American Couple Reacts: Bath, England! Glimpse into the City & Things to do! First Time Reaction!!
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- American Couple Reacts: Bath, England! Glimpse into the City & Things to do! First Time Reaction!! This was a quick look into the beautiful city of Bath, the ancient Roman city. Although short, we loved this! So many cool shops, stunning architecture, beautiful landscapes and much more! We will definitely be checking more videos out on Bath to learn more about the history. We hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please hit the Like button and consider subscribing. *Thanks and don't miss our Travel Wednesday announcement just before the reaction.*
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I’d definitely like to see your take on other countries,by the way if you want more info on the canals there is a UA-cam channel called Foxes Afloat,the two guys have travelled most of Britains canals and are fun and informative
As a seasoned traveller will definitely follow.
@@lilyliz3071 love those fellas !
Passport Ready - just found your channel and have watched back to back - lovely jubbly !!!
Quite like the idea of foreign travel, try Germany - then you two can do a Collab with another Cincinnati youtuber, the fantastic Felicia, from the "Feli from Germany" site.
My home city, it's easy to forget how beautiful it is when you live there and see it everyday.
I visited a pub in Looe, Cornwall, which was locally renowned for its Seafood Salads...the food was served in a room below the public bar, (and subsequently turned out to be wonderful)...before ordering I asked the guy who waited on us, just how fresh the seafood was...without saying a word, he swung up a trap in the floor to reveal, a few feet below, a boat floating on the waters of the estuary...one of those magical moments...
Been to Looe many years ago, wonderful people and town
Best fish 'n' chips? It's got to be Whitby! You'll find it on the Yorkshire coast a couple of hundred miles north of London. It's a really nice town and aside from the best fish 'n' chips you'll find anywhere, it also has the ruins of Whitby Abbey up on the hill just outside the town, lots of interesting little shops selling the famous Whitby Jet (a black mineral that was popular with the Victorians for use in mourning jewellery) and it was also where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. It's definitely worth a visit.
Whitby + Robin Hood's Bay
I grew up on the coast of North Yorkshire, and anywhere on that coastline has great fish and chips. One of those coastal towns is Scarborough, around 21 miles south of Whitby, and it has a Norman castle jutting in to the sea with two big and beautiful golden sand beaches either side.
Whitby is where Bram Stoker wrote and set 'Dracula'. It's a beautiful town dominated by the ruins of the Abbey. One of my favourite places in England.
Naaa, the best fish and chips are on the south coast… check out The Mermaid, hastings.. east Sussex
I am a proud Lancastrian and am naturally loath to credit anything from the wrong side of the Pennines being good. That said, through gritted teeth I have to acknowledge that this comment is correct. Whitby wins at fish and chips.
The canal boats are used for both recreation and as actual permanent living accommodation. You can hire them for your holidays and travel the canal network. You could, if you have enough time, travel from Bath right into the centre of London.
During the industrial revolution they were the main transport network for goods around the country.
For 10 years I lived half a mile from the Bridgewater canal and have taken the opportunity to eat afternoon tea on a floating restaurant on a narrowboat. I used to work with a guy who lived on one all over England and I recently read a Kindle book about someone who sailed a narrowboat down the Manchester Ship Canal and around the coast, then crossed the Channel and sailed all around the French canal system.
There are literally hundreds of miles of interconnected canals throughout England and on most you can hire boats if you want peace and quiet at a leisurely pace .
I used to work on the canals during the eighties and nineties, I miss those days.
A barge trip holiday is one of the best especially through the Staffordshire canal system popular with us tourists Inc a certain Harrison Ford.
Just the experience of having afternoon tea in a tea shop that's 400 yrs old is something special 🙂👍
We used to stay in a farmhouse in rural Devon. The oldest part of the house dated back to the 1300's and was the dining room. Even as a kid, I could never get my head round that. It got me into history.
It was lovely to see your reaction, I was born and grew up in Bath. It’s a truly beautiful city and has so much more to offer than shown x
My dear ladies, please keep doing your travel Wednesdays. I know that 90% of your followers are Brits but what we love is seeing your reaction to our fair island. It helps us to realise how lucky we are to live here. Hugs from Sheila & Don.
Hi ladies. I'm English and enjoy your opinions and reactions to places in Britain. You've helped me to appreciate what I have "on my doorstep". I'm interested in locations and cultures outside of Britain but wouldn't get the same thrill from a superficial view of somewhere I haven't been.
This makes me so happy. I live near Bath and it's a stunning place. The boats are Canal Boats which can be residential house boats. The Canals is a water transport system that was used to transport good all across the UK.
Canals were the first transport system & helped kick start the Industrial revolution railways came next,& metalled Roads last in the closing 19th Cty
Bath is stunningly beautiful , as it's on the edge of the Cotswolds , it's a lovely walk along the canal towards Bradford on Avon
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Travel Wednesday is great, for me it's all about your reactions. The joy you show virtual exploring is gold !
OK You were right the first time, they were generally House Boats, or you can rent them for a holiday. But you would need at least a full week because the speed limit on the canals is only 4 mph.
People spend their whole lives on the canals. The canal network covers most of England parts of Wales and Scotland. Using the canal locks and diversions you can transfer from one canal to the other, or even onto rivers depending on where you want to go. You can even travel into city centres like Birmingham Manchester Liverpool and North London. I once lived in Bath once. And it draws me back year after year.
Thanks for that, all good to know. Keep enjoying Bath. It is beautiful. Love the Crescent and the thundering waterfall.😁
Useful to know: On the train station escalators you stand on the right so people can pass on the left.
Narrowboats: Some people live on them. You can rent them for a holiday / vacation. There are also tourist trip narrowboats.
Harrison Ford rented a narrowboat for a vacation in north Wales.
Narrowboats were originally for transportation of goods by canal before good roads and the railway; they had one small room at the back and the rest was for cargo.
Passports ready, with so many beautiful and interesting places to see I'm happy to virtually travel the world with you.
When you return to the UK please check out Derbyshire and the Peak District - the UKs first national park.
Hello from Australia again, am Yorkshire born and raised but lived (and worked) in Bath for nearly 3 years. Although that was a good few years ago, and yes, it was pretty expensive in Bath (tourist places always are) but the architecture is exceptional there. I managed to frequent a few good pubs while there! 😁
The best place for fish and chips is Whitby in Yorkshire. The ruins of the nearby gothic abbey was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. There a plenty of places to rent for a week or two in most parts of the UK. Probably the easiest way to find this type of accommodation would be to search for "Self Catering Holidays" where you'll find all types of accommodation such as bungalows, cottages, barn conversions and caravan/mobile home parks.
14:20 - They're "Narrow Boats" Traditional boats used for carrying cargo along the British Inland Waterways (canals), now almost exclusively converted into houseboats/pleasure craft. Check out a YT search for "Timothy West & Prunella Scales - Great Canal Journeys" - Many of their episodes were on the British Canals.
i'd actually differentiate between narrow boats and barges Paul
Watch Foxes Afloat
@@perpetualidiocy6622 I agree barges are wider than narrow boats.
I worked in Bath for a few years and still go there frequently from Bristol, they have a great fish and chips shop in the centre opposite where the Weir is.
Before railways, Britain had a network of canals and barges that carried coal, iron etc. Many of the canals have been restored and are now used for pleasure tips.
Passport ready! Hi ladies, I used to be a postman in Bath for a decade, one of my jobs was collecting mail from Stall Street (where the Roman baths are located) and part of that collection included from the Pump Rooms which is part of the Baths complex). People are nowadays unable to bathe in the Roman Baths as there is now bacteria in the water (the thermae baths have a different water source and are OK for people). Bath is located in a steep sided valley so basically all the shops, the Baths and most of the other tourist attractions are in the lower part of the valley.
Passports Ready: I was born in Bath and have lived just outside all my life and I’ve never had a Bath bun or a Sally Lunn bun because I don’t like dried fruit. It’s definitely no big deal for me, lol. The best fish & chips are definitely by the coast but Bath does have chip shops. They are indeed canal boats Debbie and you can hire one for the day.
I love Travel Wednesday! I live in the UK and can confirm how beautiful much of it is, but I grew up in New Zealand and now have the whole of Europe stupidly close (seriously, I live in Greater Manchester and to get to London or Edinburgh by air takes an hour or less. Same for Dublin, Amsterdam, and Paris.) One thing that quickly becomes obvious as you travel is that no place has a monopoly on beautiful surroundings, and there are spectacular things to seein every country. Travel Wednesday belongs to you! Go wild! I for one will love it wherever you decide to check out.
Travelling in UK at dinner was talking to wife as to the difference UK from USA re-age of buildings and how in UK probably they only say a buildings old once it's reached 500 years. Couple at next table asked if we would like to go through their home built in the time of Henry viii (1491 to 1547) apart from some modernization it was almost the same for that time period. Fantastic.
People from the UK love to travel so seeing other countries is just as fun for us, it will give us holiday destinations to put on the list.
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No they don't. Britons are interested to see what foreigners think about the UK and not other places. The UK has enough heritage to keep anyone reacting for a very long time.
@@sandgrownun66 OK I will rephrase that some Brits understand that there is a huge amount of heritage and history all over the globe and are interested in learning about it all, unlike the small minded who just want to stay at home and get an ego boost from people saying how wonderful they are.
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Travel Wednesdays are great, and I would love to see your reactions to places outside the UK too including the USA. Bath is a beautiful place, there is so much to see and do. The architecture is amazing - and for food, I would definitely recommend visitng Sally Lunn's and trying one of their traditional buns.
They are river barges x They use the locks to change levels on the canals x
Passports ready! Hi Ladies, I am from Scotland and have been watching your films since way back at the start. Thank you for providing so much happy and uplifting entertainment ☺️ I have never been to Bath but obviously recognise a lot of this from period movies and travel / documentaries. Looks amazing 😁 casting back to your Scottish trip, which I thoroughly enjoyed; we never get tired of our scenery and castles. Many of us subscribe to restoration / maintenance based charities like Historic Scotland or National Trust. Paying annual membership works out about the cost of 2 castle / heritage sight visits, so it would be worth joining up when you visit as anything after that is effectively free! Keep it all coming; of course I would love to see other countries covered. Slàinte mhath my fellow Celts. Thank you 🤗💗🤍💕⭐⭐⭐
I look forward to travel Wednesday so much. So definitely passport ready
I love travel Wednesday's, please keep them coming. The boats were canal boats, or narrow boats, and you can hire them to travel on the canals. They are very slow but a great way to get around and enjoy the landscape. Some people live in them and moor them. If you are a fan of Jane Austen then you will understand the significance of the crescent. Its where the fashionable people stayed during the season. The architecture is Georgian.
Can I suggest you take a look at Ireland, its a short hop across by plane to Dublin, hire a car and go out and explore, the landscape and towns and villages are breathtaking
The Romans used lead pipping to bring water in to the bath at Bath. I'd heard that they still used a lot of the original plumbing so there is too high of a lead content to use the baths under health and safety. There was talk about bypassing the Roman lead pipes, but I don't know if they actually did it.
Indeed hence the word plumbing as it used to always be lead Plumbum
Well, the local 'chippy' near myself does really great chips. I think that is the problem, most places do good chips and if they have been there a while, there is a good reason for that. The only issue arises when the potatoes that work well for chips are not in season and we are left having to use a different variety. But I really haven't had that recently. So, I presume, there isn't much to say about chip shops, in general!
I am a British, Welsh Ex-pat who lives in France and married to a French man who had never visited the UK before. Back in 2013 we was invited to a wedding back in the UK and as he had never been we decided to spend a month traveling around the country so he could see it. We started in Wales as that is where my family live and where the wedding was being held, two days around Cardiff city centre and a day at St Fagans National Museum of History. Next we visited Tintern Abby which is a must see if your in that area following on down to Bath for a day which he loved before heading over to Stonehenge. Headed to London for five days and had a blast visiting all the tourist hotspots and then headed off up to York for four days. My partner is from an older generation than i and he loves everything old and that is how i worked out our itinerary as i new what he would enjoy. He loved every bit of it and we have some very fond memories of that trip. We hired a car and booked hotels but if i was to do the trip again or advise someone else planning a similar trip i would tell them to hire a motorhome as you will have less restrictions and get to see a lot more. Nearly all cities have camp sites with in walking distance of the city centres and you have the added bonus of changing your itinerary on the fly.
Bath is beautiful. Even though I’m Welsh, my fathers family originate from there. We’ve traced our family tree back to the 1700’s. My family were brewers and owned Inns in Bath. You definitely need a couple of days there. Christmas time they have Christmas markets there.
What would have been the family name ?
The canal boats(commonly called 'narrow boats'-for obvious reasons) in the enclosures (14.12)are in actual fact lifting or lowering the boat to a different level of canal.They are called "locks" with huge doors each end and either letting water in or out depending which level you are travelling to. There is, still, a row of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon canal between Rowde and Devizes Wiltshire a rise of 237feet over two miles, called the Caen Hill Locks( pronounced cain).
Passports ready! Let’s go! Lots to see globally! Especially, if I might be so bold, Italy, which is gorgeous top to bottom for my money. But I’m looking forward to seeing places in the USA too - such a big, beautiful country. The barges on the canal are known in my neck of the woods as ‘narrow boats’ for obvious reasons. The freight carrying version which just had a small cabin at the back of the boat and the whole length which was given over to freight, sometimes with canvas covers was known as a ‘butty boat’ if memory serves. You can hire narrow boats for a week or two and travel our extensive canal system - did it in my youth with some other lads - it was a great laugh! Locks take the barges up and down hill - check out ‘Bingley Five Rise’ to see how steeply they climb or drop! Bath is a beautiful stylish city. My friends have just sold their fabulous house near there and are planning a move to Yorkshire and not (solely) because it’s where I live. Nuff said?!! 😂
The canal is the Kennet and Avon and links Bristol to London. The boats are called narrow boats, and evolved from traditional 6’10” wide barges. They’re not water taxis but fitted out to either live on or hire for holidays.
Bath is a beautiful city. The centre of it was built during the Georgian era and and all the buildings are made from a local stone called Bath Stone, which as you saw, is a gorgeous honey colour. During the late 18th early 19th century Bath was a very fashionable place to go and they would 'take the waters' to improve their health. As well as the Roman there are Georgian baths there too. Trying the water is a must but most people don't like the taste of it. I quite like it though! The thing that always strikes me most about the Roman baths is that the water still flows through the lead pipes laid down almost 2000 years ago.
The waterway they are walking along is the Kennet and Avon Canal. The boats are called Barges and you can hire them. It's a great way to see the country at a leisurely pace. I also highly recommend the Thermae Spa and the highlight is the rooftop pool; I'd spend all day there if they'd let me! I personally prefer the Sally Lunn Bun but it's so big that I struggle to eat it. A sweet tooth like Debbie might prefer the Bath Bun. Both bun's are exclusive to the city and the rivalry between them is real!
Bath Abbey is where the first recorded coronation took place for King Edgar in 973 and coronations are still modelled on the basis of that one. The Abbey has a beautiful vaulted celling. The Crescent, which you got a brief glimpse of is where people used to promenade on a Sunday dressing is their finest clothes. It was famous for it's curved shape. I love Pultney Bridge and the Weir below is in the film Les Misérables. It's where Russell Crowe finally stops singing and kills himself! I have seen boats trying to take a shortcut on the river and struggle with turning around at the weir. No one was hurt but it was great entertainment!
One of my favourite places in Bath is the Assembly Rooms. It's so easy to imagine the Bath characters from Jane Austen's novels dancing there. There were two assembly rooms but the other was bombed during WWII. One of the firefighters in Bath at that time was a Man called Harry Patch who was born near Bath and fought during WWI. He would become the worlds last surviving soldier from WWI and died at the age of 111 if 2009. The thing I love most about the Assembly Rooms is the Fashion Museum which shows the history of clothing. The earliest item they have is from the 16th century! It's one of my favourite museums. You can get a joint ticket to there and the Roman Baths. On the outskirts, among those beautiful hills you saw there is the American Museum, it's a great museum and they do fantastic brownies! There are hop on hop off bus tours that takes in places like the American Museum among others and also shows you views of the city.
If you want to stay somewhere nice but don't want to pay Bath Prices nearby Bradford-On-Avon is great. It's a beautiful place in it's own right and is a very short train ride away. It has an amazing tithe barn and a Saxon chapel.
Apologies for the long post. I got carried away!
Great post, but all the boats shown in this video were narrowboats, not barges.
make a long post if you ask me!, I just had to cut back on a lot of things I wanted to post in my comment! :D. Used to live there. It is just so lovely with so many things to see!, many that may be overlooked and not well known about :D.
Been to Bath quire a few times. It is beautiful. Built by the Georgians in the 18th century , they were keen on spa towns, and built several. Most of the place is built with the honey coloured bath stone, so the town is homogeneous.
It's surrounded by steep hills. On one to the south is an American museum, in a large house. The owner had gone to Virginia USA made his fortune, then come home to build his manor house. The museum houses artifacts from colonial days, including a conestoga waggon, quilts, a caboose, loads of stuff. I used to go there to do historical reenactment. There is also the house where Jane Austen used to live. That's a museum now too.
Canals are quite common in Britain, they are very narrow to save on construction costs, so the boats that use them are long and narrow too. Those beams people were pushing, open the lock gates to allow the boat to be raised or lowered when the canal is going through hilly districts.
The river going through bath is called the Avon. It's a common name in UK as it's the old anglo-saxon word for river. There are several around, which can be confusing.
It's a city that attracts the tourist, and it's noted for its traffic jams at peak times too.
Bath bun….it’s a bath specialty
It’s basically a scone like bun with sugar cubes stuck up the middle
Sally Lunns is amazing
The best fish and chips is in Brighton
Should look up Australia too I’m from Melbourne so if you ever made it here I’d love to show you guys around
Passports ready. Canal narrow boats or barges are normally residential or people rent them for holidays on the canals. Some places have water taxis but they dont normally use narrow boats for that use.
Would love to see some videos of America's national parks and the natural landscape .
The Canal boats are Narrow Boats (from memory about 60 feet long), originally used, together with barges to transport goods around the UK, using the 2,000 miles of canals that link the UK and back in the day were pulled along by horses. These days they are used for leisure and many people live permanently on them. There's a whole culture & folk art related to 'Bargies' - ie the people who live on Narrow Boats or Barges
And when the tunnels were too low for the horses, people would lie on their backs on the industrial barges and walk their feet along the walls / roof of the tunnels to push the barges through, they are a very serene mode of transport and you get to see all the wildlife and birds, The only place I’ve ever seen kingfishers is along the canal
I love travel Wednesdays, I think it's a brilliant idea to feature other countries, the world is full of beautiful places and who better to showcase them than the lovely Natasha and Debbie. You could maybe start with Europe such as beautiful Switzerland or Andalusia in southern Spain - stunning and all the beautiful old cities such as Prague or Budapest just a suggestion but I would definitely watch them. Ps. Best chippy is in Whitby and of course the North know how to make proper fish and chips. Take care 😘😘👍
Well done ladies another educational video. And it was so nice to join you on f.b live this evening. Lewis grant. X
My home town. Absolutely beautiful but yes, really expensive. One of the best things is because we are built in the mouth of an extinct volcano, all of the housing on the surrounding hills will have stunning views across the valley, whether you are a pauper or a prince. They didn't mention Bath Abbey which is a stunning Medieval monastery. If you stand in Abbey Churchyard, you are surrounded on all sides by Roman, Georgian and Medieval architecture. There is nowhere like it on earth, imo.
Enjoyed watching uk travel. Amazed how many are autumn with few leaves but lovely.all the same. Be great to see other countries and usa too! A big lovely world out there!
Go for it - I've got my passport ready. Love Travel Wednesday
That's how busy it was in autumn or winter. If you go in the summer Bath gets crazy busy. It is an incredible place but it's expensive and is a real tourist trap.
Passports ready! Don't worry, friends, I would cheerfully watch you reading the phone book. The centre of Bath looks so good because it was all built
at around the same time in the Georgian style and using the same local stone. If you don't want to use hotels you could always pre-book AirBnbs in
whatever places you need. The great thing about our old canals is that there is always a path alongside as, originally, the canal boats (barges) were
pulled by a horse via a long rope. Having a relaxing and leisurely trip along the canals (of which there are many) is perfect for unwinding and a quite
brilliant way to see the countryside, but make sure you're not in a hurry. Best wishes....................................the ancient Englishman.
Natasha you can actually book holidays in the UK where you can stop on a long boat and travel along the canals and rivers. You skipper these vessels yourself so can enjoy the experience at your own leisure stopping off when you like.
The house boats or canal boat are everywhere. People live in them and you can rent them and do a tour right up the country. Do a video on house boats in England
There IS a YT site which I watched recently exploring the "best" fish and chips in London !!!
Whitby in Yorkshire, a sea side town is very famous.
Passports Ready! I love travel Wednesdays and it's given me so much inspiration to look what outstanding beauty there is in the UK. Can't wait to see your next video. Much love from the UK :) x
The question was asked "so people do not get into the Roman Baths anymore?" They used to. I was born in Bath and as a resident we were allowed into the Great Bath a couple of times a year. Around 1972 someone caught meningitis, they assumed from the water, and all bathing was stopped. A shame, but I still love to visit it.
Passports Ready! Travel Wednesday is the highlight of my Wednesday. Your reactions are fantastic and now, when you do a non UK video, we can share in your reactions. If I was to make a suggestion as to where to do first I would choose Dubrovnik. Love, hugs and prayers from Sussex, UK PS You can stay at various Cottages around the UK through any Cottage to Rent site or travel agent.
You can hire a Narrowboat for a week or two and travel the Canal network at a leisurely 4mph. The canal through Bath (the Kennet and Avon) goes through some amazing architecture and through several locks. People do stop and watch as you navigate the locks, they look complicated but we taught our children (10 year old & above) to manage them and they felt so grown up. You are working your way towards a very long vacation here in the UK... Welsh Castles, Lake District walks, The sights of London... if you do come to Bath, stay in Bristol just a few minuets away and a must see itself, you will get lower prices for everything here.
I love watching your videos. You remind me how beautiful the world is. Don't be fooled, most British don't know the incredible land that surrounds them. I'm sure it's the same with Americans and their beautiful land. Thanks for reminding us all just how amazing the world is.
Sadly, that’s very true. When I go out for walks with a friend of mine, she always takes me to places I never knew were close by to where we live. She’s from Poland and always shocked that she’s seen more of Britain than I have!
The boats you saw on the canal are called narrowboats. Back in the 19th century they were used to transport goods from one place to another. Families lived on them. Nowadays people take vacations on the canals , staying on the boats.
I’m from the Uk. Would love to see travel videos on the US - particularly your National Parks. Please keep it up!
My passport is always ready love to travel been to so many amazing places 👍
The canal boats are going through “a lock” - where the ‘height’ of the river going upstream or downstream can be adjusted by the moving of very large wooden gates. The canal boat drifts into the lock area in front of the gates and the lock keeper will operate the gates that control the flow of the river and the canal boat will either rise or fall as the levels of water engage. Locks are fascinating!
@@simonrobbins8357 well… yes….. but having been on a canal boat, through a Lock, I was just sooo glad that there WAS a lock keeper ready, willing and able to assist with ‘lock opening/closing amateurs and no hopers in hell’! Like me and him ‘points to other half’ it would have been ridiculous to even THINK we could do it! 😂 so thank you Mr Lock Keeper 😉
Kenneth and Avon canal has the longest string of locks , just outside devises Wiltshire,
One of the highlights of Bath is a visit to the store shown on the right at 6 minutes and 9 seconds. It's called Ann Summers and it has all sorts of interesting items and toys. It also sells chocolate items. It will give you a true flavour of Bath. You should check out their website.
I am from the UK and am more than happy for you to go outside the UK. I want to learn too!!!
!f you want to learn about other countries. Then why not just watch a video about the places that interest you? And what are you going to learn from those who haven't been or lived there either?
@@sandgrownun66 Because I really enjoy listening to Natasha and Debbies reactions.
@@janetthompson1581 Good for you.
I was proposed to in the garden of a restaurant on the River Avon. Aww!!! That takes me back!
I would love you to cover other countries. I'm definitely interested in the US especially your favourite places. 😊 I started following you when you literally had a couple of hundred people following because of your British content. However I follow you now for you .. because you're both amazing. I'd watch any content you put up.
You can experience the baths, unfortunately not the old one in your video, but next door is a more modern one with the spring waters and a few different baths along with a roof top bath and with different sauna/steam rooms etc, a very relaxing morning/afternoon
Whitby on the north-east coast has the best fish and chips and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. The Magpie has a great menu but is usually so busy you have a long wait, The Quarterdeck which is right by the shore is fantastic.
Scarborough?
If you sit on the quay eating fish and chips you will have to fight all the seagulls from stealing them right out of your tray!
Called narrowboats, back 200, 100 years ago, before the railways arrived, all goods were hauled by narrowboat at 4mph (horse hauled) but even with the advent of the steam locomotive a fair amount went via water on the canal system.
I'd be happy to watch Travel Wednesday's from other countries - Best Fish and Chips, has to be along the coast anywhere, although my favourite is Krispies in Exmouth, Devon. They even won Fish & Chip shop of the year in 2019.
I understand Whitby also has a great Fish and chip shop
And then you cite another British highlight. There's still so much yet to be covered in the UK.
Bath is such consistent Georgian architectural as the entire place went up almost at once. It was built on wool (a massive commodity at the time) and lax local gambling laws. It was such a Gold rush that planning permission was granted to build streets that never got built! There are a couple of turn offs into parks that have street names but no houses, just a gate! The majority of the wool used to make the redcoats uniforms were made in Bath. The weavers were located mostly in Broad Street, where Broad swathes of cloth were strung out above and across the street to dry after being dyed. Quiet street is where the hospital was. It was thought bad for health to have noise next to a hospital, so the cobbles were all made of wood.
As well as all the obvious places to visit (draping yourself across a chaise lounge on the corner of Gay Street and Queen Square is a must) take a bus to St Andrews. It's a suburb that is absolutely beautiful, off the beaten track and a delight to wander around. It even has it's own mini crescents.
The gambling laws in the UK that lasted hundreds of years came into being after a house on the crescent, together with its staff, was lost in a card game in Bath. The scandal was so great...
Jane Austin's House is located on the Crescent and is now a museum worth visiting. Also Beau Brummel's ballroom is now one of Bath's cinemas. The baroque plasterwork on the ceiling still bears his initials.
Beau was The Definitive Dandy who destroyed himself with a single sentence. Google "Hello Percy, who's your fat friend?" for the fall of Beau Brummel.
Queen Victoria was critiqued in a Bath Newspaper for having "fat ankles" when she was 18. On her Diamond Jubilee train procession throughout the UK she snubbed Bath by having all the Blinds drawn and having the train move as slowly as it could through the station without stopping. Talk about a life-long grudge.
The man who built Georgian Bath was a chap by the name of Ralph Allen. In order to demonstrate a house could be built out of "sandstone" (in reality a much harder version than normal called oolite) he built a house for viewing in London and sold the prospects of the city together with the prospect of owning such a beautiful looking property. He grew so wealthy he could afford to build his wife a mansion next to his so as to keep them apart. He never moved far from the underground mines that provided Bath with it's Oolite. Something Down...the exact mane escapes me. Its only a mile or so uphill from the City Centre. Back in the 90's the village / suberb has a massive issue with subsidence swallowing areas of the green and surrounding areas.
Bath has so much history, so many stories...together with its architectural beauty.
If you like the boats then you should check out the Norfolk Broads. I'm definitely up for seeing other countries. I would love to travel after university.
I keep saying about the Norfolk Broads!
@@SJ-GodofGnomes21 forget the broads... Absolutely full of wallys in hire boats
Hello ladies the boats in the video are canal barges they were used to carry goods long before motorways. Families lived and worked on the boats all their lives. They sometimes had a horse walking on the toe path on the side of the canal to help to pull the boat along.There is a term called legging it,meaning to run away this comes from when a boat was passing through a narrow tunnel and men would lie on their backs on the boat and put their feet on the side of the tunnel and walk the boat through.Today most boats are used for holidays or sometime people live in them.Birmingham has actually has more miles of canals than Venice has it was a very industrial city at one time, but other industrial cities also had canals. There are also locks on the canals which you have to open in order to raise or lower the water level in the canal which is what that person was doing in the video.
Bath is beautiful. I’m lucky enough to live in nearby Bristol, and when my American friend Marcie came to stay, it was one of the first places I wanted to take her (needless to say, she loved it). The other must see I took her to was The Cotswolds, a region of England that is just beautiful. Check out Bourton On The Water. Anyway, I hope you do manage to visit in person some time, as I know you’ll love it.
I have my passport ready to roam, & would love to see you going to other places.
Love your travel video's. Hugs from Yorkshire
Passport Ready.....Do travel Wednesday on where brits love to visit...... Barcelona, Rome, Florence, Paris, Dublin etc
We are going to do them on where we would love to visit and places we find interesting to us and we think you too
Your question about recipes for British food. There are lots of cooking shows and websites which can help. My advice is make sure that it's British people who you are getting the information from if you want the real thing. Check out the hairy bikers.
Another budget hotel chain is called Premier Inn. The decor is basuc but is clean and has everything you will need. The beds are really great as well and the breakfasts excellent.
If your looking to stay in a house or flat (apartment), you can get a holiday let for a week or two in all touristy places.They come fully equipped and many will provide a welcome pack of staples like bread, milk and tea so you can have a cuppa and snack as soon as you arrive. For longer stays there is the option of a short term furnished let for a few months but these are rarer, especially in places you might want to visit and some landlords can be quite unscrupulous. Inspect the premises and read the lease carefully before signing.
I used to live 13.5 miles from Bath in Bristol, and went to Bath every few weeks. It truly is stunning! Bristol is the best city in the uk tho, you should check it out ❤️
Question as an ex local? Is it pronounced Bath as the narrator, northerners and Americans say it? I've only been to Wells and Bristol and they pronounced it more like "Barth". Which is correct?
@@johnp8131 Barth ......
@@johnp8131 It's pronounced more like Baaaaath, but Barth will do.
I'm a recent subscriber so I've been binge watching your "Travel Wednesday" videos and I'm lovin' it! I'm currently living in Germany but I'm from the UK and watching your fantastic reactions to these travel videos has showed me wonders and delights of my own country that I didn't know existed so I'm appreciative of what you ladies do. I think it's a great idea to see other countries included in "Travel Wednesday" and along with the suggestions you've already made I would additionally like to see included Europe and the Mediterranean. I must add that I think you ladies are totally awesome and are adorable as a couple which makes for one of the best duos on UA-cam:)
Thank you so very much Owen! It makes us very happy that you are enjoying our content!! We've just started adding in Worldwide Travel videos exclusively on our Patreon account. Check it out if you are interested. Thanks so much again for watching! ❤❤
Passports ready! I think Brits might be even more inclined to watch videos from other countries as it's more likely that they won't have been there before either. I'd love to see the Caribbean and South America! 💕
You notice the narrow canals with pathways besides. This is because before motorised boats horses pulled the boats along the canal. And they were BIG horses
The architecture we take for granted is everywhere in every city,every town,every village.
We protect our history and our heritage.
As a retired truck driver from South Wales that has traveled the length and breadth of Britain, I have to say the best Chippy! I ever went to was in Whitby North Yorks.
Hey ladies, one day you could maybe do a video on Scarborough (my home town), named after a Viking. It’s on the east coast of England in North Yorkshire. It’s officially recognised as the first seaside resort, very popular with the Victorians and we have a castle for Natasha 😉 two bays, a promenade, fish and chips, sweets for Debbie 😜. After London it’s the second most popular holiday resort in the UK.
Have you checked out the Gimbal Walks Vlogs on youtube ? He does mostly the North East Coast , worth having a watch . Stay Metal .
In many major cities across the UK there are Canals. Formerly for transporting goods around they are now mostly recreational.
I love travel Wednesday! I would love to visit Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand one day😁
Bath is beautiful! You can find holiday cottages all over the UK, you don’t have to stay in a hotel 😁
Natasha and Debbie I would love too see a video on your home town, would be very interesting and cool to see the town and county you call home.
Debbie has expressed her interest in Italy before, and that may be a good start for a European visit. The thing I think you will learn is just how mind-numbingly beautiful are the towns and scenery of that area of the world. I, as a UK bloke, have enjoyed everything you've shown of our country, but I welcome you moving away from us and discovering other places. Maybe some of your UK followers will not appreciate this change, but that may be from a sense that UK is the greatest country in the world, which is somewhat narrow-minded and xenophobic. I would enjoy watching you as armchair travellers, as I am. Robert, UK.
Totally agree. My parents were in Sicily for 5 yrs in 1950's. But Mt. Etna playing up a lot now!! Still would be fascinated.
Of course i must visit Pompeii and Herculaneum.
2eleven48 - goodness, you're sounding a bit like Al Murray. I am sure viewers on this channel would like to hear Natasha and Debbie's views on some of Europe's most beautiful cities. They are such nice people I'm quite happy to hear their views on anything and I'm sure I'm not alone.
@@Sophie.S.. ...Well, goodness, didn't 'mind-numbingly beautiful' make my point clear enough?
@@ZXSPEX ...I take it you are not quite aware of the distinction between patriotism and xenophobia. And do please note how I couched my language: ''maybe some....', and 'may be....' In short, not a flat declaration. You just read it in the way you wanted to read it, and got hot and bothered.
@@2eleven48 It was the penultimate sentence I was referring to.
Narrow boats, 72 feet by 7 feet, were the transport that made the industrial revolution possible before steam. The boats were horse drawn and where there were long tunnels the two men would sit back to back on the roof facing the walls and walk along the walls through the tunnel, that's why the boats needed to be narrow, meanwhile the wife would take the horse over the hill to the other end. As a Brummy I have to say Birmingham has more canals than Venice. The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 Georgian terraced houses, although I think part of it is now a Hotel.
Whitby east coast - also has vampires. those are called 'long/narrow boats' mainly used on canals, and used to be the major transport system for goods until roads and rail took over. now used for leisure and slow chill living. you can have holidays on them.
The lovely thing about Bath, is it's a small city where a walk of ten minutes in any direction takes you to open countryside. Even as a local to Bath I still find it an absolutely gorgeous place, alongside it's architecture, shopping and eating places, there are plenty of museums and art galleries, some of which are free to enter.
Like most cities many of the shops are national chains, but there are many shops which are unique to Bath, a good area to visit is walcot which is a little more artisan, and is home to some quirky shops as well as the Bell which is a community owned pub which often has great live music and great beers on tap.
Peter Gabriel is from the area, the song "solsbury hill" is written about one the hills overlooking Bath.
Did not know that! Love that song!
Those narrowboats are a part of our heritage as they used to transport coal and steel around the UK in bulk before road haulage was really a thing. Birmingham, in the West Midlands (the UK's second largest city) has more miles of canal than Venice, Italy. Birmingham is also the "greenest" city in Europe in terms of parks and open spaces. Unfortunately, the city centre is as ugly as f... I live nearby, in an area called The Black Country.
Yo, the Black Country! Beats Brummagem any day! 👍
I used to live in Trowbridge (about 20 miles from Bath and actually in the neighbouring county of Wiltshire) and one night I decided to go for a little walk. Yes I walked all the way to our city of Bristol via BATH without hardly stepping on a single road. First up is the pretty town of BRADFORD ON AVON (there are videos on UA-cam). In Bradford on Avon the river Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal (the canal that you love that goes into Bath) run parallel with each other through the Bradford on Avon Country Park. Walking along the canal towpath all the way you soon reach AVONCLIFF in the Avon Gorge. Such a pretty place and similar to those views that you liked. Here there is an aqueduct which takes the canal boats across the River Avon many hundreds of feet below. There is also a great country pub called The Cross Guns. Next the canal path goes up and down dale until it reaches the outskirts of Bath in villages such as BATHAMPTON. Lastly you descent into the beautiful city of Bath itself. The railway line also follows this route and you can take the PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR service up the valley of the River Avon from Bristol to Bath to Trowbridge to Westbury to Salisbury and see wonderful sights all the way. Happy travels!
Canal boats used to be used for transporting goods , but many ad now converted to live on or holiday use
I live in beautiful Bath, Georgian city built with honey coloured Bath stone mined a couple of miles away. You can't miss it out when you come over.
hi Girls. This is the Kennet and Avon canal which connects Bristol on the west coast to London going through Bath. The boats are called narrow boats being only 6 foot 10 inches wide and up to 70 feet long. you can hire them for holidays if you fancy an alternative break. there is 2000 miles of navigable canals remaining in the UK and some in scotland also, some now over 200 years old. much of bath is georgian in origin and was a famous haunt of beau brummel and the pince regent back in the 1700's. if you 'do' the cotswolds, bath is on th southwest edge and easily reached from there.
My son recently had his wedding ceremony at the Roman Baths wonderful setting by the actual water with the torches aflame.
Canal boats can be rented for a week or more as your own private hotel on water, you captain the boats yourself. Max speed is around 5 miles per hour and your free to go where you want, sailing permitted only during daylight unless you have a license for night sailing..so when it gets dark, find a place to park the boat and spend the night.
Many canals around britain and you need to return the boat from where you collected it but it makes an enjoyable holiday.. be warned, in peak season can get busy so book early..
To hire a house when visiting the UK look up 'holiday home/cottage' or more generally 'serviced accommodation'. Or you can hire a house boat, often just called a barge and you can travel up and down the canal system from town to town.
The boats are called 'Narrow boats' and people live on them. They are also rented out to holiday makers to spend a week or two boating themselves around the country. Famously about a decade ago Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart did just that with their kids!