So excited to see this video- I really want to visit the Isle of Wight! Hopefully we get to go to the UK this summer for our planned trip in late June!
Great places! Definitely will have to put Southern England on my list when everything gets back to normal. And at least the skies were clear for great pictures! Awesome!
I was born here on the island and worked at Osborne House for 17 years as a Night Security Officer your filming was excellent and well worth the viewing thankyou!
Thank you so much, it's comments like yours from locals that truly mean the world! If you have any good stories from your night security officer days at Osborne, I'd love to hear! 🙏😀
I love Osborne house! And Queen Victoria’s beach is lovely. I find it funny that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert liked it because it wasn’t like a palace and more like a home.... yeah your majesty really knows how to slum it! 😂
There is a wonderful round the island yacht race, that I have friends who have done it. I haven't been to the Isle of Wight, but it looks interesting. Thanks.
This video was so nostalgic for me, I did the same ferry trip from Portsmouth to Fishbourne. The main thing I wanted to see on the island was Osborne, it was nice that the house was open to visitors during your time on the island. A shame you couldn't go into the Swiss Cottage, the 2 storey one is cute as Albert made it into a child's playhouse with child sized furniture. They even could cook there, on a child sized stove! The smaller cottage has a display of some of the unusual gifts and things the royal children collected. Looking forward to seeing the rest of your time on the island.
That was a really great video I was particularly interested in seeing Osborne House as my Great Grandfather was Page of the Presence to Queen Victoria and would have stayed there frequently. I'm ashamed to say I've never visited the Isle of Wight despite living in the south of England most of my life so post lock down it might well be on my list.
You guys are so good at picking out picturesque settings that have heretofore been unseen by me (though of course I know "about" them). May I suggest that you look into lavaliere microphones to help with audio quality? The most important two things I have learned from other RUclipsrs in making videos is lighting and audio. Thanks for sharing and I hope you can hit 50k this year!
Thanks so much!!! Yeah I was wearing our lav mic when talking in the gardens at Osborne House, but unfortunately our GoPro doesn't have a microphone jack, so we can't use an external when filming with that camera. The gusty British wind is such a hazard for my audio, and it's going to be way worse in part 2 when we drove to the coast! I have ways of minimizing the wind buzz, but it's nearly impossible to remove wind from a clip without really expensive software. Maybe once I get to 50K subs haha!
Wonderful video. So interesting. Love your style of filming and editing as well. Oh, just for info - ‘COWES’ is pronounced ‘COWS’ (exactly how you’d normally pronounce that word).
Thanks Lee! Those compliments mean a lot! I’ve been working really hard over the past year to get better at filming and editing so I’m really glad to read your words!
You clearly don’t understand the tier system !!! You left a tier 3 , and traveled to a tier 1 ( due to people like you flouting the rules the island rapidly boosted to level 4 a few weeks later and people died ! ) . The island has a very small hospital with limited services which soon became overrun a few weeks after your visit , with people being airlifted to larger hospitals on the mainland . You shouldn’t have come over for tourism !! Moving across tiers wasn’t allowed . The people of the Isle of Wight will not be pleased with your unnecessary trip here ..Unbelievably selfish of you both !!!
What you wrote is not true. Portsmouth was in Tier 1 on October 10, 2020. England didn’t even really use a tier system until October 14 (see here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_COVID-19_tier_regulations_in_England ) We made a point never to go to a tier 3 or higher place while we were in the UK and checked every day including using the post code lookup. Also, we practiced hands-face-space guidelines everywhere after quarantining - unlike most Brits and locals we saw. We even talk about it at the very end of this video and show an example on camera of when we saw people from separate households meeting up. So blaming us is a really cheap shot that kinda shows you’re more likely to blame tourists who literally documented all their rule following, rather than your own citizens who are documented not doing so. I will not be replying to this more because it was both xenophobic against foreigners and horrifically un-researched.
So excited to see this video- I really want to visit the Isle of Wight! Hopefully we get to go to the UK this summer for our planned trip in late June!
Yes you should definitely make a point to visit if the trip works out! I'm sure the Isle of Wight in June would be fantastic!!!
Hey Monica, we are trying to fly to the UK in Mid May... we shall see how we do! Good luck to you!
That is a fancy ferry! And that Osborne house was amazing. The ceiling in the dining room was stunning, as were the gardens. What a fun day!
The ceiling was incredible! I think I'm going to post a photo of it on my Instagram tomorrow morning just so it gets some extra love. :)
Can’t wait to get back to the UK and check out Isle of Wight. Can’t beat your travel guide vlogs!
Thanks so much Kim! I hope to go back someday when it's safe, too!
Great places! Definitely will have to put Southern England on my list when everything gets back to normal. And at least the skies were clear for great pictures! Awesome!
Yay sunshine! Tune in for the part 2, because we drive to the southern part of the island and it starts to get very windy haha! 😀 🌬
I was born here on the island and worked at Osborne House for 17 years as a Night Security Officer your filming was excellent and well worth the viewing thankyou!
Thank you so much, it's comments like yours from locals that truly mean the world! If you have any good stories from your night security officer days at Osborne, I'd love to hear! 🙏😀
Excellent showcase of how travel can be done safely in these times, what a great example of how to do things the right way!
Thanks Megan, that means a lot!!!
I love Osborne house! And Queen Victoria’s beach is lovely. I find it funny that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert liked it because it wasn’t like a palace and more like a home.... yeah your majesty really knows how to slum it! 😂
Haha I agree! It’s so beautiful!
There is a wonderful round the island yacht race, that I have friends who have done it. I haven't been to the Isle of Wight, but it looks interesting. Thanks.
Oh wow I bet it would be cool to see a yacht race around the island!
This video was so nostalgic for me, I did the same ferry trip from Portsmouth to Fishbourne. The main thing I wanted to see on the island was Osborne, it was nice that the house was open to visitors during your time on the island. A shame you couldn't go into the Swiss Cottage, the 2 storey one is cute as Albert made it into a child's playhouse with child sized furniture. They even could cook there, on a child sized stove! The smaller cottage has a display of some of the unusual gifts and things the royal children collected. Looking forward to seeing the rest of your time on the island.
Sounds like you have such great memories!!
It was good to be a royal. Osborne House looks fantastic. Imagine it's even more so in late spring.
Yeah I bet the flowers and gardens in springtime are fantastic!
That was a really great video I was particularly interested in seeing Osborne House as my Great Grandfather was Page of the Presence to Queen Victoria and would have stayed there frequently. I'm ashamed to say I've never visited the Isle of Wight despite living in the south of England most of my life so post lock down it might well be on my list.
Thanks John! Wow that's amazing that you know that history about your great-great grandfather!!!
Nice videos. Nice driving. Extremely likeable couple.
Thanks so much!
I'm definitely digging the Isle of Wight.
Sooo worth the ferry ride!
You guys are so good at picking out picturesque settings that have heretofore been unseen by me (though of course I know "about" them). May I suggest that you look into lavaliere microphones to help with audio quality? The most important two things I have learned from other RUclipsrs in making videos is lighting and audio. Thanks for sharing and I hope you can hit 50k this year!
Thanks so much!!! Yeah I was wearing our lav mic when talking in the gardens at Osborne House, but unfortunately our GoPro doesn't have a microphone jack, so we can't use an external when filming with that camera. The gusty British wind is such a hazard for my audio, and it's going to be way worse in part 2 when we drove to the coast! I have ways of minimizing the wind buzz, but it's nearly impossible to remove wind from a clip without really expensive software. Maybe once I get to 50K subs haha!
Very interesting video! Note that the town of Cowes is pronounced 'cows' - just like the animals!
Thanks for the pronunciation help Roger! I think the UK series could be subtitled: what will Derek mispronounce next?!
@@mr.meanstotravel Can't wait for the Scottish pronunciations haha!
Thanks Roger!!
HOLY HUGE SANDWICH, Batman!
Yeah it kept us full for a very long time!
Wonderful video. So interesting. Love your style of filming and editing as well. Oh, just for info - ‘COWES’ is pronounced ‘COWS’ (exactly how you’d normally pronounce that word).
Thanks Lee! Those compliments mean a lot! I’ve been working really hard over the past year to get better at filming and editing so I’m really glad to read your words!
I agree with Lee... it's SO hard to edit a great travel vlog... and y'all are doing great!
Don’t think I’ve ever been to the Swiss Cottage but everywhere else being local
Next trip to Osborne for sure! It was such a special part of the grounds. Jealous that you get to live on the Isle of Wight! 😀
@@MeansToTravel aw, it had its ups and downs like everywhere. My family have been here since 1984 in the West Wight.
Bathing machine.... chicken coop.... bathing machine again. Funny!
Haha it has quite a history!
Better you than me... I do NOT do well on boats ;-)
Awww, luckily we were riding the ferry on a sunny day!
Viva IW
Here here!
You clearly don’t understand the tier system !!! You left a tier 3 , and traveled to a tier 1 ( due to people like you flouting the rules the island rapidly boosted to level 4 a few weeks later and people died ! ) . The island has a very small hospital with limited services which soon became overrun a few weeks after your visit , with people being airlifted to larger hospitals on the mainland . You shouldn’t have come over for tourism !! Moving across tiers wasn’t allowed . The people of the Isle of Wight will not be pleased with your unnecessary trip here ..Unbelievably selfish of you both !!!
What you wrote is not true. Portsmouth was in Tier 1 on October 10, 2020. England didn’t even really use a tier system until October 14 (see here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_COVID-19_tier_regulations_in_England ) We made a point never to go to a tier 3 or higher place while we were in the UK and checked every day including using the post code lookup. Also, we practiced hands-face-space guidelines everywhere after quarantining - unlike most Brits and locals we saw. We even talk about it at the very end of this video and show an example on camera of when we saw people from separate households meeting up. So blaming us is a really cheap shot that kinda shows you’re more likely to blame tourists who literally documented all their rule following, rather than your own citizens who are documented not doing so. I will not be replying to this more because it was both xenophobic against foreigners and horrifically un-researched.