You don’t understand how important Saint Pauls is. It is a feet of engineering as well as architectural beauty, it’s whispering Gallery is Amazing and the money goes towards the upkeep of the building.
I recently commented on a social media post about Americans only enjoying fish and chips in London and I’ll say the same here on behalf of all Britons. If you’re an American wanting to visit Britain and at some point try fish and chips, instead of going into London from your arriving flight at Heathrow Airport, get on a train to either the South West coast of the counties Devon Dorset or Cornwall, or up north to the Yorkshire coast. The fish and chips in these seaside locations are far better than anything in London, and with all likelihood, cheaper.
I'm 100% a Londoner and I 100% agree with you. The proper fish and chips shops no longer go to Billingsgate every day like when I was a nipper, and theres two many gastropubs and nouveau fish bars selling fusion meals. Harry Ramsdens in Brighton is better than most fish and chip places in London. There are odd ones dotted around in South London that I would recommend though, but pricey.
@@SvenTviking I'm a born and bred Londoner and will defend it til I die, but you do realise that any fish eaten in London will be _at least_ a day old? Its caught wherever, brought down to London for 2 or 3am to sell at Billingsgate fish market, then so the earliest you'll get to eat it would be 24 hours after it was caught, thats near enough a minimum since its been caught to when its in front of you. If you want the freshest fish here, go to Billingsgate yourself and cook it the same day, although you'll have to get there before 5am. Later than that and you'll miss the best stuff.
As a 70-year-old Londoner, this was a great video of a wonderful Town/City. I LOVE the way that you look things up. You do it very quickly and it saves so much second guessing and incomprehension/ NEVER been to The Barbican Centre which I must rectify:)
@@Isleofskye ooh the Barbican Centre is a fabulous venue. I went to a concert there recently. Lovely staff, top tier performers, comfortable seats, great view of the stage, £25. Can't go wrong.
@@natalielang6209 Yes, Natalie.I have lived on the edge of S E London and Jent since 1983 after living just 2 miles from Central London and I,often,go back like ,in a few hours time but I must visit The Barbican.
@@soozb15 Sounds Great :) I know it is relative but how about this. lol I saw 4 of the most famous Groups in the World at 3 World Class Venues between 1973/74. ....Pink Floyd with 18,000 others @ Earls Court then Led Zeppelin@ Wembley Arena and both Deep Purple and the following week: Creedence Clearwater Revival at The Royal Albert Hall and the TOTAL cost? £2.50 (£1+75p+25p+25p)
It does _not_ rain in London as often as you think. You get more annual rainfall in NYC (1258mm), New Orleans (1609mm) or Orlando (1307mm) than London (1154mm). London has about a third of the average annual rainfall of the UK as a whole owing to the fact that the rest of the country "soaks up" the rain before it reaches London.
Unfortunately, you've got the wrong formula. Rainfall duration isnt measured in volume. It rains a lot in London, because of that bloody seas we're so close to, but its that crappy drizzle we get sometimes constantly in winter. So while it may not be as much as those other places, whom which tends to have storms when it rains - we do have extended periods in London where it rains for maybe three days straight.
I watched Evan's original video and wasn't impressed by his friends' lacklustre response to his tour. He tried so hard to engage them! Were they expecting the Empire State Building, a Giza Pyramid and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in one tour? What would they be impressed by? To be fair, Evan was doing this on a budget and the weather sure didn't help. Correct me if I'm wrong, I think they are from Finland? I'd like to see them give Evan a budget tour of Helsinki and show him similar sights (no offence to Helsinki - I have never been there) but I'm not sure they could match London's history, food culture, architecture, theatre etc etc. And I'm sure the weather wouldn't be too different!
I feel like maybe they could have found some sort of activity to do instead of walking around. I feel like Evan should have tried to get them interested in things inside rather than outside. Take them to some free museums, rather than walking around in the rain.
any true brit pops into one of the supermarkets for sandwiches, they all do 'meal deals' which gives you a double, sometimes triple, sandwich, a snack like a bag of crisps, chocolate or fruit...even a couple of boiled eggs plus a drink of your choice, all for around £3.80.. Nice to see two of my favourite RUclipsrs in the same video...(you and Evan in case you were wondering..lol) Boring fact, the girl who appeared towards the end is his girlfriend, Heather. She's nice too.
He is used to Los Angeles prices so it's probably similar to what he is used to, I am assuming. Me being in the suburbs of Detroit Michigan, I would agree that it's expensive for my area, depending on where you get it from.
Even if I had money to burn, no bacon sandwich is worth £9. I'd have to be literally starving with no other option to pay that. Even then, it would worry me for at least a week afterwards. Must be the Scot in my character.
I've got a foldable umbrella that I keep in my work commuter bag. So I don't carry one around in my hand all the time (unless it's actually raining as I leave the house). But I do have an umbrella in the bag. Just in case. Always keep an "emergency umbrella" in your work bag, in case it starts pelting it down from nowhere. But, as a Brit, if it's just a light drizzle then we just walk through it with no shits given. As I like to say, if Brits stopped because it was raining, then we'd never have gotten anything done ever.
@@CMc-v7z although cheaper they meal deals are not worth it for what you get. You are paying for the convenience. A few years ago when Tesco in Central London had meal deals at £3.50. I worked out the cost of the sandwich that it I took to work. It was a Marmite, Cheese, Hams and Chinese Leaf sandwich, the cheese (a block of cheader, the 3 types of ham(Honey roasted, Pork luncheon meat and Salami) and the leaf were store brand (sainsburys) the bread was Hovis with Flora for spread, For this rather filed sandwich it cost me 77p to make.
Americans really DO get 'ripped off'. I always notice the ridiculous prices that exist in America, even grocery shopping! I have been travelling there for well over 40 years and prices are a killer. 😮💨
Apart from contributing to the enormous cost upkeep, the real reason places like St Paul' charge for - non-worshipping - entry is as a deterrent! It stops the place from being totally swamped with - and ruined by - tourists.
St Pauls and West Minster Abby is free if you go to a service , so do the service then have a walk around You can tell they are from Finland by their lack of humour 😂😂 When looking at the street names Google the reasons for them , you'll be surprised .
My hot tip for a cheap stay. Lee Valley youth hostel. Stayed there twice. It's basic but clean, and central London is 20 minutes away. It actually feels a bit like countryside.
The multi-level Sky Gardens at the top of the Walkie-Talkie building are well worth a visit. Great 360 degree views of London and an awesome view looking down at the 1,000 year old Tower of London. There is a nice restaurant in the Sky Gardens right amongst the subtropical plants. Admission to the Sky Gardens is free but you have to pre-book 4 weeks ahead, as Evan said. Booking a table at the restaurant is a sneaky and enjoyable way to get in sooner, usually and enjoy a walk around the Sky Gardens before or after your meal..
No one will ever see all of London'd 60,000 streets and Official 100,000 "Places Of Interest" in one lifetime. I am a 70-year-old Londoner and have tried and failed, miserably:)
The London zones can be imagined as a series of concentric circles with Zone 1 covering the central London going outwards - it forms the basis of tube & bus charges.
The Barbican's brutalist architecture divides opinion here in London. A bit like Marmite. Personally I love it. The Barbican that is, not Marmite...I always suggest to tourists that they go into the City and get on a two-hour guided tour ofCity highlights, all within the Square Mile. It takes in sights which are a hell of a lot more interesting than Buckingham Palace, such as the Guildhall. The tour office is opposite St Paul's Cathedral.
Always tell Americans to get the best out of Britain, train and work on your steps. Britain is a walking culture. City's znd towns villages and hamlets are designed for walkers.
Wow, America sounds seriously expensive. Because you're looking at London prices - and London prices are, like, double anywhere else in the UK - and you're thinking "that's a bargain!!". It's going to blow your mind if you look up the price of a bacon sarnie in, say, Cornwall or Newcastle, well away from London prices.
As a born and raised Londoner I always carry an umbrella and a form of jacket, spring, summer, autumn and winter I will always have an umbrella and jacket/coat with me
If planning to visit London and stay in the outer area's make sure it is an area with decent transport links For example 6 London boroughs do not have tube stations: Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Lewisham, and Sutton. All six are located south of the River Thames, Lewisham does have the DLR (a driverless train similar to a mono-rail system) and some areas like Croydon and parts of Bromley have a tram network
Croydon and Kingston have fast trains into central London. Croydon has the tram but that's slow. I have a Spanish friend who after living in the UK including London, now when he comes to London only explores the outer boroughs as there are stately homes, monuments and parks that the average tourist doesn't see.
That pair were just as damp as the weather. I mean their own country isn’t anything special. They just seemed interested in food and not the history behind what they were actually looking at. I found them very boring with no personalities whatsoever. They’re the type of couple you wouldn’t want to meet in the pub.
7 dials - there is a pub with a roundabout in the middle where me and my mate Barnu have had many a night with a bottle of wine and gossip, just sit on the roundabout, love it there, shopping and bars are fabulous, literally one of the most cool places.....I have been to Barbican tube before for a meeting with a law firm never knew here was a a massive conservatory ! EVAN Man U planned my kind of day
I used to work in 1 Victoria St, and overlooked Westminster Abbey every day. Whenever there was an event going on we had a 'balcony style' view of what was going on...
a lot of people in the uk do carry umbrellas in their cars, or you can get ones fit in a backpack. the walkie talkie building melted a jaguar car and set fire to a shop's entry mat so they had to alter it with external blinds to limit the focussing of the sunlight.
To be honest with you, go to Buckingham Palace when they’re doing the changing of the guard, or something is happening around there plus you have the statue of Victoria in the middle of the roundabout which is quite incredible
Wasn't a fan of this video (your reaction yes but not his video). I enjoy your reactions though and that's why I watched. Come to London and meet a bunch of us and you'll get a far superior tour of London. That place in Trafalgar Square isn't the British Museum. That's the National Gallery.
I thinknI'm right that it is a building reg in London that all buildings over a certain size have to have a communal space - creating a sky garden is much more interesting than a huge foyer. You don't just have to look at the outside of a building, you can go inside all the tourist spots as well e.g. Buckingham Palace and Gardens; Houses of Parliament; Tower Bridge; St Paul's etc. - they just didn't have time.
You actually can visit Buckingham palace state rooms, not just stare at the outside brown box building that I see so many tourists doing. It’s pretty cool, and they have very tasty “handbag” sized tins of shortbread biscuits in the gift shop. ❤
The old beautiful oak doors were being replaced. My son bought one of the doors and made my husband and I a fabulous dining room table for our pearl anniversary 😍
JJ you did _not_ hear Evan say "Chis_wick"!! Its spelt Chiswick but pronounced Chissick... Ditto Southwark is pronounced 'Suthuk' Leicester is pronounced 'Lester' 'Quay' is pronounced 'key' (it's a dock / jetty) Westminster is _not_ pronounced Westminister. (A 'Minster' is a church, _not a Minister_ , which we call a 'Reverend' / 'Vicar' - _Anglican_ / 'C_of_E', or a 'Priest' - _Roman Catholic_ .) ... 'Cock Lane' might have its origins in either a 'cock-fighting' (cock pit) betting area... _Or_ from an area of brothels - for obvious reasons! 'Joolz Guides' can explain more fully the names of London's streets, buildings and street furniture - such as old cannons being turned into street bollards, etc). I think, JJ, if you haven't yet watched any of Joolz' videos of walking guides in and around London, you really ought to, he us entertaining, amusing, educational, interesting and well-worth watching... I promise.
Imo a day isn't long enough to look around all the stuff we stole in the British museum, you need a good 2 days in that place, and then a day or half a day for each of the other free museums if you're going that route.
That is a re-build of The Globe, the original burnt down in 1613 during a production of Henry VIII. A theatrical cannon misfired and caught the beams on fire
@@kille-4Bit was rebuilt in 1614, but then in 1642 the government closed all the theatres because of the civil war, it was then pulled down. The current one was built in 1997.
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Samuel Johnson. Cock Lane is famous for the Cock Lane ghost, and scratching fanny, Johnson was involved in that. Look it up. Most roads in this part of London are named after the trade that done in that part of London. It could be cock fighting, then it was known to have a lot of brothels.
The monsteria deliciosa is known as the "fruit salad plant"..maybe that's why he called it the pineapple banana - maybe it tastes like that. I have grown them here in Austrslia but never had one that fruited.
Yes, everyone in England carrries umbrellas. Every single person. Every single day. It's just what we do. If you can't think of a reason why we would need to carry one every single day, maybe you should ask yourself this question 'Do I ask stupid questions I already know the answer too?'
They went nowhere near the British Museum, let alone had the opportunity to go in. Nobody who does not work in London, and thus gets paid ridiculous London salaries, can afford to go in a pub there. Everything is approximately three times what it costs anywhere else.
Scandalous price for a bacon butty. I get a big bin lid barm with 2 sausage, 2,bacon,2 eggs and spam for £6. A standard bacon butty is about £2.50-£3 up North
Definitely Buckingham Palace isn't worth going out of your way for - if you're in the area, then sure stop and take a snap- but definitely not the focus of your trip. The same goes for Leicester Square, which seems to be on a list of places tourists have heard of. You only need to go there to use the Theatre Ticket Booth which has some good on-the-day deals for lots of West End Shows - or to attend a film premiere, if that's something you're invited to. On a good weather day I'd recommend the walk between Westminster Bridge ( by the Houses of Parliament) along the South Bank as far as Borough Market (which is worth seeing) then crossing Tower Bridge, taking in The Tower of London, then heading somewhere like Brick Lane to finish off.
I honestly haven't really bothered with umbrellas for years. Unless it's raining heavily enough, it just blow up under the umbrella anyway lol. I remember taking one out a few years ago when it was banging down, and it blew inside out and the metal bands snapped. Went into the closest shop to buy a replacement, but it was faulty as the the main umbrella bit shot off (i can only assume it's still in orbit) I stick with my hoodies and commit to just getting soaked 🤣 And yeah, i agree with all of you on here. £9 for a bacon sandwich is CRIMINAL I also love that typing in 'the walkie talkie building' brings it up as that on Google 😆
@nolaj114 I do. I spin it like a radar dish depending on which way is best. (actually had to buy a clear plastic one a while ago after walking into a lamppost 🤣) It's crossing side streets that are a lot of the problem. Not much you can do when you get sideswiped from 2nd direction when you're super focused fighting the first 🤣
I used to always carry a small brolly in my bag ( it think a lot of females do ), Until I had kids and realised it is difficult to push a buggy and hold the brolly at the same time!
evan edinger is like that distant relation you invited over who didnt leave but moaned and complained about everything and here he has brought his horrible uncultured ignorant besties , only staying for jj who makes it bearable lol
They are from Finland a country no one wants to go to . London is the 3 rd most popular city it’s considered one of the best cities. Objectively our capital is better than any city in Finland
You don’t understand how important Saint Pauls is. It is a feet of engineering as well as architectural beauty, it’s whispering Gallery is Amazing and the money goes towards the upkeep of the building.
A feat of Engineering, indeed!
That pair were hard work. I think if you’d shown them the hanging gardens of Babylon they would have just took the piss.
I felt sorry for Evan..they were bordering on rude.
@@Cleow33 hard work is an understatement they had faces that could curdle milk they were so sour.
@@nolaj114 They were outright rude.
Hard work showing that pair around.
These tourists seem a big jaded. I would have absolutely loved that tour.
@@nolaj114 me too and I lived at Lancaster Gate, although I never did visit 7 dials,
A bacon sandwich outside of trendy london will cost you about £3.00
Definitely, more like £2.40 in my town, which is pricey compared to the surrounding area as it’s a commuter town for London
Maybe up to a fiver. There's a good snack van on a trading estate near me - but, that's home counties prices.
i had a bacon and egg roll today.. £3.50
I nearly spat my tea out at that price, nearly a tenner for a bacon sandwich
I live in London amd £9 for a bacon sarnie is a piss take.
I recently commented on a social media post about Americans only enjoying fish and chips in London and I’ll say the same here on behalf of all Britons.
If you’re an American wanting to visit Britain and at some point try fish and chips, instead of going into London from your arriving flight at Heathrow Airport, get on a train to either the South West coast of the counties Devon Dorset or Cornwall, or up north to the Yorkshire coast.
The fish and chips in these seaside locations are far better than anything in London, and with all likelihood, cheaper.
I'm 100% a Londoner and I 100% agree with you. The proper fish and chips shops no longer go to Billingsgate every day like when I was a nipper, and theres two many gastropubs and nouveau fish bars selling fusion meals. Harry Ramsdens in Brighton is better than most fish and chip places in London. There are odd ones dotted around in South London that I would recommend though, but pricey.
Because you’ve been to every fish and chip shop in the entirety of London. 🙄
@@SvenTviking I'm a born and bred Londoner and will defend it til I die, but you do realise that any fish eaten in London will be _at least_ a day old? Its caught wherever, brought down to London for 2 or 3am to sell at Billingsgate fish market, then so the earliest you'll get to eat it would be 24 hours after it was caught, thats near enough a minimum since its been caught to when its in front of you.
If you want the freshest fish here, go to Billingsgate yourself and cook it the same day, although you'll have to get there before 5am. Later than that and you'll miss the best stuff.
He doesn’t have an umbrella because he works there, by the way yes a lot of us do carry mini umbrellas around in our bags all the time
My brolly is literally in my bag all year, summer, winter, I don’t care I just keep it with me just in case.
He was joking about the security guard 😂
As a 70-year-old Londoner, this was a great video of a wonderful Town/City.
I LOVE the way that you look things up. You do it very quickly and it saves so much second guessing and incomprehension/
NEVER been to The Barbican Centre which I must rectify:)
Ditto! I even worked a 5 minute walk from the Barbican years ago and never went. Must make time for it!
@@Isleofskye ooh the Barbican Centre is a fabulous venue. I went to a concert there recently. Lovely staff, top tier performers, comfortable seats, great view of the stage, £25. Can't go wrong.
@@natalielang6209 Yes, Natalie.I have lived on the edge of S E London and Jent since 1983 after living just 2 miles from Central London and I,often,go back like ,in a few hours time but I must visit The Barbican.
@@soozb15 Sounds Great :)
I know it is relative but how about this. lol
I saw 4 of the most famous Groups in the World at 3 World Class Venues between 1973/74. ....Pink Floyd with 18,000 others @ Earls Court then Led Zeppelin@ Wembley Arena and both Deep Purple and the following week: Creedence Clearwater Revival at The Royal Albert Hall and the TOTAL cost? £2.50 (£1+75p+25p+25p)
@@Isleofskye wow. those were the days!
It does _not_ rain in London as often as you think. You get more annual rainfall in NYC (1258mm), New Orleans (1609mm) or Orlando (1307mm) than London (1154mm). London has about a third of the average annual rainfall of the UK as a whole owing to the fact that the rest of the country "soaks up" the rain before it reaches London.
Unfortunately, you've got the wrong formula. Rainfall duration isnt measured in volume. It rains a lot in London, because of that bloody seas we're so close to, but its that crappy drizzle we get sometimes constantly in winter. So while it may not be as much as those other places, whom which tends to have storms when it rains - we do have extended periods in London where it rains for maybe three days straight.
19:04 No, it's Tower Bridge because it stands next to the Tower of London.
I watched Evan's original video and wasn't impressed by his friends' lacklustre response to his tour. He tried so hard to engage them! Were they expecting the Empire State Building, a Giza Pyramid and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in one tour? What would they be impressed by? To be fair, Evan was doing this on a budget and the weather sure didn't help. Correct me if I'm wrong, I think they are from Finland? I'd like to see them give Evan a budget tour of Helsinki and show him similar sights (no offence to Helsinki - I have never been there) but I'm not sure they could match London's history, food culture, architecture, theatre etc etc. And I'm sure the weather wouldn't be too different!
I feel like maybe they could have found some sort of activity to do instead of walking around. I feel like Evan should have tried to get them interested in things inside rather than outside. Take them to some free museums, rather than walking around in the rain.
I must remember to go to Tampere and act bored and disinterested. Oh wait...I wouldn't be acting. 🤔
'SHOW ME ONNA MAP' is becoming my favourite catchphrase, it probably deserves to be on a mug!
Or a t shirt! 😊
It makes me smile every time 😂❤
It's bloody annoying 🙄
@@janolaful yes it is. Annoyingly, I've started to say it myself. In that stupid voice.
Love his catchphrases and the evil grin and dastardly tap on the side of his mug.😊🤗👍
any true brit pops into one of the supermarkets for sandwiches, they all do 'meal deals' which gives you a double, sometimes triple, sandwich, a snack like a bag of crisps, chocolate or fruit...even a couple of boiled eggs plus a drink of your choice, all for around £3.80..
Nice to see two of my favourite RUclipsrs in the same video...(you and Evan in case you were wondering..lol) Boring fact, the girl who appeared towards the end is his girlfriend, Heather. She's nice too.
Most museums are free in the UK
9 quid for a bacon sandwich is expensive, 3.50 is a good price
He is used to Los Angeles prices so it's probably similar to what he is used to, I am assuming. Me being in the suburbs of Detroit Michigan, I would agree that it's expensive for my area, depending on where you get it from.
Agreed £9 is expensive even for zone 1 London prices.
Even if I had money to burn, no bacon sandwich is worth £9. I'd have to be literally starving with no other option to pay that. Even then, it would worry me for at least a week afterwards. Must be the Scot in my character.
Nine Quid for a bacon butty🤦🏻♀️ I just couldnt😆🇬🇧
I've got a foldable umbrella that I keep in my work commuter bag.
So I don't carry one around in my hand all the time (unless it's actually raining as I leave the house). But I do have an umbrella in the bag. Just in case.
Always keep an "emergency umbrella" in your work bag, in case it starts pelting it down from nowhere.
But, as a Brit, if it's just a light drizzle then we just walk through it with no shits given. As I like to say, if Brits stopped because it was raining, then we'd never have gotten anything done ever.
‘as a Brit’ …….“gotten?!”
Chiswick House is where the Beatles filmed the promotional video for the song Rain.
Calling £8.95 a good price for a sandwich 😂😂😂😂
Guess it's all relative
Get a meal deal for 3 quid here 😂
@@CMc-v7z although cheaper they meal deals are not worth it for what you get. You are paying for the convenience.
A few years ago when Tesco in Central London had meal deals at £3.50. I worked out the cost of the sandwich that it I took to work.
It was a Marmite, Cheese, Hams and Chinese Leaf sandwich, the cheese (a block of cheader, the 3 types of ham(Honey roasted, Pork luncheon meat and Salami) and the leaf were store brand (sainsburys) the bread was Hovis with Flora for spread,
For this rather filed sandwich it cost me 77p to make.
yeah i was about to comment the same thing
eeek.. is it on gold plated bread?
Americans really DO get 'ripped off'. I always notice the ridiculous prices that exist in America, even grocery shopping! I have been travelling there for well over 40 years and prices are a killer. 😮💨
Apart from contributing to the enormous cost upkeep, the real reason places like St Paul' charge for - non-worshipping - entry is as a deterrent! It stops the place from being totally swamped with - and ruined by - tourists.
St Pauls and West Minster Abby is free if you go to a service , so do the service then have a walk around
You can tell they are from Finland by their lack of humour 😂😂
When looking at the street names Google the reasons for them , you'll be surprised .
Westminster Abbey.
That price for a bacon sandwich I would need a fainting couch
My hot tip for a cheap stay. Lee Valley youth hostel. Stayed there twice. It's basic but clean, and central London is 20 minutes away. It actually feels a bit like countryside.
Some people are hard to please. They looked as if they couldn’t care less!
£9 for a bacon sandwich is criminal expensive for London. £3 to £5 is about the norm
Happy Friday, I hope you've had a wonderful week and I hope you have a great weekend. Lots of love and God bless x
Spitalfields is a contraction of Hospital Fields - we do like to shorten everything.
many thanks, i didn't know that.
@michellejackson4263 Oh my good God. Tell me that's true. I never knew that.
@@JohnnyZenith Yes from St Mary's Priory and Hospital.
Seemed hard work, they don't seem interested in ANYTHING.
I totally agree, she's only interested in trying to be 'clever', yet failed at the first hurdle, her partner, well...🤣
Those two are such miseries
just imagine that she's your life partner...
The multi-level Sky Gardens at the top of the Walkie-Talkie building are well worth a visit. Great 360 degree views of London and an awesome view looking down at the 1,000 year old Tower of London. There is a nice restaurant in the Sky Gardens right amongst the subtropical plants. Admission to the Sky Gardens is free but you have to pre-book 4 weeks ahead, as Evan said. Booking a table at the restaurant is a sneaky and enjoyable way to get in sooner, usually and enjoy a walk around the Sky Gardens before or after your meal..
The Walkie-Talkie does offer some of the best views of London. After all, it offers views which don't have the Walkie-Talkie in them!
No one will ever see all of London'd 60,000 streets and Official 100,000 "Places Of Interest" in one lifetime.
I am a 70-year-old Londoner and have tried and failed, miserably:)
The London zones can be imagined as a series of concentric circles with Zone 1 covering the central London going outwards - it forms the basis of tube & bus charges.
The Barbican's brutalist architecture divides opinion here in London. A bit like Marmite. Personally I love it. The Barbican that is, not Marmite...I always suggest to tourists that they go into the City and get on a two-hour guided tour ofCity highlights, all within the Square Mile. It takes in sights which are a hell of a lot more interesting than Buckingham Palace, such as the Guildhall. The tour office is opposite St Paul's Cathedral.
Same, I absolutely love it. And Trellick Tower etc. Often recommend a focus on the City too.
@@soozb15 I love the Barbican, walking along the north bank of the Thames, and Chelsea embankment. All the places the tourists rarely go.
That bacon sandwich is bloody expensive
You can attend services at St Paul's Cathedral for free but the ticket gives you access to the galleries and crypts e.t.c.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks!
Always tell Americans to get the best out of Britain, train and work on your steps. Britain is a walking culture. City's znd towns villages and hamlets are designed for walkers.
I live in the UK, I treat my brolly = umbrella like my Barclay-Card, I Never leave home without it.😅😅😅
what a pair of bellends
What ones?
I’ve lived in London for over 20 years and I have an umbrella with me every day - just in case!
Wow, America sounds seriously expensive.
Because you're looking at London prices - and London prices are, like, double anywhere else in the UK - and you're thinking "that's a bargain!!".
It's going to blow your mind if you look up the price of a bacon sarnie in, say, Cornwall or Newcastle, well away from London prices.
I've genuinely had nightmares about the Barbican. It's hideous and oppressive.
If they have a cost for at Paul's it will be for the upkeep of it, these old building are not cheap to look after.
As a born and raised Londoner I always carry an umbrella and a form of jacket, spring, summer, autumn and winter I will always have an umbrella and jacket/coat with me
Snobbish tourists. No wonder it was raining
As a Londoner, Buckingham Palace really is very underwhelming from the outside 😅
haha, I thought £9 for a bacon sandwich was extortionate, My local cafe sells them for £3.50
Love it when you say how cheap food is, that's extortionate for us not living in London 😂
People in Seattle don’t carry umbrellas either and it rains there more than London. I’ve never carried an umbrella in the last 4 decades
Yes we carry small umbrellas. In uk you can have all 4 seasons in the space of an hour! 😂
I would never pay £9 for a bacon sandwich, maybe £5 but that would be pushing it..
If planning to visit London and stay in the outer area's make sure it is an area with decent transport links
For example 6 London boroughs do not have tube stations: Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Lewisham, and Sutton. All six are located south of the River Thames, Lewisham does have the DLR (a driverless train similar to a mono-rail system) and some areas like Croydon and parts of Bromley have a tram network
Thanks!
Croydon and Kingston have fast trains into central London. Croydon has the tram but that's slow.
I have a Spanish friend who after living in the UK including London, now when he comes to London only explores the outer boroughs as there are stately homes, monuments and parks that the average tourist doesn't see.
Or any place on The Lizzy Line.
We watch the weather to see what's gonna do that day!!! Muppet!!!!............................ 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 It's a sunny day here today 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
can always tell a yank tourist. they have waterproofs, water bottles.... when its summer and theyre in the middle of a city
@@andyf4292 I know right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 They're not gonna DIE!! It's just WATER!!!! I usually get my water from the tap 🤣🤣
That pair were just as damp as the weather. I mean their own country isn’t anything special. They just seemed interested in food and not the history behind what they were actually looking at. I found them very boring with no personalities whatsoever. They’re the type of couple you wouldn’t want to meet in the pub.
Poor Evan trying so hard and they were giving him nothing 😂
Agreed. London was absolutely wasted on them
7 dials - there is a pub with a roundabout in the middle where me and my mate Barnu have had many a night with a bottle of wine and gossip, just sit on the roundabout, love it there, shopping and bars are fabulous, literally one of the most cool places.....I have been to Barbican tube before for a meeting with a law firm never knew here was a a massive conservatory ! EVAN Man U planned my kind of day
I used to work in 1 Victoria St, and overlooked Westminster Abbey every day. Whenever there was an event going on we had a 'balcony style' view of what was going on...
£9 is not cheap for a bacon sandwich, usually £4/5
He's just using the tubes zones(fares from central london) and applying them to overground areas
To be fair it's one easy way of explaining London to people who don't live there.
a lot of people in the uk do carry umbrellas in their cars, or you can get ones fit in a backpack. the walkie talkie building melted a jaguar car and set fire to a shop's entry mat so they had to alter it with external blinds to limit the focussing of the sunlight.
To be honest with you, go to Buckingham Palace when they’re doing the changing of the guard, or something is happening around there plus you have the statue of Victoria in the middle of the roundabout which is quite incredible
By the way, Chiswick is a brilliant place to stay and an absolutely beautiful shopping St) and is an infrastructure on its own
American can’t cope with other currencies being called anything other than dollar! 😂
@@digidol52 He said 12 years.
Love popping to Seven Dials Market before heading to the Emirates Stadium on match day! !!!SHOM ME ON A MAP!!
Tate modern is an art gallery not a museum.
That breakfast menu was expensive haha, I have eaten there though and it was nice
Those two from Finland were really annoying! Don't know why they even came to England.
she was trying to be 'clever' yet failed completely. sad really 🤣
They said they were only there for a convention. London is boring
@@CaptainChang69 It really isn't.
@@CaptainChang69 Again, I ask, why did they come to England! They could have easily found a video on RUclips and watched it. They hated London.
The queueing up at the palace is normally to see the changing of the guard.
It costs for a tour of the cathedral but to attend a service of worship is not subject to a fee.
The pub name Lamb and Flag always reminds me of the series Hornblower
Wasn't a fan of this video (your reaction yes but not his video). I enjoy your reactions though and that's why I watched. Come to London and meet a bunch of us and you'll get a far superior tour of London. That place in Trafalgar Square isn't the British Museum. That's the National Gallery.
I thinknI'm right that it is a building reg in London that all buildings over a certain size have to have a communal space - creating a sky garden is much more interesting than a huge foyer. You don't just have to look at the outside of a building, you can go inside all the tourist spots as well e.g. Buckingham Palace and Gardens; Houses of Parliament; Tower Bridge; St Paul's etc. - they just didn't have time.
Not a Joke you can eat the fruit of the Monstera Deliciosa, it has to be prepared properly and tastes pineapply bananery.
You actually can visit Buckingham palace state rooms, not just stare at the outside brown box building that I see so many tourists doing. It’s pretty cool, and they have very tasty “handbag” sized tins of shortbread biscuits in the gift shop. ❤
The old beautiful oak doors were being replaced. My son bought one of the doors and made my husband and I a fabulous dining room table for our pearl anniversary 😍
I've missed the bit about the doors, having watched at double speed and with subtitles, as someone sleeping beside me. Can you explain please?
I’ve always got an umbrella in my bag.
If you visit the British Museum for free and see the famous Rosetta Stone
I enjoy your videos
JJ you did _not_ hear Evan say "Chis_wick"!! Its spelt Chiswick but pronounced Chissick...
Ditto Southwark is pronounced 'Suthuk'
Leicester is pronounced 'Lester'
'Quay' is pronounced 'key' (it's a dock / jetty)
Westminster is _not_ pronounced
Westminister. (A 'Minster' is a church, _not a Minister_ , which we call a 'Reverend' / 'Vicar' - _Anglican_ / 'C_of_E', or a
'Priest' - _Roman Catholic_ .) ...
'Cock Lane' might have its origins in either a 'cock-fighting' (cock pit) betting area... _Or_ from an area of brothels - for obvious reasons!
'Joolz Guides' can explain more fully the names of London's streets, buildings and street furniture - such as old cannons being turned into street bollards, etc). I think, JJ, if you haven't yet watched any of Joolz' videos of walking guides in and around London, you really ought to, he us entertaining, amusing, educational, interesting and well-worth watching...
I promise.
I'd love to see you again in Windsor, showing them Windsor Castle.❤😂❤
Imo a day isn't long enough to look around all the stuff we stole in the British museum, you need a good 2 days in that place, and then a day or half a day for each of the other free museums if you're going that route.
That is a re-build of The Globe, the original burnt down in 1613 during a production of Henry VIII. A theatrical cannon misfired and caught the beams on fire
Ohh, I was thinking it got lost in the big fire in 1666. When was it rebuild? This century?
@@kille-4Bit was rebuilt in 1614, but then in 1642 the government closed all the theatres because of the civil war, it was then pulled down. The current one was built in 1997.
@@Sparx632 Thank you 🤗
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Samuel Johnson. Cock Lane is famous for the Cock Lane ghost, and scratching fanny, Johnson was involved in that. Look it up. Most roads in this part of London are named after the trade that done in that part of London. It could be cock fighting, then it was known to have a lot of brothels.
They seem hard to please.
erm. just a tad. lol. let's see a reciprocal visit to tampere...🤣
Im going shopping in London this Friday but I won't be taking an umbrella!
My Umberleigh is with me every day 24:7 like my Barclay-Card.😅😊
I live in Scotland and always have an umbrella in my bag.
HMS Belfast and the imperial war museum are good
The monsteria deliciosa is known as the "fruit salad plant"..maybe that's why he called it the pineapple banana - maybe it tastes like that. I have grown them here in Austrslia but never had one that fruited.
Yes, everyone in England carrries umbrellas. Every single person. Every single day. It's just what we do. If you can't think of a reason why we would need to carry one every single day, maybe you should ask yourself this question 'Do I ask stupid questions I already know the answer too?'
They went nowhere near the British Museum, let alone had the opportunity to go in. Nobody who does not work in London, and thus gets paid ridiculous London salaries, can afford to go in a pub there. Everything is approximately three times what it costs anywhere else.
I was surprised that Dirty Dicks was so clean, I thought it was famous for never having been cleaned.
20:11 Yes, a Finn would see the bricks. When I lived in Finland I saw the Lack of bricks. Everything is wood.
Scandalous price for a bacon butty. I get a big bin lid barm with 2 sausage, 2,bacon,2 eggs and spam for £6. A standard bacon butty is about £2.50-£3 up North
Definitely Buckingham Palace isn't worth going out of your way for - if you're in the area, then sure stop and take a snap- but definitely not the focus of your trip. The same goes for Leicester Square, which seems to be on a list of places tourists have heard of. You only need to go there to use the Theatre Ticket Booth which has some good on-the-day deals for lots of West End Shows - or to attend a film premiere, if that's something you're invited to.
On a good weather day I'd recommend the walk between Westminster Bridge ( by the Houses of Parliament) along the South Bank as far as Borough Market (which is worth seeing) then crossing Tower Bridge, taking in The Tower of London, then heading somewhere like Brick Lane to finish off.
If you’re interested in the royal history then I do recommend the Buckingham Palace summer opening
I honestly haven't really bothered with umbrellas for years. Unless it's raining heavily enough, it just blow up under the umbrella anyway lol.
I remember taking one out a few years ago when it was banging down, and it blew inside out and the metal bands snapped.
Went into the closest shop to buy a replacement, but it was faulty as the the main umbrella bit shot off (i can only assume it's still in orbit)
I stick with my hoodies and commit to just getting soaked 🤣
And yeah, i agree with all of you on here. £9 for a bacon sandwich is CRIMINAL
I also love that typing in 'the walkie talkie building' brings it up as that on Google 😆
Try holding it more forward , like a shield in battle 😅
@nolaj114 I do. I spin it like a radar dish depending on which way is best.
(actually had to buy a clear plastic one a while ago after walking into a lamppost 🤣)
It's crossing side streets that are a lot of the problem. Not much you can do when you get sideswiped from 2nd direction when you're super focused fighting the first 🤣
21:17 parts of Andor are filmed at the Barbican.
I hate that now when I look some place up online I too growl "SHOW MEEEE ORRRN A MAP!"
😂
Recently started to get into GeoGuessr. But I can’t play it without saying Shooooowwww me onnnnaaaa MAP!
Weird he didn't mention the riddle of the Seven Dials - there only being six clock faces on the podium in the middle.
I used to always carry a small brolly in my bag ( it think a lot of females do ), Until I had kids and realised it is difficult to push a buggy and hold the brolly at the same time!
evan edinger is like that distant relation you invited over who didnt leave but moaned and complained about everything and here he has brought his horrible uncultured ignorant besties , only staying for jj who makes it bearable lol
I agree! Why not leave a comment to that effect on Evan’s original video - a double bonus is letting him know JJ’s getting the royalties!
@MrAlexBun 😂
He might find himself in the situation Tyler (another reactor) found himself in.
Girl Gone London fans bullied him.
They are from Finland a country no one wants to go to . London is the 3 rd most popular city it’s considered one of the best cities. Objectively our capital is better than any city in Finland