the history under our feet.
In the uk when I was a lad the Monday hash browns were actually Sunday dinner roast potatoes chopped up and fried in beef dripping. I don’t think many people nowadays this wonderful meal addition is had anymore because of the bland and not really appetising American fast food import. When you do a Sunday dinner make sure you do more potatoes that are required and roast them as normal but make sure you have leftovers and fry them up next day for breakfast, this is an unsung tradition. Yumm!
If you like the Welsh coast, why not try Northumberland, Berwick and East Lothian? They have a lot of the same attractions - castles, sandy beaches and country walks - but fewer crowds and less rainfall. It's a bit colder, but from what you have said I think you would like it. Holy Island (Lindisfarne) is particularly memorable.
There is quiet parts of Eryri( Snowdonia), places of great beauty with few people,South Eryri near Bala. Areas such as the Berwyn mountains, or Bryniau Clwyd or the Mynydd Hiraethog ( Denbigh moors). Great walks, plenty of lesser visited castles and hillfort. Most tourists go to the same places, Yr Wyddfa( Snowdon); Llandudno, Pembrokeshire, coastal Ynys Mon( Anglesey) and North Gwynedd.
As I sat happily in a North American Diner for the 1st time in my life while on holiday and ordered a " Mega Breakfast " I was somewhat shocked to see " Hash Browns " were tiny individual chopped up fried potatoes 🥴and not the stodgy shaped ones we get here in Britain. I think the price Americans/Canadian's pay for fresh food is " outrageous " & just encourages eating fast food.
They'd be "tater tots"?
@@Trebor74 No those are different.
@@kernow62 I did think they were not hasbrowns, but I was served the same type as hashbrowns when we went over the boarder into Canada & then again on Vancouver Island, so I automatically took it as though you guys served them different to us in Britain.
Yes, I remember the first time I ordered hash browns in a diner in North Carolina and received what seemed to be a pile of fried, grated potatoes and onions. Much nicer than the strange little things that have become so popular in the UK in recent years.
@@andybaker2456 Ohhh " That's exactly what I had " 👍 They were so tasty & so much better than the standard greasy/stodgy hashbrwns I had been use to in the UK.
Saw a slow worm in my garden today, 12ins long, it's a legless lizard. I think it was in your wildlife video. Adult slow worms can grow to be about 50 cm (20") long.
I'm a Brit whos lived in Canada for the last 12 years, I'm heading home next year and feel lucky I can do that when so many are kinda trapped here in Canada.
If you love daffodils as a sign of spring you need to get out somewhere a bit more rural (esp woodland) to appreciate SNOWDROPS. (Wont explain. You'll get it when you see them - plus they're about the FIRST spring bulbs, often whilst there is still snow on the ground !)
The Daffodils you see in the shops are cultivated types, produced by gardeners. Here in Yorkshire there are valleys which are full of native daffodils, which are not quite as big as the shop bought ones, but are altogether more wonderful. Farndale is one such place.
I'm sure similar can be found in other areas as well, presumable in Wales for example, where it is the national flower. In the UK you only have to start paying back Education loans when & if you earn a certain, quite high, wage. Even then the rate of payback is much better than in the US, & if you don't ever earn enough you never get to have to pay it back at all.
Hash browns are an imported idea from the US .
They were not part of the original British full English breakfast.
An American import that in welcome.
My Gran used to fry Bubble & Squeak.
I still make bubble for breakfast on boxing day.it's nice to keep up traditions.
Hash Browns are frozen, tastless plate fillers for cheap, badly run cafes. They should never be part of a full English. If you want Hash Browns for breakfast, go to McDonald's.
It was good listening to your list. I think most or all of those things are things that we take for granted. I share your love of Hash Browns.
8:51 America does have a very varied landscape - but the scale is such that it is difficult to see a large number of different landscapes in a convenient space of time.
Very true!!!
Watching US TV shows where there's a pretense of it being set in the UK but was filmed in California is always jarring. My four year old would look at me and say "the green is wrong".
Museums - British museums are public collections so it would be unfair for them to charge for something that technically belongs to us.
Even most of the private collections are housed in either public buildings or are still available free for public viewing because the owners see them the same way
After spending this past week here . . . Gregg's. We love Gregg's. We will desperately miss Gregg's!! Three drinks and a four pack of sausage rolls for £7? Yes, please!! It was the perfect breakfast on the go!
As a UK resident for nearly 10 years I’ve only probably been into Gregg’s 4 times. You’ve so made me want to go back! 😂
As an Englishman I don’t use Gregg’s that often however every time I fly back from the USA I go straight to it lol go figure
Get yourself up to Northumberland young lady, so many beautiful coastal places to visit.
The best thing about the UK that you've not mentioned? The commitment towards making culture accessible. There are many places around the UK, but particularly in London where they invite the public in to hear about topics, learn things. It sort of dovetails with what you said about the museums where you talk about how accessible they are. For example, the Royal Institution has science talks throughout the year for the public to attend, some aimed at younger audiences and every Christmas has a set of three lectures about a topic. You can see a number of previous lectures on line I particularly enjoyed one from a few years ago, The Language Of Life, presented by Sophie Scott. Places like the Wellcome Trust offers events like that too, I just found one called "Sounds Like London" which relates to a project connecting Opera and homelessness!
You also have The Proms, a series of classical music performances at the Royal Albert Hall (mostly) which have cheap standing tickets to anyone who wants to explore classical music can do so. The most famous part is the Last Night, but that is almost the least of it. It's an event that covers a number of particular standards and has a party atmosphere but the Proms go well beyond that. You get a mixture of performances of things intended for a beginner/family audience (this year there is a CBeebies Prom, and one about music from computer games), those covering some of the more famous composers, and also those that dig in to more obscure people like Prom 8 this year which features Russian and Icelandic composers. Every Prom can be heard on the BBC website and a few are being filmed and broadcast for people who can't attend. In recent years too, there have been efforts to have Proms performances at different parts around the country to increase the accessibility.
I think you can also see some highlights of previous proms on youtube, like one they did about club music in an 'Ibiza Prom', and I'm sure there was a hip hop prom too. I apologise in advance if this is a rabbit hole you get a bit lost chasing things down in!
Free access to culture helps encourage learning and understanding. (Easy enough to give something back by paying gift shop prices for mementos.)
That seems so different to what’s drummed in to us here, Everything is supposed to be cheaper in the USA is what I was always told. I feel so lucky all of a sudden 😆 I’m glad I stopped by!
I have family in the USA, my son married an American girl. A few weeks back he told me that his family has lost 30% of their purchasing power in the last twelve months due to inflation. He specifically mentioned food, cars and housing.
Totally agree with the British countryside being green. Danny Boyle got it spot on with his vision of the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.
I love the watermellon lollys to. I liver in Hong Kong for 2 years the grass was horrible. I got back to the UK for xmas terrible snow. My brother cleared some snow so i went out and wiggled my toes in the freezing grass, loved it.
A Scottish bfast has a tattie scon (potato scone) no hash brown but very tasty.
My wife brought back Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles candy from Scotland and they are so good!
Love your commentries on UK life. You mentioned Conwy and a love of history, look out for Salvage Hunters on freeview TV. A Chap called Drew Prichard is a well known antiques expert, and has a shop in Conwy, and does a really addictive TV series where he explores the UK and visits many places we the public cannot go, and teaches about antiques and what makes an antique. You get to see some amazing places, and learn what makes and does not make it into his shop, and what is something special. It's addictive TV ....
Hi just heard you like visiting the coast of wales, got a suggestion for you, Nugale Beach! Now this is a beach which is nondescript really the only building there is a pub and nothing else just a beach but. This is on the South West coast between Haverfordwest and St. Davids. This is the smallest city in the UK, or was! It may have been stripped of its city status. Never the less it still has a cathedral further to the North is Fishguard, this is a ferry port to Island if your interested. Rugged coast everywhere but Newgale beach is lovely. Oh and there is an British forces base less than a mile away, I know this because I was there in 1977. Look up St. Davids
Hiya. In my back GARDEN, although they're always passing through, like many other birds, I have for the first time Blackbirds actually nesting in one of my conifers. Of course, I can't make a nuisance of myself in that area now, until the end of summer, else the nest could be abandoned, but that's a small price to pay for being able to observe even more of "the life outside my window", as I care to call it. Stay safe. All the best to you.
Nice to see a shout out to aber from you. You should also check out the Pembrokeshire coast to the south. There’s loads of great stretches of coast walk; moylegrove, abereiddy, barafundle, manorbier to name a few good waypoints
In Scotland an honours degree also takes four years and tertiary level education is free to Scottish citizens.
Incorrect, there is no such thing as a Scottish citizen. Education is free for those who RESIDE in Scotland, you dont have to be Scottish.
@@sim5361 😂😂😂
The skylark is my favourite. Their song is so beautiful and reminds me of spring and home every time i hear them.
My back garden/yard I have 2 black birds (boy and girls) Bluetits, 1 Robin, 2 magpies and 2 pigeons...
Not bad for the middle of a big city
I’m totally with you on daffodils, love them, so cheerful & also the greenness. I can’t imagine living somewhere without that
If you want to extend the joy of spring look out for snowdrops next year, small white flowers that come in just before our daffs do :)
Lots to love about Florida, glad you like it here.
I would like to thank you and others like you who show us how positive it is to live here. Too many Brits just want to Moan about everything in this country. It’s a pleasure to have people like you who choose to live here.
You should watch Calamity Jane. There are daffodils in it, in the song Secret Love, sung by the great Doris Day. It is set in S Dakota, though, so rather far north of Florida.
Gotta love a reference that makes me feel old lol. Must more than 20y since I saw that movie. Thanks for the movie ost earworm. 🤣😂
Have you been down to the white cliffs at Dover, you have the castle, the channel an d the port, watching the ferries going to France, and the French coast. Lots of history.
As you are now a twitcher, be sure to participate in the BBC Springwatch bird count next year, if you're still here. It takes place in January and you simply watch your garden for 2 hours, counting the number and noting the type of birds that visit your garden in that time. The results are collated and used by the RSPB.
recently the English grass has been brown very brown due to short heatwave as the temperature has been in the low 40deg C which has been high for us.
Toasted teacakes should be recognized as a classic breakfast dish. With Breakfast tea or coffee.
OK,
Seasons - yes, some advantages of having distinct seasons, are as you've noticed, flowers at absolute specific months, even weeks of the year. I myself am visiting a horticultural farm later in the year, and I was told only to arrive round about an exact date, in order to view the plant that interests me.
Birds. - I suspect that the distinct seasons have a major role in migration, and another factor is the geographical situation of Britain, and that we are an island.
There's not too many island nations.
In Europe I can only think of Iceland which is too far north, and some Mediterranean islands which are far too small to be of any major significance.
Your hat. - I think it looks real cool on you, and you have nice white teeth.
Wales - South Wales has some of the finest sand beaches in Britain, and they're sheltered south facing. .
Rain and grass - in the tropics, there are two important factors at play - the grass has to be really tough to support the soaring midday sun, and often with longer intervals between rain. When it DOES rain, it's in the form of torential thunderstorms.
This is no good for "golf-course" Britain where the rain has to be both fairly regular, AND more in the form of a gentle mist spray.
Ancient castles and manor houses -
You can buy an annual season ticket that will give you free access to most of the nation's ancient structures, and it's not too expensive (i think less than £50 for the year).
So like museums, it's also quite a snip!!!
There are hundreds of castles, nearly all dating from well before North America was even discovered.
Have fun.
Pembrokeshire coast is very beautiful and occasionally you see wildlife out to sea, for me not so much with hash browns, English breakfast needs fried bread, but each to his own
Years ago I lived in Hong Kong and the grass there was hard and sharp. I came home for Christmas once and my brother cleared some snow away so I could stand on the grass, bliss.
Wales is awesome. I saw bioluminescent plankton at Caswell Bay last year. It was a magical night, I went with my cousins and we were mesmerised by it, playing in the sea and chucking stones in it. The Welsh people are so delightful and welcoming. We were on the beach, with a roaring fire, some lovely people let us have, when they left. We were there until 4 am and felt so safe. VISIT WALES 💞💓💞
The "daffodil walk" in Farndale in the North Yorkshire Moors is spectacular !
I live near Conwy and Aberystwyth and I can confirm yes they're lovely places. I love living here, it's good to see North Wales getting the rep it deserves aha
Good video. If you haven't visited Liverpool already I recommend you do so.
Omg i've never heard of those watermelon things. They are going on my next Sainsbury's list lol. Rowntrees used to be a chocolate company when i was a little kid, mainly doing stuff like Aero, Kit Kat etc, but the chocolate was bought out by Nestle in about 1990.
Btw for beautiful coastline if you ever get the chance, check out Bridlington on the East coast, especially in the summer. As well as a beautuful coastline you can walk on, thet even do boat trips admiring it. Oh and there is coincidentally a place there that does some amazing ice cream flavours, including watermelon.
Been around a few years now
My daughter has lived in Texas for over 10 years now and I have visited her many times often for 3 months at a time, every time I return home, on the drive back from the airport I am always so happy to see the green of our green and pleasant land, the multitudes of green, the way it makes the air feel fresh even as you are driving on the motorway.
@@Violet-to4qq Yes I do, somehow the 'natural' smells in American seem heavier somehow.
@@Violet-to4qq between countries? I can smell the difference between counties. Well, between my county and "other" at least.
As a potato lover I hope you've discovered Potato Scallops, found it chip shops most commonly in the Midlands and North.
Yes! I always used to get these at the chip shop in Brum, but growing up and moving to London it felt like a fever dream lol. Scallops here are fish
I come from North Warwickshire and scallops were fairly common in chip shops there. I've never seen them anywhere else (currently living in Bristol).
GGL a little secret for you as you enjoyed north wales try the gower peninsula in south wales absolutley superb countryside and beaches (plenty of marshland birds )well worth a visit in the summer
Spring. Bluebells. Just went for a Sunday morning run, on Easter day and the woodlands were carpeted in blue. If you never experienced it, go now. You have three weeks.
Great post. Regarding green grass, the further north you go in England the greener the grass is.
Very impressed with your pronunciation of Aberystwyth, did you get chance to ride the Vale Of Rheidol, the little steam train that goes to Devils Bridge? Very scenic journey, lived 24 years in Aber from Penparcau to Comins Coch
Glad to hear you like the coast and countryside. You should consider getting a caravan to enjoy even more UK holidays. I’m away in mine now down here in Cornwall. Except it’s grey and been raining for much of the day🙄 I suppose it’s keeping the country green!
The thing is with higher education and why we seem to have a problem with the cost getting too high is simply on the basis that the majority of us demand that our kids get an equal run regardless of where they are from and social level... And obviously if prices go up and up out of reach for some, well, for one, it will turn into an "elitist" setup, which is purely wrong for education, and two, there is a wealth of talent and really clever kids just need a break socially, and it would be a crime for the UK to dismiss that over "the bottom line".
A country always, always must start with it's kids as the foundation of the future, because they are our future and all of them must be given the chance to shine.
If you return to Edinburgh, try a visit the 14th century pub the Sheep Heid Inn in Duddingston. It's on the east side of Arthur's Seat, you can have a meal and a drink after a thirsty walk up the hill. It also has a haunted Skittles Alley. Many famous people have stayed here, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and most recently the Queen.
This was a really interesting vlog, especially liked hearing about your developing interest in birds. The Welsh coastline is lovely, suggesting taking specific trips, is a good idea because if you are driving you do have to concentrate on the road. I like that you wear baseball hats.
North Pembs and Ceridigion. Too Beautiful for words except in song and high poetry.
if you go to the wetlands trust . the one in Washington nr Sunderland has a hide in a woodland area that you can see woodland birds together with waterfowl in pens and free. a favourite place of mine
Gloucestershire has lots of wild daffodils, some fields are completely covered and owners are not allowed to have animals there at set times of year so they don't disturb them
nomad. Growing up in Gloucestershire in the 1950's the wild daffodils were a sight to be seen. Around the Dymock and Newent areas. It was before legislation and they used to have coaches taking people to the daffodil fields and they used to pick them. You used to see lots of people on bikes with huge bunches of daffodils tied to the handlebars. I think it was in the 1960's when the authorities stopped people picking them.
On the grass it just depends very much on what grass you plant. Florida probably uses grasses that tolerate the climate best there which are likely not the more comfortable ones.
My partner is from Mauritius and is a former British Colony, some parts do remind me of the UK including the fact it's greener over there than in England. Yeah, they do have a lot of rain at times of the year and they drive on the same side of the road as the UK. I even spotted a British type Icecream van once!
the grass grown in Florida & any other hot climate is drought resistant, UK grass will go brown very quickly when there's even a few days of sun.
4 years in Scotland. You can finish at 3 years if you want but year 4 is honors year x
You pronounced Aberystwyth perfectly, I lived there 24 years in Comins Coch (Clawdd Helyg & Brongwinau) still have family there, I moved back to Salford in Manchester N. W. England to where I was born and now want to spend what time I have left where my roots began.
Our lovely daffodils also grow along the borders of our roads because people plant them there.
I do remember the Woolworths (RIP) full English breakfast in the UK was served with hash browns, yum.
With you all the way in the hash browns! 😋 I can't have an English breakfast or a bacon roll without a hash brown. I've tried doing them at home and they're just not the same. I think it's the crunch when you stick the fork in....yum!
@@ftumschk I had a feeling they were. Now I think about it I don't remember them so much from childhood so I guess they gained popularity in the last couple of decades.
Well done om developing your interests into becoming a Twitcher (bird watcher) and as a regular visitor to the UK, I agree in your love of Wales but one thing I did become due to my visits was a lover/devotee of trains and how you can get almost everywhere in the UK by train. As to hash browns. I find the McDonalds ones too oily and greasy but love the pattie version especially with my Full Englsh.
The LLyn Peninsula is nice in Wales, its north of Abberwystwyth, past Barmouth, Abbersock and Abberdarren have very nice beaches. Also Devon and Cornwall is nice for coastlines
I saw 6 or 7 ring-necked parakeets on my walk to the shops this morning in SE London.
Seeing them in the trees and flying about is still a bit weird but I prefer seeing them to pigeons :)
They are common in the London parks and on Wimbledon Common. There also used to be a population of Budgies in Richmond Park at least up until I left SW London in the 80's.
@@tonys1636 Yes, you can see loads of them in Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens but I've only recently started seeing them in numbers on Plumstead Common.
It does still take some getting used to for me anyway. To anyone who doesn't know what they are they're what you'd think of as parrots, they're bright green and they're happily living in London/England/the UK. I've seen other much larger parrot like birds too but I assume they're just escapees and not established.
Hiya Corleth, the ring-necked parakeets are said to of come from a pair released by Jimmi Hendrix and his girlfriend, this is disputed but i hope it's true.
@@eddiebirdie1545 They were in London parks before that, first noticed during the last days of WWII, London Zoo's dangerous animals and some of the temperature sensitive exotics were moved to Whipsnade, many of the less exotic were kept at the Zoo as remained open but bomb damage to a few aviaries released several species of which the Parakeets survived the best.
@@tonys1636 as i said it was just a rumour but it would of been nice if it was true
I've never had the watermelon one. I love a Twister though!
The beer in England is on another level.
Maybe some pets of mainland Europe top it.
Belgium is very good particularly the city of Bruges. you can get the EuroStar train to Belgium from London St. Pancras.
As you like our countryside, you should read Oliver Rackham's 'History of the Countryside' - a classic that will help explain why it looks the way it does.
I like that the museum, I live near was used in transformers 5.
You need to visit peaky blinders territory or even better the Black Country north west of Birmingham, it’s called black for a reason, not so green and lush there but plenty of quarries and canals.