@@Sian-me9wy Although not a Labour voter, I fully agree that re-nationalisation of the railways is needed, as well as re-nationalisation of the Postal services.
@@MatthewCyUK Hi! Greek islands are extremely nice during summer. If you have a happy vibe,then you will have an amazing time there! But, because i spent also 1 year in Australia and another 2 in the Nederlands and i have been around a lot, i am telling you, nothing beats Manchester.
That mural on the wall in the hostel was Alan Turing who helped to crack the German enigma code during WWII and was basically the father of modern computing. He was badly treated by the government after the war for being gay and sadly committed suicide.
@@antonycharnock2993 I was disappointed that Joel didn't show us Alan's memorial when he was in Sackville Gardens last time he was in Manc, especially as he is studying computer science.
Dude!!!! I just found your channel. I’ve not been home for years (living in Japan) but I’m absolutely loving hearing the way you are talking about home. I haven’t felt I missed anything for years but just got a pang of homesickness. 🇺🇸 ❤ 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 😢
What I like about you,Joel,is that you are more of an urban explorer more than just a typical tourist who only visits the typical tourist spots. You are prepared to get off the beaten track and explore the rougher parts. Just be safe when you do
he is a fit white young men exploring some of the safest countries in the world: the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. his safety while in Europe is infinitely more secure compared to 'walking' or being in public spaces of an American city. 😉
...all be it,in Joel's last brief trip to Birmingham,I think he just followed his feet and unintentionally ended up on one of it's grimy industrial estates,but, like I said,the lad has a bit of urban explorer in him,and he's open to seeing the less veneer side of our towns. And before u say it, I'm not essentially saying rough means dangerous and crime ridden.
Northern quarter far from rough just saying. Fellow manc here. Still like how he showed the cooler part of the town centre, NQ is the spot for bars and hidden niche backstreet food spots
Mancunian here...Good to see your channel growing with you. Obviously good thing ahead for you because you have a good attitude. Shouldn't really be saying it but.. Liverpool is well worth a visit too.
0:53 "...talk any sh*te about England..." haha i love how you're chatting like a proper Brit now - dropping in slang in the right places. Fair play Joel and great to see you back over here mate
Superb video. I’ve lived in Manchester for over 60 years and it was lovely to get your take on it. The “ta love” made me smile. I’m off to look at your Liverpool video next. Keep up the good work, you’re a great presenter! George
Never taken my shirt off just walking around. Playing sport outside as "skins" as no team shirts available then yes, but only slobs walk around in the town shirtless, tattooed and fat. He was out of town in the fields. Get a life Rambo
We need more people like you outside of the UK who really show the good side of this country, too many people judge our country by the rough areas, but we genuinely have so many nice areas with good vibes if you know where your going!
@@scottneil1187 if people weren’t unpleasant he wouldn’t have said they were? Maybe you should worry less about how an American represents you and worry more about how you represent yourselves.
I find these 'rough area' videos on RUclips amusing. Those areas probably aren't even dangerous compared to some ghettos in the US. Those videos are way exaggerated
"I may be a wage slave on Monday, but I am a free man on Sunday." Was from a song called The Manchester Rambler by a folk singer called Ewan MacColl (Kirsty MacColl's dad). The song, and Ewan himself, were fundamental in the idea of the country having National Parks, where the public can walk freely without having to be deemed as tresspassers on someone's land. They protested for years and eventually The Peak District was declared England's first National Park.
@brigidsingleton1596 Absolutely, and Ewan. This story is embedded in 1930's British communism, Ewan MacColl was a member of The Communist Party of Great Britain. Their concerns were mainly racial equality, worker's rights, and anti-colonialism. It was a perfect vehicle for MacColl, and his desire to push for trespass laws to be dropped and for the working man to freely enjoy the countryside. This was obviously before the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, which saw a significant loss of British support for the CPGB and well before the publication of The Gulag Archipelago by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn in 1974, which exposed the many horrors of what communism was capable of. The likes of Ewan MacColl in the 1930's just wanted a fairer society in Britain, which they eventually achieved.
@@stephenclark9917 Lucky you... I've only seen her perform on TV and YT... I feel so sorry for her Mum and sons... Her death was awful and I haven't heard if her Mum ever got to the truth of it, or any justice for Kirsty. 💔😢💔
A lot of us Brits use "ta" to say thank you, especially in Wales. Sundays are definitely a "chill out" day, not many people on the roads. Family time. Shops/stores have very limited openings time & some are closed.
Good to see Joel being sensible when crossing the roads, looking both ways in preparation for traffic heading from the opposite direction to what he's used to back home in the States, and in Europe. 👍🏴😊♥️🤭🇬🇧🖖
Yes the problem with British weather is not so much the rain ( although it does rain a lot) but the unpredictability. So difficult to plan anything outside...you just cannot predict...
Remember, a lot of people drive manual cars in UK. When you stop at a traffic light you put the car into neutral. The light changes from red to red and amber so people have time to put the car into gear before it changes to green.
I'm a guy born in the UK in 1960. In the late 60s early 70s you knew it was a Sunday because there was hardly any traffic or people around and all the shops were closed. Nowadays Sundays are just as busy as any other week day. Enjoy! 😊
Loving the videos Joel! The poster in the museum for working in Australia for 10 pounds was my history. Both sets of grandparents left Manchester in the 1950's after fighting in WW2, came to Melbourne and never left. They were always referred as the 10 pound Poms. Enjoy your stay. X
Oh boy yes, I remember this from when I was at school, one friend plus her family seemed to have come over here, stayed a short time then went back on the £10 deal? Now wonder if it was some way of getting a holiday over here then cheap fare back!!?
My mum's half brother Frank took the £10 ticket straight after WWII he changed his name to Steve and I don't think anyone heard much from him after that. So I probably have first and second cousins in Australia.
@@deniseroney I think they had to commit to 2 years in Australia before returning to the UK. Otherwise they had to pay back the money, Hugh Jackman and Kylie Minogue, the Bee Gees are children of £10 pom parents.
@@deniseroney I am certain that those who were £10 poms had to sign a contract that guaranteed that they would stay a minimum number of years before returning to the UK otherwise they had to pay all actual costs of the travel back to the Australian government. I can't remember what the minimum stay was before returning to the UK.
Before around the mid 90’s, Sundays were much more chill in the UK. Laws around Sunday opening and extended openings were relaxed, shops were allowed to open and nowadays Sundays can get pretty lively 🙂
Manchester is one of the greatest cities in Britain and maybe actually the greatest one in Britian. I lived there years ago and you cannot go wrong with it, so many great places and things to do there
Thankyou for your positive vids about my home Country ❤️‼️.I am living in Frankfurt and miss the Brit Humor,breakfast and laid back culture,thank you 👍,enjoy ❤️🏴🇺🇸🏴p.s. the Germans are always running the Brit food down it is sooooooo nice listening to your positive comments ❤️‼️
I'm from London. Grew up on horror stories about 'up north'. I then went and spent a couple of days in Manchester and was surprised at how pleasant it was. A little quiet, but very enjoyable and very friendly. Then went and spent 2 days in Birmingham whereI also had low expectations, and yet it was even worse than I imagined.
Love the drawing of Alan Turing on the way up the stairs! And, BTW, you can talk s--- about the UK sometimes! The adults among us know that no country is perfect and we all have areas of weakness. Avanti is notorious for how bad its service is!!
Watched a few of this guys vids. Hes a good advert for solo travelling. His observations about the UK and comparisons to his home don’t happen unless your solo and really have your eyes and ears open
Ah the state of the trains! I liked the Alan Turing mural at the hostel, he was pivotal in cracking German code during WW2. There is no butter in a Yorkshire pudding. A basic batter mix cooked in smoking hot oil or beef dripping. You did well with the weather!
Train strikes do not help but i remember standing for two hours as part of a five hour train trip on Virgin trains then the next time my reserved seat was taken by an oriental girl with the same seat booking so as there was no sorting i said "you keep the seat " and i stood again for a couple of hours .Footnote to this story the girl found be later and gave me a chocolate bar so i thought my good deed was at least recognized for her to go to the trouble of finding me and giving me a gift ,sometimes the thought is all important.
This is good. I was born south of England, moved to Yorkshire and loved it for all the reasons JPS appreciates it. I hope JPS went back to York in his stay.
That pub, Trough, should be prosecuted for sitting a Yorkshire ON TOP of gravy. The pud is the perfect recepticle for gravy. It has no function where they put it.
Ooooo no, that makes for a Yorkshire pud with a 'soggy bottom', this version gives crunchy crispness how a Yorkshire should be, you can dip it in the gravy then at leisure (if required) !
@@deniseroney Sitting it ON gravy doesn't give it a soggy bottom? The whole point o a Yorkie being that shape is that it is a container. Come to any café around Wakefield and get a giant Yorkshire Pudding with the whole meal inside it, or the modern version with the pud as a wrap - with all the rest of the meal inside it. You'll be telling be next that a bowl of stew with a pastry lid qualifies as a pie!😉
@@davidmoore4615 Ha, yea brilliant isn't it, lol ! I hate that one of where does the jam go on the scone before the cream or afterwards, I mean does it matter!?
Glad you enjoyed another trip over The Pond Joel. I am from just down the Road, Liverpool, but I have to go to Manchester to work from time to time and it is a nice city. I have been going for years and have never had a problem. Enjoyed that one mate 👍
Back in the very distant past my standard “thank you” was always “Ta ever so!”. And no you don’t really hear it anymore. Great video, really enjoyed it.
I'm a proud Southerner but have always loved my visits to Manchester. By great good fortune my 1st visit to Trof was on a Tuesday. I got introduced to the concept of Jammy Tuesdays. Most of the menu was half price! The roast beef was fantastic, though I do prefer less crispy Yorkshire puddings. Pudding tin ones, same shape as tray-baked cakes, cut into slices are the very best. You get a crispy edge & a more solid centre. Gravy is the all important foundation for a great roast dinner. Trof's was indeed great.
Joel thank you for yet another wonderful production. My maternal grandfather was born in Wellfield Road, Stratham. His father was better at producing children than he was at supporting them. At age sixteen he was sponsored to come to Australia by the Church of England. He was a wonderful guy. He never talked about his early life over there. Very lucky over here though he met and married a wonderful lady. I started my apprenticeship when I was sixteen but I can't imagine what it would have been like to be sent half way around the world at that age. Keep well and safe and please keep producing your material.
Yeah it's not a myth, when I lived there I didn't think it was as bad as people say but since I've moved somewhere sunnier I realise it's as bad, if not worse than people say lol
How are you so clued up on our culture? You know so many local words, sayings, locations, general knowledge of the U.K it's very impressive Try the curry mile, it's such a unique experience and has a real buzz at night (I'd recommend going on the weekend when it's real hustle and bustle / vibe . Like you're in a different country , really nice )
Gravy can make or break a Sunday Roast!! Been in Trof many times. Places to visit, Afflecks Palace (Tib St), Band on the wall (live music), Manchester Cathedral, if you can get there visit, lots of tunnels underneath which we're used as bomb shelters during the war. War Museum.
Glad you finally got some sunshine in the UK Joel. The north was always the work force of the industrial revolution, cotton, overseas trade and ship building.
Glad your back, now please do a proper and real visit to Birmingham and actually meet it’s welcoming, friendly people, visit its attractions, pubs, cafes, restaurants and look around the city centre, jewellery quarter etc rather than just Digbeth on a slow Monday when it still hadn’t been cleaned after the weekend as it’s full of nightclubs, street food, bars and street art ( the whole place is slowly getting redeveloped with massive film studios there ( new Peaky blinders film starts shooting in December and masterchef and bbc are having new studios build there..) But look at the rest of what is actually a very nice happening cosmopolitan city 👍🏼
Good job representing the North’s tourism more! So much more to the U.K. than Oxford Street and Leicester Big Ben. Also like the exploration into working class history. It’s woven into the fabric of every working town. From Liverpool’s docks to Sheffield steel, the mills of Manchester and Leeds. Brilliant people.
Yea, stunning city now that the slum areas have been cleared it is so different! When I was a kid going to Liverpool meant black buildings, everything was dark, coming out of the train station though was always fascinating, all built of those navy blue slate tiles mountains of them with 'cut outs' which my Pa explained were for the workmen to stand in as the train passed! Nip up the line to Southport too, a pleasant and very different seaside town!!
great video mate. you did stuff i would do when my friends visit. you really got the place. hope you can come back and do more exploring of manchester.
I absolutely love what you do. I'm so scared of doing anything on my own and to see you doing this makes me want to experience more by myself. So glad you had a great time ❤
The sequence of traffic lights is red, red and amber, green, green, amber, red, this means if you approach a light and its red and amber you know its about to change to green, likewise, if you approach and its on just amber you know its about to turn red :)
Someone suggested that the red-amber combination allows drivers to put their cars in gear so they can pull off when the lights turn green. Not something that average Americans in automatics have to worry about.
My driving instructor told me (20 years ago) that it’s a solid amber light if it’s about to change to red, and it’s a flashing amber if changing to green. Is that still true? Can’t say I even notice anymore tbh 😂
@@thinkdeep8806 I must be getting it mixed up with pedestrian crossings then. I’ve just driven home from work and didn’t see a single flashing amber all the way home so thought I must’ve made it up 😂
Our railways are a total mess. You were lucky the trains were even running and not on strike! The issue is the railways were privatised by Thatcher so all they're interested in is making money for their shareholders. The current Government has promised to renationalise the railways and it can't come soon enough.
I'm glad you like what was and always will be my City. Your comment about the accent an The Royale Family,just creased me up. I have been living in Spain for over 28 years now,still have my Mancunian accent,that even comes through when I'm speaking Spanish lol
First Cologne and now Manchester - my favourite cities! 🙂 Canal Street, Northern Quarter. Affleck's Market/Emporium. Alan Turing sculpture in the park. Industrial Revolution, Computer Science, Astrophysics @ Jodrell Bank, Cotton, Granada TV - Truly Britains 2nd City (apologies to B'Ham 🙂 )
Industrial revolution didn't start in Manchester. Only people from Manchester think it did. The correct answer is Ironbridge Shropshire, which has UNESCO World Heritage Status for that very reason. As for Manchester being the 2nd city, your having a laff. Birmingham is more than double the size of Manchester, i.e. Manc 116km squared, Brum 268 km squared. Nice try though
Manchester is the world’s first industrial city and generally recognised in most literature as the birthplace of the Industrial revolution though Ironbridge was but due to the massive scale Manchester is credited with the title and rightly so. Birmingham is a great city but it suffers from a poor public image where Manchester has been the media darling for decades and the alternative choice to London. Just so you know the weather is generally around 25 degrees in Manchester all year round, we in Manchester tell people the weather is often raining to keep them away.
Heh! The Curry Mile's been a feature of Rusholme for decades and must date back to the 1950s, '60s or '70s at minimum. As it was famous long before my generation became students in the early '80s at 'Owens' (Manchester University as opposed to UMIST, which was the then division between two institutions). Wilmslow Rd. is the street down which the "Curry Mile" runs south from near that road's northern end. Where it becomes "Oxford St" and heads on northwards through the uni area and to the City Centre.
You should try a Sunday roast in a Carvery style pub. The Northern quarter has a great vibe but the meals are rather pretentious and expensive. You could spend weeks looking at history in Manchester - centre of the Industrial revolution - loads of workers reforms, inventions,, social change. Have you tried Leeds?
I think it's great that you're experiencing and learning about the UK outsde of London. Lot of Americans I meet (both here and in the US) have only experienced the South!
He had no computer expertise. Turing's doctorate was in Computer Science which had nothing to do with computers but was to do with the science of algorithms to do with "working out sums" more efficiently. At the time "computers" were people who did calculations for scientists. The electronic calculating devices later called computers were designed and built by engineers from the Post Office.
Great! You're enjoying Manchester! The yellow bees are all over the place in Manchester because it's the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the people all worked hard, just like Bees
Hey are you still in Manchester?? Would be great if you did a meet up. Glad you enjoyed your time in Manny 🐝 also the Manchester worker bee is one of the best-known symbols of Manchester and has been an emblem for the city for over 150 years. The bee denotes Mancunians' hard work ethic and the city being a hive of activity. It has also come to represent the sense of unity in our great city. Manchester has a culture all of its own completely different to the other places in UK. We have our own humour and music etc it’s the best city in the UK for sure!
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He's becoming a proper Brit, Sunday roast a pint a lie down a curry , a moan about the trains and a chat about the weather.
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Just needs to call a few people a cunt and he is a proper Brit.
Not him having a lay down 😂
lol becoming a proper Brit yeah curry which is Indian Sunday roast which isn’t even British and everyone moans about trains
Now you have truly experienced British transport.
Yep, welcome to the wonder of Aviva. Virgin should never have lost the franchise. I'm still owed a refund for a cancelled journey from February.
Hopefully the new British government goes through re-nationalising the railways, privatisation has been a disaster...
@@Sian-me9wy Although not a Labour voter, I fully agree that re-nationalisation of the railways is needed, as well as re-nationalisation of the Postal services.
@@royhardy407 German trains are also cancelled and delayed but they are cheaper at least. Now you get the same quality for an arm and a leg
@@johntomlinson6849 Avanti=Trenitalia and First Group
i am from Athens and i used to live in Manchester for like 5 years during the 90s. Best city in the world, best vibes, really miss it
I’m in Athens on holiday!
@@HealthTruthMovement hI!Perfect time to visit! Need any recommendations?
Heyup. As a born and bred Mancunian, I love visiting greek islands and much prefer if travelling abroad, to go Greek. Up the Mythos!!!
@@MatthewCyUK Hi! Greek islands are extremely nice during summer. If you have a happy vibe,then you will have an amazing time there! But, because i spent also 1 year in Australia and another 2 in the Nederlands and i have been around a lot, i am telling you, nothing beats Manchester.
I lived in Athens for a couple of years - I miss it so much!
That mural on the wall in the hostel was Alan Turing who helped to crack the German enigma code during WWII and was basically the father of modern computing. He was badly treated by the government after the war for being gay and sadly committed suicide.
Not just badly treated he was chemically castrated
He ate an apple with cyanide in it.
All apples have cyanide in them in the seeds @@robertjsmith
@@Oxnaforda no way to thank someone for all their hard work and help
@@antonycharnock2993 I was disappointed that Joel didn't show us Alan's memorial when he was in Sackville Gardens last time he was in Manc, especially as he is studying computer science.
I love that you actually do it, unlike a lot of reaction channels, who constantly talk about visiting the UK, but have no intention of doing it.
Dude!!!! I just found your channel. I’ve not been home for years (living in Japan) but I’m absolutely loving hearing the way you are talking about home. I haven’t felt I missed anything for years but just got a pang of homesickness.
🇺🇸 ❤ 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 😢
Nice to see you in Manc, my hometown. All the paid holidays and sick days we take for granted in the UK were fought for by our ancestors.
@@chrysalis4126 Union Ancestors.
my condolences
And they fought to stop invaders and now we let them in give them council houses and put them up in hotels. It's sickening.
@@sh.4409shut up u flannel
What I like about you,Joel,is that you are more of an urban explorer more than just a typical tourist who only visits the typical tourist spots. You are prepared to get off the beaten track and explore the rougher parts. Just be safe when you do
he is a fit white young men exploring some of the safest countries in the world: the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. his safety while in Europe is infinitely more secure compared to 'walking' or being in public spaces of an American city. 😉
...all be it,in Joel's last brief trip to Birmingham,I think he just followed his feet and unintentionally ended up on one of it's grimy industrial estates,but, like I said,the lad has a bit of urban explorer in him,and he's open to seeing the less veneer side of our towns. And before u say it, I'm not essentially saying rough means dangerous and crime ridden.
I went to live in Manchester in my 20s, and I felt completely safe there.
Northern quarter far from rough just saying. Fellow manc here. Still like how he showed the cooler part of the town centre, NQ is the spot for bars and hidden niche backstreet food spots
Apparently the deal was - if JP comes to Manchester, Oasis will reform.😂
Mancunian here...Good to see your channel growing with you. Obviously good thing ahead for you because you have a good attitude. Shouldn't really be saying it but.. Liverpool is well worth a visit too.
How dare you fraternise with the enemy 🤣
@@thelifeofbatteries2603 I didn't say the people 🤣
You are getting very British going for a lie down after a Sunday roast Enjoy your time in Uk ❤❤
0:53 "...talk any sh*te about England..." haha i love how you're chatting like a proper Brit now - dropping in slang in the right places. Fair play Joel and great to see you back over here mate
As a Londoner I’ve got loyalties, but Manchester is my next favourite, history, people, food, architecture, there’s a lot to love!
Na, Leeds is far nicer, neater with a far wider vibe
@@nigellee9824 interesting… good mini overview, I’m also a goth in a previous life so there’s a pull from the dark side!
Leeds is like a tiny village compared to Manchester
Superb video. I’ve lived in Manchester for over 60 years and it was lovely to get your take on it. The “ta love” made me smile. I’m off to look at your Liverpool video next. Keep up the good work, you’re a great presenter! George
A true Brit at the end of the video, sun out shirt off. 😂
Moaning it's too hot😂😂
Never taken my shirt off just walking around. Playing sport outside as "skins" as no team shirts available then yes, but only slobs walk around in the town shirtless, tattooed and fat. He was out of town in the fields. Get a life Rambo
And looks like fck benefits cheat
@@John-jw8rx feels right don't it 😂
No butter in Yorkshires, they’re cooked in fat from the roast.
We say “ta” In Yorkshire too.
Ta is very much in our lexicon too, and we're just at the arse end of County Durham 😅
@@xbluebae Darlo?
I've never heard anyone from Yorkshire be remotely grateful for owt.
We need more people like you outside of the UK who really show the good side of this country, too many people judge our country by the rough areas, but we genuinely have so many nice areas with good vibes if you know where your going!
He fair rubbished Scotland because of a few bad eggs. Eddy Cheee here on RUclips shows us in a much better light.
@@scottneil1187 if people weren’t unpleasant he wouldn’t have said they were? Maybe you should worry less about how an American represents you and worry more about how you represent yourselves.
I find these 'rough area' videos on RUclips amusing. Those areas probably aren't even dangerous compared to some ghettos in the US. Those videos are way exaggerated
Did you not read what he said about Birmingham last year??
@@tomthepeacefulWow Tom a bit harsh and not very peaceful.
You got lucky with the weather here in Manchester you can count on your fingers the amount of nice days we've had this summer!
"I may be a wage slave on Monday, but I am a free man on Sunday." Was from a song called The Manchester Rambler by a folk singer called Ewan MacColl (Kirsty MacColl's dad).
The song, and Ewan himself, were fundamental in the idea of the country having National Parks, where the public can walk freely without having to be deemed as tresspassers on someone's land. They protested for years and eventually The Peak District was declared England's first National Park.
R.I.P. Kirsty MacColl.
@brigidsingleton1596 Absolutely, and Ewan. This story is embedded in 1930's British communism, Ewan MacColl was a member of The Communist Party of Great Britain. Their concerns were mainly racial equality, worker's rights, and anti-colonialism. It was a perfect vehicle for MacColl, and his desire to push for trespass laws to be dropped and for the working man to freely enjoy the countryside.
This was obviously before the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, which saw a significant loss of British support for the CPGB and well before the publication of The Gulag Archipelago by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn in 1974, which exposed the many horrors of what communism was capable of.
The likes of Ewan MacColl in the 1930's just wanted a fairer society in Britain, which they eventually achieved.
@@brigidsingleton1596 The lovely Kirsty - heard her perform live three times.
@@stephenclark9917
Lucky you... I've only seen her perform on TV and YT... I feel so sorry for her Mum and sons... Her death was awful and I haven't heard if her Mum ever got to the truth of it, or any justice for Kirsty. 💔😢💔
@@whitedwarf4986" Dirty Old Town"......and weirdly "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" 🍻🍟🍮( pudding and chips and gravy)🍻
Nice to see an American visit somewhere in the UK that isn’t just London. Got a lot of great memories in Manchester, great video!
Mancunian here. Lovely to see you in our neck of the woods. TROF absolutely slaps for a decent Sunday Roast!
slaps? get a grip with that patter
Does "slaps" mean it's rubbish, or good?
But curry on a Monday morning?
@@zzyya good
@@bblair2627 Calm down, Keyboard Warrior. You can't police my words, but you can choose not to read them ;)
A lot of us Brits use "ta" to say thank you, especially in Wales.
Sundays are definitely a "chill out" day, not many people on the roads. Family time. Shops/stores have very limited openings time & some are closed.
We say ta in east anglia too. Odd.
We also say it in Australia!
Good to see Joel being sensible when crossing the roads, looking both ways in preparation for traffic heading from the opposite direction to what he's used to back home in the States, and in Europe. 👍🏴😊♥️🤭🇬🇧🖖
Carrying extra clothing because it's warmer than you expected is a very authentic experience
my golden rule is that i you are going to be away from home for more than two hours then you need to be prepared for the opposite to occur.
Yes the problem with British weather is not so much the rain ( although it does rain a lot) but the unpredictability. So difficult to plan anything outside...you just cannot predict...
Great to see you back in the UK......
Remember, a lot of people drive manual cars in UK. When you stop at a traffic light you put the car into neutral. The light changes from red to red and amber so people have time to put the car into gear before it changes to green.
You put the car into neutral at every traffic light? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm English and I've always just waited in first
Neutral? Clutch control 😊
Less wear on the clutch if you're in neutral - Don't know if it's still relevant nowadays, though...
@@-Osiris- lmao rip your clutch. you riding that shit
@@Yogoniogiclutch fully engaged isn't riding the clutch
I'm a guy born in the UK in 1960. In the late 60s early 70s you knew it was a Sunday because there was hardly any traffic or people around and all the shops were closed. Nowadays Sundays are just as busy as any other week day. Enjoy! 😊
Loving the videos Joel! The poster in the museum for working in Australia for 10 pounds was my history. Both sets of grandparents left Manchester in the 1950's after fighting in WW2, came to Melbourne and never left. They were always referred as the 10 pound Poms. Enjoy your stay. X
Oh boy yes, I remember this from when I was at school, one friend plus her family seemed to have come over here, stayed a short time then went back on the £10 deal? Now wonder if it was some way of getting a holiday over here then cheap fare back!!?
My mum's half brother Frank took the £10 ticket straight after WWII he changed his name to Steve and I don't think anyone heard much from him after that. So I probably have first and second cousins in Australia.
@@deniseroney I think they had to commit to 2 years in Australia before returning to the UK. Otherwise they had to pay back the money, Hugh Jackman and Kylie Minogue, the Bee Gees are children of £10 pom parents.
@@deniseroney I am certain that those who were £10 poms had to sign a contract that guaranteed that they would stay a minimum number of years before returning to the UK otherwise they had to pay all actual costs of the travel back to the Australian government. I can't remember what the minimum stay was before returning to the UK.
We (poms) went to New Zealand for 10 quid in 1963, from London though.
I think that Sunday would have been so busy outside with drinkers because of the weather. We don't let weather like that go to waste!
I’m from Manchester. My brothers are both married to Americans and live in New York… I get to experience the best of both worlds too ❤
😂😂 that Euston to Piccadilly train is always chaos!!! The way people leg it to catch the train is hilarious
7:01 “if I get the ‘99 does it come with a flake” 😂
It’s so disorientating being used to you being in the US and then suddenly watching you walk 10 feet away from the entrance to my office.
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Trust me I binged a load of his reaction videos when I found the channel and suddenly his vlog in Newcastle appeared and I was like wtf
He is one of us! A true Brit! love Manchester City my fav uk city
Before around the mid 90’s, Sundays were much more chill in the UK. Laws around Sunday opening and extended openings were relaxed, shops were allowed to open and nowadays Sundays can get pretty lively 🙂
Manc here ❤️ so nice seeing someone feature Manchester like this
Manchester is one of the greatest cities in Britain and maybe actually the greatest one in Britian. I lived there years ago and you cannot go wrong with it, so many great places and things to do there
If you have not been to Liverpool you need to go there it has a great city centre and also have fantastic people
He did get to The 'Pool,this year.👍
Thanks!
Thankyou for your positive vids about my home Country ❤️‼️.I am living in Frankfurt and miss the Brit Humor,breakfast and laid back culture,thank you 👍,enjoy ❤️🏴🇺🇸🏴p.s. the Germans are always running the Brit food down it is sooooooo nice listening to your positive comments ❤️‼️
Salfordian here. Love your content glad you enjoyed MCR best city in the world!
Sorry I am from Yorkshire I don't think Manchester is the best city in the world.
Liverpools better in my opinion
I'm from London. Grew up on horror stories about 'up north'. I then went and spent a couple of days in Manchester and was surprised at how pleasant it was. A little quiet, but very enjoyable and very friendly. Then went and spent 2 days in Birmingham whereI also had low expectations, and yet it was even worse than I imagined.
@@hc1324-m7w Birmingham for you, Birmingham or burning hell
What do you think of your own city, Salford?
Love the drawing of Alan Turing on the way up the stairs! And, BTW, you can talk s--- about the UK sometimes! The adults among us know that no country is perfect and we all have areas of weakness. Avanti is notorious for how bad its service is!!
We say "Ta" in parts of Scotland
Props to you for getting off your PC and coming over again dude, one of the few , and to travel solo is ballsy too , respect
JPS, didn't know you were in the UK, all power to you!
Watched a few of this guys vids. Hes a good advert for solo travelling. His observations about the UK and comparisons to his home don’t happen unless your solo and really have your eyes and ears open
Ah the state of the trains! I liked the Alan Turing mural at the hostel, he was pivotal in cracking German code during WW2. There is no butter in a Yorkshire pudding. A basic batter mix cooked in smoking hot oil or beef dripping. You did well with the weather!
'Rice & Three' at 'This and That' - the ultimate Manchester culinary experience. Glad you enjoyed your trip.
It's good to see you back making first-hand content.
"Ta" is definitely not purely a Manchester thing, you'll hear it in plenty of places in the North :)
And South
Children tend to say ta a lot as it is easier to say than thank you. I might say Ta at home but not out, I’m in East Anglia.
We say it in London too
Train strikes do not help but i remember standing for two hours as part of a five hour train trip on Virgin trains then the next time my reserved seat was taken by an oriental girl with the same seat booking so as there was no sorting i said "you keep the seat " and i stood again for a couple of hours .Footnote to this story the girl found be later and gave me a chocolate bar so i thought my good deed was at least recognized for her to go to the trouble of finding me and giving me a gift ,sometimes the thought is all important.
Joel, you are truly British. You have all of the characteristics. Welcome to being an honorary Brit.
Great to see you back in the uk again Joel you are always welcome here mate😊
I went to university in Manchester, absolutely loved it! Pleased to hear you like it. Btw 'ta' is usually used in the Midlands and North of England.
This is good. I was born south of England, moved to Yorkshire and loved it for all the reasons JPS appreciates it. I hope JPS went back to York in his stay.
He did go back to York.👍
First video I’ve seen of yours, what a chill dude! Welcome to Manchester 👊🏻
Ta, as in Thank you, is often used by older Aussies. Possibly by those who have migrated from a particular part of UK. Or their parents have.
60 year old Aussie here. I’ve always used ‘ta’ but your comment got me thinking. I don’t think younger younger people use it now.
10 quid poms
That pub, Trough, should be prosecuted for sitting a Yorkshire ON TOP of gravy. The pud is the perfect recepticle for gravy. It has no function where they put it.
Ooooo no, that makes for a Yorkshire pud with a 'soggy bottom', this version gives crunchy crispness how a Yorkshire should be, you can dip it in the gravy then at leisure (if required) !
@@deniseroney Sitting it ON gravy doesn't give it a soggy bottom?
The whole point o a Yorkie being that shape is that it is a container. Come to any café around Wakefield and get a giant
Yorkshire Pudding with the whole meal inside it, or the modern version with the pud as a wrap - with all the rest of the meal inside it.
You'll be telling be next that a bowl of stew with a pastry lid qualifies as a pie!😉
A pot of gravy on the side would fix that.
I love that there's an argument about where to place the yorkie.
@@davidmoore4615 Ha, yea brilliant isn't it, lol ! I hate that one of where does the jam go on the scone before the cream or afterwards, I mean does it matter!?
Train from London up North 🚄 . Then Sunday dinner🍽 and a curry 🥘. Living it large in Blighty. From Yorkshire
Glad you enjoyed another trip over The Pond Joel. I am from just down the Road, Liverpool, but I have to go to Manchester to work from time to time and it is a nice city. I have been going for years and have never had a problem. Enjoyed that one mate 👍
Butter in the Yorkshire pudding? Never heard of it. It's usually cooked in lard.
He probably doesn't know the difference, lol. 🙃
Easy mistake to make 😁 If it has any fat content, it can be easily confused, especially if you're not used to the cuisine 😊
Back in the very distant past my standard “thank you” was always “Ta ever so!”. And no you don’t really hear it anymore. Great video, really enjoyed it.
We say it in Yorkshire too. My first nephew grew up thinking when you gave somebody something, it was accompanied by "say Ta".
You will hear it from native British only....but it is commonplace, not just in Manchester.
Yeah we say it in Nottingham too but it's definitely not used as much nowadays
My Mum (from Oldham) still says Ta, can't say I ever have.
We say it all the time in the Black Country we either say "Ta" or "Ta very much"
Plate was way too small for the Sunday roast, I guess that's why they stacked everything. :D
Yeah, all style and no substance. 🙄
@@79BlackRoseit will never beat a home cooked one but Trof is a really good restaurant with top quality ingredients.
I'm a proud Southerner but have always loved my visits to Manchester. By great good fortune my 1st visit to Trof was on a Tuesday. I got introduced to the concept of Jammy Tuesdays. Most of the menu was half price! The roast beef was fantastic, though I do prefer less crispy Yorkshire puddings. Pudding tin ones, same shape as tray-baked cakes, cut into slices are the very best. You get a crispy edge & a more solid centre. Gravy is the all important foundation for a great roast dinner. Trof's was indeed great.
We are friendly folk here in the North. You need to visit Liverpool if you are coming back. Love your videos!
Joel thank you for yet another wonderful production. My maternal grandfather was born in Wellfield Road, Stratham. His father was better at producing children than he was at supporting them. At age sixteen he was sponsored to come to Australia by the Church of England. He was a wonderful guy. He never talked about his early life over there. Very lucky over here though he met and married a wonderful lady. I started my apprenticeship when I was sixteen but I can't imagine what it would have been like to be sent half way around the world at that age. Keep well and safe and please keep producing your material.
If you haven’t thought of it I would recommend visiting North Wales 🏴 it’s absolutely beautiful up there
Love your appreciation of Manchester - lived here for 2 years now and I still get all the excitement you felt man.
Its a myth that the UK is always wet. We often have beautiful warm sunny weather.
No it's isn't a myth, it's rained 90% of the summer here in Manchester this year
Yeah it's not a myth, when I lived there I didn't think it was as bad as people say but since I've moved somewhere sunnier I realise it's as bad, if not worse than people say lol
How are you so clued up on our culture? You know so many local words, sayings, locations, general knowledge of the U.K it's very impressive
Try the curry mile, it's such a unique experience and has a real buzz at night (I'd recommend going on the weekend when it's real hustle and bustle / vibe . Like you're in a different country , really nice )
Gravy can make or break a Sunday Roast!! Been in Trof many times. Places to visit, Afflecks Palace (Tib St), Band on the wall (live music), Manchester Cathedral, if you can get there visit, lots of tunnels underneath which we're used as bomb shelters during the war. War Museum.
Glad you finally got some sunshine in the UK Joel. The north was always the work force of the industrial revolution, cotton, overseas trade and ship building.
Glad your back, now please do a proper and real visit to Birmingham and actually meet it’s welcoming, friendly people, visit its attractions, pubs, cafes, restaurants and look around the city centre, jewellery quarter etc rather than just Digbeth on a slow Monday when it still hadn’t been cleaned after the weekend as it’s full of nightclubs, street food, bars and street art ( the whole place is slowly getting redeveloped with massive film studios there ( new Peaky blinders film starts shooting in December and masterchef and bbc are having new studios build there..) But look at the rest of what is actually a very nice happening cosmopolitan city 👍🏼
Good job representing the North’s tourism more! So much more to the U.K. than Oxford Street and Leicester Big Ben. Also like the exploration into working class history. It’s woven into the fabric of every working town. From Liverpool’s docks to Sheffield steel, the mills of Manchester and Leeds. Brilliant people.
Manc here! glad you enjoyed our city
I wish I knew you were coming to Manchester...glad you liked it! And thrilled you found This n That and PHM!
Yorkshire pudding doesn't have butter in the recipe
Certainly no butter, often beef dripping, even goose fat but cooking oil of some sort!
The Northern Quarter is an amazing mix of quirky restaurants, cafes, bars and record shops. Glad you enjoyed your visit. 👍
Hope you're guna pop to Liverpool for a visit while up North...😊
Love that you're getting the lovely weather and a Sunday roast! 😅
You really need to get over to Liverpool. Very chilled out. Friendly people who go out of their way to help, great pubs, great architecture.
Yea, stunning city now that the slum areas have been cleared it is so different! When I was a kid going to Liverpool meant black buildings, everything was dark, coming out of the train station though was always fascinating, all built of those navy blue slate tiles mountains of them with 'cut outs' which my Pa explained were for the workmen to stand in as the train passed! Nip up the line to Southport too, a pleasant and very different seaside town!!
much better than manchester too!
Friendly my fcking bum 😅
that's a subjective point. Liverpool has things to offer that Manchester doesn't and vice versa. Saying its 'better' sounds a bit childish.
@@benpascall4297 or maybeee it was a joke?
great video mate. you did stuff i would do when my friends visit. you really got the place. hope you can come back and do more exploring of manchester.
FYI- there should be not butter in a Yorkshire Pudding. Just flour, eggs and Milk with a little salt and fat for the baking tray. Great vid!
I absolutely love what you do. I'm so scared of doing anything on my own and to see you doing this makes me want to experience more by myself. So glad you had a great time ❤
You don't have to do it by yourself, gather lots of friends and make memories together - they will last forever ❤
The sequence of traffic lights is red, red and amber, green, green, amber, red, this means if you approach a light and its red and amber you know its about to change to green, likewise, if you approach and its on just amber you know its about to turn red :)
Someone suggested that the red-amber combination allows drivers to put their cars in gear so they can pull off when the lights turn green. Not something that average Americans in automatics have to worry about.
My driving instructor told me (20 years ago) that it’s a solid amber light if it’s about to change to red, and it’s a flashing amber if changing to green. Is that still true? Can’t say I even notice anymore tbh 😂
@emmae4602 I think this is usually only pedestrian crossings, it flashes amber to say you can go unless there are pedestrians still on the crossing.
@@emmae4602flashing amber is definitely for pedestrians crossing, and if there are none, you can go 😊
@@thinkdeep8806 I must be getting it mixed up with pedestrian crossings then. I’ve just driven home from work and didn’t see a single flashing amber all the way home so thought I must’ve made it up 😂
We say "ta" in Staffordshire too.but in this part we say "ta duck".but we call everyone duck.
Our railways are a total mess. You were lucky the trains were even running and not on strike! The issue is the railways were privatised by Thatcher so all they're interested in is making money for their shareholders. The current Government has promised to renationalise the railways and it can't come soon enough.
My hometown, this is great to see! Love how you mentioned The Royale Family, so so good. Really glad you liked it despite the train woes.
Good to see you on UK soil. Hope you enjoyed your time 😎
I'm glad you like what was and always will be my City. Your comment about the accent an The Royale Family,just creased me up. I have been living in Spain for over 28 years now,still have my Mancunian accent,that even comes through when I'm speaking Spanish lol
First Cologne and now Manchester - my favourite cities! 🙂 Canal Street, Northern Quarter. Affleck's Market/Emporium. Alan Turing sculpture in the park. Industrial Revolution, Computer Science, Astrophysics @ Jodrell Bank, Cotton, Granada TV - Truly Britains 2nd City (apologies to B'Ham 🙂 )
Industrial revolution didn't start in Manchester. Only people from Manchester think it did. The correct answer is Ironbridge Shropshire, which has UNESCO World Heritage Status for that very reason. As for Manchester being the 2nd city, your having a laff. Birmingham is more than double the size of Manchester, i.e. Manc 116km squared, Brum 268 km squared. Nice try though
@@KarlOwen-ju1kl [ I still think Birmingham is playing 'catch up' to Manc! 🙂]
@@DavidPaulMorgan
your right it is. Cities are about more than numbers of people in a council area.
Manchester is the world’s first industrial city and generally recognised in most literature as the birthplace of the Industrial revolution though Ironbridge was but due to the massive scale Manchester is credited with the title and rightly so. Birmingham is a great city but it suffers from a poor public image where Manchester has been the media darling for decades and the alternative choice to London. Just so you know the weather is generally around 25 degrees in Manchester all year round, we in Manchester tell people the weather is often raining to keep them away.
My birthtown. Love Manchester. Lovely to see your video about your visit.
we say ta love in Liverpool
Heh! The Curry Mile's been a feature of Rusholme for decades and must date back to the 1950s, '60s or '70s at minimum. As it was famous long before my generation became students in the early '80s at 'Owens' (Manchester University as opposed to UMIST, which was the then division between two institutions). Wilmslow Rd. is the street down which the "Curry Mile" runs south from near that road's northern end. Where it becomes "Oxford St" and heads on northwards through the uni area and to the City Centre.
You should try a Sunday roast in a Carvery style pub. The Northern quarter has a great vibe but the meals are rather pretentious and expensive.
You could spend weeks looking at history in Manchester - centre of the Industrial revolution - loads of workers reforms, inventions,, social change.
Have you tried Leeds?
Carvery's are terrible. Vegetables kept on hot plates under hot lights. All dried out with no taste or nutrients remaining.
@79BlackRose Agreed. Trof is far superior to any carvery, and also reasonably priced and not pretentious at all!
Absolute worst way to eat a roast, best way is to go to someone's house where an old English lady can actually cook it properly
I think it's great that you're experiencing and learning about the UK outsde of London. Lot of Americans I meet (both here and in the US) have only experienced the South!
You missed the 'Alan Turrin' portrate on the stairs of the hostel. He saved us from the Nazis with his computer expertise.
But then they castrated him because of his homosexuality and he committed suicide. A grateful nation
He had no computer expertise. Turing's doctorate was in Computer Science which had nothing to do with computers but was to do with the science of algorithms to do with "working out sums" more efficiently. At the time "computers" were people who did calculations for scientists. The electronic calculating devices later called computers were designed and built by engineers from the Post Office.
"Alan Turrin" 🤣🤣🤣
And the government and those that voted for them at the time abused him for what he was until he topped himself. Nothing changes...
I saw it
Great! You're enjoying Manchester!
The yellow bees are all over the place in Manchester because it's the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the people all worked hard, just like Bees
Bees are the heraldic symbol of industry generally and they're on the city's coat of arms, specifically the crest, which signifies world trade.
Was expecting Jps to get the "digbeth" experience in Manchester when he was wandering around! :)
Hey are you still in Manchester?? Would be great if you did a meet up. Glad you enjoyed your time in Manny 🐝 also the Manchester worker bee is one of the best-known symbols of Manchester and has been an emblem for the city for over 150 years. The bee denotes Mancunians' hard work ethic and the city being a hive of activity. It has also come to represent the sense of unity in our great city.
Manchester has a culture all of its own completely different to the other places in UK. We have our own humour and music etc it’s the best city in the UK for sure!
I'm ashamed to say I never knew that. I'm not saying where I was born 🤐
we should assume he was there back in July, early August maybe. we could see dates printed on receipts in earlier vids