THESE PLACES ARE IN THE UK!? Americans React to the TOP 10 Places to Visit in the United Kingdom! . #americanreacts #britain #british #uk #vacation #travel
"hard to beat the london atmosphere?" as a northerner I would say no it's not. The "london atmosphere" is basically lots of busy people trying to get somewhere important whilst not smiling! I'm glad I moved back up north where people say hello, please and thankyou and other such rare human interactions!
As someone from the English countryside I'd like to agree with you. It's far too crowded and people look far too gloomy and you dont tend to be in tight knit communities where you actually know the people there
London is an absolute shit hole. Idk why anyone lives there or visits. I was born there and it’s always been shit, I got out as fast as I could & moved up north at 17.
There's so much of the UK that didn't get a mention. Lake District, Yorkshire, Oulton broads, Dartmoor, Cornwall. You can go practically anywhere in the UK and find lots of things to see, learn and be awe inspired by. Within 1 hours drive of my house, I can think of several places, including world heratige sites, One of the most dangerous rivers in the world, open sprawling landscapes that can take your breath away and of course ancient cities steeped with history.
there is one place that always fails to make any list and thats the south downs i studied at a place called Plumpton collage right in the hart of it amazing place also the town of lewes nearby is steeped in history.
There's only three places I would want to live 1Scotland (highlands) Walese ether north or south The last but not forgotten the Dale's !!!!if want the old world is stone cottages you have some great list 2 house's Enjoy
@@leeandrew8987 I live in Yorkshire, not in York. Although I did attend boarding school in York.Although it's gone now, I believe houses are built in there now. I used to climb the minster to the top every week. I couldn't do that now. I'm knackered climbing my stairs in my house now 😁
@@philjones6054 in the history and geography of England. Romans, Angles, Vikings and Normans all used York as a capital at some point for governing and keeping military control.
Bill Bryson (American) - The Road to Little Dribbling (more notes from a small island) Highly Recommended before visit! Nothing - and I mean, really, absolutely nothing - is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of the countryside. Nowhere in the world is there a landscape that has been more intensively utilised - more mined, farmed, quarried, covered with cities and clanging factories, threaded with motorways and railway lines - and yet remains so comprehensively and reliably lovely over most of its extent. It is the happiest accident in history. In terms of natural wonders, you know, Britain is a pretty unspectacular place. It has no alpine peaks or broad rift valleys, no mighty gorges or thundering cataracts. It is built to really quite a modest scale. And yet with a few unassuming natural endowments, a great deal of time and an unfailing instinct for improvement, the makers of Britain created the most superlatively park like landscapes, the most orderly cities, the handsomest provincial towns, the jauntiest seaside resorts, the stateliest homes, the most dreamily spired, castle strewn, cathedral-rich, abbey-bedecked, folly scattered, green wooded, winding laned, sheep-dotted, plumply hedgerowed, well tended, sublimely decorated 50,318 square miles the world has ever known - almost none of it undertaken with aesthetics in mind, but all of it adding up to something that is, quite often, perfect. What an achievement that is.
This guy did the typical tourist route. If you are visiting check local areas as there is soooo much more. Luskentyre beach on the Isle of Harris , Tintagel castle , The new forest where wild pony’s roam. The people in the UK have the most incredible history and beautiful places on their doorstep. So if you plan on visiting as your viewers about special places in the region they live and I bet you find incredible places to see.😊
They didn't mention the Cotswolds. It is known for being very beautiful. Your GF will love that there are Belted Galloways on my local hill. Fluffy Scottish black and white cows which are very docile. PS The London Eye (ferris wheel) is PAINFULLY slow 😂
I'm a tour bus driver here in Scotland. What you saw of the UK is just a very small portion of what the whole of the UK has to offer. So, if you are ever in the UK and you need a tour guide.... this guy would be happy to help. Now that I've done selling myself... you guys did a great reaction and we here in the UK hope to see you here soon. PS... I know where the Highland Cows are. 😁😁
@@ArghansMordonMarghek ....Aye yer correct. Ah wis usin` mah posh scots.... Nae mah traditional scots. A' th' tours ah hae hud tae dae hae caused me tae speak mah posh accent even whin typing. 😂😂
for future reference a volcano has 3 main states of activity: active: this is when a volcano is actively still erupting on a regular basis, with the majority in iceland/hawaii, as you will be aware mt st helens is also an active volcano and not all active volcanoes will erupt in huge massive eruptions, most (like those found in the places i named before) will spew out lava which causes the common red lava floes that run down usually to the sea. dormant: this is when a volcano has not erupted in a significant period of time, but the general structure of the volcano internally is still very much active, and magma still floes inside the volcano however there isn't enough material/pressure build up for an eruption to occur for a long time yet. extinct: these types of volcanoes are no longer capable of erupting without an external effect causing it, they no longer have an active magma chamber and have not erupted for an exceedingly long time.
Across the River Clyde from me, Dumbarton Rock is an extinct volcano, there is a castle on top, and for anyone who's seen the show Vikings, the real Ivar The Boneless took over the Castle for a while as it was a good vantage point, I can't remember the exact details of why though. Also, on this side of the river, 5 minutes away from me is a 14th century castle (Newark Castle) you can go in in the summer. I always wish I could video a visit and send it to someone like JT and Anna who have never seen a castle.
Talk about stating the fkn obvious and making a bloody meal of it. Jeeeez. Some people really do think they are the shizzle. I think you like the sound of your own voice just a little bit too much ffs
Yep, good explanation. Glencoe was also a supervolcano that caused one of the largest volcanic explosions in Earth's history, which is probably why the scenery is so dramatic. But Scotland's volcanos haven't erupted in more than 300M years, when Scotland was near the equator (and England was also somewhere else 😁)
@@Kazza_8240 Yes! Another extinct volcano in the UK is the one that encompasses High Force, Low Force, and stretches from Hadrian's Wall all the way to Berwick and out under the North Sea. The thing was an absolute monster in its hey day! You can see the magnificent layers at High Force, with all the dark grey ancient lava making up the waterfall. Brilliant scenery for sure :D
If you want to see a castle, Warwick Castle is a good one to see. It's not a ruin and you can go all around it - they've set up the rooms, the dungeons, etc. as it would have been throughout time. There's also stuff going on outside, such as a hawker and on certain days they have jousting and archery competitions
I feel like that video doesn’t even scratch the surface of all the beautiful places we have. Hopefully, in the near future, I’ll get a camper and do several road trips to try and see all my favourite sites! Also yes you can have extinct volcanos, dormant volcanoes and active volcanoes:) 🏴
Texas is 2.8x the size of the UK. If you do come to the Uk, remember that although considered small there is so much to do and so much beauty to see. You will never see everything in a single holiday. So, make a plan of what you want to do on your first trip to the UK, giving yourself time enough to enjoy the sights. Then, plan your next trip here. York for instance has so many things to experience you'll be surprised at how much time you could stay there. Oh, well done on the 10k
I remember the story about two farmers, a Yorkshireman and a Texan. Texan: I could drive for an hour and still be on my own ranch. Yorkshireman: Yeah, I used to have a car like that.
Look at Northumberland, it borders Scotland on the North East coastline. It has the iconic Bamburgh Castle, Alnwick Castle (Harry Potter was filmed there) Lindisfarne Island, fantastic beaches, stately homes etc. It's one of the UKs best kept secrets.
Alnwick Castle and the gardens are incredible and well worth a visit. I went there a number of years back when my little brother was at uni in Newcastle and loved it.
The egg shaped building in London is called The Gherkin. Gherkins are what we call 'pickles' as in the small pickled cucumbers like you put on hamburgers. Also the narrator kept saying 'Stonehedge'. It's actually StoneHENGE. My favourite part of the UK is the Scottish Highlands. The beaches on the isle of Harris are the best in Europe - on a sunny day!!
I was born and live in London, and as much as I love it, you can see most of it in a couple of days max. There's is so much more to see all over the UK so I'd reccomend having a look at Cornwall, The Cotswolds, York, The Dales, Hebrides, Orklands and research other places too. Good luck!
An American I was talking to said “ In America 5 hour drives are considered short drives, but in the UK architecture being a 100 years old is almost considered new” because in my home city of Bath most buildings are 250 or 300 years old.
Edinburgh, Liverpool, York, Bath they are all stunning. Scottish Highlands, English Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, Welsh coast and National park, Devon, Cornwall... more and more.
@@lorddaver5729 but its a pretty dump. It has nice looking old stuff with ugly newish stuff around. Could be worse mate could be Middlesbrough, just shit on shit.
Thank you for showing love for the country that we Brits take for granted, but the one thing I took away from this video is how much you guys obviously love each other ☺You guys are wholesome as hell ☺
For Castles you MUST visit Wales. We have so many that we barely notice many of them as they are dotted all over the place. South and West wakes have the most stunning coastline, beaches sand countryside, also soft rolling mountains and caves. E.g the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains.
@@antwhite3899 They are Welsh Castles as they are in Wales, it doesn't matter who built them, we have the most castles per square mile in the World and the second biggest castle in the UK after Windsor!?!
@@arch-arch157 hmmm 🤔 not convinced. Our Castles are REAL castles! Scottish castles usually look like fortified homes. Just saying. I’m not being Anti Scots either… I’m of the Clan McQueen 👍🏻. Just born here.
Old Harry Rocks used to be joined to “The Needles” on the Isle of Wight by a 15 mile land bridge. They are solid chalk, hence that bridge eroded away. They were formed at the bottom of the Tethys Sea millions of years ago (hence Jurassic Coast). There are Iguanadon footprints on the South of the island. It’s a lovely spot my brother
Named after Harry Paye, a pirate from Poole. He would hide behind the rock stack in studland bay and ambush ships coming into Poole Harbour. Poole celebrates Harry Paye day, where the locals dress as pirates.
The blue stones at stone henge are thought to come from Preseli hills, in West Wales. They were dragged on rafts and rolling logs during the Neolithic era ( 10,000-4,000 bc. ). 🇬🇧🇺🇸💜
The train that goes over the Glenfinnan viaduct is the Jacobite Express, which is one of the very few genuine steam trains still running in the UK. I've been on it once and it was a fantastic experience. It is a wee bit touristy though, with trolleys on the train selling Harry Potter memorabilia, e.t.c. The train runs from Fort William, which is overlooked by Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain, and terminates in the fishing town of Mallaig. During the journey you also pass by Loch Shiel, which was featured in the "Highlander" movie and TV series and can be seen from the Glenfinnan viaduct. I would highly recommend a trip on the Jacobite express.
The UK is 1,450 km long and 250,000 sq km in size with 30,000 km of coastline, so yes it’s small compared to America, but it’s not tiny! It takes 19 hrs driving at 60 mph non stop, end to end, so it’s a two day journey.
Had to add another comment after the size comparison talk. It really goes to show the sizes of both countries, that the uk can fit into 1 state. It always blows my mind that you can drive for 4 hours in the uk and the accents will change several time across that journey, and quite drastically
If you like ancient places then Skara Brae in Orkney, Scotland would be worth a visit. It’s a Neolithic village older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, built around 3000 BC the houses are built of stone set into earthen dams, with stone beds and cupboards, a sewer system with drains and toilets built into each house. It’s so well preserved because it was buried in sand until a storm in the mid 1800s uncovered it.
If you're coming to the UK and want to visit a lot of these main attractions, it may be worth to getting a national trust pass. You could adage a lot of money!! Loving this channel with you both on!! 💖💖
Great idea. English Heritage pass would also be a good one. Cadw also do a pass for Wales Heritage sites. There's castles galore over here in the UK 🇬🇧 You'll love it, Anna & JT 👌
Stonehenge aligns perfectly with the sun on each solstice , in the most incredible way!! - if you join in and visit at solstice you can still walk around and up to the stones and experience the most amazing sunrise and collective- literally magical cannot be described!
Volcanos can be extinct and I believe Edinburgh Castle is also on an extinct Volcano. Arthur's Seat is a wonderful walk and I used to do that regularly when I lived in Edinburgh. A few places to visit elsewhere in Scotland....Loch Lomond. Although there are many places surrounding it, Luss and Balloch are lovely. Inveraray...small town but the rive from Glasgow is lovely. The islands on the west coast....Islay and Jura. Stirling Castle and The Wallace monument.
The white cliffs are beautiful, i live along the coast in Brighton and the white cliffs start there. The thing i love to think of is how the chalk was formed from microscopic sea creatures like plankton, that die and sink to the bottom of the ocean, over time and pressure it turns into chalk. I love to walk along under the cliffs and think of these things, it amazes me that this was the bottom of the ocean once upon a time. There is also evidence of a gigantic glacier that carved its way from inland through all the chalk to the sea, the cliffs drop down then rise back up where it happened. Blows my mind lol.
I come from South Croydon on The North Downs. when we were kids and needed chalk for hopscotch etc, we just used to dig it up in the garden. PS. Brighton was our nearest seaside place. Many happy days spent there with family.
@@kelm03 When we were kids we found a spade and decided to dig down and try to make an underground base. We didn't get very far lol we hit chalk and gave up, had a nice fire pit from then on though 😆
Your passion for our country is just fantastic and your videos always put a smile on my face and its great to see Anna being infected with that passion now! Keep up the great work guys, can't wait to see you over here soon! 👍🇬🇧
The Glenfinnan Viaduct normally has just local 2 car diesel trains travelling over it, however if you want to go by steam train over it, every weekend between october & November and February & may and every day between May & October, West Coast Railways run "The Jacobite" steam train from Fort William- Mallaig, which crosses that viaduct several times a day
The white cliffs you first saw were the view from "Old Harry" rocks, at the tip off the cliffs, going towards Swanage in Dorset. I know as I lived there and have walked that path many times. The lighthouse on the cliff is "Belle Tout" lighthouse between Birling Gap and Beachy Head outside Eastbourne in East Sussex. It's at least 80 miles away from The Jurassic Coast, but still very impressive. I went to school in Seaford which is a short distance from Birling Gap. Right next to Birling Gap is "Cuckmere Haven" another one to look up.
If you ever do go to Wales, then in North Wales is also the small village of Portmeirion where they filmed The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan, the main actor in it was also 4 times in Columbo ). The village has some really weird architecture and was built to look like a village from the Italian Riviera
Yeah this route is pretty standard if you’re not familiar with the UK, he missed out a lot of ireland and for some reason all of Yorkshire, known as God’s County, if you go to Yorkshire go to the Dales, Moors, York, Malton and Harrogate. Lots pf historic structures, beautiful landscapes and york is considered the home of chocolate so there is a huge amount of tourism based on it
I live in Yorkshire and there's a guy in my village who breeds Highland cattle for show. He has a few fields in different places and rotates them through - when they're in thefield upthe lane from my house I walk my dog up past there and they come say hi to my dog. They're ridiculously huge animals but so sweet.
I also lived on the Jurassic coastline. When we built our extension to the house we dug up 2 very large ammonites. Needed plant machinery to lift them. Come visit, you wont regret it.
Anna I am also a Harry Potter fan and I have done that train ride and it does not disappoint, it is the most beautiful train ride totally breathtaking. If you get the chance ever do it! Love your reactions keep up the good work. :)
Northumberland is a fantastic County to visit and holiday in. We drive there from Norfolk (which in itself is a gorgeous county!) and spend a week there quite often.
I live about 10 minutes away from Stonehenge. You can't go in the stones, only walk around them, unless you go during the summer solstice. Then you can go give them a hug, if you want. We also have Old Sarum, Salisbury Cathedral, and lots of other beautiful sites, including the city itself. Would love to see you guys here, one day.
I recently moves to Wales from England and the natural beauty that surrounds even the towns and cities is incredible. A special place, with wonderful people.
I am from Scotland, and yes they included some great examples of Scottish heritage and beauty, but there are so many more places much more beautiful and spectacular. The west coast of Scotland is the most gorgeous s part of the uk. The white sands of Morar is the whitest sand you will ever see this side of Barbados lol x
We do crazy stuff in some of the small villages, every 5th November in ottery st Mary we have the flaming tar barrels. People run up and down the street with a flaming barrel on their back, so much fun.
He also made a video with TOP 10 places to visit in my homeland - Germany. Wihich is very nice as well. But I love this one, too. Britain is a lovely and very unique country. Greetings from Germany and thanks for another cool reaction video!
My home town in scotland has a castle bang in the middle of the town. You dont notice it until people like yourself remind us that not everyone has that in their lifes ,now i appreciate it more.
For must-see places I'd certainly add the city of York, and nearby Whitbey. York has its city wall, which you can walk around, medieval streets, one of the greatest cathedrals in the world in York Minster. And if you like castles, I'd recommend traveling along the Northumbrian coast which has loads, with standouts being Dunstanburgh, Warkworth and Alnwick, the island of Lindisfarne, and Hadrians wall dating back to the Romans
Anna & JT, if you're intent on visiting the U.K. this year the best time to come over here would be the long weekend of the 6th, 7th and 8th May because that's when King Charles III's coronation is happening. You might have some difficulty in finding accommodation in London itself over that weekend because of the international interest although I'm sure that you won't have any difficulty in finding suitable reasonably priced accommodation elsewhere throughout the whole of the U.K. That particular long weekend has been deemed as a national holiday for all of us so it's going to be party time throughout the entire country, isn't it? The only criticism of this bloke's video that I have and which you both watched is that he omitted Cornwall, Devon and Dorset especially with Dartmoor and its famous wild ponies which is located between Devon and Cornwall....it's amazing that the chalk coastline that you saw is at the very tip of England and is located in Cornwall, isn't it? The only piece of advice that I can give you is that the further away from London and the southeast of England that you get the cheaper things become so if you want to have an equally good time as in the capital it's best to travel north and west rather than stick to that part of the U.K., isn't it? ✌😎✌🇬🇧🇺🇸 P.S. Love ♥ to Charleigh and Maggie as usual.
When my mum was a child, she lived just over the hill from Stonehenge. She says she would run around the rocks with her friends and have picnics etc. It was free to visit. Nowadays, you have to pay to visit and it's all roped off so you can't touch them, because visitors would chip off pieces of the rock to keep as souvenirs. They are now roped off to prevent this from happening to preserve it, and has been like that as long as I remember
Great reactions. The UK really offers a change of scenery within 40 minutes drive in any direction. A great castle to visit that is still active is Berkley Castle near Gloucester, you can hop over to Wales just a few miles West of drop South the city of Bath with its history and Roman not spring baths. Or East to Oxford, 1,000 years of stained glass history in the college windows...any direction is full of places to see. Hope you get to visit soon. 👍
The Cotswolds are a beautiful place to visit as well. I am sure you won’t need to spend money on hotels or travel as you have so many fans who will put you up and take you round their part of the country.
At 10,085m, Snowdon is taller than Everest, but of course Everest gets all the press. 😒 No, it's actually 1,085m. Compare that with Kentucky's Black Mountain at 1,263m. Also, it's Westminster, not Westminister. And Stone Henge, not Stone Hedge. It's a great video with some awesome footage but he messes up the details a bit. 😅
Highland cows are cute, but have you seen the Belted Galloway? They're from the Scottish Lowlands are are beautiful, but don't get much recognition compared to the Highland. There are stunning places to visit in the Scottish Lowlands too - & I'm a Yorkshire Lass from the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors :)
There are so much you didn't see. So much missed in England. I spent my childhood visiting stately homes, castles, walks, waterfalls etc. I still haven't visited them all. The Lake District and Pennines are amazing. Cotswolds. Just so much. Even local to me within 45 mins I think we have nearly 10 stately homes, parks, wildlife reserves.
I'm a Brit who is engaged to a fella in Wisconsin. It was his parents wedding anniversary so we were all booked into "a historic coach stop" for a meal. I was dragged off up the stairs to see where the guests had slept on rope nets in wooden framed beds. The on to the larger open room with old items on the wall or under glass. It was very nice. I asked the lady in charge what year the place was built and she excitedly said "the 1850s". The same year my house was built here in the UK. Mine is no way classed as historic lol.
If you want castles you need to visit Northumberland. We have more than any other county. The first two Harry Potter films used Alnwick castle in the north of the county. In particular the flying lesson with Madame hooch. There is a broomstick flying experience there. They also have an amazing tree house and a poisonous garden. We also have the holy island of lindisfarne, bamburgh castle which was recently used in the latest Indiana jones movie and many more besides
I live about 15 miles from Durdle Door. It's a lovely place. So is Lulworth Cove which is just around the corner. Tyneham is also pretty cool. It's a ghost village. The people that lived there were told to leave during the second world war as the area was needed for military training. The sad thing is they were told they'd be able to return after the war but we're never allowed to. One of my favourite places in Dorset is Maiden Castle, an Iron Age hill fort. I walk the dogs there almost every day. The dogs love running up and down the ramparts.
castles are something i think a lot of people take advantage of in the uk. I remember being a teenager and just sitting in castle grounds a couple minutes from my house at no expense drinking on summer days, truly is beautiful
1- York (in the North! Almost was the capital over London) 2- Whitby (Seaside town of Dracula) 3 - Robin Hoods Bay (pirates and smugglers seaside town on a cliff) Good to do a video on, but if you do visit England, these are top places. They’re all close to each other too 👍🏻 . . . And Lincoln is near by, big castle and cathedral and the actual Magna Carter 😎
We were in North Wales late last year.Brilliant absolutely brilliant and beautiful.Snowdonia National Park is another world.Scenery to die for.Put it on your bucket list.
Get well soon JT, hope you feel better soon.❤️ Awesome on the subs, well deserved too.😎👌. There are castles throughout the UK, so you can see castles in all parts, in my hometown Swansea, we have a castle ruin in the toen centre & said to be haunted too. In Wales alone there around 600 castles, there's also a train on Snowdonia too Anna. 🏴 😎👌🏰
The person who shot the video did a great job of showing off the parts of England he visited. What's great aswell is this is just some of the great places to visit we have. In London alone you could've added the view from Alexandra Palace or some of the old markets like Leadenhall, Borough or Spitalfields. Add to that the Lake District, coastal Cornwall, Isle of Wight, some of the famous Bridges dotted around the country, Bath, the list goes on.
As a land mass the UK is a lot smaller than California but to drive from the northern tip of Scotland ( John O'Groats ) to the southern tip of England ( Lands End ) will take about as long as driving from San Diego to Portland. Our motorway system connects the big cities but many of our smaller remoter places can take a while to reach on small roads where the traffic moves slowly and the winding nature of the road means that somewhere that looks close on a map isn't as quick to reach as you may think. Plan an itinerary, do your research and don't try to see everywhere in one go, or you'll see nothing properly and spend the bulk of your time here driving.
Surely, you have to visit a castle! Not only a tourist one, but a ruin. Idk, it feels kinda crazy to be around ruins, usually by yourself and a dog lol knowing what kinda stuff went on there.
A few things missing off the list: HEVER CASTLE. Henry the 8th lived there, you can walk around the castle and see the bedrooms and even see his original boots. There’s a maze out in the grounds. LAKE DISTRICT (Bowness-on-Windermere). Absolutely beautiful and mountains nearby to hike and many different lakes. Surrounded by stone houses. PEAK DISTRICT. Beautiful hiking national forest with stags. YORK. Very beautiful city and has a cool Diagon Alley (Harry Potter) style road called The Shambles. SNOWDONIA (Wales). One of the most stunning places in the UK. With Mount Snowdon and beautiful countryside.
Superb 10 places to visit in the UK without a doubt anna & jt but there's probably 174,308,294,237,923,217 give or take 1 or 2 other places in the UK that you would also be in awe of as well ! Such a tiny teeny country but every county from top to bottom east to west packs some stunning breathtaking places to visit .. have travelled from lands end to john o'groats an indeed it is 16 hours ! When ya do decide to come across the big pond have a beautiful holiday ( might wanna make it a months holiday maybe two ) jus so ya get so see what great britain has to offer !
You should come to Wales some of the best coastline in the world, beautiful mountains and lakes. and your never more than a few minutes away from a castle anywhere in Wales, i can see 3 from my house windows and theres a lot more in walking distance lol.
My brother been to Wales and he loved it. He even been to Edinburgh Scotland. He made me jealous when I remember hearing he is moving to England for like a year for medical school. He even saw Wolves vs Everton game for free. My bro told me his been to Sherwood Forest known for stories of Robin Hood. Even seen Stonehenge. Everything my bro mentioned made me too jealous
One or two corrections. The 'Jurassic Coast' also has rocks - like Sir Harry's Rocks - from the next geological period, the Cretaceous. ('Creta' is the Latin for 'chalk'.) Towards the end of this period, unique conditions led to the deposition of a soft white limey ooze, which is now called the Chalk. We have many stone circles, and only Stonehenge bars you from going up to the stones. Not long north of Stonehenge is the great stone circle of Avebury, well worth a visit. Snowdon is not 10,000 metres high - which would make it taller than Everest - but just over 1,000 metres!
It was lovely to watch Anna admiring the UK. I must admit us Brits do not appreciate all the beauty and history, castles etc as it’s all around us. Hopefully you do get to visit and get to go into a castle but there are over 4000 in the UK so unsure where you would start. Best of luck with making your dream come true Love from UK ❤
@@Robonord427 castle 😂 also, nope. Why is it when someone has an opinion it’s morons like you who try shut that opinion down by making out people like me are somehow angry? Sorry but my 40 years in the country with my eyes actual open makes me see what others don’t. Not sure why you mention castle anyway. You must be ignorant
@@rusty5078 Not all of the uk. I do know a lot of areas and cities has deteriorated in my life time but there are still a lot of beautiful places to see. People from other countries don’t see the cesspits fortunately, it’s only us living here get to see the bad.
@@deb1544 sure, not all of the U.K is a cesspit but pretty much every city is lol The only places that haven’t seen such a decline are places where you’re going to be spending 250k plus for a one bed house. These sorts of areas are usually gated communities but there are villages dotted around our country that are still like this. Predominately white upper class people who want to keep these villages as white as possible. Even in London it’s now a case of you can walk down places like Notting Hill and have someone on a moped take your phone or bag or someone come up to you asking for money cos they need it for heroin or crack. Go further up North and it gets worse, not better. Look at places like Bradford in Yorkshire, most of Birmingham,Liverpool,Manchester going right up to places like North Shields in Newcastle then cities like Glasgow. Stabbings are becoming a daily thing in most major cities now. Crime rises every year. Drug dealers spring up and for every one taken down another two pop up at least. Homelessness got worse despite covid apparently getting most ppl off the streets. Cost of living forced most of the country into poverty and with poverty, crime rises. Sorry but a 4 bedroom house with a nice price tag is not my idea of anything but a cesspit when right outside it’s front door there are people begging, doing drugs and committing petty crime on a daily basis.
I now live in Devon (the jurassic coast) but spent 20yrs working in Central London. Regent St. Oxford St. Carnaby St. And for a while I walked over London Bridge every day seeing the sun rise over Tower Bridge. When you work there you tend to forgett just how iconic these places are.. Sometimes you need to step back a look..
Hi guys, love watching your videos. They really make me smile. I live in Scotland and it is such a beautiful country. I really think you guys should look into doing a reaction video to a festival they have called "up helly aa" up in Shetland, the most northerly island in Scotland. Think vikings, long boats and lots of fire 🔥. Think you guys will love it 😀
The UK has over 4000 castles according to Wiki, I've heard it mentioned that Wales has over 700 and yes they do have a lot for such a small place. As Anna hasn't been on a train how are you going to get to Scotland to go on that steam train without going on a train first, I'm sure that you aren't going to want to drive on the correct side of the road on such narrow and twisting roads hmmm? Congrats on the 10k :)
I grew up in a town just outside of Cardiff, Wales called Caerphilly. There is a very impressive castle in Caerphilly you should take a look at and many of the UK's most impressive castles are in Wales.
They were BIG guys in those days and prior to even finishing Stonehenge, which they altered and messed with for over 2 thousand years, they were building henges in massive timbers around 7 thousand BC. Then they turned to stone (expect they were fed up with timbers rotting), and in many parts of Britain if there is stone locally they used it. Late Mesolithic rectangular dwellings in stone with flagstone floors and hearths are increasingly found, at Bouldnor cliff (Isle of Wight), on Portland (Dorset), and at Avebury Henge (Wilts) inside the south circle, for example. The Mesolithic period dates to 10,000 to 8,000 Those people knew exactly how to handle stones, some of those known at Avebury Henge are in the order of 100 tonnes at the very least (the Cove).
A dormant volcano would then be one that hasn't erupted in the past 10,000 years, but which is expected to erupt again. An extinct volcano would be one that nobody expects to ever erupt again. These are human definitions of natural things - there have been a number of eruptions from “extinct” volcanoes!
If you ever visit the UK you have to visit Cornwall in the south west of England. We have breathtaking scenry, stunning sandy beaches and crystal clear water. Its defo worth the trip, you can thank me later. PS: loving the channel guys, love your reactions and input, keep them coming.
Hey, guy who lives in London here. Stonehenge was built for religious purposes. It has the sun go through certain slits on the summer and winter solstice.
If you like castles my hometown Carrickfergus (Northern Ireland) is a good place to visit, there's a castle right in the centre and it's a small town just outside of Belfast. And Carrick-a-rede rope bridge was one of my favourite places to visit as a kid, the bridge was so rickety over the water though 😂
Edinburgh is my favourite city in the UK and try to visit a couple of times a year. Some great Airbnb places on the outskirts of the city. Taking the family back there end of Feb.
I worked at Stonehenge. You can’t go into the stones because even touching them can cause damage and people cannot keep their hands to themselves. The only time you can go inside is if you pay in the summer for a 6am visit which is supervised or on the summer and winter solstices.
"hard to beat the london atmosphere?" as a northerner I would say no it's not. The "london atmosphere" is basically lots of busy people trying to get somewhere important whilst not smiling! I'm glad I moved back up north where people say hello, please and thankyou and other such rare human interactions!
As someone from the English countryside I'd like to agree with you. It's far too crowded and people look far too gloomy and you dont tend to be in tight knit communities where you actually know the people there
London is an absolute shit hole. Idk why anyone lives there or visits. I was born there and it’s always been shit, I got out as fast as I could & moved up north at 17.
The best part of going to London is the coming away from it to go home!
yep....london is a great place to visit for a day but only if you have an itinerary and a spare wedge of cash....i hate the place
London can be a really good night but it’s the people that ruin it sometimes
There's so much of the UK that didn't get a mention. Lake District, Yorkshire, Oulton broads, Dartmoor, Cornwall. You can go practically anywhere in the UK and find lots of things to see, learn and be awe inspired by. Within 1 hours drive of my house, I can think of several places, including world heratige sites, One of the most dangerous rivers in the world, open sprawling landscapes that can take your breath away and of course ancient cities steeped with history.
Kent Surrey Sussex Hampshire and Somerset and amazing too xxx
there is one place that always fails to make any list and thats the south downs i studied at a place called Plumpton collage right in the hart of it amazing place also the town of lewes nearby is steeped in history.
@@debbieheather5614Surrey Sussex and Kent is beautiful love from down south
There's only three places I would want to live
1Scotland (highlands) Walese ether north or south
The last but not forgotten the Dale's !!!!if want the old world is stone cottages you have some great list 2 house's
Enjoy
You need to visit York. It was the capital of England in Viking times. An amazing city
I agree it is a beautiful city with loads to do and see.
York is my dream place to move to its Gorgeous place
@@leeandrew8987 I live in Yorkshire, not in York. Although I did attend boarding school in York.Although it's gone now, I believe houses are built in there now. I used to climb the minster to the top every week. I couldn't do that now. I'm knackered climbing my stairs in my house now 😁
Wasn't York the capital town of Danelaw, not England?
@@philjones6054 in the history and geography of England. Romans, Angles, Vikings and Normans all used York as a capital at some point for governing and keeping military control.
Bill Bryson (American) - The Road to Little Dribbling (more notes from a small island)
Highly Recommended before visit!
Nothing - and I mean, really, absolutely nothing - is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of the countryside. Nowhere in the world is there a landscape that has been more intensively utilised - more mined, farmed, quarried, covered with cities and clanging factories, threaded with motorways and railway lines - and yet remains so comprehensively and reliably lovely over most of its extent. It is the happiest accident in history. In terms of natural wonders, you know, Britain is a pretty unspectacular place. It has no alpine peaks or broad rift valleys, no mighty gorges or thundering cataracts. It is built to really quite a modest scale. And yet with a few unassuming natural endowments, a great deal of time and an unfailing instinct for improvement, the makers of Britain created the most superlatively park like landscapes, the most orderly cities, the handsomest provincial towns, the jauntiest seaside resorts, the stateliest homes, the most dreamily spired, castle strewn, cathedral-rich, abbey-bedecked, folly scattered, green wooded, winding laned, sheep-dotted, plumply hedgerowed, well tended, sublimely decorated 50,318 square miles the world has ever known - almost none of it undertaken with aesthetics in mind, but all of it adding up to something that is, quite often, perfect.
What an achievement that is.
as a brit,
i agree with you
This guy did the typical tourist route. If you are visiting check local areas as there is soooo much more. Luskentyre beach on the Isle of Harris , Tintagel castle , The new forest where wild pony’s roam. The people in the UK have the most incredible history and beautiful places on their doorstep. So if you plan on visiting as your viewers about special places in the region they live and I bet you find incredible places to see.😊
Stay in Perranporth and you have a beautiful Sandy beach and easy access to all the joys of Cornwall. 😊
Yh new forest is the place for them
They didn't mention the Cotswolds. It is known for being very beautiful.
Your GF will love that there are Belted Galloways on my local hill. Fluffy Scottish black and white cows which are very docile.
PS The London Eye (ferris wheel) is PAINFULLY slow 😂
Tintagel is beautiful ( and scary with a toddler!) Everyone should go. Stunning views, lovely people,
If you want to go to a castle, Dover castle in Kent is great. They also have ww2 tunnels underneath, you can do a guided tour
I'm a tour bus driver here in Scotland. What you saw of the UK is just a very small portion of what the whole of the UK has to offer. So, if you are ever in the UK and you need a tour guide.... this guy would be happy to help. Now that I've done selling myself... you guys did a great reaction and we here in the UK hope to see you here soon. PS... I know where the Highland Cows are. 😁😁
Aren’t they Highland Coo’s? ? ?? ???
@@ArghansMordonMarghek ....Aye yer correct. Ah wis usin` mah posh scots.... Nae mah traditional scots. A' th' tours ah hae hud tae dae hae caused me tae speak mah posh accent even whin typing. 😂😂
@@Muff0616 that’s better, but your gentle Edinburgh drawl, is not quite as thick as the Glasgae accents of my clan………..
@@Muff0616 . Ps, I thought the devil was a geeza, so I didn’t know he had a fanny……..
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@ArghansMordonMarghek .... I'm from Inverness originally. But where I live now is situated between Glasgow and Edinburgh... so got a mixed accent. Lol
for future reference a volcano has 3 main states of activity:
active: this is when a volcano is actively still erupting on a regular basis, with the majority in iceland/hawaii, as you will be aware mt st helens is also an active volcano and not all active volcanoes will erupt in huge massive eruptions, most (like those found in the places i named before) will spew out lava which causes the common red lava floes that run down usually to the sea.
dormant: this is when a volcano has not erupted in a significant period of time, but the general structure of the volcano internally is still very much active, and magma still floes inside the volcano however there isn't enough material/pressure build up for an eruption to occur for a long time yet.
extinct: these types of volcanoes are no longer capable of erupting without an external effect causing it, they no longer have an active magma chamber and have not erupted for an exceedingly long time.
This one is so old that only the solidified magma remains. The other rock has eroded away. There are a few of these in the area.
Across the River Clyde from me, Dumbarton Rock is an extinct volcano, there is a castle on top, and for anyone who's seen the show Vikings, the real Ivar The Boneless took over the Castle for a while as it was a good vantage point, I can't remember the exact details of why though. Also, on this side of the river, 5 minutes away from me is a 14th century castle (Newark Castle) you can go in in the summer.
I always wish I could video a visit and send it to someone like JT and Anna who have never seen a castle.
Talk about stating the fkn obvious and making a bloody meal of it. Jeeeez. Some people really do think they are the shizzle. I think you like the sound of your own voice just a little bit too much ffs
Yep, good explanation. Glencoe was also a supervolcano that caused one of the largest volcanic explosions in Earth's history, which is probably why the scenery is so dramatic. But Scotland's volcanos haven't erupted in more than 300M years, when Scotland was near the equator (and England was also somewhere else 😁)
@@Kazza_8240 Yes! Another extinct volcano in the UK is the one that encompasses High Force, Low Force, and stretches from Hadrian's Wall all the way to Berwick and out under the North Sea. The thing was an absolute monster in its hey day! You can see the magnificent layers at High Force, with all the dark grey ancient lava making up the waterfall. Brilliant scenery for sure :D
If you want to see a castle, Warwick Castle is a good one to see. It's not a ruin and you can go all around it - they've set up the rooms, the dungeons, etc. as it would have been throughout time. There's also stuff going on outside, such as a hawker and on certain days they have jousting and archery competitions
Very expensive.
Arundel is very cool aswell
Warwick has been ruined by merlin groups, it's so tacky now. it's a shame as it is a nice castle.
I used to live about 150 yards from Warwick Castle in the 70s at 1 High Street. It was a restaurant where I worked and I lived up above it.
Warwick Castle is rubbish. It's just an expensive tourist trap.
I love the little villages in Yorkshire, especially Staithes and Robin hood's Bay.
Oh and York of course!
I have a cottage in Staithes, it’s my favourite!!!
I feel like that video doesn’t even scratch the surface of all the beautiful places we have. Hopefully, in the near future, I’ll get a camper and do several road trips to try and see all my favourite sites!
Also yes you can have extinct volcanos, dormant volcanoes and active volcanoes:)
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Texas is 2.8x the size of the UK.
If you do come to the Uk, remember that although considered small there is so much to do and so much beauty to see. You will never see everything in a single holiday. So, make a plan of what you want to do on your first trip to the UK, giving yourself time enough to enjoy the sights. Then, plan your next trip here.
York for instance has so many things to experience you'll be surprised at how much time you could stay there.
Oh, well done on the 10k
I remember the story about two farmers, a Yorkshireman and a Texan.
Texan: I could drive for an hour and still be on my own ranch.
Yorkshireman: Yeah, I used to have a car like that.
@@AlBarzUK It was a tractor that I got told
Look at Northumberland, it borders Scotland on the North East coastline.
It has the iconic Bamburgh Castle, Alnwick Castle (Harry Potter was filmed there) Lindisfarne Island, fantastic beaches, stately homes etc.
It's one of the UKs best kept secrets.
Alnwick Castle and the gardens are incredible and well worth a visit. I went there a number of years back when my little brother was at uni in Newcastle and loved it.
bamburgh beach has mean surf too. nothing massive but its choppy most of the year.
Elle you are so right there is not a single mention of the North East and East cost in this video and that is where so much of our history exists
Don't forget Ashington. 😂
@@stevebradley704 how could I! Both me and my kids were all born there.
The White cliffs and stacks, are chalk, no coating - just natural.
The egg shaped building in London is called The Gherkin. Gherkins are what we call 'pickles' as in the small pickled cucumbers like you put on hamburgers.
Also the narrator kept saying 'Stonehedge'. It's actually StoneHENGE.
My favourite part of the UK is the Scottish Highlands. The beaches on the isle of Harris are the best in Europe - on a sunny day!!
Henge is the old English for hinge, as the blocks have interlocking areas, like prehistoric LEGO
There was a wood henge before the stone henge too.
I was born and live in London, and as much as I love it, you can see most of it in a couple of days max. There's is so much more to see all over the UK so I'd reccomend having a look at Cornwall, The Cotswolds, York, The Dales, Hebrides, Orklands and research other places too. Good luck!
An American I was talking to said “ In America 5 hour drives are considered short drives, but in the UK architecture being a 100 years old is almost considered new” because in my home city of Bath most buildings are 250 or 300 years old.
Edinburgh, Liverpool, York, Bath they are all stunning. Scottish Highlands, English Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, Welsh coast and National park, Devon, Cornwall... more and more.
I live near Lancaster castle it's a beautiful place
Liverpool 😂😂 only visit there if you want to get mugged and your car stolen
@@TonyL2567 😂😂
Edinburgh's a dump.
@@lorddaver5729 but its a pretty dump. It has nice looking old stuff with ugly newish stuff around. Could be worse mate could be Middlesbrough, just shit on shit.
Thank you for showing love for the country that we Brits take for granted, but the one thing I took away from this video is how much you guys obviously love each other ☺You guys are wholesome as hell ☺
For Castles you MUST visit Wales. We have so many that we barely notice many of them as they are dotted all over the place. South and West wakes have the most stunning coastline, beaches sand countryside, also soft rolling mountains and caves. E.g the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains.
Exactly 👌🏴
There English castles. Just managed houses
@@antwhite3899 They are Welsh Castles as they are in Wales, it doesn't matter who built them, we have the most castles per square mile in the World and the second biggest castle in the UK after Windsor!?!
However, Scotland has more!!!!!
@@arch-arch157 hmmm 🤔 not convinced. Our Castles are REAL castles! Scottish castles usually look like fortified homes. Just saying. I’m not being Anti Scots either… I’m of the Clan McQueen 👍🏻. Just born here.
Old Harry Rocks used to be joined to “The Needles” on the Isle of Wight by a 15 mile land bridge. They are solid chalk, hence that bridge eroded away. They were formed at the bottom of the Tethys Sea millions of years ago (hence Jurassic Coast). There are Iguanadon footprints on the South of the island. It’s a lovely spot my brother
Named after Harry Paye, a pirate from Poole. He would hide behind the rock stack in studland bay and ambush ships coming into Poole Harbour. Poole celebrates Harry Paye day, where the locals dress as pirates.
The blue stones at stone henge are thought to come from Preseli hills, in West Wales. They were dragged on rafts and rolling logs during the Neolithic era
( 10,000-4,000 bc. ). 🇬🇧🇺🇸💜
Dragged on rafts and logs by _people_ and not "mules and horses" as he suggests. Because of course there were none in Britain at the time.
Not a Hedge either FFS
The train that goes over the Glenfinnan viaduct is the Jacobite Express, which is one of the very few genuine steam trains still running in the UK. I've been on it once and it was a fantastic experience. It is a wee bit touristy though, with trolleys on the train selling Harry Potter memorabilia, e.t.c. The train runs from Fort William, which is overlooked by Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain, and terminates in the fishing town of Mallaig. During the journey you also pass by Loch Shiel, which was featured in the "Highlander" movie and TV series and can be seen from the Glenfinnan viaduct. I would highly recommend a trip on the Jacobite express.
The UK is 1,450 km long and 250,000 sq km in size with 30,000 km of coastline, so yes it’s small compared to America, but it’s not tiny! It takes 19 hrs driving at 60 mph non stop, end to end, so it’s a two day journey.
"19 hrs driving at 60 mph non stop" impossible. is that what google thinks?🤣🤣
Had to add another comment after the size comparison talk. It really goes to show the sizes of both countries, that the uk can fit into 1 state. It always blows my mind that you can drive for 4 hours in the uk and the accents will change several time across that journey, and quite drastically
If you like ancient places then Skara Brae in Orkney, Scotland would be worth a visit. It’s a Neolithic village older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, built around 3000 BC the houses are built of stone set into earthen dams, with stone beds and cupboards, a sewer system with drains and toilets built into each house. It’s so well preserved because it was buried in sand until a storm in the mid 1800s uncovered it.
If you're coming to the UK and want to visit a lot of these main attractions, it may be worth to getting a national trust pass. You could adage a lot of money!! Loving this channel with you both on!! 💖💖
Great idea. English Heritage pass would also be a good one. Cadw also do a pass for Wales Heritage sites. There's castles galore over here in the UK 🇬🇧 You'll love it, Anna & JT 👌
Stonehenge aligns perfectly with the sun on each solstice , in the most incredible way!! - if you join in and visit at solstice you can still walk around and up to the stones and experience the most amazing sunrise and collective- literally magical cannot be described!
Volcanos can be extinct and I believe Edinburgh Castle is also on an extinct Volcano.
Arthur's Seat is a wonderful walk and I used to do that regularly when I lived in Edinburgh.
A few places to visit elsewhere in Scotland....Loch Lomond. Although there are many places surrounding it, Luss and Balloch are lovely.
Inveraray...small town but the rive from Glasgow is lovely.
The islands on the west coast....Islay and Jura.
Stirling Castle and The Wallace monument.
The white cliffs are beautiful, i live along the coast in Brighton and the white cliffs start there. The thing i love to think of is how the chalk was formed from microscopic sea creatures like plankton, that die and sink to the bottom of the ocean, over time and pressure it turns into chalk. I love to walk along under the cliffs and think of these things, it amazes me that this was the bottom of the ocean once upon a time. There is also evidence of a gigantic glacier that carved its way from inland through all the chalk to the sea, the cliffs drop down then rise back up where it happened. Blows my mind lol.
Hey neighbour, from Portslade.
@@NicksGotBeef Me too.
I come from South Croydon on The North Downs. when we were kids and needed chalk for hopscotch etc, we just used to dig it up in the garden. PS. Brighton was our nearest seaside place. Many happy days spent there with family.
@@kelm03 When we were kids we found a spade and decided to dig down and try to make an underground base. We didn't get very far lol we hit chalk and gave up, had a nice fire pit from then on though 😆
I love how Charlie just chills on the back of the sofa watching the videos with you both!😊😂💜✌️
Living in the West Midlands makes me forget about all the hidden beauty of our country so thanks for the reminder 😊🇬🇧✌🏻
Ikr. I forget we are on an island living in the Midlands
@@Ukbrummie hope somebody tells him which bits to avoid 😅
He needs to avoid the Midlands full stop 😂
@@cotton9087 the Midlands has the most beautiful countryside in the whole country
What's "hidden" about the Highlands of Scotland?
Your passion for our country is just fantastic and your videos always put a smile on my face and its great to see Anna being infected with that passion now! Keep up the great work guys, can't wait to see you over here soon! 👍🇬🇧
Congratulations on hitting 10k , I'm not surprised you did, because you guys are awesome. Love to you both and the doggies ❤❤❤❤
The Glenfinnan Viaduct normally has just local 2 car diesel trains travelling over it, however if you want to go by steam train over it, every weekend between october & November and February & may and every day between May & October, West Coast Railways run "The Jacobite" steam train from Fort William- Mallaig, which crosses that viaduct several times a day
Highland cattle are known locally as " hairy coo's"
The white cliffs you first saw were the view from "Old Harry" rocks, at the tip off the cliffs, going towards Swanage in Dorset. I know as I lived there and have walked that path many times.
The lighthouse on the cliff is "Belle Tout" lighthouse between Birling Gap and Beachy Head outside Eastbourne in East Sussex.
It's at least 80 miles away from The Jurassic Coast, but still very impressive.
I went to school in Seaford which is a short distance from Birling Gap. Right next to Birling Gap is "Cuckmere Haven" another one to look up.
If you ever do go to Wales, then in North Wales is also the small village of Portmeirion where they filmed The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan, the main actor in it was also 4 times in Columbo ). The village has some really weird architecture and was built to look like a village from the Italian Riviera
Yeah this route is pretty standard if you’re not familiar with the UK, he missed out a lot of ireland and for some reason all of Yorkshire, known as God’s County, if you go to Yorkshire go to the Dales, Moors, York, Malton and Harrogate. Lots pf historic structures, beautiful landscapes and york is considered the home of chocolate so there is a huge amount of tourism based on it
I live in Yorkshire and there's a guy in my village who breeds Highland cattle for show. He has a few fields in different places and rotates them through - when they're in thefield upthe lane from my house I walk my dog up past there and they come say hi to my dog. They're ridiculously huge animals but so sweet.
I also lived on the Jurassic coastline. When we built our extension to the house we dug up 2 very large ammonites. Needed plant machinery to lift them. Come visit, you wont regret it.
Anna I am also a Harry Potter fan and I have done that train ride and it does not disappoint, it is the most beautiful train ride totally breathtaking. If you get the chance ever do it! Love your reactions keep up the good work. :)
Northumberland is a fantastic County to visit and holiday in. We drive there from Norfolk (which in itself is a gorgeous county!) and spend a week there quite often.
I live about 10 minutes away from Stonehenge. You can't go in the stones, only walk around them, unless you go during the summer solstice. Then you can go give them a hug, if you want. We also have Old Sarum, Salisbury Cathedral, and lots of other beautiful sites, including the city itself. Would love to see you guys here, one day.
I'm a pagan from england I went to a pagan cave near me I'm planning on going to Stonehenge in the near future
I recently moves to Wales from England and the natural beauty that surrounds even the towns and cities is incredible. A special place, with wonderful people.
I am from Scotland, and yes they included some great examples of Scottish heritage and beauty, but there are so many more places much more beautiful and spectacular. The west coast of Scotland is the most gorgeous s part of the uk. The white sands of Morar is the whitest sand you will ever see this side of Barbados lol x
Aye an the biggest midges
We do crazy stuff in some of the small villages, every 5th November in ottery st Mary we have the flaming tar barrels. People run up and down the street with a flaming barrel on their back, so much fun.
He also made a video with TOP 10 places to visit in my homeland - Germany. Wihich is very nice as well. But I love this one, too. Britain is a lovely and very unique country. Greetings from Germany and thanks for another cool reaction video!
My home town in scotland has a castle bang in the middle of the town. You dont notice it until people like yourself remind us that not everyone has that in their lifes ,now i appreciate it more.
Did you say "Butt plug"? 😂 🤣
For must-see places I'd certainly add the city of York, and nearby Whitbey. York has its city wall, which you can walk around, medieval streets, one of the greatest cathedrals in the world in York Minster. And if you like castles, I'd recommend traveling along the Northumbrian coast which has loads, with standouts being Dunstanburgh, Warkworth and Alnwick, the island of Lindisfarne, and Hadrians wall dating back to the Romans
Anna & JT, if you're intent on visiting the U.K. this year the best time to come over here would be the long weekend of the 6th, 7th and 8th May because that's when King Charles III's coronation is happening. You might have some difficulty in finding accommodation in London itself over that weekend because of the international interest although I'm sure that you won't have any difficulty in finding suitable reasonably priced accommodation elsewhere throughout the whole of the U.K. That particular long weekend has been deemed as a national holiday for all of us so it's going to be party time throughout the entire country, isn't it?
The only criticism of this bloke's video that I have and which you both watched is that he omitted Cornwall, Devon and Dorset especially with Dartmoor and its famous wild ponies which is located between Devon and Cornwall....it's amazing that the chalk coastline that you saw is at the very tip of England and is located in Cornwall, isn't it?
The only piece of advice that I can give you is that the further away from London and the southeast of England that you get the cheaper things become so if you want to have an equally good time as in the capital it's best to travel north and west rather than stick to that part of the U.K., isn't it? ✌😎✌🇬🇧🇺🇸
P.S. Love ♥ to Charleigh and Maggie as usual.
When my mum was a child, she lived just over the hill from Stonehenge. She says she would run around the rocks with her friends and have picnics etc. It was free to visit. Nowadays, you have to pay to visit and it's all roped off so you can't touch them, because visitors would chip off pieces of the rock to keep as souvenirs. They are now roped off to prevent this from happening to preserve it, and has been like that as long as I remember
People have broken off pieces of famous gravestones to take away as souvenirs too. It's really quite shocking why anyone would do that.
Great reactions. The UK really offers a change of scenery within 40 minutes drive in any direction. A great castle to visit that is still active is Berkley Castle near Gloucester, you can hop over to Wales just a few miles West of drop South the city of Bath with its history and Roman not spring baths. Or East to Oxford, 1,000 years of stained glass history in the college windows...any direction is full of places to see. Hope you get to visit soon. 👍
The Cotswolds are a beautiful place to visit as well. I am sure you won’t need to spend money on hotels or travel as you have so many fans who will put you up and take you round their part of the country.
At 10,085m, Snowdon is taller than Everest, but of course Everest gets all the press. 😒
No, it's actually 1,085m. Compare that with Kentucky's Black Mountain at 1,263m.
Also, it's Westminster, not Westminister. And Stone Henge, not Stone Hedge.
It's a great video with some awesome footage but he messes up the details a bit. 😅
Highland cows are cute, but have you seen the Belted Galloway?
They're from the Scottish Lowlands are are beautiful, but don't get much recognition compared to the Highland.
There are stunning places to visit in the Scottish Lowlands too - & I'm a Yorkshire Lass from the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors :)
There are so much you didn't see. So much missed in England. I spent my childhood visiting stately homes, castles, walks, waterfalls etc. I still haven't visited them all. The Lake District and Pennines are amazing. Cotswolds. Just so much. Even local to me within 45 mins I think we have nearly 10 stately homes, parks, wildlife reserves.
I'm a Brit who is engaged to a fella in Wisconsin. It was his parents wedding anniversary so we were all booked into "a historic coach stop" for a meal.
I was dragged off up the stairs to see where the guests had slept on rope nets in wooden framed beds.
The on to the larger open room with old items on the wall or under glass. It was very nice. I asked the lady in charge what year the place was built and she excitedly said "the 1850s". The same year my house was built here in the UK. Mine is no way classed as historic lol.
If you want castles you need to visit Northumberland. We have more than any other county. The first two Harry Potter films used Alnwick castle in the north of the county. In particular the flying lesson with Madame hooch. There is a broomstick flying experience there. They also have an amazing tree house and a poisonous garden. We also have the holy island of lindisfarne, bamburgh castle which was recently used in the latest Indiana jones movie and many more besides
The stones that were cut for stone Henge were cut in Wales and brought to the current site which is even more mind blowing.
There's lots of preserved steam trains (400+) in the UK. There are many heritage railways and steam trains run on the mainlines aswel.
Do they have a train museum in York or is that in the Manchester museum science and industry?
@@leeandrew8987 yes the national railway museum is in york
You should check out the North Coast 500. Amazing tour of the Scottish Highlands. The whole of the UK has some amazing places to visit.
I live about 15 miles from Durdle Door. It's a lovely place. So is Lulworth Cove which is just around the corner.
Tyneham is also pretty cool. It's a ghost village. The people that lived there were told to leave during the second world war as the area was needed for military training.
The sad thing is they were told they'd be able to return after the war but we're never allowed to.
One of my favourite places in Dorset is Maiden Castle, an Iron Age hill fort. I walk the dogs there almost every day.
The dogs love running up and down the ramparts.
castles are something i think a lot of people take advantage of in the uk. I remember being a teenager and just sitting in castle grounds a couple minutes from my house at no expense drinking on summer days, truly is beautiful
1- York (in the North! Almost was the capital over London)
2- Whitby (Seaside town of Dracula)
3 - Robin Hoods Bay (pirates and smugglers seaside town on a cliff)
Good to do a video on, but if you do visit England, these are top places. They’re all close to each other too 👍🏻
. . . And Lincoln is near by, big castle and cathedral and the actual Magna Carter 😎
Magna Carta, not Carter...
We were in North Wales late last year.Brilliant absolutely brilliant and beautiful.Snowdonia National Park is another world.Scenery to die for.Put it on your bucket list.
Get well soon JT, hope you feel better soon.❤️ Awesome on the subs, well deserved too.😎👌. There are castles throughout the UK, so you can see castles in all parts, in my hometown Swansea, we have a castle ruin in the toen centre & said to be haunted too. In Wales alone there around 600 castles, there's also a train on Snowdonia too Anna. 🏴 😎👌🏰
I've seen this video a few times and always think, he missed the Lake district and the Peak District. Both full of outstandingly beautiful places!
Hi Anna and JT! So you want to move to the UK? What you waiting for?? COME ON OVER!!♥️👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
The person who shot the video did a great job of showing off the parts of England he visited. What's great aswell is this is just some of the great places to visit we have. In London alone you could've added the view from Alexandra Palace or some of the old markets like Leadenhall, Borough or Spitalfields. Add to that the Lake District, coastal Cornwall, Isle of Wight, some of the famous Bridges dotted around the country, Bath, the list goes on.
Proof that you're soul mates: you both love Wales! ❤
As a land mass the UK is a lot smaller than California but to drive from the northern tip of Scotland ( John O'Groats ) to the southern tip of England ( Lands End ) will take about as long as driving from San Diego to Portland.
Our motorway system connects the big cities but many of our smaller remoter places can take a while to reach on small roads where the traffic moves slowly and the winding nature of the road means that somewhere that looks close on a map isn't as quick to reach as you may think.
Plan an itinerary, do your research and don't try to see everywhere in one go, or you'll see nothing properly and spend the bulk of your time here driving.
Surely, you have to visit a castle! Not only a tourist one, but a ruin. Idk, it feels kinda crazy to be around ruins, usually by yourself and a dog lol knowing what kinda stuff went on there.
A few things missing off the list:
HEVER CASTLE. Henry the 8th lived there, you can walk around the castle and see the bedrooms and even see his original boots. There’s a maze out in the grounds.
LAKE DISTRICT (Bowness-on-Windermere). Absolutely beautiful and mountains nearby to hike and many different lakes. Surrounded by stone houses.
PEAK DISTRICT. Beautiful hiking national forest with stags.
YORK. Very beautiful city and has a cool Diagon Alley (Harry Potter) style road called The Shambles.
SNOWDONIA (Wales). One of the most stunning places in the UK. With Mount Snowdon and beautiful countryside.
Love watching your channel you should check out Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire these are great places with alot of history aswell 😀 👍
Totally agree. 👍🏻
Superb 10 places to visit in the UK without a doubt anna & jt but there's probably 174,308,294,237,923,217 give or take 1 or 2 other places in the UK that you would also be in awe of as well ! Such a tiny teeny country but every county from top to bottom east to west packs some stunning breathtaking places to visit .. have travelled from lands end to john o'groats an indeed it is 16 hours ! When ya do decide to come across the big pond have a beautiful holiday ( might wanna make it a months holiday maybe two ) jus so ya get so see what great britain has to offer !
You should come to Wales some of the best coastline in the world, beautiful mountains and lakes. and your never more than a few minutes away from a castle anywhere in Wales, i can see 3 from my house windows and theres a lot more in walking distance lol.
My brother been to Wales and he loved it. He even been to Edinburgh Scotland. He made me jealous when I remember hearing he is moving to England for like a year for medical school. He even saw Wolves vs Everton game for free. My
bro told me his been to Sherwood Forest known for stories of Robin Hood. Even seen Stonehenge. Everything my bro mentioned made me too jealous
One or two corrections. The 'Jurassic Coast' also has rocks - like Sir Harry's Rocks - from the next geological period, the Cretaceous. ('Creta' is the Latin for 'chalk'.) Towards the end of this period, unique conditions led to the deposition of a soft white limey ooze, which is now called the Chalk.
We have many stone circles, and only Stonehenge bars you from going up to the stones. Not long north of Stonehenge is the great stone circle of Avebury, well worth a visit.
Snowdon is not 10,000 metres high - which would make it taller than Everest - but just over 1,000 metres!
Thanks Golly, why do they always say Edinburgh and Scarborough wrong,
the most beautiful, clear water ive seen in the UK has to be Harris, it looks tropical even when its freezing and drookit
It was lovely to watch Anna admiring the UK. I must admit us Brits do not appreciate all the beauty and history, castles etc as it’s all around us. Hopefully you do get to visit and get to go into a castle but there are over 4000 in the UK so unsure where you would start. Best of luck with making your dream come true
Love from UK ❤
We don’t appreciate it because it’s just a smoke screen covering up what is actually a cesspit.
@@rusty5078 Someone got out of the wrong side of the castle this morning, didn't they?
@@Robonord427 castle 😂 also, nope. Why is it when someone has an opinion it’s morons like you who try shut that opinion down by making out people like me are somehow angry? Sorry but my 40 years in the country with my eyes actual open makes me see what others don’t. Not sure why you mention castle anyway. You must be ignorant
@@rusty5078 Not all of the uk. I do know a lot of areas and cities has deteriorated in my life time but there are still a lot of beautiful places to see. People from other countries don’t see the cesspits fortunately, it’s only us living here get to see the bad.
@@deb1544 sure, not all of the U.K is a cesspit but pretty much every city is lol The only places that haven’t seen such a decline are places where you’re going to be spending 250k plus for a one bed house. These sorts of areas are usually gated communities but there are villages dotted around our country that are still like this. Predominately white upper class people who want to keep these villages as white as possible.
Even in London it’s now a case of you can walk down places like Notting Hill and have someone on a moped take your phone or bag or someone come up to you asking for money cos they need it for heroin or crack. Go further up North and it gets worse, not better. Look at places like Bradford in Yorkshire, most of Birmingham,Liverpool,Manchester going right up to places like North Shields in Newcastle then cities like Glasgow. Stabbings are becoming a daily thing in most major cities now. Crime rises every year. Drug dealers spring up and for every one taken down another two pop up at least. Homelessness got worse despite covid apparently getting most ppl off the streets. Cost of living forced most of the country into poverty and with poverty, crime rises.
Sorry but a 4 bedroom house with a nice price tag is not my idea of anything but a cesspit when right outside it’s front door there are people begging, doing drugs and committing petty crime on a daily basis.
I now live in Devon (the jurassic coast) but spent 20yrs working in Central London. Regent St. Oxford St. Carnaby St. And for a while I walked over London Bridge every day seeing the sun rise over Tower Bridge. When you work there you tend to forgett just how iconic these places are.. Sometimes you need to step back a look..
Hi guys, love watching your videos. They really make me smile. I live in Scotland and it is such a beautiful country. I really think you guys should look into doing a reaction video to a festival they have called "up helly aa" up in Shetland, the most northerly island in Scotland. Think vikings, long boats and lots of fire 🔥. Think you guys will love it 😀
great video, feel better soon JT and anna hpe you stay well dear x
The UK has over 4000 castles according to Wiki, I've heard it mentioned that Wales has over 700 and yes they do have a lot for such a small place.
As Anna hasn't been on a train how are you going to get to Scotland to go on that steam train without going on a train first, I'm sure that you aren't going to want to drive on the correct side of the road on such narrow and twisting roads hmmm?
Congrats on the 10k :)
Regarding Stone Henge, the rocks used to build it were traced back to a quarry in Wales, 200 miles away.
I grew up in a town just outside of Cardiff, Wales called Caerphilly. There is a very impressive castle in Caerphilly you should take a look at and many of the UK's most impressive castles are in Wales.
They were BIG guys in those days and prior to even finishing Stonehenge, which they altered and messed with for over 2 thousand years, they were building henges in massive timbers around 7 thousand BC. Then they turned to stone (expect they were fed up with timbers rotting), and in many parts of Britain if there is stone locally they used it. Late Mesolithic rectangular dwellings in stone with flagstone floors and hearths are increasingly found, at Bouldnor cliff (Isle of Wight), on Portland (Dorset), and at Avebury Henge (Wilts) inside the south circle, for example. The Mesolithic period dates to 10,000 to 8,000
Those people knew exactly how to handle stones, some of those known at Avebury Henge are in the order of 100 tonnes at the very least (the Cove).
A dormant volcano would then be one that hasn't erupted in the past 10,000 years, but which is expected to erupt again. An extinct volcano would be one that nobody expects to ever erupt again. These are human definitions of natural things - there have been a number of eruptions from “extinct” volcanoes!
Hi from North Wales U.K, thanks for visiting snowdonia!🇬🇧🏴
Wales has so many beautiful castles. We have more castles in Wales than any country. Cardiff Castle and Castle Coch. Worth putting on your itinerary.
The Lake District and surrounding areas… anywhere up north.
If you ever visit the UK you have to visit Cornwall in the south west of England. We have breathtaking scenry, stunning sandy beaches and crystal clear water. Its defo worth the trip, you can thank me later.
PS: loving the channel guys, love your reactions and input, keep them coming.
Hey, guy who lives in London here. Stonehenge was built for religious purposes. It has the sun go through certain slits on the summer and winter solstice.
There are thousands of castles throughout the UK.
Look up Cornwall and Yorkshire 🤗💙
If you like castles my hometown Carrickfergus (Northern Ireland) is a good place to visit, there's a castle right in the centre and it's a small town just outside of Belfast. And Carrick-a-rede rope bridge was one of my favourite places to visit as a kid, the bridge was so rickety over the water though 😂
Eilean Donan Castle Appears in the 1986 film Highlander
Edinburgh is my favourite city in the UK and try to visit a couple of times a year. Some great Airbnb places on the outskirts of the city. Taking the family back there end of Feb.
Edinburgh's a dump.
I worked at Stonehenge. You can’t go into the stones because even touching them can cause damage and people cannot keep their hands to themselves. The only time you can go inside is if you pay in the summer for a 6am visit which is supervised or on the summer and winter solstices.
Hope you guys can visit the UK one day. I know it's a big thing for you coming over here. Our countires are unique and very special.