I almost spat out my tea 😊There are still remains of the Roman walls that used to surround Londinium, the White Tower (within the Tower of London) is 1,000 yrs old and the oldest pub was built in 1602 (the Seven Stars, behind the Royal Courts of Justice).
It's well-known but it's a bit strange. Most people would say Princess Diana. If I hear it shortened then it's normally "Lady Di" or just "Diana" (everyone knows which Diana you mean!).
I remember the use of the 'Princess Di' nickname **extremely** common when she was alive, principally by the tabloids and their television equivalents. This was in Canada and US.
Yes, Princess Di was A familial name for Princess Diana and the people of the country also referred to her that way in a fond way. She was known as "The Peoples Princess" due to her humanity
I live in a stone cottage in Cornwall,South West England right on the Atlantic coast. My front door is older than America so let’s get it in perspective.
They have no clue, my cottage in West Wales was built in the 16th century apparently, two miles or so down the road from me are two burial mounds, going back ten thousand years. Just incredible. Best wishes.
I once took an American visitor into the church in my Somerset village. She totally freaked out when she read the board listing all the previous vicars and saw that the first one took office in 1249.
Or earlier via the nursery rhyme: "London's burning London's burning Fetch the engine! Fetch the engine! Fire fire! Fire fire! Pour on water Pour on water" A great one to sing in the round
That is only true when you are British. Ask a Dutch , Norwegian, German or Spanish person about that fire , they will never had heard anything about that fire . That is a little it a British problem . Like US Americans they often forget that they are only a very small part of the world
@@arndbaggen3011 I agree with your point entirely. Unfortunately I was responding to somoene talking about the UK (hence primary school rather than grade school or kindergarten or another term) which makes my post fit in context.
1:52 "You can explore the whole city on foot?" average american when learning about "Walkable city". but yes, most city in europe can be explored on foot, no need for a car or even to use public transportatoin (tho, going from one side to another can take a while) but, there is a path on foot from any point to any other point, you'll never have a ppit where the city need you to go by car from point A to point B. It's even often more convenient to go on foot too
Compact my arse. The West End is the main touristy bit and is easy(ish) to walk around, but London is fooking massive. I used to live in East London and work in West and the route I cycled was 17 miles each way.
@@Tony-c7z9t Most tourist are interested in the City of Westminster, maybe the South Bank, perhaps The Tower of London, maybe Docklands and Greenwich all outside The City of London, The City of London doesn't have much that most tourists are interested in.
@@Tony-c7z9t City of London is an entirely different entity. The only bit of that in the video was St Paul's. The video creator said that London is compact and easy to walk around. The central touristy bits perhaps, but good luck if you watched this video and decided to walk to Camden Market from Westminster.
Fun fact about "a small town". London is the third largest city in Europe after Moscow and Istanbul. It would be great if Ryan made a video about those two cities too! Yes, Turkiye is an intercontinental country with European and Asian parts. Istanbul is one of the few cities that are located in two parts of the world at the same time (there are also such cities in Russia and Kazakhstan)
No it isn't. City of London is 1.12 sq. Miles with a population of less than 10,000 people. House of parliament, Buckingham palace, Elizabeth tower containing Big Ben. Are in the City of Westminster. Most of London is not City.
@@grahamsmith9541You are wrong. London is divided administratively into 33 boroughs and The City is one of them. The City is the smallest and oldest part of London; it is also the one with the smallest number of residents and it is where the financial centre of the UK is.
Yeah Princess Di = Princess Diana. Found it odd that he chose to associate Kensington Palace with Charles & Diana, considering the palace is best known for being the birth place and childhood home fo Queen Victoria.
An american is unlikely to have heard of Queen Victoria, I mean they barely even realise that we gave them the English language and that their version is a variation of the English language. But that's the state of their education system unfortunately, can't blame the people for how they're governed lol
London is over 2000 years old!Founded by the Romans! I grew up in Knightsbridge London and visited it twice again! Blessings and happy thoughts!😇🙏🤳🇬🇧🎭⛲🕺
The centre is very walkable. I’ve walked from Westminster to Tower Bridge alone and with tourist friends several times. Also from Kings Cross to the river. Yes there are lots of suburbs, but the centre is very easily walkable.
It might depend what you call "the centre". I am a frequent walker (20-30 miles a week, at least) and I do not find what I regard as the centre of London very walkable in practical terms of getting from A to B e.g. from the Royal Albert Hall and the museums at Kensington to the Tower of London is 5 miles exactly on foot by the most direct route. Americans would be unlikely to walk that distance. It is something you might do as a half or full day excursion in its own right (especially through the parks and taking in sights on the way) but I would recommend using the bus service (as I frequently do) to get around generally e.g. from, say, Victoria to the Royal Albert Hall. Avoid the Tube for shorter journeys in the centre because you can end up walking underground further than you might like up, down and along to reach the train platform. Other cities in Britain have centres which are arguably much more walkable e.g. Newcastle and even Edinburgh.
St Paul's survived the blitz. There were fire watchers constantly on the roof of the cathedral, when Germans attacked and burned so much of the city around it, people would put out any burning debris as fast as they could to try and save the historic building, it felt that important. It had a few hits and a few close calls but damage was limited. It was a miracle how it never got destroyed. The most famous photo everyone knows of that period sees the dome of the cathedral intact as thick smoke obscures much of the area.
@@B-A-L I did say 'one of' which would imply that there is more than one ripoff city on this planet, but to name them would not be very considerate of me to the nationals that live within those cities, but as for London I have no quarms due to a lifetime of experience with the citie's ripoff nature.
Princess Di is indeed short for Diana. Yes the statue of Prince Albert is bronze but has recently be recoated in gold at a cost of £12m. It was painted black during the war so it wouldn't attract German bombers.
It's not a ferris wheel - The London Eye is a cantilevered observation wheel. Cantilevered means that the entire structure is anchored by an A-frame on one side only.
London is walkable although you could easily clock up 15,000 - 20,000 steps a day just in central London. It is more easily walkable if you hop on and off the Tube (London Underground) or the many other kinds of public transport, all of which are clean with 24.7 million trips taken daily by people from every part of society. The eight Royal Parks covering 5,000 acres between them are all in central London, alongside thousands of smaller parks, squares and public green spaces.
We were at Knole Manor House yesterday, which is over 700 years old. There is so much to see there, yet some Americans there literally just stayed glued to their phones all the time, having found something amusing on TikTok or YT. Incredible !!
My home town. Went to school there. Got drunk in many of it's historic pubs. In fact I got my first pint in The Cutty Sark pub at 16. The pub is over 300 years old. You might get a lot of negative comments about joe London isn't the same. I heard people day that in the 1980s. And there are diaries from the 1700s saying that as well. So ignore them
"Of the many gifts England has given to the world, none has been greater than her language and literatre" Proceeds to show a collection of Shakespeare then a collection of Don Quixote, a Spanish book written in Spanish.
@@MrDanJB85 Putting aside the many sign languages there have been 12 native spoken rather than immigrant languages in the British Isles, so it has been quite tough opposition.
That's very interesting, i didnt know that. Unfortunately i dont remember learning anything about Germany except for the obvious historical association and where to find it on the world map.
London is officially a forest as it has so many trees (8 million, I think). Regent's Park is my favourite - it has everything, it is big, central and, of course, free. I always advise people to go there rather than Kew Gardens - unless they are a botanists or plant nerds. It is worth going up in the London Eye.
At the funeral of Queen Elizabeth was that certain bridges in London, there is a rule, that if a group of soldiers march in the city, if they get to those bridges, they MUST march out-of-step because else the bridge will tumble down. (So if we walk in step, we have POWER in our step). If you get tired from WALKING, you can always continue in the TUBE. (Underground train).
Yes Ryan, Diana was affectionately and respectfully known as Di, by Brits. BTW it is possible and very desirable to explore HISTORICAL LONDON ON FOOT OVER SEVERAL DAYS; NOT THE GREATER LONDON VILLAGES AND SUBURBS, which will take you quite sometime and may not be practical unless you have special interest in going there! Walking HISTORICAL London in good weather is actually one of the ways to see it! Enjoy ✌️
As London expanded it incorporated many villages, many of which retain a village atmosphere with old churches and houses. Plus , London has a huge number of public parks , which provide peace , and entertainment. These kind of videos just show the central touristy areas .
No, of course it's not possible to see the whole city on foot. He's talking about "tourist London", which probably comprises less than 10% of London. Even that is a long old slog between the major museums in Kensington, to the West End, Camden/Borough Market or the Tower of London. Most of our suburbs were originally villages, swallowed up by ever expanding London - thus they usually retain their High Street (Main Street, to you) with local shops and facilities, and their own identity.
Princess Di and Princess Diana are the same person. Di is short for Diana.Everything looks historic that's because it is. The video is 11 years old and the sky line has changed and the infrastructure has changed considerably with the addition of Crossrail .
Yes London is extremely walkable. By this, it may mean that wherever you're visiting will be easy to walk through, around and to, as long as you're not trying to walk the WHOLE of Grt London. But you could certainly walk the camden town area and see the market. Or the south bank for example, it's a path along the thames where you can stroll past many historic landmarks. If you visited us Ryan, you could stay central and easily visit north london one day, east london the next and so on. Your travel by bus and train or river ferry would cost but be capped and your food would cost a lot along with central london accommodation . But all the beautiful things are free (museums, parks, thames path) if you stayed for a week, you'd probably want to do some tourist things or catch a show on Shaftsbury Avenue 🎉
The reason you don’t see as many people on the streets in NA is because they are built for cars, not for people. The population is dispersed over huge areas of scattered tiny islands of people surrounded by seas of parking lots and hostile streets, zoning forbids local commerce in the suburbs. In London suburbs you can just walk out you home for a stroll, stop by the Pub or caffe shop for a drink, have a chat with your neighbours and perhaps do some shopping.
Bear in mind that the London destroyed in 1666 was much smaller, mostly what today we call the City of London. Houses were built of wood and very close together, which helped the fire spread.
The core of London is extremely walkable, for example you can walk from Trafalgar Square to Tower Bridge in just under an hour, but I think the video is talking about the public transport system meaning that you don’t need a car.
When they say London is walkable they mean the central part where most of the touristy things are but it's incredibly easy to get around by bike or public transport if you are going further afield.
@@lidewijvos yeah your right, i was more trying to highlight the amount of green space, that we try tp preserve, as other cities also copied london to have the green belt, from years gone by
@@jonathanpaylor6006 It's not England's monarchy or they would be crowned as such. They are crowned as the King/Queen of the United Kingdom. King Charles III is descended from English and Scottish royalty, all the way back to King Kenneth MacAlpin and the early Pictish kings who went before.
PS London is a v green city - over 3000 parks available to enjoy. We have huge green spaces in the centre of London and they link up some of the more touristy areas if you walk thru them. Nice on a sunny day to grab a lunch to go, find a nice green spot to sit in and enjoy… I used to do that a lot in Green Park Near Piccadilly…
Loan-done, just a small little town that's the biggest city in the UK and one of the most famous cities in the entire world. A city that used to be the centerpoint of the biggest empire on Earth and ... okay I'll shut up and watch the video now.
I am sure Ryan is joking re London but I must say I heard his brother pronounce the Thames as it is spelt, not like "Temms". That blew my mind because it's such a famous river across the world, so hard to tell with some reactors when it's joking or for real at times.
@@annafrolova7891 There is no cities in China. There is the communist party and the country bumpkin. You can get rich and promote the party or disappear a few month and come back as a big supporter or disappear forever.
We lived there more than 4 years. Every day was magic. Even winter, when the days are soooo short: the nights and bustle are their own charm. And you are a cheap flight or fast train journey from all of Europe and even north America.
The actual City of London is only 1 square mile, and is a sperate entity to London, so there are two separate Mayors, and the Monarch has to ask for permission to enter it.
Yes....on foot is the best because of all the tiny ancient alleyways, shortcuts, river views and mega-beautiful buildings and of course the history, always the history!!!
There's a difference between London and greater London, the are you said was 25 miles wide. London city centre is just about walkable in a day. Everyone called Princess Diana Princess Di and always have done.
The tourist London most people think about, which pretty much encompasses Kensington in the West to Tower Bridge in the East, is easily walkable in a few hours. I've done it several times myself. Of course it doesn't include the time you could spend in all the museums, most of which are free, and all the other tourist attractions, but if you have a spare weekend you can easily see what London has to offer. There are other areas outside the main tourist area such as The O2 Arena, Kew Gardens and Hampton Course Palace but these are easy enough to reach by public transport.
@2:04 They probably mean the area inside and around the tube's Circle Line. One time I travelled to London I stayed in Bethnal Green, walked all the way to Bank and then went to an IMAX in Waterloo (wanted to walk through Millennium Bridge because of HP movie) and from there went to Picadilly and up, up Regent St till I reached Oxford Street and walked around there too. Without stopping, max. it would have been 2h walk.
They should have said "the City of London" instead of London. That's very walkable indeed. City of London, Kesington and Chelsea and Westminster for all the touristy stuff already is a lot of walking tho. You might want to take the tube or perhaps even better the bus (the regular one not the tourist traps).
No, basically it destroyed much of the old City of London . Between Tower of London to St. Paul's Cathedral and a short way to the west. Never reached as far as the Palace of Westminster ( now part of the Houses of Parliament.)
Back in the 50s-60s, you could get a fishing permit to fish in the various lakes in the Royal Parks, That did include the Serpentine. In the 70s I used to help out a chap who had a workshop above Dingwalls at Camden Lock, the crowds at the weekend were incredible.
@@Parker_Douglas . No lack of fish in the London canals or the docks. The main reason why I didn't fish a lot of places was the curiosity of passers-by.
I was at a Prom concert at the Albert Hall yesterday! The Albert Memorial opposite the Hall always strikes me as very over the top and garish. It softens a little under early evening light. Sort of.
Amazing how many people don’t get Ryan’s sense of humour. Of course he’s heard of Londown 😂 Ryan, do Paris next. I’m sure Expedia have a similar video. And please, please actually come to Europe one day and document your adventures. Would be interesting to see how the reality compares with all the videos you’ve watched!
"Where I Live you do not see as many people like this! ... " Ryan please remeber that London inhabits more than 9 million citizens - Entire Indiana dose 6,8 million. 😅 No wonder some how ...
I believe Tom Scott did a video on the roof of the Royal Albert Hall, the roof is not connected to the rest of the building, it is in pinned in place by gravity under it's sheer weight.
It's not "London, England". It's London. You don't put the name of the country next to a city if that city is the original one with that name. Doing so is incredibly offensive.
When it says you can explore London on foot, it means Central London, where all the touristy areas are shown in the video. There's a difference between City of London (aka the Square Mile, which was the original London, today it"s the financial district), Central London (per the video. City of London is part of Central) and Greater London (the whole of London).
7:12 "You call this a suburb?" It is the inner suburbs my mother lives in one they are more like distinct communities about 10 minutes by Underground from the Centre. They aren't cheap most people live further out. As for suburbs the cities commuter rail network stretches hundreds of miles from Exeter in the far South West to Liverpool in the far North West.
Don't thank England for English... thank Europe. We just got fed up with everyone speaking differently so we just merged all the famous/popular European languages of the time... creating old English. The great fire mainly destroyed homes that were made of wood and timber. It lead to the creation of "Firefighters". If you like Metal, Indie or rock music, Camden is a must visit place.
Well we're here right now enjoying afternoon coffee on a sunny café terrace, watching your video.! And where are you ? - come on over.!! It's hot today, but not repressively hot - we don't like it over-hot in London, you just sweat. We like to walk around and see everything - you can't do that if it's 100 degrees or similar. Likewise, if you're in the bus, getting a birds-eye view of everything from the top deck.!! (that's British for the "upper floor"). Cheers, old boy.!!
That "explore on foot" comment: you can see so much in different parts of the city. So it makes sense to walk around different area, one at a time. Like Westminster: from the river via Parliament, Buckingham Palace to the nearby royal parks. But London is 600 sq miles. So, no, you can't walk around it. You'll walk around Chelsea OR Kensington OR Notting Hill OR Soho OR The City OR Canary Wharf. etc.
A bit of misconception: The Great Fire 1666 burnt most buildings in the City of London. City of London is just one central district of the Greater (or Metropolitan) London. In 1666 City of London was London - other districts of today’s Greater London were mostly towns and villages in their own right, including the city of Westminster some 2 miles upstream. Those two cities, London and Westminster (as well as a number of towns and villages), merged into the Greater London in the 18th century only. So the Great Fire was a disaster in only one district of the modern metropolis.
I always take what he says with a pinch of salt but seriously! London one of the most famous capital cities in the world, and he's never heard about any of this! Historic? YA THINK!! I get that he might not know that the city of London is only 1 square mile and that the rest is Greater London but most of the rest of it surely he must know about, he's done enough videos on this sort of stuff
The City of London is one square mile and is walkable - I live near Greenwich and door to door probably takes 3/4 hr on a good day to bus/train into Central London, which is probably what the narrator meant when he said L is walkable.
@@MelOBrien-12 Yes it is, there's Greenwich Park which is huge and still has deer roaming around from when Henry VIII introduced them. The bars and bespoke shops in Greenwich are cool as well as the indoor market. The Naval college is more open to the public now & their are often events etc. The Thames Path runs along the river through Greenwich too.
@@cazzyuk8939 Sounds lovely especially the park and deer! Bet it’s gorgeous in the summer. I appreciate your response, look forward to exploring the area.
One thing I would have mentioned in that video is the walkie-talkie building wich is home to the uks tallest public park wich is free to visit on the 64th floor
No you can’t walk the entirety of London. Thats bonkers. The centre of London, the ‘west end’/theatreland, the City of London and the centre of our political world is however eminently walkable. Then there’s buses, tubes, Docklands Light Railway etc for ease of travel around London and Greater London.
@@johnsmith-cw3wo I can't think of a single good reason for walking from Central London to Acton, and a host of other places around London. I take your point about sidewalks. I wanted to walk from my son's house to a shopping mall about two miles away in South Carolina. Google maps estimated a walking time of five hours, because there wasn't a sidewalk, other than one that took me on a grand tour of the neighbourhood.
“Everything LOOKS SO historic“… LOL. Almost spat out my lunch. Honey, IT IS!
I know right, most of the buildings shown were older than the US.🤣
I almost spat out my tea 😊There are still remains of the Roman walls that used to surround Londinium, the White Tower (within the Tower of London) is 1,000 yrs old and the oldest pub was built in 1602 (the Seven Stars, behind the Royal Courts of Justice).
@@cazzyuk8939 A town down the road from me has been continuously settled since 8820 BC.
@@cazzyuk8939there's a pub in my town which opened in the 15th century and it's still open
@@cazzyuk8939 I guess that you mean the oldest pub in London, as there are certainly several older pubs around the UK.
If I remember correctly "Di" was a well known nickname of Princess Diana.
It's well-known but it's a bit strange. Most people would say Princess Diana. If I hear it shortened then it's normally "Lady Di" or just "Diana" (everyone knows which Diana you mean!).
@@callum9999I also never heard of "Princess Di" combined. Only Princess Diana or Lady Di.
But I'm not British)))
May she rest in peace 😢❤ she was a queen to the people 💯
I remember the use of the 'Princess Di' nickname **extremely** common when she was alive, principally by the tabloids and their television equivalents. This was in Canada and US.
Yeah. "Lady Di" was created and ended by the tabloid press.
Yes, Princess Di was A familial name for Princess Diana and the people of the country also referred to her that way in a fond way. She was known as "The Peoples Princess" due to her humanity
She was a fake just like Harry
London has so many green spaces/Parks that is officially designated as an urban Forest.
This is a very interesting point. Didn't know that! A forest indeed, we do love our parks in this beautiful city
Yes, true, I watched Richard Osman's House of Games as well 👍😁
I live in a stone cottage in Cornwall,South West England right on the Atlantic coast.
My front door is older than America so let’s get it in perspective.
They have no clue, my cottage in West Wales was built in the 16th century apparently, two miles or so down the road from me are two burial mounds, going back ten thousand years. Just incredible. Best wishes.
Might last longer than America too 😂jk
This guy is a prick. He revels in his American ignorance. What a joke.
I live next door but one to some houses that were built in the 11th or 12th century, nowhere near London!
I once took an American visitor into the church in my Somerset village. She totally freaked out when she read the board listing all the previous vicars and saw that the first one took office in 1249.
You usually learn about The Great Fire of London when you are 6/7 yrs old in Primary School.
Or earlier via the nursery rhyme:
"London's burning
London's burning
Fetch the engine!
Fetch the engine!
Fire fire!
Fire fire!
Pour on water
Pour on water"
A great one to sing in the round
That is only true when you are British. Ask a Dutch , Norwegian, German or Spanish person about that fire , they will never had heard anything about that fire . That is a little it a British problem . Like US Americans they often forget that they are only a very small part of the world
@@arndbaggen3011 Being French, I confirm that I only learned about the great fire when I was 17 in a muesum IN LONDON.
@@arndbaggen3011 I agree with your point entirely. Unfortunately I was responding to somoene talking about the UK (hence primary school rather than grade school or kindergarten or another term) which makes my post fit in context.
@@arndbaggen3011I learned about the fire in 5th grade (in Germany). It was covered in the textbook for English language class.
1:52 "You can explore the whole city on foot?" average american when learning about "Walkable city". but yes, most city in europe can be explored on foot, no need for a car or even to use public transportatoin (tho, going from one side to another can take a while) but, there is a path on foot from any point to any other point, you'll never have a ppit where the city need you to go by car from point A to point B. It's even often more convenient to go on foot too
Not to mention the fact that you have to pay the council congestion charge to drive a car in central London.
@@susanpilling8849at certain times yes, or you can drive through in the evenings when the traffic is lighter
You can't get across the river half the time with so many car or congestion restrictions and with Blackwall being mostly closed this year
Compact my arse. The West End is the main touristy bit and is easy(ish) to walk around, but London is fooking massive. I used to live in East London and work in West and the route I cycled was 17 miles each way.
Agreed.
Visitors have no interest in going outside the tourist area of London so it is pretty compact.
But that's greater London not London City.
@@Tony-c7z9t Most tourist are interested in the City of Westminster, maybe the South Bank, perhaps The Tower of London, maybe Docklands and Greenwich all outside The City of London, The City of London doesn't have much that most tourists are interested in.
@@Tony-c7z9t City of London is an entirely different entity. The only bit of that in the video was St Paul's. The video creator said that London is compact and easy to walk around. The central touristy bits perhaps, but good luck if you watched this video and decided to walk to Camden Market from Westminster.
Fun fact about "a small town". London is the third largest city in Europe after Moscow and Istanbul. It would be great if Ryan made a video about those two cities too!
Yes, Turkiye is an intercontinental country with European and Asian parts. Istanbul is one of the few cities that are located in two parts of the world at the same time (there are also such cities in Russia and Kazakhstan)
Love both Istanbul and London.
No it isn't. City of London is 1.12 sq. Miles with a population of less than 10,000 people.
House of parliament, Buckingham palace, Elizabeth tower containing Big Ben. Are in the City of Westminster. Most of London is not City.
I knew someone from Turkiye who was proud to say that she lived in Europe and went to school in Asia, all in one city! (Istanbul).
@@grahamsmith9541You are wrong. London is divided administratively into 33 boroughs and The City is one of them. The City is the smallest and oldest part of London; it is also the one with the smallest number of residents and it is where the financial centre of the UK is.
@@p.millard557 The City IS Separate. Administered by the City Of London Corporation.
NOT the Greater London Authority that governs the rest of London.
The whole world shortens Diane and Diana to Di. It’s done with the deepest of affection.
Yeah Princess Di = Princess Diana.
Found it odd that he chose to associate Kensington Palace with Charles & Diana, considering the palace is best known for being the birth place and childhood home fo Queen Victoria.
An american is unlikely to have heard of Queen Victoria, I mean they barely even realise that we gave them the English language and that their version is a variation of the English language. But that's the state of their education system unfortunately, can't blame the people for how they're governed lol
London is over 2000 years old!Founded by the Romans! I grew up in Knightsbridge London and visited it twice again! Blessings and happy thoughts!😇🙏🤳🇬🇧🎭⛲🕺
Yes we gave you English which you buggered up no end😂🏴🇬🇧
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg we didn't give them English, they stole it.
The way you said at beginning London just gave me an eye twitch 😂😂😂
The centre is very walkable. I’ve walked from Westminster to Tower Bridge alone and with tourist friends several times.
Also from Kings Cross to the river. Yes there are lots of suburbs, but the centre is very easily walkable.
It might depend what you call "the centre". I am a frequent walker (20-30 miles a week, at least) and I do not find what I regard as the centre of London very walkable in practical terms of getting from A to B e.g. from the Royal Albert Hall and the museums at Kensington to the Tower of London is 5 miles exactly on foot by the most direct route. Americans would be unlikely to walk that distance. It is something you might do as a half or full day excursion in its own right (especially through the parks and taking in sights on the way) but I would recommend using the bus service (as I frequently do) to get around generally e.g. from, say, Victoria to the Royal Albert Hall. Avoid the Tube for shorter journeys in the centre because you can end up walking underground further than you might like up, down and along to reach the train platform.
Other cities in Britain have centres which are arguably much more walkable e.g. Newcastle and even Edinburgh.
Oh Ryan, your Americaness is so obvious, glad that you are expanding your horizons,
The Tower of London is actually a castle and royal palace, although it has been used as a prison but it wasn't built for that purpose.
St Paul's survived the blitz. There were fire watchers constantly on the roof of the cathedral, when Germans attacked and burned so much of the city around it, people would put out any burning debris as fast as they could to try and save the historic building, it felt that important. It had a few hits and a few close calls but damage was limited. It was a miracle how it never got destroyed. The most famous photo everyone knows of that period sees the dome of the cathedral intact as thick smoke obscures much of the area.
Hitler wanted St. PAUL'S for his headquarters
also it was never bombed so that the nazis could navigte around it:)
Proud to be from London. Best city in the world. So much history and culture.
It's not the best city in the world. There is no best city in the world.
A one of the biggest ripoffs, London I all about greed.
@@Tony-c7z9tName a major tourist city that isn't.
@@B-A-L I did say 'one of' which would imply that there is more than one ripoff city on this planet, but to name them would not be very considerate of me to the nationals that live within those cities, but as for London I have no quarms due to a lifetime of experience with the citie's ripoff nature.
Good luck trying to find English people in London 😅
Princess Di is indeed short for Diana. Yes the statue of Prince Albert is bronze but has recently be recoated in gold at a cost of £12m. It was painted black during the war so it wouldn't attract German bombers.
no mean to be rude, but the London eye is an observation wheel because you observe scenery, not a Ferris wheel ride
It is a Ferris Wheel. It held the Guinness world record for the highest Ferris wheel until 2006.
Yes, she was always referred to as Princess Di. We all knew who it was.
It's not a ferris wheel - The London Eye is a cantilevered observation wheel. Cantilevered means that the entire structure is anchored by an A-frame on one side only.
London is walkable although you could easily clock up 15,000 - 20,000 steps a day just in central London. It is more easily walkable if you hop on and off the Tube (London Underground) or the many other kinds of public transport, all of which are clean with 24.7 million trips taken daily by people from every part of society. The eight Royal Parks covering 5,000 acres between them are all in central London, alongside thousands of smaller parks, squares and public green spaces.
But the tube and other transport usage means your not walking.
This video is about inner London only. there are another 20 boroughs that make up the whole of London
We were at Knole Manor House yesterday, which is over 700 years old. There is so much to see there, yet some Americans there literally just stayed glued to their phones all the time, having found something amusing on TikTok or YT. Incredible !!
My home town. Went to school there. Got drunk in many of it's historic pubs. In fact I got my first pint in The Cutty Sark pub at 16. The pub is over 300 years old. You might get a lot of negative comments about joe London isn't the same. I heard people day that in the 1980s. And there are diaries from the 1700s saying that as well. So ignore them
"Of the many gifts England has given to the world, none has been greater than her language and literatre" Proceeds to show a collection of Shakespeare then a collection of Don Quixote, a Spanish book written in Spanish.
Poorly chosen visuals aside, English is great: easily one of the top ten languages native to Great Britain. 😅
@@MrDanJB85 Putting aside the many sign languages there have been 12 native spoken rather than immigrant languages in the British Isles, so it has been quite tough opposition.
The "City of London" is about a square mile and is the orginal Londinium" is quite comfortable to explore on foot!
was about to say the same. Those 25 miles, are mainly boring suburbs
@@MichaelCoIIins central rat
Depends on the time of the day, sometimes you're being thrown of the pavement by marching suits!
@@MichaelCoIIinsboring is an interesting word for it.
@@MichaelCoIIinsThere are plenty of interesting things in those suburbs.
My god, this chap didn't know how to pronounce London. Amazing.
Here in Germany every child learns about the great London fire in 1666 at school in the English lesson....I know because I am an English teacher.
Americans don't even learn about the Mayflower
That's very interesting, i didnt know that. Unfortunately i dont remember learning anything about Germany except for the obvious historical association and where to find it on the world map.
London is officially a forest as it has so many trees (8 million, I think). Regent's Park is my favourite - it has everything, it is big, central and, of course, free. I always advise people to go there rather than Kew Gardens - unless they are a botanists or plant nerds.
It is worth going up in the London Eye.
At the funeral of Queen Elizabeth was that certain bridges in London, there is a rule, that if a group of soldiers march in the city, if they get to those bridges, they MUST march out-of-step because else the bridge will tumble down. (So if we walk in step, we have POWER in our step). If you get tired from WALKING, you can always continue in the TUBE. (Underground train).
It's called having a reasonable public transport system.
Yes Ryan, Diana was affectionately and respectfully known as Di, by Brits.
BTW it is possible and very desirable to explore HISTORICAL LONDON ON FOOT OVER SEVERAL DAYS; NOT THE GREATER LONDON VILLAGES AND SUBURBS, which will take you quite sometime and may not be practical unless you have special interest in going there!
Walking HISTORICAL London in good weather is actually one of the ways to see it! Enjoy ✌️
Big Ben is the bell 🔔 not the tower or clock
Go to Hollywood. Be a star. You're a better method actor than most these days. 🤣
I love to learn about history and other cultures things and London’s museums are certainly the best anywhere in the world.
As London expanded it incorporated many villages, many of which retain a village atmosphere with old churches and houses.
Plus , London has a huge number of public parks , which provide peace , and entertainment.
These kind of videos just show the central touristy areas .
"London is very easy to navigate around".....😵💫
also, it's quite surprising how many people don't get Ryan's dry sense of humour.
No, of course it's not possible to see the whole city on foot. He's talking about "tourist London", which probably comprises less than 10% of London. Even that is a long old slog between the major museums in Kensington, to the West End, Camden/Borough Market or the Tower of London.
Most of our suburbs were originally villages, swallowed up by ever expanding London - thus they usually retain their High Street (Main Street, to you) with local shops and facilities, and their own identity.
You wouldn't want to see most of it.
Yes it is a good language, shame you can't speak it😂😮
Postmans Park is a great place to visit. Small park in the middle of the city surrounded by lunatics in offices.
Princess Di and Princess Diana are the same person. Di is short for Diana.Everything looks historic that's because it is. The video is 11 years old and the sky line has changed and the infrastructure has changed considerably with the addition of Crossrail .
Yes London is extremely walkable. By this, it may mean that wherever you're visiting will be easy to walk through, around and to, as long as you're not trying to walk the WHOLE of Grt London. But you could certainly walk the camden town area and see the market. Or the south bank for example, it's a path along the thames where you can stroll past many historic landmarks. If you visited us Ryan, you could stay central and easily visit north london one day, east london the next and so on. Your travel by bus and train or river ferry would cost but be capped and your food would cost a lot along with central london accommodation . But all the beautiful things are free (museums, parks, thames path) if you stayed for a week, you'd probably want to do some tourist things or catch a show on Shaftsbury Avenue 🎉
The Great Fire was preceded by The Great Plague, every child in Britain learns this in junior school
The reason you don’t see as many people on the streets in NA is because they are built for cars, not for people. The population is dispersed over huge areas of scattered tiny islands of people surrounded by seas of parking lots and hostile streets, zoning forbids local commerce in the suburbs. In London suburbs you can just walk out you home for a stroll, stop by the Pub or caffe shop for a drink, have a chat with your neighbours and perhaps do some shopping.
Bear in mind that the London destroyed in 1666 was much smaller, mostly what today we call the City of London. Houses were built of wood and very close together, which helped the fire spread.
The core of London is extremely walkable, for example you can walk from Trafalgar Square to Tower Bridge in just under an hour, but I think the video is talking about the public transport system meaning that you don’t need a car.
London is about 50 miles from east to west, so it would take a long time to explore by foot.
Take a look at the map of London, you'll realise how green it actually is
When they say London is walkable they mean the central part where most of the touristy things are but it's incredibly easy to get around by bike or public transport if you are going further afield.
ryan there are around 3000 parks in London in total, which does include greater london
Although a lot of them are private with a locked fence around them.
@@lidewijvos yeah your right, i was more trying to highlight the amount of green space, that we try tp preserve, as other cities also copied london to have the green belt, from years gone by
So why can't I find a parking space?!
@@davidcopson5800 really, you think a park is a car park, are you gen Z or gen X as they say these days
if not, bit extra schooling might have helped,
Ignore the "englands monarchy" part because England does not have a monarchy of its own, it hasn't done for 100s of years.
It may not be of its own but it's still England's monarchy.
@@jonathanpaylor6006 It's not England's monarchy or they would be crowned as such. They are crowned as the King/Queen of the United Kingdom. King Charles III is descended from English and Scottish royalty, all the way back to King Kenneth MacAlpin and the early Pictish kings who went before.
Central London can, indeed, be comfortably explored on foot. Short journeys on the Tube or Busses are the norm, Driving is just stupid.
PS London is a v green city - over 3000 parks available to enjoy. We have huge green spaces in the centre of London and they link up some of the more touristy areas if you walk thru them. Nice on a sunny day to grab a lunch to go, find a nice green spot to sit in and enjoy… I used to do that a lot in Green Park Near Piccadilly…
Loan-done, just a small little town that's the biggest city in the UK and one of the most famous cities in the entire world. A city that used to be the centerpoint of the biggest empire on Earth and ... okay I'll shut up and watch the video now.
I am sure Ryan is joking re London but I must say I heard his brother pronounce the Thames as it is spelt, not like "Temms". That blew my mind because it's such a famous river across the world, so hard to tell with some reactors when it's joking or for real at times.
Tyler also said that 1967 is 70 years ago... I thought my arithmetic was bad!!
I was born in 1953 and am now 71...
I'm sure that all the British pronounce the rivers Ganges, Amazon, Nile, Dnieper and Volga exactly as the locals do, lol
Yes, Princess Di = Princess Diana, 8.9 million people you call a small town?
He was joking obviously
For China or India 8,9 million is kinda regular village 😂
Just a bit of fun.
@@annafrolova7891 There is no cities in China. There is the communist party and the country bumpkin. You can get rich and promote the party or disappear a few month and come back as a big supporter or disappear forever.
r/whoosh
We lived there more than 4 years. Every day was magic. Even winter, when the days are soooo short: the nights and bustle are their own charm. And you are a cheap flight or fast train journey from all of Europe and even north America.
None of us were in first grade mate. 😂
You really need to come and visit us Ryan!
The actual City of London is only 1 square mile, and is a sperate entity to London, so there are two separate Mayors, and the Monarch has to ask for permission to enter it.
Yes....on foot is the best because of all the tiny ancient alleyways, shortcuts, river views and mega-beautiful buildings and of course the history, always the history!!!
There's a difference between London and greater London, the are you said was 25 miles wide. London city centre is just about walkable in a day. Everyone called Princess Diana Princess Di and always have done.
The bronze statue of Prince Albert as gilded in gold leaf!
The tourist London most people think about, which pretty much encompasses Kensington in the West to Tower Bridge in the East, is easily walkable in a few hours. I've done it several times myself. Of course it doesn't include the time you could spend in all the museums, most of which are free, and all the other tourist attractions, but if you have a spare weekend you can easily see what London has to offer. There are other areas outside the main tourist area such as The O2 Arena, Kew Gardens and Hampton Course Palace but these are easy enough to reach by public transport.
@2:04 They probably mean the area inside and around the tube's Circle Line. One time I travelled to London I stayed in Bethnal Green, walked all the way to Bank and then went to an IMAX in Waterloo (wanted to walk through Millennium Bridge because of HP movie) and from there went to Picadilly and up, up Regent St till I reached Oxford Street and walked around there too. Without stopping, max. it would have been 2h walk.
The west end, city, Chelsea area and Camden are very walkable and it’s the only way to see it
They should have said "the City of London" instead of London. That's very walkable indeed. City of London, Kesington and Chelsea and Westminster for all the touristy stuff already is a lot of walking tho. You might want to take the tube or perhaps even better the bus (the regular one not the tourist traps).
You think this looks crowded? You aint seen nuthin’ yet😆
The Great Fire did not burn the entire city, but the part between the Tower and Parliament.
No, basically it destroyed much of the old City of London . Between Tower of London to St. Paul's Cathedral and a short way to the west. Never reached as far as the Palace of Westminster ( now part of the Houses of Parliament.)
Don't worry we don't tell our schoolkids about the fire in Chicago either 😅
I think I had a 40 minute history lesson about it, but don't remember it.
Please, make a reaction to the Great fire of London.
Back in the 50s-60s, you could get a fishing permit to fish in the various lakes in the Royal Parks, That did include the Serpentine.
In the 70s I used to help out a chap who had a workshop above Dingwalls at Camden Lock, the crowds at the weekend were incredible.
I bet there not much fishing going down in London these days with all the raw sewage leaks in your water.
@@Parker_Douglas .
No lack of fish in the London canals or the docks. The main reason why I didn't fish a lot of places was the curiosity of passers-by.
I was at a Prom concert at the Albert Hall yesterday! The Albert Memorial opposite the Hall always strikes me as very over the top and garish. It softens a little under early evening light. Sort of.
Amazing how many people don’t get Ryan’s sense of humour. Of course he’s heard of Londown 😂 Ryan, do Paris next. I’m sure Expedia have a similar video. And please, please actually come to Europe one day and document your adventures. Would be interesting to see how the reality compares with all the videos you’ve watched!
"Where I Live you do not see as many people like this! ... "
Ryan please remeber that London inhabits more than 9 million citizens -
Entire Indiana dose 6,8 million. 😅
No wonder some how ...
I believe Tom Scott did a video on the roof of the Royal Albert Hall, the roof is not connected to the rest of the building, it is in pinned in place by gravity under it's sheer weight.
I see many of these great sights on my cycle to work every day. I've lived in London for almost 18 years and I'm still amazed by this incredible city!
It's not "London, England". It's London.
You don't put the name of the country next to a city if that city is the original one with that name. Doing so is incredibly offensive.
When it says you can explore London on foot, it means Central London, where all the touristy areas are shown in the video.
There's a difference between City of London (aka the Square Mile, which was the original London, today it"s the financial district), Central London (per the video. City of London is part of Central) and Greater London (the whole of London).
You looked so happy; London has that effect on me too :)
7:12 "You call this a suburb?" It is the inner suburbs my mother lives in one they are more like distinct communities about 10 minutes by Underground from the Centre.
They aren't cheap most people live further out.
As for suburbs the cities commuter rail network stretches hundreds of miles from Exeter in the far South West to Liverpool in the far North West.
Don't thank England for English... thank Europe. We just got fed up with everyone speaking differently so we just merged all the famous/popular European languages of the time... creating old English.
The great fire mainly destroyed homes that were made of wood and timber. It lead to the creation of "Firefighters".
If you like Metal, Indie or rock music, Camden is a must visit place.
I blame the English wholeheartedly for destroying the Celtic culture & languages that’s pre dated English by a long way .
Well we're here right now enjoying afternoon coffee on a sunny café terrace, watching your video.!
And where are you ?
- come on over.!!
It's hot today, but not repressively hot - we don't like it over-hot in London, you just sweat.
We like to walk around and see everything - you can't do that if it's 100 degrees or similar.
Likewise, if you're in the bus, getting a birds-eye view of everything from the top deck.!! (that's British for the "upper floor").
Cheers, old boy.!!
That "explore on foot" comment: you can see so much in different parts of the city. So it makes sense to walk around different area, one at a time. Like Westminster: from the river via Parliament, Buckingham Palace to the nearby royal parks. But London is 600 sq miles. So, no, you can't walk around it. You'll walk around Chelsea OR Kensington OR Notting Hill OR Soho OR The City OR Canary Wharf. etc.
where else would london be other than here
A bit of misconception: The Great Fire 1666 burnt most buildings in the City of London. City of London is just one central district of the Greater (or Metropolitan) London.
In 1666 City of London was London - other districts of today’s Greater London were mostly towns and villages in their own right, including the city of Westminster some 2 miles upstream. Those two cities, London and Westminster (as well as a number of towns and villages), merged into the Greater London in the 18th century only.
So the Great Fire was a disaster in only one district of the modern metropolis.
Fun reaction.
I always take what he says with a pinch of salt but seriously! London one of the most famous capital cities in the world, and he's never heard about any of this! Historic? YA THINK!! I get that he might not know that the city of London is only 1 square mile and that the rest is Greater London but most of the rest of it surely he must know about, he's done enough videos on this sort of stuff
Ryan! I hope you're "just kidding".
He's being "meta". and he nearly stayed with it , til the end.
Princess Di = Princess Diana.
Never heard of the Fire of London,of course not you only learnt about the greatest American history,America is the world.
The City of London is one square mile and is walkable - I live near Greenwich and door to door probably takes 3/4 hr on a good day to bus/train into Central London, which is probably what the narrator meant when he said L is walkable.
Hey - Is Greenwich a nice spot of London to live in? Moving soon and I’ve never actually been! All I know is South West Clapham area.
@@MelOBrien-12 Yes it is, there's Greenwich Park which is huge and still has deer roaming around from when Henry VIII introduced them. The bars and bespoke shops in Greenwich are cool as well as the indoor market. The Naval college is more open to the public now & their are often events etc. The Thames Path runs along the river through Greenwich too.
@@cazzyuk8939 Sounds lovely especially the park and deer! Bet it’s gorgeous in the summer. I appreciate your response, look forward to exploring the area.
That bronze IS gold. Gold leaf.
One thing I would have mentioned in that video is the walkie-talkie building wich is home to the uks tallest public park wich is free to visit on the 64th floor
Everyone in the world knows 'Di' is short for 'Diana'.
It's incredible how stupid/ignorant he is.
No you can’t walk the entirety of London. Thats bonkers. The centre of London, the ‘west end’/theatreland, the City of London and the centre of our political world is however eminently walkable. Then there’s buses, tubes, Docklands Light Railway etc for ease of travel around London and Greater London.
The central region, which is what appears in travel films, is walkable.
all London is walkable... even if is not much to see in the suburbs. Most American suburbs don't have a FkiG sidewalk.
@@johnsmith-cw3wo I can't think of a single good reason for walking from Central London to Acton, and a host of other places around London. I take your point about sidewalks. I wanted to walk from my son's house to a shopping mall about two miles away in South Carolina. Google maps estimated a walking time of five hours, because there wasn't a sidewalk, other than one that took me on a grand tour of the neighbourhood.
The historic City of London is one square mile. The City of Westminster (the seat of government) is within easy walking distance
As i remember she would be called lady Di or princess Diana