American Reacts Stay in these CHARMING ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE COTTAGES

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  • @lordwalker71
    @lordwalker71 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I love how happy he looks when he watches these videos

  • @NeilusNihilus
    @NeilusNihilus 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I absolutely love these old buildings. As a kid and being half Irish I spent my holidays in Ireland. My late Grandma's house in County Longford was nothing like where I grew up in England. Much like these cottages, everything was very traditional only even older and much less modern. Such an atmosphere was like going back in time.
    p.s. a bath is great, much better than a shower. Lying in a bath filled with bubbles while watching youtube and a glass of wine you just do not want to leave. A shower you want to get it over with as quickly as possible.

  • @jeanneale9257
    @jeanneale9257 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    What a wonderful couple
    Peace love from England

  • @vanandrewschrisanddione
    @vanandrewschrisanddione 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Connor, I hope you get the opportunity to visit our beautiful country. I've just retired, sold my house and bought a motorhome. Now to spend the next few years travelling all over the UK and experience all the beauty it has to offer. ✌️

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@Zippy66
      I think Connor visited the UK (& Europe via Eurostar) when he was about 12 / 13 years old with his family... I'm sure he's really looking forward to someday returning to the UK and exploring 'new' places...(& seeing lots of lovely well-kept grass...😏 !!) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇬🇧🙂🖖

  • @catherinewilkins2760
    @catherinewilkins2760 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I live in an old cottage in North Norfolk, dont know how old it is. Its on Faden's maps of 1797. Thick walls, built of Flint and brick. Has an inglenook fireplace with wood burner. Warm in winter and cool in summer. Its a typical building of the area, so doesn't stand out. They were over engineered, so built to last. The door is a bit on the low side, so most tall people tend to bang their head on entrance. Probably a fisherman 's cottage.

  • @markwolstenholme3354
    @markwolstenholme3354 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    The iron crosses you see on many old buildings in the UK are tie bars X-----------X , front to back with a cast iron bar holding the building together. It's very common.

    • @mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311
      @mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So true!! You would have thought we had got the hang of stone buildings by then, but apparently not!😂

    • @steddie4514
      @steddie4514 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Tie bars

  • @Jamie_D
    @Jamie_D 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love this couple, their videos and appreciation for the UK, glad you react to plenty of them :D

  • @emmafrench7219
    @emmafrench7219 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I did, " cheers ", you at about 15.45. I love this couple, she has such a lovely, calming voice. Great for what she does. And he seems quite shy but a dab hand with a camera and drone.✌

  • @markwolstenholme3354
    @markwolstenholme3354 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    There is amazing, beautiful, fabulous countryside, villages, towns and cities throughout the UK. Much of it is missed on/in vlogs etc. I think many Brits including myself take so much for granted. Perhaps we all do around the world, I have an American friend who lives in New York state, he's 50 and never been to New York NY 😊

  • @Janvier65
    @Janvier65 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    There is some amazing countryside in south east England. I live in Essex which gets not always great attention due to the London sprawl. But the countryside is gorgeous. Not everything Essex is chavvy 😂

    • @libradragon934
      @libradragon934 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes, I do too and there are lots of beautiful areas!

  • @tinastanley3552
    @tinastanley3552 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Conor you should give their video of Portmeirion in Wales a try it's beautiful 😊

  • @James-wp3jq
    @James-wp3jq 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    These people did a video on Portmerrion, it's an Italian style village but in North Wales. Take a look at that.

    • @sallytsang9444
      @sallytsang9444 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I went there for the first time last year. What a fascinating place. I watched The Prisoner after the visit, a cult 1960's TV series which is set there and focuses on the attempts of the prisoner, Number 6, to escape from the village.

    • @James-wp3jq
      @James-wp3jq 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@sallytsang9444 that's right, I am not a number !

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sallytsang9444
      "Be seeing you" 👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😊❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🖖

    • @mehitabel6564
      @mehitabel6564 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sallytsang9444 my husband is a long-time fan of The Prisoner. I arranged a 'secret weekend' did not tell him where we were going except that he'd need his passport. I handed him his 'Prisoner' passport to The Village, Number 6 of course. After that he was in his seventh heaven, especially as we stayed overnight in one of The Village cottages, such a special atmosphere in the little town during the evening strolls after the day visitors have left.

  • @davidberesford7009
    @davidberesford7009 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That "fridge" is probably built into the north facing wall of the house. The house I was born in had the Pantry (walk in food storage) at the north, hence the coldest side.

    • @pastyman001
      @pastyman001 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My Grandparents had the same north facing larder in Wigan, Lancashire with a marble floor and ventilation. It stayed cool even in the summer. No fridge until the 70's

  • @claregale9011
    @claregale9011 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yay I'm from the south east in Kent, lovely old cottages my dream home with cottage garden . 😊

  • @JohnResalb
    @JohnResalb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hi Connor.
    You're getting an eye of experience.
    Yes, if you were parachuted out of an airplane, you would know where abouts in the country you had landed by the traditional architecture.
    1) the building materials used
    2) the architectural style.
    With number 1, the appearance of the stone used will help identify the quarry source.
    And of-course, some regions don't use stone, but timber and thatch.
    You'll also develop an eye to identify from which century any building originates.
    The pink house with the white table outside - I've had afternoon tea outside, in places like that, where the café is just someone's front room!!
    Bit different from Starbucks!!

  • @johnadey3696
    @johnadey3696 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Chough is on the Cornish coat of arms, and ostrich feathers are on the Prince Of Wales coat of arms.

  • @sandrahughes8645
    @sandrahughes8645 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They’re such a lovely couple. I agree with you Connor, I get a lovely calming feeling watching these types of videos x

  • @alexfletcher5192
    @alexfletcher5192 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Talking of thick walls, when we had a house in Lincolnshire (est. 1895 - it was younger than the shop it was connected to), the walls were 12 inches deep. We got broken into once night (they were moving up the east side of the country, hitting sub post offices like ours) and nobody... not us, not the dogs, the cats, the chickens... heard a thing.

  • @libradragon934
    @libradragon934 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    In the Cornish cottage, the crows on the wall are called coughs (chuff), they are Cornwall's symbol, because they are really only found in the area (some in Wales) and almost disappeared completely, from Cornwall. They are a conservation success story.

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *choughs* ❤ ... (I don't think they "cough", just 'caw', similar to other crows
      / corvids?)

  • @kelvinlambert4249
    @kelvinlambert4249 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I hope you get to see UK in the month of May when spring is in full blossom and nature totally alive in every inch of the land

  • @bill-wd7zs
    @bill-wd7zs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Surprised that you know where Shropshire is. Well done. I used to live there, a true hidden gem that's nearly always overlooked by tourists.

  • @bordersw1239
    @bordersw1239 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My 96 yr old mum would be laughing watching this ‘ wait, people are paying to stay in these?’. Spent her childhood waiting for mains water and electricity.

    • @LaPOLEA
      @LaPOLEA 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes a bit like my grandma, but iv always loved that kind of life , couldn't wait to stay with her loved her little house spent hours playing in her tiny kitchen and pantry.

  • @jokeogh9939
    @jokeogh9939 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A bath is an essential luxury when you have time and especially if you're not feeling great physically or mentally. There's no feeling like being immersed in warm water for those initial moments especially. I can imagine it hits the parts of our brain that remembers what being in the womb was like. 😊

  • @JJ-of1ir
    @JJ-of1ir 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I loved YOUR reaction to this charming video, by this delightful couple. Thank you Connor. I think you would make the perfect guest.

  • @paulharvey9149
    @paulharvey9149 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hello Connor. It's interesting that you identify the south-east of England as underrated, at least so far as the tourist industry is concerned. I guess this might be beacuse it is so dominated by London; and because those fortunate enough to be able to afford them are rather protective of their private country retreats! The northern parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, and much of Suffolk are unknown even to most British people, despite their wealth of pretty villages and market towns; while there are also areas officially recognised as being of outstanding natural beauty in the folds of the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire as well as in the Sussex Downs, to name just a few such pockets of land... Shropshire, too, is largely unknown outwith the hiking, biking and hostelling fraternities of the densely-populated West Midlands nearby, as is neighboring Herefordshire; buit as I'm sure you're learning by now, such holiday and other homes in all of the areas shown together with many more besides, are almost ten-a-penny to those of us who have grown up alongside them... That said, the first house here is very appealling because it is off-grid - quite a rarity in this day and age. I should say!

    • @paulharvey9149
      @paulharvey9149 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @deankelz29 Yes, I'm almost 60 and not as able to get around as I once was. I do, however, have the ability to write reasonably well - and Connor is the kind of man who understands that some people need to communicate slightly differently, and that's cool - I therefore write in order to focus on what I can do rather, than what I can't. Think positively, and your glass will never be empty!

    • @LaPOLEA
      @LaPOLEA 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's beautiful, exactly the sort of cottage iv always wanted .But I think more and more people are going back to off grid life.

  • @catsaremylife8946
    @catsaremylife8946 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi Connor. I think you are maybe feeling ASMR in these videos. Its very common. Look it up. These guys also relax me. Sending love from England

  • @martynadams2011
    @martynadams2011 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seeing these cottages with a snowy alp in the background is ridiculous !

  • @stevekenilworth
    @stevekenilworth 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    my uncle had one those fire / cookers in his living room, but still has a log / coal fire stove instead, 10x cheaper at least using coal than his electric heating and more effective to, real fire warms the whole house up his electric fire lucky to warm just few rooms and scary expensive, small village 8 miles west Llangollen North Wales. quite a few around near him has wood burners or coal and wood fires it makes sense, run out money you not going to die from the cold like a lot old do each year, you get a friend to go for a walk and look for some free fire wood if your no able to yourself

  • @smiechuwarte-qt8pn
    @smiechuwarte-qt8pn 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    3:49 I will reveal a secret and say that I have such a wooden kitchen in Poland, in the basement of a modern house, as a second kitchen. It has a water insert that heats a 400 liter hot water boiler when the kitchen is used for e.g. cooking. Today, there are such unpredictable times that it is better to be protected, e.g. in the event of war or some major natural disasters. My house is not at risk of flooding because I live close to a small river on a hill and the water in it would have to reach a height of 150 meters to reach the threshold of the house. I also have the central heating modified so that even if the power grid fails, the house will be warm and hot food can be prepared using gas. The woman does not know that such kitchens are still produced, for example, in Poland and France, intended for such rural weekend houses . There are also fireplaces with special inserts made of heat-resistant bricks that heat the air and distribute it through insulated metal heating channels throughout a small house, e.g. 70 square meters.

  • @stumccabe
    @stumccabe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That wasn't a crow, it was a chough (pronounced "chuff") - also a corvid, as are crows. Choughs have red bills and red legs - crows don't. Cornwall is one of the only places (maybe the only place) in England where choughs can be found.

  • @Lee-70ish
    @Lee-70ish 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My advice for visitors is to look up
    The Land Mark Trust they have some really quirky and pretty places to stay in from lighthouses too old forts too cottages and gate houses

  • @pathopewell1814
    @pathopewell1814 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I lived in a cottage many years ago. No electricity, no bathroom, cold tap only.
    We had paraffin lamps and candles. One coal fire and a tin bath brought in once a week! Ice formed on the inside of the windows, hot water bottles, extra eiderdowns and blankets needed.
    Not so idyllic!!

  • @jillybrooke29
    @jillybrooke29 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This lovely couple met at University in England

    • @KirstenJoerg
      @KirstenJoerg 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ?? We actually didn't! We are both German and met in Germany, been together for 35 years.x

    • @jillybrooke29
      @jillybrooke29 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KirstenJoerg I stand corrected x

  • @MrFalconhead
    @MrFalconhead 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Fun fact 'a cottage is also a place where men like to hang out together and make new friends.

    • @catherinewilkins2760
      @catherinewilkins2760 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hahaha, naughty, don't educate the boy.

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not sure Connor would want to know _that_ (especially after what he said whilst watching the "energy" of the three 'old' "Top Gear" presenters) ...if you recall he mentioned at least three times in quick succession that 😮😊😅😂 he
      "was / wanted to be spu*ked up"!! 😅😂

    • @timothyallan111
      @timothyallan111 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      After all of the lovely cosy comments about the video, I almost spat out my coffee laughing when I got to this one 😂

  • @johnadey3696
    @johnadey3696 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shropshire is one of the best areas of England, largely overlooked by tourists and vloggers.

  • @stuarthardy8202
    @stuarthardy8202 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you truly imagine what it must be like to live without electricity in today's world it is a real escape! No TV, no Internet, now fantastic none of world's problems beamed into your life. That alone would be worth it.

  • @wallywombat164
    @wallywombat164 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish the World was full of blokes like You and Me mate. 😊😊😊😊

  • @janolaful
    @janolaful 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Kristin 😅can tell you the names of most wallpaper and paints they are lovely couple, by the way the cushions you liked with the bees, The bee denotes Mancunians' hard work ethic and the city being a hive of activity. You will find statues and symbols all over. 😊

    • @richardwest6358
      @richardwest6358 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And they are very cheap - from Tesco

    • @janolaful
      @janolaful 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@richardwest6358 they were I bought them and bee clock, which is odd because I'm allergic to bee's 😊

  • @jonathangoll2918
    @jonathangoll2918 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The badge of the Princes of Wales - who are also Dukes of Cornwall - is three feathers, with the motto 'Ich Dien' (I serve). I wonder if that's why the choughs are holding ostrich feathers?

    • @carolineb3527
      @carolineb3527 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I assumed that was the case... the Prince of Wales feathers are ostrich feathers and the Red-billed Chough is the county bird of Cornwall so it would make sense to put them together.

  • @markthomas2577
    @markthomas2577 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Blimey .... at 21.10 I thought her favourite room was going to be the outside lavvy !

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My late Mum's old house had an outside loo. Very handy when gardening...!! 😊 Eventually though - and through the fault of external sewers being damaged (by nearby 'local' roadworks), the "garden loo" was semi- and then, later totally "incapacitated" to the point of being "no longer fit for purpose"...& Sooo...it was "converted" to use as a garden tools 'shed'!! Since the house was renovated / refurbished & sold (by her Landlord) after Mum died, I wonder what changes were made to the old place...(it is _fairly_ old, though not "ancient" per se, but when I lived there between 1959 - 1986, it was already at least 150 - 160 years old, _from_ the 1950's apparently -&- the smaller houses (which backed into the local railway route from London Bridge to Honour Oak & beyond), opposite Mum's side of the road, included in their front walls, windows which were 'bricked up', to apparently _avoid_ paying the then - when the houses were _new_ - charge of 'Window' / 'Light' Tax'!!) 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂🧡🖖

  • @jean-lucpicard5510
    @jean-lucpicard5510 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm guessing when electrification came along during the early 1900s. It was only large enough populated areas that had it installed. Remote houses like these were passed by because it wasn't economically viable, or the owner wasn't wealthy enough to have it installed.

  • @thomasmumw8435
    @thomasmumw8435 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Prince of Wales and The Duke of Cornwall are two titles that go directly to the heir to the throne, hence why Prince William is now supported by the Duchy of Cornwall as was his father. Restormel was a large country Estate, one of quite a few.

  • @sallytsang9444
    @sallytsang9444 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Perhaps warm, reassuring and slightly magical are the words you are searching for. Maybe?

  • @mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311
    @mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Tbh I often feel like when watching one of ur "reacts to" videos, that I'm discovering something along with a friend. 🙂

  • @anitaherbert1037
    @anitaherbert1037 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It was enjoyable watching your happy face.

  • @Seagull6819
    @Seagull6819 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You ought to check out some of the many videos of Lundy Island on here.
    Oh and whilst I’m here, another search tip. Daily. Motion. Two. Ronnies. Bert. Charlie. It is brilliant!

  • @claudiavictoria3929
    @claudiavictoria3929 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    23:43 same! Thanks 😊

  • @erotokritosmoraitis4881
    @erotokritosmoraitis4881 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So sad that tgese beautiful buildings are no longer homes for local people!

  • @leannejohnsonliverpool
    @leannejohnsonliverpool 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    'Yeh, I'll React To That Sure'....🤩

  • @flybobbie1449
    @flybobbie1449 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cottage, no electric, but big families! i wonder why.

  • @JeanBeech-gc4iw
    @JeanBeech-gc4iw 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Try Shropshire you won't be disappointed.

  • @Anon-mk4ms
    @Anon-mk4ms 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love a good shower too, but nothing beats a bath when you feel tired or your back is hurting.

  • @TheOrlandoTrustfull
    @TheOrlandoTrustfull 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I live in a concrete hellhole in Kent. My life's dream is when I am at retirement age, to have enough money to buy a cottage somewhere like The Cotswolds, or any other picturesque place, that has a stream nearby. I don't think that is too much to ask 😞

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd imagine that these days, living near a stream may be a tad risky due to climate change bringing wetter weather, short but heavy flash floods, long, light but sustained rainfall, saturated grounds, undredged ditches to drain fields adequately, blocked drains etc, etc, etc...
      I had a friend who lived in Dorset, and he moved house to a site at the confluence of not one, not two but _three_ rivers
      (not streams!!) ...he then moved to Dorchester... (Which has, as far as I'm aware, at least one river running through it!) Of course, civilisations were built around / on rivers to transport people, goods, livestock and trade sustainably etc... Having said all of that... 🤔🙂
      I wish you safe & happy years ahead, including of course, 2024. 😊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🧡🇬🇧🙂🖖

    • @michw3755
      @michw3755 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good luck 😃👍

  • @pastyman001
    @pastyman001 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cotswolds is not South East, but Central Southern England into West Country.

  • @ErnestKirby
    @ErnestKirby 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wow look at the mountains in suffolk.......pmsl

  • @RonSanderson-b7i
    @RonSanderson-b7i 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Connor makes me laugh with his comments and frustrations , I think he would make a good hobbit.

  • @trailerman2
    @trailerman2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very nice video. 🙂

  • @philjones45
    @philjones45 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did you make your chili beef stew Connor??

  • @secretarchivesofthevatican
    @secretarchivesofthevatican 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful places...but these people have money! It is not cheap to rent places as nice as these, although if a small group of people go it can bring the cost per person down. Just looked up Restormel cottage: 7 Nights from £765

  • @Janie_Morrison
    @Janie_Morrison 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That musics making me fall to sleep

  • @davidberesford7009
    @davidberesford7009 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Connor have you experienced any herbal lawns?

  • @robertburr2212
    @robertburr2212 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey yes they are but what about Wales? ❤

  • @jean-lucpicard5510
    @jean-lucpicard5510 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She broke the yokes of the eggs. Not supposed to serve them like that.

  • @Janie_Morrison
    @Janie_Morrison 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She's like the little fairy godmother women

  • @jean-lucpicard5510
    @jean-lucpicard5510 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm sure loads of women would love to just soak in a bath for an hour. with candles all around and a bottle of white whine to drink!

  • @williambranch4283
    @williambranch4283 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where is the cottage cheese? ;-)

  • @smithy2462
    @smithy2462 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Chough not Crow.

  • @Tom-ed-w
    @Tom-ed-w 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you have some features alot of me and my family have, have you ever done DNA test to see where youre from? i know some family members that look like you. Just curious. Even the fortnite player ninja is welsh , but not sure what %.

  • @cireenasimcox1081
    @cireenasimcox1081 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't doubt they are a wonderful couple and that the woman is lovely.However, for some reason (which hasn't yet revealed itself to me) her voice sets my teeth on edge, so for the first time ever, I cut off the vid after the first couple of sentences. How bizarrely one's mind sometimes works!

  • @martinburke362
    @martinburke362 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    CONNOR THIS IS NOT THE REAL ENGLAND!!! IT'S AN IDEALISED BISCUIT TIN VERSION DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE REAL BRITAIN FOR GOD'S SAKE

    • @dib000
      @dib000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes it is, this is the real England.