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Why This American Loves Dartmoor

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Drone Flights 2

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Discovering Ancient Winchelsea

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Dr Celsius: His Role in my Downfall

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Burpham and its Fort

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Taking a Practice "Life in the UK" Test

As noted in my video about achieving British citizenship, I was exempt from passing the "Life in the UK" test as a prerequisite to becoming a British citizen, but felt like I should at least be able to do so. So while I was waiting for my citizenship application to be approved, I found a website that offers free "Life in the UK" practice tests, and passed the first one I tried. Nice! Afterwards I thought I should demonstrate this "feat" in a video and so here we are. This video documents my taking of another test offered by the website.
Whether you're a British citizen already, and just want to see if you could pass such a test, or considering becoming a citizen, here's the site I used for...

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A British Yank in Sussex

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It was an ambition of mine to become a British citizen. And after several years, this ambition has been fulfilled! 📘 Get your copy of my book about Bramber Castle: amzn.to/3YaYE9T Here is the equipment I use to produce my videos: • Blue Yeti USB Microphone - amzn.to/3ZZkChk • DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Vlogging Camera - amzn.to/4dySZiv • DJI Mini 4K Drone - amzn.to/4eSbzmU • Canon EOS 4000D DSLR Camera ...

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Why This American Loves Dartmoor

Просмотров 324Месяц назад

Dartmoor is this magnificent place in southwest England that is a geologic marvel, a timeless landscape, and a human history par excellence. We recently visited it (for the fifth time, actually), and I had to give it a shoutout on A Yank in Sussex. So here we are: A Yank on Dartmoor: Why This American Loves Dartmoor Here’s a link to a delightful rendition of the old Widecombe Fair folk song: ru...

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Drone Flights 2

Просмотров 1483 месяца назад

I love getting aerial video footage for this channel, but also just for fun. So, I collect a lot of nice footage that I don't have an immediate use for. Most of it is otherwise good material. Some of it gets used many months and sometimes years later. But I thought I would combine business with fun and make a video featuring some of that footage. So, here it is, 4 ½ minutes of aerial footage wi...

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Discovering Ancient Winchelsea

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I’ve wanted to dig into East Sussex’s Winchelsea and its amazing history for a few years. Finally, we dropped in for a couple of days and explored a bit! The weather was hot, and we were trying to avoid heat exhaustion! And here I thought that I, a born Southern Californian, was all right in the heat! Or maybe it’s me getting old? Winchelsea has the distinction of being not where it was origina...

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Dr Celsius: His Role in my Downfall

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When I first came to the UK in 1969, ya’ll used the same measuring system I had grown up with. Well, mostly. But when I came back in 2017 suddenly things were different. The country had gone metric! Well, mostly. I was familiar with metric for various reasons, but my grasp of the Celsius temperature system was very tenuous. Intellectually, I was on firm ground. But if someone told me it was 23 ...

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Burpham and its Fort

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We visit the village of Burpham in West Sussex! Where is Burpham? If you happen to be visiting the town of Arundel, with its impressive castle and cathedral, you might find yourself on the castle’s east side on the road that leads to South Stoke, a place I’ve covered in a previous video. Looking northeastwards, you might notice in the distance a rather interesting building. You know where you a...

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Bramber Castle Book is Now Available!

Просмотров 1418 месяцев назад

Back in July of 2022, I uploaded my third and final video about Bramber Castle in West Sussex. That video was about 25 minutes long, but it could have been a lot longer. Research for the video gave me so much material that using all of it would have produced a video nearly an hour in length. I then cut that version down and was still sitting at 40 minutes long! I said at the time that I could w...

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A Yank in Cornwall (Part Two)

Просмотров 1,7 тыс.10 месяцев назад

I am a Yank in Sussex! But this time I am in Cornwall (again)! So, this is another video involving our trip to Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset in October 2023! In this video we travel from Truro to Nancegollan, and use it as a base to explore places in southwesternmost Cornwall. Here I tell about our exploration base, the village of Nancegollan, and our visit to Porthleven, a fishing and tourist ...

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A Yank in Cornwall (Part One)

Просмотров 7 тыс.11 месяцев назад

Another video involving our trip to Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset in October 2023! In this video we travel into Cornwall to Truro, and use it as a base to explore Looe and St. Mawes, and then have a look inside Truro’s amazing cathedral. Credits: • Paul Halliwell and the Cornish Ninja for drone video clips of Looe harbor and St. Mawes Castle. • Thomas Faull, “Orbit Truro Cathedral,” via Pond5 A...

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The Town of Rye

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The town of Rye in East Sussex is about as far east as you can go and still be in Sussex. It has a castle, some Napoleonic era fortifications, really ancient shops and inns, and plenty of cobbled streets. Oh, and it also has smugglers’ inns, the Mermaid, and the Olde Bell - which are rumored to have a secret tunnel connecting them! Sorry, I was unable to verify this. I had been hoping to get ba...

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The Stokes of West Sussex

Просмотров 887Год назад

In the Arundel valley lie North and South Stoke, two tiny ancient villages respectively on the east and west sides of the River Arun. They are merely a half mile apart as the crow flies, but if you’re not a crow there is a footpath. However, if you wish to drive from one to the other you have to drive a circuitous route that passes through the town of Arundel. Both North and South Stoke are lov...

Exploring the Hidden Gems of East Quantoxhead Beach

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Exploring the Hidden Gems of East Quantoxhead Beach

Просмотров 292Год назад

We spent nearly three weeks holidaying in Devon, Cornwall, and Someret in October. This video describes a visit to East Quantoxhead beach in Somerset. My British Bride (aka my wife) chose this location on the Bristol Channel because she knows I love geology - and there is a lot of great geology here! Credits: • Thanks to the Polish Explorer for permission to use some footage from his recent vid...

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Highdown Hill

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Highdown Hill is a chalk hill located within the South Downs National Park, not far from the town of Worthing. Its human heritage stretches back into antiquity, and was first used as an enclosure by the Bronze Age people who lived in the area around 1000 BC. Later the enclosure was built out as a hill fort around 800 BC during the Iron Age. Later came the Romans, and then the Saxons. And now co...

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Welcome to Upper Beeding

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This video covers the West Sussex village of Upper Beeding. This village is one of the few that lies directly on the River Adur. Its heritage stretches back to Saxon times, if not before. It is located at the northern end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, four miles (6.4 km) north of Shoreham-by-Sea and has a land area of 1,877 hectares (4,640 acres). The site is a bridging point over t...