Can a foreigner find UK locations? | GeoGuessr challenge
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- I'm so bad at geography.. so naturally, we need to play UK Geoguessr. Even though I'm a Canadian living in the UK for the last 8 years, I'm SO BAD at knowing where places are. Manchester?? Reading? Edinburgh?? Who knows lol
0:00 what are we doing today
0:56 nice place, where though?
7:48 city this time
17:13 middle of nowhere
21:49 probably so frustrating to watch lol
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a thirty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a TH-cam video every Tuesday plus an additional video every Saturday on Patreon + YT Memberships. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
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Well where abouts you from Alanna not bad for a newbie when it come to the UK its a hard one because things do look the same when u out of town in courtside
"I didnt know Scotland had a pizza hut" 😂
💀😂
Yeah, it's in Scotland High Street - next to the bank.
I was more surprised that Cardiff had Tim Hortons.
But we learned how to deep fry the fekkers!😊
Surely there's no room for any Pizza Huts with all those Haggis Huts taking up the space! 😂
Funny you went along the road in Wales looking for a main road, not realising you were already on the main road. 'Main' roads in Wales can be really small.
As in a lot of Britain
@@mothmagic1 Precisely. The A road from Shrewsbury to Welshpool features a left turn that is so sharp that you have to drive a truck down the middle of the road to get round it. And that was just the 7.5 tonner I was driving!
also, if you're on Reading road, there's a good chance that you're not far from Reading.
I'm watching a recorded video and I'm talking to the screen saying back...no there.....left! ....... I've officially lost the plot.
yeah, because it makes so much more sense to talk to the screen when she's live on twitch, like I do.
Well done!@@eddieleslie694
I was born in Trafford General Hospital. It was the very first NHS hospital in the UK
I immediately recognised the Manchester route. I take part of that route to work everyday and go past that roundabout which is in Urmston in Manchester.
The Trafford centre is a huge shopping centre like a mall.
Well done Alanna, you’re actually quite good at this.
What a small world! Thanks so much for watching, I was so stressed it would be embarrassing lol
@@AdventuresAndNaps thoroughly enjoyed it😊
Manchester United, is probably what you were thinking about. The stadium is called Old Trafford.
Yup, as soon as I saw the sign saying davyhulme and Urmston I let out a little yelp.
There are SO many castles in Wales!
Soon as she said Flint i knew where she was as been all over that area visiting olde stuff 🙂
Flint does have its own shire, though... 🙂
@@dave_h_8742Literally live in Connah’s Quay just up the road, it’s so weird seeing where you live and frequent 😂
08:04 When you're doing UK Geoguessr, signs like that nursery are actually very useful - mainly for the phone number, as the area code (the First numbers) tell you roughly where you are. In this case, 0131 is Edinburgh
Cheltenham is generally pronounced with just two syllables (Chelt-num). There are so many amazing independent cafes and restaurants (Beefy Boys, Sisu Pancakes and The Scandinavian Coffee Pod are a few of the best). It is also in the perfect spot to visit the Cotswolds with places like Painswick, Cranham, Sheepscombe and Miserden being easy drives. Also Stroud nearby has some great independent ‘Knick knack’ shops and a very pretty park!
Morning Side is a posh part of Edinburgh, they have some big houses there and also a mental hospital, I think it was an old building.
The mental hospital is the Royal Edinburgh she saw on a road sign. Edinburgh Royal Infirmary is a general hospital and at a completely different location. Alana continually refused to read any of the road name plates which are up on the first storey at every road junction !
@@auldfouter8661 I've not been to that part of Edinburgh, for 20 years. There was a classic Mini shop called Mainly Minis, I remember how he always answered the phone. lol
@@MarkARhodie Alana mentioned the road in Morningside that my brother lives on- he's been 28 years there.
Grew up in Tollcross. Spent a lot of time in Morningside.
11.23 they got a Cafe Nero how posh.. Morningside lady right there.
😂
@@AdventuresAndNaps There aren't many Caffe Neros in the UK. Some areas have none at all!
As soon as I heard "Eccles" I started hearing The Goon Show in my head lol.
Where do you think the cakes come from? 🙂
Had you fallen in the water, though?
@paulhammond6978 no, but I did think I could hear a bluebottle in the distance lol
Well done, Alanna! I got the last one quite quickly, but being born and bred in Manchester probably gave me a slight advantage!😄
Unfair! 😂 Thanks for watching 🙏
Nice work Alanna! I recognised the Arborfield location as it's near where we used to live.
FYI Farnborough is the location of a major international airshow every year.
So, no more excuses when playing Geoguesser on Twitch now! 😄
Incredible 😂 small world!
Every other year it alternates with Paris. My parents used to have Antanovs almost land in their garden.
This video was so much more fun than I thought it was going to be! It's really cute how pleased with yourself you were :)
I particularly liked the Manchester section because that's my neck of the woods. Dumplington is even more fun than it sounds....
......it's actually next to a massive sewage works! Some town planner obviously had a great sense of humour! lol
Please do more of this totally addictive UK Geoguessr content soon!
Wow! That was fun!😂. You're better at it than you thought Alanna!! I've never played GeoGuesser, but I love puzzle-solving, so it's time I started! ❤
Looks like a fun game. I've been following you for some years (my daughter is about your age and had moved from the UK to Toronto). This video reminds me just how engaging you are and how much fun it is to watch your stuff xx.
A top tip for streets/roads named after places in the UK (like Reading Road, London Road, Edinburgh Road, Oxford Road, etc...) is that road heads toward the place its named after. Its from ye olden times where it made giving directions easier. Road is the road that heads to (but doesn't always mean you are nearby, for example Edinburgh has a London Road (that does lead to London eventually, but you'll be on it for the most part of a day before arriving)). Other tell-tale names are: beacon street is a coastal road that used to have a beacon on it, high street or main street goes through the centre of the village/town/borough, kirk road/parish road usually has a church on it. (Street, Road, Avenue, Way, etc... can be interchangeable, there's a difference between them and when they're used but not significant enough to actually help you in Geoguessr)
Interesting, I had no idea but that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing, I learned something new today!
@@natb9919True. I live on Winchester Rd, but if you follow it all the way to Winchester it becomes Basingstoke Rd at the other end. Weird huh?
Great fun video! It's a shame you weren't doing this one live, I live in Cheshire so I'm pretty familiar with both North Wales and the Manchester areas, I could have really helped out! Think I'm going to have to start joining you on Twitch...
I did this with you, well the 2nd one, that started at 7.50mins, in Edingburgh and found the spot at the 15.05 timemark on this video. I know NOTHING in Scotland, it's a foreign country for me and this GeoGuessr (I used the free version) is also a first for me, and damn you Lady, i'm hooked now... lol. Thanks for doing this video.
Btw, I never get bored with your videos and look forwarde to every new offering. Inbetween times, I watch a lot from your back catalogue and have been able to watch that green plant on the thick brown pole grow up and over it... amazing how it's grown and how much i've grown to enjoy your channel. Thx 4 all so far.
you have proved that when you are on your own, you are better than you give yourself credit for.
i weirdly enjoyed that !😮surprisingly fun to hear you say Wokingham 😂 my old hometown , thanks for the giggles 👌❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well done Alanna! I'm impressed by your geographic knowledge of the UK.
Thank you! 😃
03:03 Looking for motorways in Wales isn’t gonna help, there’s only one- the M4. And it doesn’t go all over the country, barely touches the bottom! 😂
Getting to anywhere in Manchester, or to any other city FROM Manchester, is an absolute nightmare, so I think you did exceptionally well to pinpoint that location so well. (Case in point, Liverpool and Leeds signposted in the same direction when they're literally opposite sides of the city...) Even I would have struggled with that at first glance and I've lived here since 2001.
Road signs are deliberately misleading to move traffic away from busy areas. Good example - at the end of the A195(M) in Gateshead you are signposted right for the Tyne Tunnel when it's actually ahead. It's a deliberate strategy to keep the queues on the A19.
Leeds and Liverpool were the same way on the sign because it takes you to the M60 ring motorway system around Manchester, which is the quickest way to these cities via different directions on the motorway.
I was indeed screaming at my screen. I live in Arborfield and you went right past my house!!
😂 no way
She also mentioned where I live
You did well. I'm terrible at Geogessr, except that one time it started me right next to Dover ferry terminal, with a big sign saying Dover ferry terminal. That was quite an easy one.
That was brilliant. I was shouting at the screen like you could hear me. 😂😂😂😂 You have to do that again Alanna. Superb fun.
Never watched a video of yours before but love the energy!
Alanna, A really fun episode! If you don't travel for work or perhaps school I imagine many individuals would find this Google Maps Challenge difficult...🇬🇧🏴🤔
It's definitely difficult when you've never heard of the place before!
When you were plopped down two miles from my home and I said that looks like around here. Good old church lane Arborfield.
Repeat after me.
"Arse - Elbow"
😂
Hiya. That was actually very enjoyable. Stay safe. All the best to you.
This was a fun watch, will have to give it a go. In my family I'm notoriously bad at knowing exactly where major cities here are, let alone places on the outskirts. It's been a running joke for decades that whenever we happen to catch the national weather report I'll say "They've moved Newcastle!" or wherever (ashamed to admit that half the time I actually mean it)
I spent a few moments yelling at the screen as you kept missing Church Lane. 🤣 Great Video, Alanna!
I got so invested. I was routing for you so much 😂😂😂
On a sign for motorway that shows 2 destinations (Leeds/Liverpool) it means east (Leeds), or west (Liverpool) of the country. It is just a guide to the direction you should be heading to! It's been fun. Love map reading! Mr NERD!
Morningside - do you remember The Proclaimers? "And then one night I went to Morningside and you were waiting ... I-I-I met you ♫ I-I-I met you ♪" - they are from Edinburgh ;) And well Trafford and OLD TRAFFORD should instantly point you at Manchester. Fun to watch! GJ and greetings from Hamburg.
HGV dvrs do this to map out a safe route to their next delivery; Avoiding low bridges, weight & width restrictions, access only roads etc. Then to map out, do I reverse into premises or drive into. You have done really well!!!
That was a fun video to watch. You did especially well on that! I used to use Geoguessr but it was free then...I had no idea they charge for it now 😕
That was pretty good Alanna, they might let you be team capain next time. 😁 Road signs are the easiest thing to follow, the road you are on is always at the bottom of a sigh. The major town or city the road goes to is usually listed first, in bold type, and secondary routes via it to other destinations in smaller type, or brackets. Find that junction and its easy to back track. A bit more advanced clue you could use will be to look at the direction, and length of shadows. The sun is always to a Southerly direction in the UK. A short shadow will mean it's near midday as it's at its highest point. With practice, you can pretty accurately work out which direction you are looking towards that roadsign from, if you are East or West of it.
Hi Alana, love your videos. Hope you enjoyed your visit to Cheltenham… it’s my hometown!
Hiya Darrell, do you know Dara off Magenta Otter Travels, she lives in Cheltenham for 5 months of the year
If a street is called Road like Morningside Road it generally a main street going somewhere, terrace/drive/view/Gardens/Drive and Place etc will be side roads.
I thought the words street and road were introduced by different cultures as in the Romans, Britains, French and the Germans who built or influenced them at different times throughout the ages, and nothing at all to do with their sizes or the highway code.
You could have looked up the area code for the telephone number on the nursery sign.
I mean that’s not really true. Maybe in your area but I live on a road to nowhere and so do my parents
Great guessing. I was shouting at the tele when you were in Arborfield as I live in Farnborough and it's sort of on the way to Reading from here although you wouldn't go through the village. I'd say your geography of the UK is pretty good.
Oh cool! Thanks so much for watching!
I was doing the same as I used to live in the next town to you in Fleet 😂. I'm still pretty local, just slightly further down the M3, but my base location for work is Reading.
@@debbee0867woah same
Our lack of road signs is deliberate to confuse foreigners 😊For colonial you deserve a lot of credit for your achievement
Me and my IT buddies, play "Extreme" - Geo-guesser between tickets, - worldwide map with 10 seconds - its mental
quick tip - if you see a bus-stop, you are probably on the "main" road. also try zooming into the timetable, it may give you a bigger clue.
“I am not good at this game”, I bet you kill the Geography questions in Trivial Pursuit.
First time watching, loved watching you play Geoguesser (I play it most days myself). Wish you had done the fifth round though - did you 5K that one as well?
That's the Nags Head roundabout in Davyhulme. I recall walking past that with a can of Tennants special brew. Good Times.
This was very fun! It's a good thing that we're a relatively small island, wouldn't you say? Makes it more likely you'll guess a spot correctly.
Fflint is pronounced "Flint," and I know this because my late grandmother lived very nearby in Rhyl, pronounced "Rill." Welsh may look scary, but the terrors can be overcome.
I got quite a kick out of the last segment in the North West, my old stomping ground. The Trafford Centre used to have a Christmas advert on local TV in Chester, as somewhere to experience Christmas shopping as it might once have been in decades past.
One of the confusing things about our road signage can be the fact that motorways are listed with the cities they can be used to reach - but those aren't necessarily in the same direction as each other. Liverpool and Leeds are both on the M62, at more or less the opposite ends of it... so the sign essentially tells you that both can be reached via that road.
You're obviously being held back by Twitch, Alanna 😂 You have decent knowledge - knowing Trafford was Manchester and where Leeds was 👌
This looks fun, I'm good at geography so I'll give it a try ...in Canada 😊
+16:53 You were on the road you were looking for all the time, just needed to zoom in more to get the road name 😉
You should totally try! I think Canada would be pretty hard - if you found yourself out in the middle of nowhere, would be so hard to tell where! 😂
That was honestly amazing! Also, are half the commenters from Arborfield somehow??
I love GeoGuessr. You did really well. When I saw Flint Castle I was shouting at the telly. I live in South Lancashire, so Flint’s not that far off.
Thank you!! I'd love to do more of these 🙏
I'm in awe! I've only tried out Geoguesser once and couldn't work out how to actually set my parameters. Must try again!
Geoguesser stresses me out. Here in the USA I took geography class in eighth grade and flunked it. Glad you did so well Alanna 😊.
Cheers Brian, bless you! 🙏
I got so excited when you found the arborfield one!
😂🙏
I recognised Morningside Road straight away as I ran down there in August 2022!
15:28 morningside road is a major road, and you keep following an A road that's only showing its designation, not name. That's 99% Morningside Road
Well done Alanna that was great :)
She didn’t know Scotland had a Pizza Hut?!!! We haven’t discovered fire yet love… give us time!
Came to the comments as soon as she said it 😂
Great video, and hello from the South Wales Valleys 🏴👍
As someone who lives near Reading the Arborfield one was eerily familiar to me! You have at least one subscriber around this area lol.
I wasn’t expecting the first place to be literally 5 minutes from me 😂 Oakenholt just outside Flint that’s hilarious, the speed camera by the school is treacherous😂
Loved the Geo guesser!
Apologies , for some reason I was no longer subscribed , rectified .
With the first one, once you found out it was Wales, the flatness of the area was a big clue, the country doesn't have many flat bits with no high hills in the background.
Morningside is well known as being a posh area of Edinburgh, the Morningside accent being very refined.
Old Trafford, famous cricket ground in Manchester.
And the home of a certain football team?
I think she gets extra points for not knowing enough about Manchester United to instantly think of Old Trafford when she sees the word "Trafford".
Well done! I am genuinely pleased for you. HUUM? perhaps your livestream community puts you off your game and you never realised until now when you didn't have them with you?
A natural! Love a bit of GeoGuessr
Hiya Alanna, I got most of the place names with the Regional phone dialing code on business's,(0161) is Manchester,(0131) is Edinburgh, I was shouting at the T.V the city where you were playing from, I'm glad you said "Carlisle" right I was born there, is Carlisle a suberb in Toronto? maybe that's why you got it spot on, I enjoyed this vlog, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Great video Alanna. Well done, you are the new Geowizard!
Wow, thank you!
you might have consulted me first 🤷♂
Soon as you zoomed in on the Morningside Nursery sign, I could tell it was the Edinburgh area just from the 0131 phone number area code. I mean, you can google area codes, but for some reason I'm quite good at remembering big cities and towns area codes. The first place, once you found the Welsh signs and then went up the road a bit, I was thinking Cardiff, Newport or Swansea just because I could see some tower blocks in the distance so was expecting it to be a city.
That was fast finding the Oakenholt sign. Never heard of it...
One tip when looking for road names - look up a bit, especially in built up areas where the buildings are really close to the road. The road names are often above the ground floor level.
Loved the genuine joy over the first one :)
Thanks for watching ☺️
This was actually way more fun to watch than I thought it would be 😅
Yay, great to see you playing GG. How was round 5?! I made a map you can play called British Town Centres which is easier to play than the normal UK map.
The Pizza Hut comment and “is that a different Liverpool?” must be your most “American” comments for a UK living Canadian ever 🤪 Well done though!
You weren't far from me with the third one. I actually went to Farnborough yesterday. (There's a brewing shop there I regularly visit to get stuff for making beer.)
Wow. I live in Urmston (Flixton) and recognised the last one right away!!
A good clue to locating yourself in Wales is the order of the languages on roadsigns. In predominantly Welsh-speaking parts, such as the North West and Mid Wales, Welsh always comes first. In the South and West, and the North East corner which are mainly English-speaking, English comes first.
You missed using the trucks telephone area code on its side. If it will zoom in far enough you code also get a larger place name. from the Bus stop. If it is flat you're be either in the border region by Wrexham, on Anglesey or the North Coast, .Painted Houses are usually found in coastal areas. Flint Castle 3:27 confirmed NE Wales on the coast just over the border from England!
Other than struggling to recognise you're on a main road already a few times, you did pretty well tbf
Good job as usual
Have a nice day ❤
Thank you!
Quick tip on what part of Wales you're in: North Wales has Welsh on top and English below, South Wales is English above and Welsh below.
So at least we know that Oakenholt is in South Wales!
Except that it's in Flintshire, very, VERY North Wales.
There's really no rule.
In my neck of the woods, Rhondda, South Wales, it's English first. Go further South to Cardiff and it's Welsh first. Across to Swansea, and we're back to English first.
I'd guess it depends on the local council, but I'm really not sure.
From zero to hero . Surely some skulduggery going on here - with some shenanigans thrown in for good measure .🤔
You did fantastically well. 👏👏👏👏👏
If you're familiar with City dialling codes like 0131 Edinburgh, it's good to look out for it on Shops etc.
Lol.... When you started the second one I immediately thought it looked like Scotland, then realised why I thought that as I was brought up in Morningside.... doh
The 1st one is literally 5 minutes from my house in North Wales (Flint) 😮🤯 got it straight away thankfully - I was like whaaaaaat
That's crazy!
I’m in Flint Mountain 😂 ( couple of miles away )
When I saw the church on the bottom road , I thought .. No way !! 😂
Nice one Alanna 👍🏼
Same here. College end of Connahs Quay
18:43 Arborfield is right there on the map 😁
In a lot of videos, they just try to get vaguely close, glad you tried your best to get the exact location
Thanks for watching!
A quick learn of the major cities' phone codes would really help. Edinburgh and Manchester would have been so easy to give you a start.
That was so weird seeing Morningside. Grew up near there.
Well done that was gooood
Scotland has the best architecture! Also, most towns with 'ham' on the end are pronounced 'um', as in Chelt'num, etc
I love a good geography video!
🙏
Doesn't help you now but anywhere in Wales with an English sounding name (Oakenhalt) is likely to be on the border, probably to the north of Wales).
I’ve met a few Mancunians who couldn’t point out Manchester on a map after a heavy night out, so you did incredibly well!! 😊
😂 🙏
I live approximately 20 miles from Oakenholt & have done for many years & I’ve never noticed the place, having driven through it many times.
I starts looking in South east Wales !
I work exactly 1.9 miles away from that location, and yet I don't think I've ever been through Oakenholt.
Top tier content. I was based in Aborfield for trade training.