I appreciate the love you have for my country I love the way you are always honest with your comment and how you can see the mystery that lies within the history. The ability you both understand that all legends must have some substance. I really enjoy your productions you and your wife have that ability to make one feel part of the experience. Many thanks to you both it is an absolute pleasure to see your enjoyment xx
The majority of us in the UK who are British born like myself are so used to old places, the history and the scenery as every day part of life, also take them for granted. I lived in a cottage that was built in 1625 and to me and my late parents it was just a place to live in and that was all. The village that I lived in was founded by the Romans and is named after a Roman Centurion, the county town that we went shopping on a Saturday with my Mum, Dad and my little brother at the time is now over 1,200 years old to us it's just a town to do your weekly shopping or to have something to eat or go to the pub or go to the park to have a picnic by the river or play on the swings, slides or anything else in the children's play area. I am now live in a newer town but I live still surrounded by very old history to WW2 history but even now that I am a 60 year old man I still take it for granted as I was born here in England in London and bought up in London for the first three years of my life then we moved out of London to a place 25 miles outside London where I was bought up in the countryside. It's funny seeing people from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries outside of Europe who are gobsmacked when they see videos about the UK and the Republic of Ireland where my late Dad came from, weather it's the history, the towns, villages, cities, the countryside or our coastal areas they fall in love or are just in awe which we live in everyday of our lives. I have been to many places here in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland where my late Mum came from and the Republic of Ireland many times. I have had holidays in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland but my favourite place even though I had great holidays in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland my favourite places is Aviemore in Scotland which is a small town very close to the Cairngorm Mountains and Cornwall in South West England. The places that I stay at as a base is Newquay or Hayle then travel around the area. Cornwall is my dream place especially by the sea as it's my happy place. There are many great places to visit like the Eden Project, St Ives, Port Perrin, Penzance and many many other places in Cornwall. 💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🇮🇪🇮🇪
@adrianhughes8143 I'm same lived in a house in Airmyn East Yorkshire that was 350 yo first written statement that can be found of Airmyn is early 1200s, but it was just an old house In a nice village to me, as you see it every day
I live in Penzance & feel their vid definitely doesn't go down far enough. Can you imagine their reaction when they get a sight of St. Michael's Mount, Porthcurno, Kynance Cove, the Lizard, Lamorna Cove, St Ives Bay or the Coast around Zennor!
@@johnthomas9992 we just take it for granted as everything that Americans are in awe is just normal for us and we don't take a second look. 💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@kenny832 Americans would have a massive heart attack seeing those places. Cornwall is a very special place in our hearts as we have our holidays there plus we respect Cornwall and the people so much. We always stop at the Jamaica Inn on the way down to where ever we are staying and on the way back to the Hertfordshire. Of all the countries and places that I have ever visited, Cornwall is and will always be my favourite place in the world. 💂♂️ 💂♂️ 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🏴 🏴 🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@adrianhughes8143 I love it deeply & never take it for granted. We all say down here that when we've been on a visit "up country", coming home is like going on holiday. My friend's group wrote a song about it called Permanent Vacation! P.S. you mentioning Jamaica Inn evoked a fond memory; about 10 years ago I took 3 days hiking across Bodmin Moor from Minions (the Hurlers stone circle & the Cheesewring) through Sharp Tor, Berah Tor, camped on Kilmar Tor, next day had something to eat & few pints at Jamaica Inn when I crossed the A30, that night camped on Brown Willy (Cornwalls highest point) then Rough Tor & back. A fantastic South-West fest! gotta do that again before I get too old! - thanks for that! 🙂
Strangely lots of those little picture book villages and towns are used as the settings for murder mysteries - shows like midsummer murders, Jonathan creek, broadchurch etc right back to some Agatha Christie, all got popular on the British love for the idea there is something dark beneath the surface of these pretty places, Interesting how we like light and shade.
I live in Cornwall after moving from London and it’s a land of myth and magic wrapped in mystique and mystery with the most dramatic scenery imaginable. Thoroughly recommended,but then,these islands of ours are magical everywhere.
Great reaction. I am very proud of my medieval town. Established in the12th century. Population approx 18 thousand. We have 2 beaches, a harbour, ruins of a cathedral, castle, a tower and a country park and so much more.Friendly, Crime rate, extremely low. I never take it for granted. 💙from Scotland
It always annoys me that when someone shows Stonehenge they fail to tell you that it is part of a really enormous archaeological site, parts of which are, at least, 7,000 years old. The stones themselves are between 1,500 and 3,000 years old in this site. The visitor centre is a must see and contains models and information of the whole site and I would visit there first and also get a map of the site. However, speaking for myself, I think that Avebury is much more user friendly and has a very nice cafe as well.
I had a work collegue who used to constantly book a trip to spain each year and would boast constantly about it on the build up to it, when she had come back from her holiday very burnt and exhausted she would say she needed another holiday to get over it, in the mean time i had already visited multiple beaches, castles, cathedrals, stately homes, ancient ruins, ancient monuments, beautiful villages and forests etc all within an hour or so of my home city, all she ever did was look forward to that one week away, she never went anywhere else in the uk, she had no interest at all in her local heritage.
King Arthur's statue, although a recent addition, is awesome. I visited it on a wild stormy day. Invokes the folklore on which our nation is built. In times of trouble King Arthur will rise and again lead us, any day now then. 🤭
Thing about England is, if your not into history it's probably gonna mean nothing to you. However if your like me, a history nut, your gonna be walking through a dream. I feel sorry for people that live in any of the great European country's who are not into the past, they are seriously missing out... History is a wonderful pastime and hobby, I encourage everyone to persue it, your life will become sooo much richer... Great vid chaps!! Pip Pip!
Another 'happy place' might be watching 'Kirsten and Joerg - two Germans living in Britain'. They have lived here for quite a number of years and spend their leisure time travelling to all parts of the UK, making videos of the places, the villages, the cottages/hotels they stay in, even some of the shops they visit. They are 'quiet' videos, but very enjoyable and a very good way of forgetting a stressful day.
I live in Devon in the South West of England, the only place on this list I haven't visited is Lower Slaughter. I would add Clovelly, a little village in North Devon, no cars allowed down into the village itself. Cobbled streets lead down to what was a fishing village. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you - this was a great reaction to watch clutching a hot cup of tea and munching on a couple of chocolate biscuits. It's Autumn here, about 10 degrees Centigrade (50 degrees Fahrenheit) and a time to start wearing a jumper (sweater). The days are getting shorter as we start to think about lighting fires or turning on the central heating: catching up with our reading perhaps and generally giving ourselves permission to leave the salads behind and begin cooking roasts dinners, making savoury pies and puddings, oh and including a sticky toffee pudding (or two). Hopefully, the weather will not really get much colder until the end of December. January hovers around five degrees, cold it's true, but we often see the sun and beautiful blue skies. If we wrap up well, its a good time to go walking and try to work off all that festive Christmas/New Year food we indulged ourselves in - even more wonderful to come back home again and step into the warmth of the house. Take care. Love from the UK. Random thought. I always think Durdle Door looks more like a dragon drinking the water. So yes we do like fantasy and imagination I suppose.
I've always thought Durdle Door looks like a dragon or dinosaur drinking - it is on the Jurassic coast after all! I'm always amazed when people can't see it!!
We do live amongst history everywhere! I'm from the suburbs of South London and all around my area and home town are buildings, old walls, and parks that belonged to or are linked to King Henry VIII, noblemen and other people from that time and we don't even realise it. 3 school buildings in my area were Henry VIII's country estates or linked to him. A lot of our street names where we live are linked to history. Both my primary and high school had air raid shelters from WW2 in the parks next to them that we would play or hang out on and it was just normal for us- thinking about it now as an adult interested in history it blows my mind!
We tend to take our history for granted, but understand we see this every day, I live in Northumberland and I have a Castle at the end of our street, sounds crazy but I haven't been there for years, I do like Castles though and can visit 14 within one hours drive, by the way I live on Castle Close.
Great reaction Rich and Tiff. Most astronomers and archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was an ancient astronomical observatory. Stonehenge was constructed around 3000 BCE and 2200 BCE during the Neolithic period. The site is renowned for its alignment with the summer and winter solstices, with the sun rising over the Heel Stone on the summer solstice and setting in alignment with the central Altar Stone and Heel Stone on the winter solstice. Stonehenge likely served as a ceremonial site, a gathering place for ancient communities, and a prehistoric calendar to track the seasons for agricultural and ritual purposes. Fun-fact: Did you know there are several places in Australia and the USA where full scale replicas of the original construction of the 2200 BCE Stonehenge are built. This includes Esperance Stonehenge (Australia), Maryhill Stonehenge (USA), University of Texas Stonehenge (USA), Foamhenge, Centreville, Virginia, (USA) and Bamahenge, Baldwin County, Alabama (USA). Also on the subject of mythical creatures of the UK, apparently the Loch Ness Monster used to visit Stonehenge once a year for his summer vacations!🐍😂
We are continually finding out more and more about Stonehenge. Not only are some of the stones from hundreds of miles to the West in Pembrokeshire, they've just discovered that the Altar Stone comes from northern Scotland! Apart from one possible Roman/Greek reference, there is little direct knowledge of why it was built. This may be because, just before 2000 BC, the people who built it, our first farmers, disappeared! To be replaced by the Bronze Age Beaker People. The suspicion is plague. The Roman Baths at Bath are original up to about six foot, but the statues, etc. above it were built about 1900. Nevertheless it is a wonderful site to visit, with a very good museum. They don't allow you to swim in it, because they can't keep the water safe from bugs, but there is now a spa nearby using the waters, which is supposed to be good but very expensive. Bath Abbey next door is spectacular. I wish they'd included the other great and beautiful Moor in Devon, Dartmoor.
Salisbury is beautiful and Hal doesn’t show enough of it at all. Same goes for Cirencester, which is possibly my favourite town in England. So many gorgeous alleyways and courtyards and fantastic artisan bakeries and independent cafes and restaurants round every turn. He showed one street and not even all of it!
@@Trippingthroughadventures your enthusiasm and love for our country is wonderful. You guys definitely need to emigrate here one day and live your dreams 😊 I’m not sure if you’ve checked it out yet but perhaps take a look at the Norfolk Broads, it’s a beautiful area full of rivers and lakes in the east of England
To an American 200 miles in not far - to a Brit 200 years in not long. Sadly true that many numpties here, many new arrivals, simply have no appreciation or value it and much would be swept away for tross. What a waste! Glastonbury Tor is magic on a warm just blustery day where you can pretend you are on your own and all below is yours to ponder.
Hi Guys, great to see some of the natural wonders of S.W. England reacted to. We live in a land of history, it isn't our fantasy, it's other people's fantasies.
I live in a small market tiwn, Wokingham, in Berkshire (bARKshire) and have visited the USA 30 times - from NYC to San Francisco to Alaska to Mount Dora and Bok to Maine to New Mexico and there IS lots of history if you go back to the indigenous peoples. Wokingham is a small market town going back to Saxon in pre-England times but is just a small insignificant place that few British people have heard of. A few of the pubs have been here since Elizabethan times, a street with houses from the 1400s, just lived in and accepted as if they were built yesterday, Georgian buildings, Victorian buildings, buildings two years old, yet we are just over 30 miles from London. The planes going over will land at London Heathrow Airport in FIVE minutes time. Our motorway will take us to Wales, another country, in less than two hours. Lorries (trucks) from Spain, Poland seen every day. Cars from Estonia, Ukraine, Belgium seen every day. Yet despite our history, high speed trains from nearby Reading will take us anywhere in England, Wales or Scotland or via London to anywhere in Europe. And, we get $1.25 to every £! So do come again!
lol if you was in Mount Dora you were in our neck of the woods. Live about 20 minutes from there lol. What did you think ? my favorite town in America (hometown bias obviously ) lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures One daughter and family lives in Fairbanks, AK, and the other in Vero Beach, FL but has lived in Wellington FL and Longmont, CO. Yes Mount Dora and nearby Bok both visited. Have you heard the bells made in London in the Bok Carillion? Mount Dora is nice but have been to many similar and small places of equal standing; for example, Longmont in Colorado, Fort Collins in Colorado, Bar Harbor in Maine, Stillwater in Minnesota - and many more. The Queen's Head pub in our town of Wokingham refers not to our late-departed Queen Elisabeth but to the FIRST Queen Elizabeth who died in 1603 when Wokingham was an established town which used the local silk "industry" to make the silk stockings for her coronation in 1558. All Saints Church, five minutes away, was built in the 1300s on an earlier Saxon site i.e. before England existed! What is SO different here is that people walk; Wokingham is always so busy with people walking from shop to shop to supermarket (grocery store) to the NHS doctors (FREE!) surgery, you name it, everywhere is walkable with about 250 shops, six charity shops (Goodwill), eight Estate Agents (realtor shops), English, Chinese, Bangladeshi, Italian, Spanish, Thai, French restaurants, several of each in Wokingham. Market stalls on Market Days. Its railway station was opened in 1849 and now has about a train every ten minutes to several destinations including London an hour away. A town you have never heard of! But then few British people have either! It is just one of the hundreds of such places in the UK.
Hey , I live in the south west of England, so pleased you love the area I live , I've been to all these places on the video , they really are beautiful 👍🏻
Man, I love your videos! You are absolutely right that we have so many historic and fascinating places in the UK. I've visited many of them and they are wonderful! However the most amazing site I've ever visited was the Badlands of Montana. The Dinosaur finds blew my mind and it's a place I will never forget! There was even a town with my name where the local folks could not have been more kind and welcoming. The only sad thing I found was that they've made a tourist attraction out of the biggest, ugliest hole in the ground in Butte, Montana! Talk about weird! I would still go back tomorrow and visit Evel Knievel's home bar, which I loved! 😍😍😍
Did you know that Britain has ancient temperate rain forests? They are truly stunning. Magic Carpet Media have a great video on YT - The Temperate Rainforests of Southwest England.
Exmoor, plenty of walking, Porlock is very nice as is Porlock Weir; nice hotels in Lynmouth and there is a water-powered cliff lift between Lynmouth and Lynton.
Your absolutely right Rich, we take this for granted. I live slap bang in the middle of all these locations and I couldn’t sell it as well as you just did. Love the enthusiasm.
I was in Bradford-on-Avon earlier today. The Tithe barn is from the 1300s- it's huge and has a load of apotropaic marks (magic protection symbols) carved into the entrance ways and near the windows to protect the stores from spells etc... and there's a tiny Saxon church- one of the oldest in the country from perhaps 920 AD. CRAZY old!
The Baptist denomination wasn't an American creation. It arose from the English separatist movement in the 17th century. Some clergymen felt that as infants couldn't be responsible for their actions or decisions made on their behalf, it wasn't appropriate to baptise them, as was done in the Church of England. The Southwest really is stunning. My folks are from Cornwall, and as a kid I spent many hours on the coast around Tintagel and Trebarwith exploring those very cliffs and caves. I always got strict instructions to watch the tide incase I got trapped!
Bath is great certainly worth staying there for at least 3 days - the Railway Hotel is cheap but good or at the top end is a boutique hotel on the Royal Crescent, in between there are plenty of hotels or airBnB, etc.. You can also stay at the modern Baths.
i live just a few miles from glastonbury and cycle there frequently just to get my zen back , belated happy anniversary to you both from chedzoy somerset xx kisses just because
You should have a look at Norfolk east coast of uk with ice cream boat's beautiful country walks and just a lovely place with norwich city castle and cathedrals a wealth of history and film made there
Enjoyed the video but more so enjoyed the appreciation you guys have for the UK, maybe you guys should rent a camper on your next visit and tour the places you really want to see at your own leisure, just an idea that may be of interest, BritStops will show you many places around the UK for camping and the fee's are not too expensive, i feel you would see more that way, anyways thanks for the video's as always and hope to see you in the UK again someday enjoying what we have to offer.
Funny you say how when you don't live in England these places are more magical to the outsider because they're more of a mystery. We as Brits can still get the same sense of WOW . There was a church near me that has an 8th century crypt. You can go down and visit it. It blows ,y ,mind ever time. Its big old column and uneven large flagstone floor slabs. I think about what it has seen. Blows my mind .
Yes, we take it for granted for instance look outside my bedroom window down the road is a castle it was constructed by the Romans then by the Normans Portchester Castle
The Baptist Church started in England, then Holland, with English separatists (who wanted to separate from the Church of England). These people obviously ended up in the New World, which is why you think it started in America.
The Baptist Church started in the UK in the 17th century, along with the Quakers & numerous other Protestant groups. 90%+ of the UK is still not built upon. All the structures added together just cover 1-2 % of the land area, with a great deal of it just open countryside & farmland, forest, moorland & mountains. The country may be 'crowded' with people, but this is only true of the larger cities, & even London has a great amount of green open space.
The first time I saw Stonehenge was just before dawn, VW were making a advert. I think it was 1989 and totally crazy to see amazing. Roman city's are all over Chester is amazing even in shops there are ruins and a fantastic amphitheatre, the Rows are fantastic and extremely unusual.
OK, so I had to rewind this 3 times to find out which bench you were talking about. But somebody's head was in the way. Huh, hum! Yes, a feel good video. From Yorkshire
You're right....we don't realise the beauty and wonder of this amazing land. So much to discover right under our noses. I've lived in London for over 50 years....and due to circumstances, mostly never ventured too far. They say it's never too late eh ? 😊
Though Salisbury Plain is famous for Stonehenge, in that same area, Salisbury Plain has a huge section owned by the military. The UKs largest military training area is there. It's also got unique wildlife in that area with several things only really being able to exist due to the military vehicles essentially tilling the land, constantly driving around there. One of the worlds largest flying birds also inhabits the area, the Great Bustard. I have a video on the wildlife in that area that you might like to see. "Wild Britain with Ray Mears - Series 3 Episode 4 - Salisbury Plain - 2013 HD"
Baptism is European in origin. Beginning in Amsterdam but led by an English pastor who was a dissenter from the Church of England. It was later introduced into the US
👍 and there's much more in the SW (I'd probably recommend some other places, but it depends on your preferences). Tintagel was never a real castle/fort. I think that the Baptist religion was originally set up by Englishmen in Holland (greater religious freedom for non-Establishment Protestantism in Holland than in England at that time) - not sure if the first official Baptist church was in the UK or the USA - but there are many Baptist churches over here.
Crazy to think that stonehenge is older than the pyramids of Giza. Stonehenge was already 500-1000 years old before first pyramid was built. A mile or so away is an earten berm that was constructed around 3100 BC 😮 crazy old 😮
Salisbury has an even more interesting history, it only really exists due to the old original city becoming abandoned and essentially relocated to Salisbury, which was built from scratch. The original city still exists today as an ancient ruin. I put up a video on it recently. Interesting stuff "Secrets from the Sky - Episode 2 - Old Sarum - 2014 HD"
Hi. Publisher of an Arthurian magazine here. I'm afraid Tintafek and the West Country has very little to do with King Arthur besides being the place of his birth. For Arthur's true home you need to look to North Wales.
@Trippingthroughadventures I can recommend 'King Arthur: The True Story' which uses language, old texts, and archaeology to find out who he was and where he lived. Also, that feeling you have about Britain is known in Welsh as "Hiraeth". A feeling of homesick longing even if you're not from there or have even have ever been there.
There is a problem with the Stonehenge cicle, in that the Victorians rearranged some of the main and circle stones, so it is NOT as it was when it was first built. Also stonehenge and the Avebury stone circle are some of the oldest stone built places in the world. Avebury and Stonehenge were historically medical centres. The Avebury archer proves this. Do look up videos on why he went to this area twice in his life time from Austria.
@@Trippingthroughadventures Yeah, considering Aust European settlement in Aust is only a few hundred yrs old. Two kisses and a few firm handshakes to you both.
I am not sure how these videos about Britain choose the ten best places. I don't think this video has the ten choices I would have made. The whole of western England is filled with places of interest, beautiful scenery and lots of stories of the tin mining in Cornwall, the St. Austell porcelain clay mines and the rugged coastlines with astounding views. On the northern coast Clovelly with its donkeys to take you down the steep pathways to the sea (It is a private property now so there is a fee) and Dartmoor with its free running ponies or Dartmouth which to me is one of the most beautiful estuary towns.
Its strange you paused on the cave and said "there's magic in there" as the cave beneath tintagel castle is known as Merlin's cave and in legend is where he lived
I have friends who live in London and I spent a couple of years living there myself. Honestly most city dwellers, London or elsewhere, very rarely leave and go exploring. Their perspective of the UK really annoys me. As they say "disgruntled people shout the loudest".
Immagine living in a country that has hollow footpaths that are at least ten feet deep, and some even deeper that date back for up to 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. That is what we have some of the Holloways as they are called are only a few hundred years old, however many are up to 5,000 years old, with a few being older. Then Cornwall was known to the ancient Greeks for it's tin, and the phonicians called Cornwall the casiterides, or isles of Tin. Tintagel is a fake castle built for the Arthur myth.
Stonehenge and the hundreds of stone circles and megaliths dotted around these isles were NOT built by the Druids -- they were built thousands of years before the Druids by a neolithic people that were largely wiped out and replaced by later people, and those later people and subsequent migrations from the continent then formed the Celtic people. The druids were the leaders, healers, wise men and "priests". All their knowledge was transmitted orally and it was said it took many years of training because they had to commit ALL the knowledge and stories to memory. A lot of the esotericism and fascination with the Druids derives from the Victorian era and a lot of misconceptions about the Celtic people and religion while the English distanced themselves from their own true ancestry and origin as a Germanic people, largely because of the geopolitics of the time. Personally, I find the mysteries of the old English pre-Christian religion more interesting myself because we know less about it than the Celtic religions - yet our place names in towns and villages and natural features in England are named after those old English gods, monuments dedicated to them, and they touch our lives in stories and folklore. Stonehenge was likely used by both the Celtic Druids and also the Anglo Saxons, but at different time periods, of course.
Stonehenge is amazing but not worth a visit just to see it. It is too expensive and commercialised. There are other free, stone circles in the area just as amazing that you can touch and feel without hindrance.
I appreciate the love you have for my country I love the way you are always honest with your comment and how you can see the mystery that lies within the history. The ability you both understand that all legends must have some substance. I really enjoy your productions you and your wife have that ability to make one feel part of the experience. Many thanks to you both it is an absolute pleasure to see your enjoyment xx
He forgot to mention that Salisbury Cathedral hold one of the four surviving copies of Magna Carta.
Wells is beautiful.... and the cathedral? Stunning.
The majority of us in the UK who are British born like myself are so used to old places, the history and the scenery as every day part of life, also take them for granted. I lived in a cottage that was built in 1625 and to me and my late parents it was just a place to live in and that was all. The village that I lived in was founded by the Romans and is named after a Roman Centurion, the county town that we went shopping on a Saturday with my Mum, Dad and my little brother at the time is now over 1,200 years old to us it's just a town to do your weekly shopping or to have something to eat or go to the pub or go to the park to have a picnic by the river or play on the swings, slides or anything else in the children's play area. I am now live in a newer town but I live still surrounded by very old history to WW2 history but even now that I am a 60 year old man I still take it for granted as I was born here in England in London and bought up in London for the first three years of my life then we moved out of London to a place 25 miles outside London where I was bought up in the countryside. It's funny seeing people from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries outside of Europe who are gobsmacked when they see videos about the UK and the Republic of Ireland where my late Dad came from, weather it's the history, the towns, villages, cities, the countryside or our coastal areas they fall in love or are just in awe which we live in everyday of our lives. I have been to many places here in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland where my late Mum came from and the Republic of Ireland many times. I have had holidays in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland but my favourite place even though I had great holidays in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland my favourite places is Aviemore in Scotland which is a small town very close to the Cairngorm Mountains and Cornwall in South West England. The places that I stay at as a base is Newquay or Hayle then travel around the area. Cornwall is my dream place especially by the sea as it's my happy place. There are many great places to visit like the Eden Project, St Ives, Port Perrin, Penzance and many many other places in Cornwall. 💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🇮🇪🇮🇪
@adrianhughes8143 I'm same lived in a house in Airmyn East Yorkshire that was 350 yo first written statement that can be found of Airmyn is early 1200s, but it was just an old house In a nice village to me, as you see it every day
I live in Penzance & feel their vid definitely doesn't go down far enough. Can you imagine their reaction when they get a sight of St. Michael's Mount, Porthcurno, Kynance Cove, the Lizard, Lamorna Cove, St Ives Bay or the Coast around Zennor!
@@johnthomas9992 we just take it for granted as everything that Americans are in awe is just normal for us and we don't take a second look. 💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@kenny832 Americans would have a massive heart attack seeing those places. Cornwall is a very special place in our hearts as we have our holidays there plus we respect Cornwall and the people so much. We always stop at the Jamaica Inn on the way down to where ever we are staying and on the way back to the Hertfordshire. Of all the countries and places that I have ever visited, Cornwall is and will always be my favourite place in the world. 💂♂️ 💂♂️ 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🏴 🏴 🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@adrianhughes8143 I love it deeply & never take it for granted. We all say down here that when we've been on a visit "up country", coming home is like going on holiday. My friend's group wrote a song about it called Permanent Vacation!
P.S. you mentioning Jamaica Inn evoked a fond memory; about 10 years ago I took 3 days hiking across Bodmin Moor from Minions (the Hurlers stone circle & the Cheesewring) through Sharp Tor, Berah Tor, camped on Kilmar Tor, next day had something to eat & few pints at Jamaica Inn when I crossed the A30, that night camped on Brown Willy (Cornwalls highest point) then Rough Tor & back. A fantastic South-West fest! gotta do that again before I get too old! - thanks for that! 🙂
The sea cave at Tintagel is called 'Merlin's Cave'. The legend goes that the wizard Merlin found the baby King Arthur washed up in the cave.
Strangely lots of those little picture book villages and towns are used as the settings for murder mysteries - shows like midsummer murders, Jonathan creek, broadchurch etc right back to some Agatha Christie, all got popular on the British love for the idea there is something dark beneath the surface of these pretty places, Interesting how we like light and shade.
I live in Cornwall after moving from London and it’s a land of myth and magic wrapped in mystique and mystery with the most dramatic scenery imaginable.
Thoroughly recommended,but then,these islands of ours are magical everywhere.
*swerve the cities,overpriced and crawling with tourists,get out to where the neon turns to wood.
London (my hometown) is NOT England !!
You have the Soul of a Poet...never be ashamed of that.....
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Great reaction.
I am very proud of my medieval town. Established in the12th century. Population approx 18 thousand. We have
2 beaches, a harbour, ruins of a cathedral, castle, a tower and a country park and so much more.Friendly,
Crime rate, extremely low.
I never take it for granted.
💙from Scotland
It always annoys me that when someone shows Stonehenge they fail to tell you that it is part of a really enormous archaeological site, parts of which are, at least, 7,000 years old. The stones themselves are between 1,500 and 3,000 years old in this site. The visitor centre is a must see and contains models and information of the whole site and I would visit there first and also get a map of the site.
However, speaking for myself, I think that Avebury is much more user friendly and has a very nice cafe as well.
I had a work collegue who used to constantly book a trip to spain each year and would boast constantly about it on the build up to it, when she had come back from her holiday very burnt and exhausted she would say she needed another holiday to get over it, in the mean time i had already visited multiple beaches, castles, cathedrals, stately homes, ancient ruins, ancient monuments, beautiful villages and forests etc all within an hour or so of my home city, all she ever did was look forward to that one week away, she never went anywhere else in the uk, she had no interest at all in her local heritage.
And her holiday in Spain would be hotel, beach, bar, hotel, beach, bar. No sightseeing at all if she was a typical holidaymaker.
King Arthur's statue, although a recent addition, is awesome. I visited it on a wild stormy day. Invokes the folklore on which our nation is built. In times of trouble King Arthur will rise and again lead us, any day now then. 🤭
I love how you describe feeling like you left a piece of yourself behind. That’s how I feel about a couple of places too.
Thing about England is, if your not into history it's probably gonna mean nothing to you. However if your like me, a history nut, your gonna be walking through a dream. I feel sorry for people that live in any of the great European country's who are not into the past, they are seriously missing out... History is a wonderful pastime and hobby, I encourage everyone to persue it, your life will become sooo much richer... Great vid chaps!! Pip Pip!
That was stunning. Thanks guys!
Thank you 😊
You have to come up north Chatsworth house. The peak district...bring walking boots though for the peaks..
Salisbury is on the edge of the Salisbury Plain and there are plenty of walks, though some of the plain is a military training area.
Another 'happy place' might be watching 'Kirsten and Joerg - two Germans living in Britain'. They have lived here for quite a number of years and spend their leisure time travelling to all parts of the UK, making videos of the places, the villages, the cottages/hotels they stay in, even some of the shops they visit. They are 'quiet' videos, but very enjoyable and a very good way of forgetting a stressful day.
I live in Devon in the South West of England, the only place on this list I haven't visited is Lower Slaughter. I would add Clovelly, a little village in North Devon, no cars allowed down into the village itself. Cobbled streets lead down to what was a fishing village. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you - this was a great reaction to watch clutching a hot cup of tea and munching on a couple of chocolate biscuits. It's Autumn here, about 10 degrees Centigrade (50 degrees Fahrenheit) and a time to start wearing a jumper (sweater). The days are getting shorter as we start to think about lighting fires or turning on the central heating: catching up with our reading perhaps and generally giving ourselves permission to leave the salads behind and begin cooking roasts dinners, making savoury pies and puddings, oh and including a sticky toffee pudding (or two). Hopefully, the weather will not really get much colder until the end of December. January hovers around five degrees, cold it's true, but we often see the sun and beautiful blue skies. If we wrap up well, its a good time to go walking and try to work off all that festive Christmas/New Year food we indulged ourselves in - even more wonderful to come back home again and step into the warmth of the house. Take care. Love from the UK. Random thought. I always think Durdle Door looks more like a dragon drinking the water. So yes we do like fantasy and imagination I suppose.
I've always thought Durdle Door looks like a dragon or dinosaur drinking - it is on the Jurassic coast after all! I'm always amazed when people can't see it!!
We do live amongst history everywhere! I'm from the suburbs of South London and all around my area and home town are buildings, old walls, and parks that belonged to or are linked to King Henry VIII, noblemen and other people from that time and we don't even realise it. 3 school buildings in my area were Henry VIII's country estates or linked to him.
A lot of our street names where we live are linked to history.
Both my primary and high school had air raid shelters from WW2 in the parks next to them that we would play or hang out on and it was just normal for us- thinking about it now as an adult interested in history it blows my mind!
Really respectful reaction guys!!! 👏🏼
We tend to take our history for granted, but understand we see this every day, I live in Northumberland and I have a Castle at the end of our street, sounds crazy but I haven't been there for years, I do like Castles though and can visit 14 within one hours drive, by the way I live on Castle Close.
Great reaction Rich and Tiff. Most astronomers and archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was an ancient astronomical observatory. Stonehenge was constructed around 3000 BCE and 2200 BCE during the Neolithic period. The site is renowned for its alignment with the summer and winter solstices, with the sun rising over the Heel Stone on the summer solstice and setting in alignment with the central Altar Stone and Heel Stone on the winter solstice. Stonehenge likely served as a ceremonial site, a gathering place for ancient communities, and a prehistoric calendar to track the seasons for agricultural and ritual purposes. Fun-fact: Did you know there are several places in Australia and the USA where full scale replicas of the original construction of the 2200 BCE Stonehenge are built. This includes Esperance Stonehenge (Australia), Maryhill Stonehenge (USA), University of Texas Stonehenge (USA), Foamhenge, Centreville, Virginia, (USA) and Bamahenge, Baldwin County, Alabama (USA). Also on the subject of mythical creatures of the UK, apparently the Loch Ness Monster used to visit Stonehenge once a year for his summer vacations!🐍😂
We are continually finding out more and more about Stonehenge. Not only are some of the stones from hundreds of miles to the West in Pembrokeshire, they've just discovered that the Altar Stone comes from northern Scotland! Apart from one possible Roman/Greek reference, there is little direct knowledge of why it was built. This may be because, just before 2000 BC, the people who built it, our first farmers, disappeared! To be replaced by the Bronze Age Beaker People. The suspicion is plague.
The Roman Baths at Bath are original up to about six foot, but the statues, etc. above it were built about 1900. Nevertheless it is a wonderful site to visit, with a very good museum. They don't allow you to swim in it, because they can't keep the water safe from bugs, but there is now a spa nearby using the waters, which is supposed to be good but very expensive. Bath Abbey next door is spectacular.
I wish they'd included the other great and beautiful Moor in Devon, Dartmoor.
Agree with all of that - especially Dartmoor (I much prefer Dartmoor to Exmoor)
Love Dartmoor & Bodmin Moor
Salisbury is beautiful and Hal doesn’t show enough of it at all. Same goes for Cirencester, which is possibly my favourite town in England. So many gorgeous alleyways and courtyards and fantastic artisan bakeries and independent cafes and restaurants round every turn. He showed one street and not even all of it!
Lovely to view our country through your eyes. I hope you do manage to visit again soon.
We will! In a few months we will be back
I’ve been in that cave at Tintagel and I can confirm that there is a Dragon that lives in there 🐉😂
Well obviously that’s a dragons cave lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures your enthusiasm and love for our country is wonderful. You guys definitely need to emigrate here one day and live your dreams 😊 I’m not sure if you’ve checked it out yet but perhaps take a look at the Norfolk Broads, it’s a beautiful area full of rivers and lakes in the east of England
I went in that cave years ago.... my dad took yesrs ago... Merlin's cave.
The world is full of strange people. How come you have only 10,000 subs? C'mon everybody, get behind these genuine people. ❤❤❤❤
That’s what I’m screaming 😂🤣😂 thank you
Bourton on the water is a beautiful place…. Give it a look
The South West of England is a magical part of Britain,I fell in in love with it when I was a kid with great help from my dad he felt the same
Hey JS.. The fella streamer here, and a good looking fella he is, looks like Angus from the Australian band, Angus & Julia Stone... Great band btw...
The Baptist church started in 17th century England so we do have churches here.
To an American 200 miles in not far - to a Brit 200 years in not long. Sadly true that many numpties here, many new arrivals, simply have no appreciation or value it and much would be swept away for tross. What a waste!
Glastonbury Tor is magic on a warm just blustery day where you can pretend you are on your own and all below is yours to ponder.
Hi Guys, great to see some of the natural wonders of S.W. England reacted to. We live in a land of history, it isn't our fantasy, it's other people's fantasies.
I live in a small market tiwn, Wokingham, in Berkshire (bARKshire) and have visited the USA 30 times - from NYC to San Francisco to Alaska to Mount Dora and Bok to Maine to New Mexico and there IS lots of history if you go back to the indigenous peoples.
Wokingham is a small market town going back to Saxon in pre-England times but is just a small insignificant place that few British people have heard of. A few of the pubs have been here since Elizabethan times, a street with houses from the 1400s, just lived in and accepted as if they were built yesterday, Georgian buildings, Victorian buildings, buildings two years old, yet we are just over 30 miles from London. The planes going over will land at London Heathrow Airport in FIVE minutes time. Our motorway will take us to Wales, another country, in less than two hours. Lorries (trucks) from Spain, Poland seen every day. Cars from Estonia, Ukraine, Belgium seen every day.
Yet despite our history, high speed trains from nearby Reading will take us anywhere in England, Wales or Scotland or via London to anywhere in Europe.
And, we get $1.25 to every £!
So do come again!
lol if you was in Mount Dora you were in our neck of the woods. Live about 20 minutes from there lol. What did you think ? my favorite town in America (hometown bias obviously ) lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures One daughter and family lives in Fairbanks, AK, and the other in Vero Beach, FL but has lived in Wellington FL and Longmont, CO. Yes Mount Dora and nearby Bok both visited. Have you heard the bells made in London in the Bok Carillion? Mount Dora is nice but have been to many similar and small places of equal standing; for example, Longmont in Colorado, Fort Collins in Colorado, Bar Harbor in Maine, Stillwater in Minnesota - and many more. The Queen's Head pub in our town of Wokingham refers not to our late-departed Queen Elisabeth but to the FIRST Queen Elizabeth who died in 1603 when Wokingham was an established town which used the local silk "industry" to make the silk stockings for her coronation in 1558.
All Saints Church, five minutes away, was built in the 1300s on an earlier Saxon site i.e. before England existed! What is SO different here is that people walk; Wokingham is always so busy with people walking from shop to shop to supermarket (grocery store) to the NHS doctors (FREE!) surgery, you name it, everywhere is walkable with about 250 shops, six charity shops (Goodwill), eight Estate Agents (realtor shops), English, Chinese, Bangladeshi, Italian, Spanish, Thai, French restaurants, several of each in Wokingham. Market stalls on Market Days. Its railway station was opened in 1849 and now has about a train every ten minutes to several destinations including London an hour away. A town you have never heard of! But then few British people have either! It is just one of the hundreds of such places in the UK.
Hey , I live in the south west of England, so pleased you love the area I live , I've been to all these places on the video , they really are beautiful 👍🏻
Man, I love your videos! You are absolutely right that we have so many historic and fascinating places in the UK. I've visited many of them and they are wonderful! However the most amazing site I've ever visited was the Badlands of Montana. The Dinosaur finds blew my mind and it's a place I will never forget! There was even a town with my name where the local folks could not have been more kind and welcoming. The only sad thing I found was that they've made a tourist attraction out of the biggest, ugliest hole in the ground in Butte, Montana! Talk about weird! I would still go back tomorrow and visit Evel Knievel's home bar, which I loved! 😍😍😍
Did you know that Britain has ancient temperate rain forests? They are truly stunning. Magic Carpet Media have a great video on YT - The Temperate Rainforests of Southwest England.
If you have kids I bet you are a wonderful father, feeding their imagination.
Exmoor, plenty of walking, Porlock is very nice as is Porlock Weir; nice hotels in Lynmouth and there is a water-powered cliff lift between Lynmouth and Lynton.
Your absolutely right Rich, we take this for granted. I live slap bang in the middle of all these locations and I couldn’t sell it as well as you just did. Love the enthusiasm.
Thanks for reminding us I guess sometimes we take it for granted .
You are so right we need to appreciate what we have.
I was in Bradford-on-Avon earlier today. The Tithe barn is from the 1300s- it's huge and has a load of apotropaic marks (magic protection symbols) carved into the entrance ways and near the windows to protect the stores from spells etc... and there's a tiny Saxon church- one of the oldest in the country from perhaps 920 AD. CRAZY old!
The Baptist denomination wasn't an American creation. It arose from the English separatist movement in the 17th century. Some clergymen felt that as infants couldn't be responsible for their actions or decisions made on their behalf, it wasn't appropriate to baptise them, as was done in the Church of England.
The Southwest really is stunning. My folks are from Cornwall, and as a kid I spent many hours on the coast around Tintagel and Trebarwith exploring those very cliffs and caves. I always got strict instructions to watch the tide incase I got trapped!
Bath is great certainly worth staying there for at least 3 days - the Railway Hotel is cheap but good or at the top end is a boutique hotel on the Royal Crescent, in between there are plenty of hotels or airBnB, etc.. You can also stay at the modern Baths.
i live just a few miles from glastonbury and cycle there frequently just to get my zen back , belated happy anniversary to you both from chedzoy somerset xx kisses just because
You should have a look at Norfolk east coast of uk with ice cream boat's beautiful country walks and just a lovely place with norwich city castle and cathedrals a wealth of history and film made there
Enjoyed the video but more so enjoyed the appreciation you guys have for the UK, maybe you guys should rent a camper on your next visit and tour the places you really want to see at your own leisure, just an idea that may be of interest, BritStops will show you many places around the UK for camping and the fee's are not too expensive, i feel you would see more that way, anyways thanks for the video's as always and hope to see you in the UK again someday enjoying what we have to offer.
Alway,s great to catch your video,s great content reminds us of how beautiful our island home is ❤❤
Funny you say how when you don't live in England these places are more magical to the outsider because they're more of a mystery.
We as Brits can still get the same sense of WOW . There was a church near me that has an 8th century crypt. You can go down and visit it. It blows ,y ,mind ever time. Its big old column and uneven large flagstone floor slabs. I think about what it has seen. Blows my mind .
Yes, we take it for granted for instance look outside my bedroom window down the road is a castle it was constructed by the Romans then by the Normans Portchester Castle
The Baptist Church started in England, then Holland, with English separatists (who wanted to separate from the Church of England). These people obviously ended up in the New World, which is why you think it started in America.
I’ve climbed up that hill to Glastonbury Tor. Phew!
The Baptist Church started in the UK in the 17th century, along with the Quakers & numerous other Protestant groups. 90%+ of the UK is still not built upon.
All the structures added together just cover 1-2 % of the land area, with a great deal of it just open countryside & farmland, forest, moorland & mountains.
The country may be 'crowded' with people, but this is only true of the larger cities, & even London has a great amount of green open space.
The first time I saw Stonehenge was just before dawn, VW were making a advert. I think it was 1989 and totally crazy to see amazing.
Roman city's are all over Chester is amazing even in shops there are ruins and a fantastic amphitheatre, the Rows are fantastic and extremely unusual.
At 21mins 30, look at Durdle Door again to see if you can see the petrified dragon dipping its snout into the sea.
@@slubbberdegullion yes I see it, blooming amazing x
OK, so I had to rewind this 3 times to find out which bench you were talking about. But somebody's head was in the way. Huh, hum! Yes, a feel good video. From Yorkshire
You saying I got a big head 😂🤣😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures 🤔Umm...
You're right....we don't realise the beauty and wonder of this amazing land. So much to discover right under our noses. I've lived in London for over 50 years....and due to circumstances, mostly never ventured too far. They say it's never too late eh ? 😊
Though Salisbury Plain is famous for Stonehenge, in that same area, Salisbury Plain has a huge section owned by the military. The UKs largest military training area is there. It's also got unique wildlife in that area with several things only really being able to exist due to the military vehicles essentially tilling the land, constantly driving around there. One of the worlds largest flying birds also inhabits the area, the Great Bustard. I have a video on the wildlife in that area that you might like to see.
"Wild Britain with Ray Mears - Series 3 Episode 4 - Salisbury Plain - 2013 HD"
Bath is beautiful... been lots if time. Only been to Stonehenge once though...
seem like you guys love the history....you should do a video on the National trust
Love Tintagel.... very commercialised though.... been a few times.
The wonder you feel looking at these places is how I felt whenever I visited the Greek isles living history
Subscribed after your speech at 14.28 Very impressive 👏 🇬🇧
I love Somerset, too, that's why I live here!
Been to Glastonbury loads of times.... but never up to the Tor. And Glastonbury Abbey is 'supposed' to be where King Arthur is buried.
Baptism is European in origin. Beginning in Amsterdam but led by an English pastor who was a dissenter from the Church of England. It was later introduced into the US
Salisbury Cathedral is so pretty it even attracts visitors from Russia
👍 and there's much more in the SW (I'd probably recommend some other places, but it depends on your preferences).
Tintagel was never a real castle/fort.
I think that the Baptist religion was originally set up by Englishmen in Holland (greater religious freedom for non-Establishment Protestantism in Holland than in England at that time) - not sure if the first official Baptist church was in the UK or the USA - but there are many Baptist churches over here.
Crazy to think that stonehenge is older than the pyramids of Giza. Stonehenge was already 500-1000 years old before first pyramid was built. A mile or so away is an earten berm that was constructed around 3100 BC 😮 crazy old 😮
Salisbury has an even more interesting history, it only really exists due to the old original city becoming abandoned and essentially relocated to Salisbury, which was built from scratch. The original city still exists today as an ancient ruin. I put up a video on it recently. Interesting stuff
"Secrets from the Sky - Episode 2 - Old Sarum - 2014 HD"
Hi. Publisher of an Arthurian magazine here. I'm afraid Tintafek and the West Country has very little to do with King Arthur besides being the place of his birth. For Arthur's true home you need to look to North Wales.
We did a video on wales and it talked a lot about King Arthur. Very interested in your publication could you share more info on that?
@Trippingthroughadventures I can recommend 'King Arthur: The True Story' which uses language, old texts, and archaeology to find out who he was and where he lived.
Also, that feeling you have about Britain is known in Welsh as "Hiraeth". A feeling of homesick longing even if you're not from there or have even have ever been there.
You have to remember we have history going back thousands of years before the Romans and so much is still accessible
There is a problem with the Stonehenge cicle, in that the Victorians rearranged some of the main and circle stones, so it is NOT as it was when it was first built.
Also stonehenge and the Avebury stone circle are some of the oldest stone built places in the world. Avebury and Stonehenge were historically medical centres. The Avebury archer proves this. Do look up videos on why he went to this area twice in his life time from Austria.
The baptist church started in the 1600s in Amsterdam Netherlands
1500, 2000 yrs ago. Yeah mate, it's ONLY 500 odd yrs difference. HAHAHA. ❤❤❤❤
Hahaha it’s better to set a wide range than be wrong 🤣😂🤣
@@Trippingthroughadventures Yeah, considering Aust European settlement in Aust is only a few hundred yrs old. Two kisses and a few firm handshakes to you both.
"it's just rocks" 🤣🤣🤣 u guy's 🙏😘🇬🇧
Big up yourselves!
I am not sure how these videos about Britain choose the ten best places. I don't think this video has the ten choices I would have made. The whole of western England is filled with places of interest, beautiful scenery and lots of stories of the tin mining in Cornwall, the St. Austell porcelain clay mines and the rugged coastlines with astounding views. On the northern coast Clovelly with its donkeys to take you down the steep pathways to the sea (It is a private property now so there is a fee) and Dartmoor with its free running ponies or Dartmouth which to me is one of the most beautiful estuary towns.
No mention of the stone circle at Avebury?
Stone henge is just a part of a bigger complex
I’m blessed to live in south Devon .
So am I in South Devon
Glastonbury Tor is the hill, not the turret on the top. The hill has mystical and spiritual history.
Its strange you paused on the cave and said "there's magic in there" as the cave beneath tintagel castle is known as Merlin's cave and in legend is where he lived
I live in the southwest of the UK, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
I'm proud of MY country lovely people. Although we have a history, we don't have a HISTORY if ya know what I mean. ❤❤❤❤.
i live cornwall awsome
I have friends who live in London and I spent a couple of years living there myself. Honestly most city dwellers, London or elsewhere, very rarely leave and go exploring. Their perspective of the UK really annoys me. As they say "disgruntled people shout the loudest".
Immagine living in a country that has hollow footpaths that are at least ten feet deep, and some even deeper that date back for up to 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. That is what we have some of the Holloways as they are called are only a few hundred years old, however many are up to 5,000 years old, with a few being older. Then Cornwall was known to the ancient Greeks for it's tin, and the phonicians called Cornwall the casiterides, or isles of Tin. Tintagel is a fake castle built for the Arthur myth.
Just FYI, we have Bigfoot sightings in the UK ...I know, who'd of thought it.
Stonehenge and the hundreds of stone circles and megaliths dotted around these isles were NOT built by the Druids -- they were built thousands of years before the Druids by a neolithic people that were largely wiped out and replaced by later people, and those later people and subsequent migrations from the continent then formed the Celtic people. The druids were the leaders, healers, wise men and "priests". All their knowledge was transmitted orally and it was said it took many years of training because they had to commit ALL the knowledge and stories to memory. A lot of the esotericism and fascination with the Druids derives from the Victorian era and a lot of misconceptions about the Celtic people and religion while the English distanced themselves from their own true ancestry and origin as a Germanic people, largely because of the geopolitics of the time.
Personally, I find the mysteries of the old English pre-Christian religion more interesting myself because we know less about it than the Celtic religions - yet our place names in towns and villages and natural features in England are named after those old English gods, monuments dedicated to them, and they touch our lives in stories and folklore. Stonehenge was likely used by both the Celtic Druids and also the Anglo Saxons, but at different time periods, of course.
I Would have Found this interesting if you were the 1st Yanks to see this beautiful part of Britain.
Stonehenge is amazing but not worth a visit just to see it. It is too expensive and commercialised. There are other free, stone circles in the area just as amazing that you can touch and feel without hindrance.
Your ancestors probably came from the UK
They did Tiffany’s Romanian I’m British Romanichel.