We walked the most dangerous path in Britain

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  • The Broomway is surrounded on both sides by quicksand and deep, sucking mud. It has no markers and no guideposts. And if you mistime your walk, you won't outrun the tide. Oh, and it's in the middle of a Ministry of Defence firing range. But most of the time, if you want to visit Foulness Island, it's the only way.
    Thanks to Tom Bennett: www.tombennettoutdoors.co.uk/
    Filmed safely: www.tomscott.com/safe/
    Edited by Michelle Martin / mrsmmartin
    Audio mix by Graham Haerther
    REFERENCES:
    Christy (1922): "A high road in the sea", The Windsor Magazine, volume 56, p556
    MoD Shoeburyness Public Access Leaflet [PDF]: www.qinetiq.com/shoeburyness/...
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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  3 ปีที่แล้ว +33168

    Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, an irresponsible version of me with a goatee is making a spectacular video that involves trying to outrace the tide on a motorbike, then getting arrested by military police.

    • @vishaals2522
      @vishaals2522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2378

      Why does this say 1 month ago my god was it unlisted for that long

    • @brickwall2900
      @brickwall2900 3 ปีที่แล้ว +341

      ok good fact

    • @nick-st7jx
      @nick-st7jx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1333

      why do you keep your videos unlisted for so long? you should make a video on it

    • @dat_fast_boi
      @dat_fast_boi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +490

      One month? What? You're telling me that Tom Scott knows how to put a comment on his video before it goes up?
      Clear evidence that we live in the matrix.

    • @aaclovern9804
      @aaclovern9804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      BRING THE AGONIZER!

  • @rasmusn.e.m1064
    @rasmusn.e.m1064 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12708

    I am not saying a hovercraft line would solve this, but.....

    • @FloydBunsen
      @FloydBunsen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1361

      **adds a bar**

    • @metalwhere
      @metalwhere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +552

      ... but is a hovercraft "road legal"?

    • @chrismcgarry2840
      @chrismcgarry2840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +420

      @@metalwhere presumably if the hovercraft is operating over the sea and tidal flats it is counted as a boat rather than a road vehicle?

    • @ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers
      @ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      some lad in a shed might be already working on that, maybe they've even done it before

    • @superslimanoniem4712
      @superslimanoniem4712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +233

      @@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers mr. Furze, we need you

  • @Triple259772
    @Triple259772 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4170

    British military: “can’t use this bridge it’s ours”
    Also British military: “however we do have this firing range”

    • @shinjisan2015
      @shinjisan2015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      and the red flag indicates it is in use at the time.

    • @nicke1903
      @nicke1903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      May get lucky if they're using a L85A1

    • @termitreter6545
      @termitreter6545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@nicke1903 Not so lucky since the germans fixed it.

    • @sambrooks4413
      @sambrooks4413 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@nicke1903 We use the A2 now so not much chance of that.

    • @stevenbobbybills
      @stevenbobbybills 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sambrooks4413 or even the A3 by this point.

  • @JBDazen
    @JBDazen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6279

    You know you're in Britain when a mountain leader is guiding you over the flattest path ever without even a small hill in sight.

    • @Nynke_K
      @Nynke_K 3 ปีที่แล้ว +280

      some landscapes are underrepresented in that job title!

    • @Misses-Hippy
      @Misses-Hippy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +458

      Only outdone by the mountain climbers of the Netherlands.

    • @mikethomas5510
      @mikethomas5510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      There used to be a Goodwin sands potholing club. They used hovercraft

    • @Angel-bz5jm
      @Angel-bz5jm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Scottish highlands: am I a joke to you

    • @rowanmelton7643
      @rowanmelton7643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Misses-Hippy And Bangladesh

  • @joyphobic
    @joyphobic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9015

    It's not a Tom Scott video without his pinned comment being a month old already

    • @safe-keeper1042
      @safe-keeper1042 3 ปีที่แล้ว +458

      It's not the pinned comment without 173 people going "commnet one month old y?"

    • @abhayh924
      @abhayh924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@safe-keeper1042 lmao i said the same in another comment

    • @h0griph
      @h0griph 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      How does that happen??

    • @Virtuous_Rogue
      @Virtuous_Rogue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +332

      @@h0griph It was unlisted for a month, then became listed at its scheduled time.

    • @crystaldazz
      @crystaldazz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Witchcraft!

  • @bgone444
    @bgone444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8751

    The path my parents walked to school

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 3 ปีที่แล้ว +255

      must have been classmates of my parents

    • @BigShrimpin_
      @BigShrimpin_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      @@ragnkja
      Drown, or get swept out to sea and lost presumably.

    • @olik136
      @olik136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +289

      It can't be since it doesn't even go uphill both ways

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      @@olik136 According to my parents they just made it more kid friendly for my spoiled generation after they finished school.

    • @qzbnyv
      @qzbnyv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      My parents walked uphill both to AND from school. So this definitely isn’t their path.

  • @goplayer7
    @goplayer7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8660

    next time
    Tom: "I am just outside the international space station."

    • @ElectraFlarefire
      @ElectraFlarefire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +657

      "And if I move 20 meters to my left, I WILL be arrested by NASA security on my return.."

    • @kattkatt744
      @kattkatt744 3 ปีที่แล้ว +220

      Honestly, if there is two peope that should space tourist to the ISS it is Tom Scott or Scott Manley.

    • @Skoran
      @Skoran 3 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      @@kattkatt744 We should merge them into Tom Scott Manley =').

    • @Chris_Cross
      @Chris_Cross 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nice

    • @alansmithee419
      @alansmithee419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      "I am currently standing inside an armed nuclear missile on its way to North Korea."

  • @bread_3393
    @bread_3393 3 ปีที่แล้ว +892

    Tom Scott: the guy who does legal things that are seemingly illegal

  • @rebmcr
    @rebmcr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16161

    Can we all take a moment to appreciate Tom's sound equipment for bringing us something useful from the North Sea coast on a windy day?

    • @jeanc1622
      @jeanc1622 3 ปีที่แล้ว +334

      Thats actualy true! So great. The only thing which could be heard was that flag banging on its pole and his voice

    • @Apostate_ofmind
      @Apostate_ofmind 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      rebmcr now that i think about it, its hella impressive

    • @krazed9918
      @krazed9918 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      VERY good point! I've had to take background noise out of a video and the thought didn't even register with me while watching this! Great job, Tom & Crew!

    • @rascalw.492
      @rascalw.492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      👍

    • @Apostate_ofmind
      @Apostate_ofmind 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      krazed truly it is that the most important things for immersion and video quality are those things that your concious mind doesnt even register!

  • @winoo1967
    @winoo1967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2243

    Tom will say to his children: "I walked through the most dangerous path in Britain to get to work"

    • @thesenamesaretaken
      @thesenamesaretaken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      Youngsters these days. When I was your age I had to race rising tides, sinking sands and gunfire to get to work

    • @samuelelder9434
      @samuelelder9434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@thesenamesaretaken top marks 😉 for the profile pic

    • @DisorderedArray
      @DisorderedArray 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      But if you work there you can just drive over the bridge ;)

    • @tomtom4405
      @tomtom4405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@DisorderedArray Yes true, I have driven over it myself some years ago but I had an appointment, still there was quite a process and had to wait a while for permission to enter. You can't just drive on. Not sure how it works for the residents, maybe they have a special permit to show or something?

    • @nicholasleclerc1583
      @nicholasleclerc1583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Nay, “ *WHILE* I worked”

  • @WolfJustWolf
    @WolfJustWolf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +756

    2:30 the irony of brooms being swept away

  • @connermckay4012
    @connermckay4012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    Fun fact, the reason "brooms" are called what they are is because originally they were made from "broom", a type of brush native to most of Europe iirc. This brush would be harvested and tied to the end of a stick before it dried, hence a "broom-stick". The name eventually got shorthanded to just "broom" and now the plant and the cleaning tool have ambiguous names.

    • @Drag0nvil
      @Drag0nvil ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for this interesting fact!

  • @JW-vx9mz
    @JW-vx9mz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3187

    Hovercraft ownership seems far more useful for the residents of this island than anywhere else.

    • @SymbioteMullet
      @SymbioteMullet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +216

      And there is the market for the hoverpub!

    • @Kyrelel
      @Kyrelel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Hovercraft are not road legal.

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      If you're a resident you're allowed to use the road. The Broomway is just for tourists.

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 3 ปีที่แล้ว +293

      @@dunebasher1971 I think you misunderstand. We are trying to find an excuse to have a hovercraft.

    • @Eira_
      @Eira_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@Kyrelel but they are water legal

  • @dle511
    @dle511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4071

    this means Tom could legally operate his hoverpub along this path

    • @morgansearle3912
      @morgansearle3912 3 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      And the local one closed, so there's an open niche

    • @anderpanders6210
      @anderpanders6210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      And since hover craft have very limited seating it probably wouldn't be against any corona regulations

    • @Vousie
      @Vousie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      But is the hoverpub road legal?

    • @MajesticSkywhale
      @MajesticSkywhale 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@anderpanders6210 can't socially distance

    • @juango500
      @juango500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      2007 Tom would do that

  • @peppermintmiso4341
    @peppermintmiso4341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +412

    This sounds like the beginning of a joke:
    Two Toms walk through the most dangerous path in Britain

    • @yayeetmeoffacliff4708
      @yayeetmeoffacliff4708 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@amishabharti4734 i- just- what??

    • @1.4142
      @1.4142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "So where was this most remote bar in britain you were talking about?"

    • @wessexdruid7598
      @wessexdruid7598 ปีที่แล้ว

      'Toms' of course being the common slang for British soldiers...

  • @kjamison5951
    @kjamison5951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3048

    Irony: a dangerous path called the Broomway where the tide will sweep you away.

    • @johnnyheli
      @johnnyheli 3 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      That's coincidence, not irony

    • @Chris_Cross
      @Chris_Cross 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      That's not irony.

    • @dropmelon
      @dropmelon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@hairyairey Still not irony so they’re half-right.

    • @Dorsidwarf
      @Dorsidwarf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@johnnyheli Being coincidental doesn't rule out something being ironic!

    • @ObjectsInMotion
      @ObjectsInMotion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Being swept away on a path called Broomway, while funny and a rare event, is not a subversion of expectations so is not irony.
      Brooms used as markers being swept away is unexpected, brooms tend to sweep not be swept, so that would be irony.

  • @pkingglazersout6665
    @pkingglazersout6665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3897

    In this video Tom is walking with Tom who guided Tom and Tom thanked Tom for giving information about the place to Tom

    • @altraaasvk8547
      @altraaasvk8547 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      You are the new justin y. I literally see your comment on every video I see nowadays.

    • @Jake-rm4be
      @Jake-rm4be 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Tom

    • @moshahriz1346
      @moshahriz1346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@altraaasvk8547 a lot of people are justin y now

    • @degenerals6127
      @degenerals6127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@altraaasvk8547 wow

    • @ad-skyobsidion4267
      @ad-skyobsidion4267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      But where is the guy without a mustach

  • @xxbeatuupzz
    @xxbeatuupzz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3577

    Next video:
    "I'm here, in the middle of the North sea"

    • @ymgve
      @ymgve 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Has Tom ever visited the foundation of an oil rig?

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Just another reason to need a hovercraft.

    • @Moshimulations
      @Moshimulations 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ymgve yes

    • @DragonMaster1804
      @DragonMaster1804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      At time of writing this comment, 'Doggerland' is trending on Twitter, so it may be more likely than you think that his next video comes from the middle of the North Sea!
      (No, Doggerland isn't what you think it is. It's the north's Atlantis, a big stretch of land between Britain and mainland Europe before a tsunami sank it and separated the two)

    • @godzillas6301
      @godzillas6301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DragonMaster1804 Is that the car park in Cannock chase ? .... gets a bit latexy and spunky underfoot after a warm summers evening errrr so ive heard .

  • @luapslev5826
    @luapslev5826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    2 hours later: "I am here, in M.O.D's holding cell."

    • @miscellaneous_man756
      @miscellaneous_man756 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lionel Rich Tea the military dont have holding cells, i dont know if you know l but military prisons do exist

  • @TheDarrellimpey
    @TheDarrellimpey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    "Broom" being the name of certain, thorny, straight shrubs, which were harvested to make sweeping devices, which became called brooms.

  • @ZeldaplusSmallville
    @ZeldaplusSmallville 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2016

    Because “Danger” is Tom Scott’s middle name.

    • @kingblob6244
      @kingblob6244 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Shivansh you don't call their kilts skirts

    • @andrewche4066
      @andrewche4066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Imagine Tom saying "I AM the danger" in Heisenberg's voice

    • @emiharith
      @emiharith 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      i think his real middle name is "Legal"

    • @raassh23
      @raassh23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@emiharith did you mean "Technically Legal"?

    • @MrMadeinisrael
      @MrMadeinisrael 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's actually pronounced 'Donger', it's derived from a Dutch word meaning 'prudence in financial matters'

  • @inq101
    @inq101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1442

    You used to be able to go to Foulness by phoning the islands pub. The landlord would take your name, contact the gate guards who would then let you through. Unfortunately the George and Dragon pub closed in 2007.

    • @clockworkkirlia7475
      @clockworkkirlia7475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      The George and Dragon, of course. I'm sure it made a killing.

    • @Geeves8612
      @Geeves8612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@clockworkkirlia7475 that's Berney Arms but unfortunately that pub is closed too :(

    • @sentientarugula2884
      @sentientarugula2884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Geeves8612 AWWWW

    • @davidjames579
      @davidjames579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      And then just to be a right bastard, you don't visit the pub.

    • @fredhasopinions
      @fredhasopinions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      this is my favourite bit of information yet

  • @GiraffeFlavoredCondoms
    @GiraffeFlavoredCondoms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    "Tide that moves faster than you can run" is one of the scariest sentences

    • @John01GM40
      @John01GM40 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      go to Morecambe Bay then - tide that moves faster than you can think.

  • @sternis1
    @sternis1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    "It is technically allowed to drive any street-legal vehicle here". Anyone else hear Top Gear?

    • @chickenpommes19
      @chickenpommes19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      *gets stuck in quicksand" "Does that mean he's not coming on then?"

    • @bill1682
      @bill1682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How hard can it be

    • @JoshHeidenreich
      @JoshHeidenreich 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Landcruiser? Hilux? They got to the north pole...

    • @ShadowDragon8685
      @ShadowDragon8685 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Clarkson showing up in his Lambo (tractor) and yelling at Tom to get out of shot.

    • @almostcertainlynotapotato6528
      @almostcertainlynotapotato6528 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hear the Grand Tour

  • @MaxJDF
    @MaxJDF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1157

    "tide that moves in faster than you can run"
    that's terrifying.

    • @srenkoch6127
      @srenkoch6127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      It may sound terrifying, and rightfully so.
      It is also totally true in a lot of places, so do heed those warnings!

    • @popuptoaster
      @popuptoaster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Its very flat and shallow around many parts of the Thames estuary so the tides are really fast in a lot of places, Southend pier is over a mile long so that large boats had somewhere deep enough that they could dock and drop passengers.

    • @cameron7374
      @cameron7374 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Many tides in many places are faster than you can run and the ocean behind them potentially more turbulent than you can endure.
      Yes, that is terrifying and for a good reason.

    • @bernier42
      @bernier42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I wondered if that meant “faster than you can run through mud”, but either way...

    • @epic-concept
      @epic-concept 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "tide that moves in faster than you can run", huh? challenge accepted.

  • @CptMaximus
    @CptMaximus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1231

    Tom is truly putting his life on the line to educate us

    • @kausthita11
      @kausthita11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's what "Good" teachers do.... Maybe not life

    • @chaitanyarao5546
      @chaitanyarao5546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And I genuinely cherish and appreciate for him.
      Never missed an upload and always learnt something awesome from him.

    • @zappawench6048
      @zappawench6048 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Extreme Educator!

    • @iHaveTheDocuments
      @iHaveTheDocuments 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "Walking the most dangerous road in Britain" sounds like a title that will bring in the views and money if we look at this honestly.

    • @Blazer-bn9ev
      @Blazer-bn9ev 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Always has been

  • @slinkerdeer
    @slinkerdeer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    This is the channel I go to when I want to watch 30 minutes of content in 5 minutes. Tom is just that efficient

  • @OSW
    @OSW 3 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    Shoutout to Michelle and Graham video editing and audio mixing this vid! It hid the edits to Tom #2's talking so it flowed almost as seemless and natural as Tom #1! (Having hidden edits this way myself) it was textbook 😃

    • @onetwothreefourfive12345
      @onetwothreefourfive12345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I have no idea what you are talking about.

    • @prappsy3028
      @prappsy3028 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      OSW Review commenting on a Tom Scott video... what a pittance!
      Great to see you here :)

    • @DespOIcito
      @DespOIcito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The guide is also called Tom, hence Tom #1 and Tom #2

  • @ArpeggioPegasusMusic
    @ArpeggioPegasusMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +947

    Plot twist : the mountain leader is a Tom from another dimension

    • @109Rage
      @109Rage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      The Tom that decided to do tour guides to dangerous places in person, as opposed to our Tom which does tour guides to dangerous places digitially.

    • @SportyMabamba
      @SportyMabamba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mirror Universe Tom

    • @smartyul2278
      @smartyul2278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hmmmmmmmmmmst

    • @SymbioteMullet
      @SymbioteMullet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      But he's not got a goatee or motorcycle...

    • @joelmcc88
      @joelmcc88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      take the broomway to the bush dimension mortyyyyy

  • @watcherofwatchers
    @watcherofwatchers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +622

    Growing up I truly thought quicksand would be a more ever-present danger in my life. I guess I just live in the wrong place.

    • @odin_191
      @odin_191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The quicksand you're used to hearing about is most likely the type with dry sand above an empty space that sinks as you apply pressure. The type in this video is just wet sand that sinks beneath you like mud.
      I once lost a welly in the latter. I was scared for my life in the moment I suppose

    • @Genius_at_Work
      @Genius_at_Work 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@odin_191 It's more like Sand suspended in a lot of Water so it becomes a Non-Newtonian Fluid; like Corn Starch in Water. That's also why you only sink in when you don't move and have to move slowly to get out. Quicksand isn't angerous to Pedestrians if they know how what to do and don't panic but Quicksand Shoals will swallow any Ship that is grounded on them.

    • @thePronto
      @thePronto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You watched too much Tarzan on TV. Like me.

    • @BodyMusicification
      @BodyMusicification 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A famous comedian once said this-can't recall who exactly

    • @Elbowbanditest2003
      @Elbowbanditest2003 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BodyMusicification maybe sean lock, not sure though

  • @feliciabarker9210
    @feliciabarker9210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    'I am here, legally. And that's because I came in a hovercraft pub.'

  • @rossinimauro
    @rossinimauro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Tom, you should go to Tornio in Finland, it a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side.
    There is a shopping centre which straddles the border and is in TWO time zones, as Finland is 1 hour forward of Sweden.
    You can zigzag down the center aisle changing timezone as you go from one side to the other!

    • @bfcmik
      @bfcmik ปีที่แล้ว

      Watching your watch or phone change time would be a blast whilst weaving up and down that aisle.

  • @teacup6530
    @teacup6530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    I was expecting the active firing range to be the dangerous part

    • @SymbioteMullet
      @SymbioteMullet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Nope, it's just the spice to this danger pie!

    • @camokarzi8491
      @camokarzi8491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well, it was a prominent part of the thumbnail

    • @holliswilliams8426
      @holliswilliams8426 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@camokarzi8491 clickbait

  • @davidvenegas6401
    @davidvenegas6401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +784

    Dangerous place: exists
    Tom Scott: it's free content

    • @mablaba3629
      @mablaba3629 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *its free real estate*

  • @sinbadddx
    @sinbadddx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I love how straightforward and to the point Tom is, making any boring topic, interesting. Definitely one of the top ten TH-camrs

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    Warning sign: "Do not approach or touch any object or debris as it may explode of cause serious injury or kill"
    Tom: Gotta do it for TH-cam

    • @shanethrelfall416
      @shanethrelfall416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      What’s the worst that could happen?.....

    • @raygreen2134
      @raygreen2134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      OH IT IS YOU AGAIN

    • @tomepsilon
      @tomepsilon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      God damn it

  • @erfaniom9576
    @erfaniom9576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    "The tide that moves faster than you can run" is such a menacing statement

    • @SymbioteMullet
      @SymbioteMullet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Several places in britain are like that... there was a big thing in the news several years ago about shellfish harvesters drowning due to swift tides. Happens unfortunately regularly.

    • @Hoch134
      @Hoch134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The flatter the land is, the flatter tide will come in.

    • @matthewAlan13
      @matthewAlan13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      kinda like the cens0rship big tech social media companies are doing right now

    • @tomasxfranco
      @tomasxfranco 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like a challenge.
      Cheetah vs tide who wins?
      How about Toby?
      RIP Toby.

    • @tubewatcher97
      @tubewatcher97 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SymbioteMullet Thats was on my doorstep, and the RNLI do have the much discussed hovercraft here , never seen it though

  • @TheKitKatProject
    @TheKitKatProject 3 ปีที่แล้ว +586

    ngl I actually love “unfortunate” names like “Foulness”. You’d never name a place “Foulness” today, so it will always be unique 😄

    • @ishoottheyscore8970
      @ishoottheyscore8970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      There is an Upper Piddle and a Lower Piddle in Worcestershire. Not to mention a place starting with F in Austria that kept getting the sign nicked...

    • @kosinusify
      @kosinusify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@AnnaJulia-vx2rm Yes, it will be called Fugging from now on...

    • @ishoottheyscore8970
      @ishoottheyscore8970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@AnnaJulia-vx2rm I hadn't heard that! I guess they decided against trying to lean in to it as a tourist spot... Can't blame them, but feel a bit sorry for them for feeling like they had to change it

    • @Michael75579
      @Michael75579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@AnnaJulia-vx2rm They've voted to change the name, effective 1 January 2021. If I were a resident I'd have voted against the change, just for the fun of telling people where I lived. Reminds me of Shitterton in Dorset, where they got tired of people stealing the village name sign and replaced it with the name carved into a 1.5 ton block of stone set in concrete.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      There are three towns in Sweden, just south of Sweden:
      Handen, Trosa and Fittja.
      Handen means hand.
      Trosa means female underwear.
      And Fittja is close enough to a vulgar name for female genitalia.
      The real life placement of the towns, unfortunately, does not place Handen in the middle of any sensible pathing between the other two.

  • @daved2352
    @daved2352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Next time
    "I'm here in the Mariana trench about to fist fight a giant squid"

  • @epiendless1128
    @epiendless1128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Just reminded of a sign I saw on "That's Life".
    It said, "People passing this sign may be drowned."
    and beneath that it said, "By order of the Council."

  • @pirateadam3686
    @pirateadam3686 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    "Or we could just walk back"
    >Looks at walk. Begins to climb a fence

    • @jackm6593
      @jackm6593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *films next video inside of a military base*

  • @geofftech2
    @geofftech2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2025

    superb! have wanted to do/see this for so long. love it!

    • @5g242
      @5g242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have wanted to do this since I found out about it about a week ago :) But now its solidly on my bucket list!

    • @tommygeddes6725
      @tommygeddes6725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Legend has it the central line actually went a bit further than Ongar and had a terminus here, come check it out.

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You would!

    • @reggiebuffat
      @reggiebuffat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hello Geoff, good to see you here.

    • @stanley3647
      @stanley3647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Why?
      There is no railway line there ;)

  • @kategolding5083
    @kategolding5083 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was stationed at Foulness in the early 70s. I had a fabulous time there firing guns. We used to plot the trajectory from shot to burst by various different means and then collate the information later.
    My favourite part of the job was going out in the DUKW and retrieving the shells.

  • @lteht6919
    @lteht6919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks for making these videos Tom, they are fantastic and they bring me immeasurable joy

  • @Random3716
    @Random3716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    Toms walk this lonely road,
    Beside the tide it's just two Toms alone.

    • @maclikescartoons
      @maclikescartoons 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      They do know where it goes, and it's home to them and tToms walk alone

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Never rely on a TomTom when navigating paths like this. They are not accurate enough.

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Two Toms and the Tide. That sounds like a name of an indie band with a very limited drum set.

    • @kekow176
      @kekow176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@vaclav_fejt A kid's drum set bought off ebay

    • @em__1
      @em__1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vaclav_fejt They only have two drums and a Cymbal

  • @danky9167
    @danky9167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Tom Scott is one of the highest quality youtubers ever and you cannot deny that

  • @lennaerthondelink9135
    @lennaerthondelink9135 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    "Shouldn't we close this path or make it safe?"
    "Nah let's just put up some warning signs"

    • @rowanmelton7643
      @rowanmelton7643 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Made funnier by the fact Britain is so obsessed with health and safety, yet will let stuff like this slide

    • @johanness3850
      @johanness3850 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rowanmelton7643 better yet, lets also _use it as a firing range_

    • @jossland1628
      @jossland1628 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rowanmelton7643 It's a right of way. Which means it's an old path that people used to use hundreds of years ago- these are legally protected, and almost impossible to bar people from using, being part of national heritage. Good luck trying to get something like that closed.

  • @alistairMS
    @alistairMS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's great to see Tom Bennett doing well! A great musician and human being

  • @ClarinoI
    @ClarinoI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I can see an episode of The Grand Tour on the horizon where they have to buy cars for less than a given sum and then drive them along this path, possibly modifying them first.

    • @adamjames1149
      @adamjames1149 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      While being shelled

    • @scorchtongue
      @scorchtongue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@adamjames1149 Now we've got a episode

  • @portal2kid
    @portal2kid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +424

    Tom, I hope you’re ok, and not dead.
    And by that I mean you didn’t edit and post this video in quicksand.

    • @domi7007
      @domi7007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Who is tom?

    • @hexerei02021
      @hexerei02021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@domi7007 What is tom ?

    • @alialmans
      @alialmans 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@domi7007 How is Tom?

    • @dafeels3085
      @dafeels3085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@hexerei02021 everybody ask what is tom but never how is tom

    • @oscarwong197
      @oscarwong197 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@domi7007 How is tom?

  • @davidrodgers1952
    @davidrodgers1952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I spent 7 years working on Foulness, it was a rare day that the wind wasn't blowing like that.

  • @Duck_Ellington
    @Duck_Ellington 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I’m reading about this path right now in the book The Old Ways- cool to see what it looks like!

  • @BeyondthePoint
    @BeyondthePoint 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    The MoD areas here are fascinating, also home to the laboratories involved with developing Britain's first nuclear bomb. I did a video walking the Great Wakering section a few months ago, and we found ourselves going across a footpath over the backstop of an active firing range complete with an autocannon pointed at us :)

    • @Kyrelel
      @Kyrelel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Not to mention the MoD painting the runway at RAF Machrihanish four times a year to match the season

    • @stillious
      @stillious 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes I read the place name wrong.

    • @romulusnr
      @romulusnr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      why don't you link?

  • @LadyMcBite
    @LadyMcBite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I just love that little "cheers" the guide did when Tom introduced him x)

  • @sneaks9150
    @sneaks9150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Govt: "Why were you trespassing onto military property?"
    Tom: "I was just visiting, but I got too tired to make the walk back I'm sure you understand"

  • @poja82
    @poja82 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really nice of you to help a local guide.

  • @timmccarthy872
    @timmccarthy872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    It's places like this - low, marshy, uninhabitable parts of the otherwise-heavily-populated island of Britain - that remind me of Doggerland and how it disappeared below the waves.

    • @JohnyG29
      @JohnyG29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I used to live there, highly overrated.

    • @archerymidnight3422
      @archerymidnight3422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@JohnyG29 Going dogging doesn't make you an inhabitant of Doggerland

    • @jur4x
      @jur4x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JohnyG29 What amenities did you have there? Mcdonalds, Costa and a small carpark for dogging?

    • @thePronto
      @thePronto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was the last resident of Doggerland. I told them, I said: "I'm a Doggerlander born and bred. My Dad was a Doggerlander, and his Dad before him, going back into the mists of time. You'll not see me dead livin' in any poncey 'home counties' village." They said that I would be seen dead if I stayed in Doggerland. I said: "I'm not leaving the birthplace of my ancestors for all the tea in China. At least not without compensation." They said it would cost the RNLI 500 pound to fish my body out of the sea. I said "400 pound and we've got a deal." Now I live on Foulness until global warming gets me a few bob more.

    • @gregoryspatisserie9858
      @gregoryspatisserie9858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thePronto Cracking

  • @HeyItsJakegaming
    @HeyItsJakegaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I was walking my dog at brightlingsea (across the water from there) when the ground shook and my ears nearly burst. Brightlingsea is 20 miles away... mustve been hell for the soldiers in WW1

    • @Reddsoldier
      @Reddsoldier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I worked in one of the offices in Southend and occasionally you'd see plumes of smoke from Foulness as they blew something up.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How did your took take it?

    • @HeyItsJakegaming
      @HeyItsJakegaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@57thorns dog ? Not well. At all

  • @ToolkiT73UK
    @ToolkiT73UK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If you like this kind of walk, but more muddy, try 'waddenlopen' in the Waddenzee (in the north of the Netherlands), it is the traditional way of walking to the Wadden islands (group named after the sea they are in) during low tide when the sea is a mostly mudbanks.

  • @HarrisonJamess
    @HarrisonJamess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shoeburyness is so cool when it comes to Military elements, visit the bunker and go to the beach

  • @safe-keeper1042
    @safe-keeper1042 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    You missed the opportunity to make a cheap "you'd have to hire a guide... so I hired a guide!" joke based on the Iceland vid.
    Thank you.

    • @MateusSFigueiredo
      @MateusSFigueiredo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      that'd've been nice

    • @Anankin12
      @Anankin12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That would have been predictable

    • @MenloMarseilles
      @MenloMarseilles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You have to be really careful about introducing a running joke as a popular TH-camr. Too many uses of a ritual format and people start to get disturbed when you *don't* conform to it!

    • @kekow176
      @kekow176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Better save it for extreme ones like a rocket to get to orbit

  • @Quixotic-rr8qu
    @Quixotic-rr8qu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Tom guided by another Tom tries to reach a forbidden island.

    • @amojak
      @amojak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      they could of used a GPS but they already had a Tom Tom

    • @adrianthoroughgood1191
      @adrianthoroughgood1191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@amojak *applause*

  • @katherinekinnaird4408
    @katherinekinnaird4408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So interesting. I enjoy following videos and guides of various walks of life through canals, walking paths and the occasional guided tour by a professional such as you have provided today thank you so much from Bakersfield California USA

  • @budaguda9603
    @budaguda9603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    0:53 was it just me that thought it was a drone shot

  • @MemesnShet
    @MemesnShet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Reminds me of that mushy river that some people jump over that also gives a false sense of security

  • @rolfs2165
    @rolfs2165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I'm a bit surprised that nobody has taken it on themselves to replace the brooms again.

    • @sykeassai
      @sykeassai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Just a guess here, but I highly suspect that the Military would make a habit of using the replacements as target practice.

  • @TheSportsman1977
    @TheSportsman1977 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is awesome. Well done Tom! 👍🏼

  • @jchopat2099
    @jchopat2099 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely mad, I have lived next to this island for my whole life. Had family who worked there. So cool to see Tom so close to where I once lived.

  • @JoeBob79569
    @JoeBob79569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    When I heard "quicksand" I immediately decided I'm never going there.
    There's no way I'm going out sinking in quicksand like some guy in a cheap 80s B-movie. What a horrible way to go..

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Still better than spending decades in chasing happiness in an alien, consumer-centric world, only to find there is nothing, no-one, that can help you, only yourself, and you're tired, too tired...

    • @JoeBob79569
      @JoeBob79569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@vaclav_fejt That's debatable, but surely there's a better way to go than choking on a mouthful of wet sand?
      You might even be unluckier and get stuck halfway down and starve to death, or get eaten alive by crabs.

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JoeBob79569 Yes there are, but still...it's over in a couple of hours. Tens of hours tops.

    • @geoffreywilson7008
      @geoffreywilson7008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm hearing 'stuck, then eventually drowned' going off the pace of the tide and all. Maybe if you bring a long enough snorkel, might manage long enough to ponder flotation gear and cold-proofing.

    • @gemfyre855
      @gemfyre855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The quicksand won't kill you. But it will slow you down so the incoming tide can.

  • @andyp1510
    @andyp1510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    My parents walked this to school every morning.

    • @ruben307
      @ruben307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      doesnt the tide vary? would that mean they came a few hours late or early if the tide was in bad sync?

    • @variousthings6470
      @variousthings6470 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Uphill both ways!

    • @shiverinxd
      @shiverinxd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      r/woosh

    • @sussurus
      @sussurus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      uphill both ways in the dark and the pouring rain. and they liked it!

    • @JamesFreedmanIsVeryCool
      @JamesFreedmanIsVeryCool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ruben307 I think it was a joke

  • @MarkJT1000
    @MarkJT1000 ปีที่แล้ว

    Short, simple, to the point and fascinating as ever.

  • @HeyDropthat
    @HeyDropthat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Drew Dober over here guiding tours
    what a cool episode. Now I have like 25 broomway tabs open. Right to roam/right of way is such a cool concept to me, as a yank. Or really just the idea of a countryside path you can take to travel between towns and cities. Meanwhile in Florida I'm constantly crossing the street when a sidewalk randomly ends half way into a block.
    great stuff

  • @David-pt4bm
    @David-pt4bm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for always providing prime procrastination material

  • @joeytje50
    @joeytje50 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This makes me think this is kinda similar to the Dutch Wadden Sea. The Dutch Wadden Islands are absolutely islands in every sense of the way, but at low tide, there are guided tours where you walk from the mainland through a very specific route all the way to one of the islands. If you don't follow the guide, you could very well get stuck in the wrong parts of the sea, but the guides do know what route to take. Very interesting to see the UK has something like that as well.

    • @daniel_bohrer
      @daniel_bohrer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is also very usual in the German part of the Wadden Sea, and there are a lot of guided tours for tourists to learn about the nature of the wadden sea. There is also a tidal path which is regularly used to deliver the mail between the islands of Pellworm and Süderoog, the latter of which is only inhabited by two people. (Search for Knud Knudsen if you want to know more, but most content is in German.)

    • @classicambo9781
      @classicambo9781 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are a few little Islands around Tasmania that you can walk to as well at low tide - mostly on rocky land bridges though. Would be very dubious about mud.

  • @carreg-hollt
    @carreg-hollt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's something quite delightful about a mountain leader guiding around the Essex coast.

  • @daanwolthuis
    @daanwolthuis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tom will never run out of material for videos. Let's be honest this guy could talk us through replacing a used toilet roll and we would be hanging from his lips. Amazing talent to make subjects engaging and just very nice to listen too.

  • @ChrisH78
    @ChrisH78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Back when I were a lad that byway was uphill both ways

    • @ErilynOfAnachronos
      @ErilynOfAnachronos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Everything went downhill after that.

    • @areadenial2343
      @areadenial2343 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you walk both ways while the tide is going out, the elevation will be rising relative to sea level so yes, you can walk uphill both ways

  • @Kynan29
    @Kynan29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Glad to see Tom walk the path that my parents took on their way to school as children!

    • @Kynan29
      @Kynan29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ragnkja Coped

  • @jonathans1759
    @jonathans1759 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    You were tempting the fates walking there. A very wise decision not to wear the red shirt.

  • @b4builds89
    @b4builds89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tom Scott walks through wet sand... Awesome as always!!

  • @theonetheonlyjoey
    @theonetheonlyjoey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I work in Shoeburyness, just down the road from Foulness, and the place absolutely fascinates me. Great video, cheers for uploading

    • @MrChrisl182
      @MrChrisl182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I always go to east beach, goes right up next to a military place. Kids love it. Much quieter than southend sea front

    • @theonetheonlyjoey
      @theonetheonlyjoey 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's a lovely beach! Great chip shop nearby too haha

  • @evbo21395
    @evbo21395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My uncle used to be one of the handful of civilians that lived on Foulness (long story involving the Kray twins and him stealing the identity of Britain's oldest man...). I remember going to visit him as a kid and needing to go through the army checkpoint at the bridge, hoping he'd not forgotten to tell them ahead of time that we were coming. If only we'd known there was another route - we needn't have worried!

    • @ternovnik257
      @ternovnik257 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now I think we all want this story

  • @justhearmeout
    @justhearmeout 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Keeping it short. Your videos are amazing for so many reasons! Keep up the great work 👍

  • @tomtom4405
    @tomtom4405 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, what good timing to see the video! A month or so ago I learned a friend wants to walk this, so I'm planning to do it myself. Will watch this and take notes :)

  • @Opus313
    @Opus313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Tom goes to the dangerous places so that you don't have to. Thanks, Tom!

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      In 2020, that would be "outdoors"?

  • @bradarmstrong3952
    @bradarmstrong3952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I do like Britain's system of byways, bridleways, and footpaths. It's a cool tradition. Reading about them actually led me to the existence of one of these near where I live in the United States, which I then traveled to just to walk it.

  • @ianstokes291
    @ianstokes291 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great video Tom. Many years ago I used to visit the island when I worked in the MoD, and spend lunch in the local pub. Strange place.

  • @judedoesmetal7915
    @judedoesmetal7915 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've actually cycled on Foulness island a few times. They run a yearly cycle ride through the island open to the public and going across that bridge is quite special!

  • @thecrazyparrot1083
    @thecrazyparrot1083 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hey dude, thanks for existing. You encouraged me to play through some of my favorite games again and again with a different view, and I was able to start seeing the connections and artful design in them. Thanks for being incredibly intelligent and articulate

  • @rhysmorgan7027
    @rhysmorgan7027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Something about hearing them talk about it being an MOD firing range while the MOD firing range across the road from me blows something up was certainly appropriate

  • @gregcoyote1980
    @gregcoyote1980 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is on my doorstep and I've been meaning to walk it one day soon. Thanks for this!

  • @AGhostintheHouse
    @AGhostintheHouse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brooms were SWEPT away, I like it.

  • @uwuvision3211
    @uwuvision3211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    foulness is the cryptid of the essex islands. it just has that "lost media" vibe to me. i can't really explain it but it lowkey freaks me out.

  • @dougthedonkey1805
    @dougthedonkey1805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +305

    “Firing range keep out”
    Americans walking to school

    • @PurtyPurple
      @PurtyPurple 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Americans in school*

    • @trinidad17
      @trinidad17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      So I take it your school didn't have a firing range in it.

    • @vividandlucid
      @vividandlucid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Americans in America*

    • @archerymidnight3422
      @archerymidnight3422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      My cousin's school (in Britain) has a firing range lmao

    • @nullskull6860
      @nullskull6860 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Sharia law zone. Keep out.
      British walking through their cities.

  • @jaredthomas2957
    @jaredthomas2957 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why was this so incredible? Tom is the best at story telling.

  • @watsupcaz
    @watsupcaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I feel down and alone, Tom Scott gives me warmth and happiness

  • @alexanderpowell6768
    @alexanderpowell6768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Must be sad for a mountain guide to be working a flat path at sea level.

    • @ruben307
      @ruben307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      well its the UK maybe the incline of the shore is the biggest climb there.

    • @tombennett8727
      @tombennett8727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Haha! The Broomway is just one of the trips I do, and I make sure i get plenty of time in the more mountainous areas of the UK too. It's always good to mix things up; so long as I'm outside, I'm happy!

    • @svennoren9047
      @svennoren9047 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is the flattest piece of terrain I've seen! Must be the very definition of "tidal flat".

  • @hcneysuckle
    @hcneysuckle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    ive never been this fast - excited to watch the video :)

    • @slava489
      @slava489 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      same

  • @KuruGDI
    @KuruGDI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm still sitting in quarantine and yet Tom gives me these interesting places I never knew existed, but all the sudden want to visit ^^

  • @ColinH1973
    @ColinH1973 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Tom.