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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024

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  • @monachorum
    @monachorum 2 месяца назад +20

    Thanks for visiting one of the nicest parts of our country Don (it gets very busy in summer as tourism is THE industry that keeps folk alive). If you don’t mind me saying, the house you visited is pronounced Lan-High-Drock (emphasis on the 2nd syllable) and the town you walked through afterwards, though spelled Fowey, is pronounced Foy (rhyming with ahoy!). Looking forward to your next port. Have a great time.

  • @LaLidoLoca
    @LaLidoLoca 2 месяца назад +11

    Good times! I really enjoyed this excursion!

  • @nolaventon372
    @nolaventon372 2 месяца назад +2

    Living near to this place is a pleasure so we go there often. Their cream teas are a delight.

  • @charms87
    @charms87 2 месяца назад +3

    I visited this location in April one year and the gardens were amazing. I enjoyed the house, but the gardens were what blew me away. You only saw a very small portion of the gardens.

  • @twaunniebusse7262
    @twaunniebusse7262 2 месяца назад +6

    I like it when you film and show your excursions. I saw Tony’s video on this and your video added an additional enjoyable layer of viewing experience.

  • @lindagraham1147
    @lindagraham1147 2 месяца назад

    Beautiful video of this place. Enjoy when you and Tony cruise together.

  • @randa200771
    @randa200771 2 месяца назад +3

    The coastal area around the west of England is full of fantastic nooks and crannies that hide these beautiful villages. The history goes back hundreds of years often steeped in smuggling and other nefarious acts against the crown and those of wealth and power.

  • @shaunareeves1911
    @shaunareeves1911 2 месяца назад +7

    Oh wow, did not expect to see you at a place I know very well! Our house is fairly close and with our National Trust membership this has always been popular. We often go for a walk in the grounds - they are huge and you wouldn't even realise you were on part of the estate when walking along the small river. Rhododendrons and Azaleas gardens are glorious in spring. I'm glad you got to see the kitchens - that's my favourite area in the house.
    Those size roads in Fowley exist all over Cornwall and yes, there are many the coach wouldn't get down!
    I'm so glad you had a great day!!

  • @Lealelan
    @Lealelan 2 месяца назад

    Love when we get to follow along on your excursions with you! Great footage! Thank you!

  • @jacquievanauken6394
    @jacquievanauken6394 2 месяца назад +1

    Don can you. do more of these videos? Love to see the tours I am handicapped and will never see the sites❤

  • @rickrich7325
    @rickrich7325 2 месяца назад +1

    I want to take the cruise, just what I love to do, travel, architecture & history & food!

  • @RitaCurtis-b5x
    @RitaCurtis-b5x 2 месяца назад +2

    Looked at Tony's video and enjoyed it. I am enjoying yours now. You both are very good tour guides.

  • @jamesleech4024
    @jamesleech4024 2 месяца назад +1

    Great to see you back in England. Don’t leave it too long before you return. Keep up the good work

  • @decall2002
    @decall2002 2 месяца назад +2

    Love your videos, I get to see places I might not get to on my own.

  • @robingastonia
    @robingastonia 2 месяца назад

    I have really enjoyed Tony and you cruising together. A great cruise. I loved seeing Cornwall. I remember when part of it burned years ago. It is really beautiful. Thank you for sharing all of your videos.

  • @jo-nellmoss5710
    @jo-nellmoss5710 2 месяца назад

    Excellent narration of your tour. Thank you.

  • @harrietgeesey2822
    @harrietgeesey2822 2 месяца назад

    Don, you & Tony are great travel buddies. It's nice to see cruise news take a back seat sometimes & the travel vloggers come out. You guys do a great job of that. Can't wait to do a British Isles cruise. Love watching!! Harriet from PA

  • @joeseatac331
    @joeseatac331 2 месяца назад

    The gardens are beautiful! Love the shaping of the bushes. You’d need that many servants just to wash the windows!

  • @birbluv9595
    @birbluv9595 2 месяца назад +3

    Thank you, Don! I’m glad you took the long bus trip. Your video was much different than Tony’s, and i really appreciate the two different perspectives. I could never visit a place like this because my knees do not allow me to keep up with regular people walking downhill (though my heart is good and i can easily walk uphill.) I learned on my last cruise, the Mediterranean with Holland America in May 2019, that i cannot do excursions because everything is arranged for people with good knees and bad “wind”. My doctors won’t let me hike or do anything that requires me to go downhill. The organized excursions were very difficult and frustrating for me. Guides would see me go quickly uphill and assume I’d be the same going downhill - and i was constantly left behind or got mixed up with other groups also walking downhill!

  • @chrisstephens9113
    @chrisstephens9113 2 месяца назад +3

    Living out this cruise thru you. My wife and I got this cruise in a suite as a casino offer but unfortunately we couldn’t make it workout with our vacations. So please continue to shoot plenty of videos.

  • @susanjoy3513
    @susanjoy3513 2 месяца назад

    Loved seeing the tour with you.

  • @darryld_009
    @darryld_009 2 месяца назад +5

    It is fun watching your and Tony's videos as you are each telling the same but different stories

  • @theangryrooster2113
    @theangryrooster2113 2 месяца назад

    Great video, beautiful place, love love love the kitchen and the pitt, I would love to have seen that in action. And the copper pots! $$$ On a side note, I watch your videos almost daily or I catch up in the week. It just hit me that Captain Kate is in your intro! She is a very impressive, inspiring human. I catch her videos too off FB.

  • @elaineskurski6555
    @elaineskurski6555 2 месяца назад +7

    Great video. Thanks for taking us with you

  • @emilydami7887
    @emilydami7887 2 месяца назад

    Very good tour. You really got a feel of the area

  • @nicolemiller4688
    @nicolemiller4688 2 месяца назад +1

    Amazing Don. Love to see your sidekick as well. Carry on fellows❤

  • @CaraOleary
    @CaraOleary 2 месяца назад +1

    That was a beautiful house!!! that must've been so cool to walk thru it.

  • @teresajohnson7698
    @teresajohnson7698 2 месяца назад +2

    Williamsburg, VA is a great place to see some of these things if you can't travel outside the US. Lots of places on the East coast! But I love your video and would love to visit !

  • @LauraPerry63
    @LauraPerry63 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for the heads up on the place and all the wonderful shots you got. Thank you sharing

  • @emiliawalker4346
    @emiliawalker4346 2 месяца назад +3

    Wow this place is amazing, thanks for bringing us along.

  • @motel1029
    @motel1029 2 месяца назад +1

    Enjoy watching your excursion videos.

  • @jameswade7550
    @jameswade7550 2 месяца назад +1

    Love the video and great to see Tony and you having a great time. Looks like a great excursion.

  • @BeefromSC
    @BeefromSC 2 месяца назад +2

    Beautiful scenery

  • @ChristineShelley
    @ChristineShelley 2 месяца назад +1

    Both the estate and the town were beautiful!

  • @sarahj.5970
    @sarahj.5970 2 месяца назад

    Thank you to both of you for this excursion report...just wonderful.

  • @carljohnson6434
    @carljohnson6434 2 месяца назад +2

    Looks like you and Tony are having a great time!

  • @marilynsue4273
    @marilynsue4273 2 месяца назад +1

    I'm glad you went! Nice video!

  • @bethlowell7336
    @bethlowell7336 2 месяца назад +1

    Most enjoyable video, Don. What a beautiful house & grounds. Thanks for posting. Cheers

  • @joewines3883
    @joewines3883 2 месяца назад +1

    That tour looked Amazing Don. That home a little town was beautiful. Now we want to try a European cruise. Every thing looked beautiful.

  • @bonniescutt3648
    @bonniescutt3648 2 месяца назад +1

    Loved this!!

  • @Girasole5849
    @Girasole5849 2 месяца назад

    Love watching your videos on this trip…and Tony’s too. Enjoy.

  • @belxsar1504
    @belxsar1504 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for sharing your excursion and giving us a vicarious thrill, Don! 😀

  • @joelroach416
    @joelroach416 2 месяца назад

    Beautiful day and views. Biltmore House in North Carolina is even more extravagant than that home.

  • @KayFraker
    @KayFraker 2 месяца назад +1

    Don, I enjoy you videos. We always sail with Princess.

  • @dawnturner8735
    @dawnturner8735 2 месяца назад +1

    Lol, I remember you two swearing off of long bus tours. I am looking forward to seeing the rest of your trip.

  • @TerranceGoulding
    @TerranceGoulding 2 месяца назад +1

    Great job taking and editing this video Don! My wife and I enjoyed it very much! 😀

  • @cynthiareifsnider5794
    @cynthiareifsnider5794 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for sharing. It is beautiful!

  • @kathymizda5586
    @kathymizda5586 2 месяца назад +1

    That house was so impressive. Wow

  • @kylady1959
    @kylady1959 2 месяца назад +1

    nice video, thanks

  • @DanielaBoha
    @DanielaBoha 2 месяца назад +1

    Awesome 👌 ❤

  • @richd6362
    @richd6362 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for the video. The castle and town look great.

  • @JandB-TCB
    @JandB-TCB 2 месяца назад

    This is one of your best vlogs. Thanks for sharing. Well done!

  • @marthagrant143
    @marthagrant143 2 месяца назад +1

    Looks like a good excursion

  • @Jeannine29
    @Jeannine29 2 месяца назад +1

    Safe travels and thanks for sharing

  • @carolfinnis6152
    @carolfinnis6152 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks Don for sharing your adventure

  • @mornadevries7580
    @mornadevries7580 2 месяца назад +1

    Very nice. Makes me want to visit

  • @judydale9661
    @judydale9661 2 месяца назад +3

    Loved your video !!! I agree I can’t believe some people were able to live like that… So opulent!!!

  • @maryfinnfan4140
    @maryfinnfan4140 2 месяца назад

    Nice video Don, thank you. The town of Fowey was an old settlement well before the Norman Conquest in 1066. Fowey church was built between 600 and 699
    X

    • @maryfinnfan4140
      @maryfinnfan4140 2 месяца назад

      My step grandmother, Alice, was a "tweeny" in a mansion near Sheffield. She started there aged 12. She got up at 4am to wash all the floors on her hands and knees, then lit the fires, took hot water up to the bedrooms. She got 1 day off per month. She ended up as a Lady's Maid eventually.
      She was crippled with rheumatoid arthritis in her knees in old age.
      She was a grand old lass as we say in Yorkshire xx

  • @GeannaKovar
    @GeannaKovar 2 месяца назад +1

    That looks like a lot of fun!

  • @richardracette-w6w
    @richardracette-w6w 2 месяца назад

    Amazing. We will be there in September 😃

  • @donaldedmondson4918
    @donaldedmondson4918 2 месяца назад +1

    Looks like a nice place ⚓️

  • @lindahuggins4518
    @lindahuggins4518 2 месяца назад

    Scary bus ride!!!!!!

  • @batgirl1ful
    @batgirl1ful 2 месяца назад +1

    The grounds are amazing.

  • @JoeineKriekel
    @JoeineKriekel 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks Don, beautiful place....maybe someday

  • @TheJm129
    @TheJm129 2 месяца назад +2

    Glad you no longer avoid long bus trips.

  • @loriminard6460
    @loriminard6460 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for sharing this 🎉

  • @susanburkettrn2042
    @susanburkettrn2042 2 месяца назад +1

    Great video Donny

  • @miriamfossett2558
    @miriamfossett2558 2 месяца назад

    What a gorgeous place you are visiting! Hope you and Tony are having a wonderful time!

  • @oceanside88
    @oceanside88 2 месяца назад +1

    This may be your best video yet 🎉

  • @sherrydiener8688
    @sherrydiener8688 2 месяца назад

    Hi Don, Looks like the two of you needed this fun trip.

  • @BubblyinUSA2010
    @BubblyinUSA2010 2 месяца назад

    My kind of living!❤😊 beautiful estate!

  • @angelathomas6770
    @angelathomas6770 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks! Enjoy

  • @code4forlife
    @code4forlife 2 месяца назад +1

    Loved This Video Don Thank You For Sharing

  • @mikesevilla9627
    @mikesevilla9627 2 месяца назад

    Beautiful place maybe a group cruise someday!

  • @karenross4706
    @karenross4706 2 месяца назад +4

    Hi Don. Hope you and Tony have an awesome trip. You’re very blessed. 😇

  • @notinterested6343
    @notinterested6343 2 месяца назад +1

    Beautiful place. Yeah, tiny roads, so odd

  • @susantopper6809
    @susantopper6809 2 месяца назад

    I love Cornwall, haven’t been there since 1985

  • @lowvizlife
    @lowvizlife 2 месяца назад

    Looks like beautiful town. Yes those were some narrow streets.

  • @davidhudson5452
    @davidhudson5452 2 месяца назад

    Don is the new lawn keeper. Wild look good

  • @debbief2882
    @debbief2882 2 месяца назад +2

    I would never be a driver in these port towns. 😱

    • @birbluv9595
      @birbluv9595 2 месяца назад

      I could not ride due to motion sickness and neck surgery which prevents me from being on bouncy rattling transportation.

  • @cathyhurst1946
    @cathyhurst1946 2 месяца назад

    Thanks Don for sharing. I also think yours was different than Tony's.

  • @birbluv9595
    @birbluv9595 2 месяца назад +1

    The wealth of Britain’s upper classes back then was astounding. The only way i can justify it is that there had to be rich people who could afford to buy the fantastic artwork, ceramics, silverwork, architecture, etc. We wouldn’t have this stuff to look at if everyone had much less wealth.

    • @billybenson3834
      @billybenson3834 2 месяца назад +2

      Don't forget the upper class of that era were the employers of the village. We forget that when the rich purchase items they are supporting people's livelihood

  • @lovesfall2168
    @lovesfall2168 2 месяца назад

    Enjoyed your video! Have you been to Biltmore house in Asheville North Carolina USA? If not look up a youtube video about it. 250 room mansion they have tours too.

  • @marianneward8980
    @marianneward8980 2 месяца назад +1

    Euros?? Those are only going to be good the one day you are in Ireland.

  • @cindyk3281
    @cindyk3281 2 месяца назад +1

    I'm sure it was still cold and drafty to live in.

  • @Aust-NZ-SPandtheworld
    @Aust-NZ-SPandtheworld 2 месяца назад

    Don, not sure if you have caught up with the New Zealand government's consideration of banning cruise ships from entering Milford Sound. This would be such a shame as Milford Sound is a popular destination for most cruisers' reasons for going to NZ.

  • @randijaffe-7665
    @randijaffe-7665 2 месяца назад

    I fall asleep on those long bus tours - have to stop

  • @davidrobertson606
    @davidrobertson606 2 месяца назад

    Did not see any wheel chairs on your tour. Was the estate set up for people with reduced moblity.

  • @ivanmorley3735
    @ivanmorley3735 2 месяца назад +1

    I love how Americans aren't used to the width of British roads, especially the rural ones.

    • @kobartlett
      @kobartlett 2 месяца назад

      Don isn’t American. He’s Canadian.

  • @Lord.Kiltridge
    @Lord.Kiltridge 2 месяца назад

    Someone told me that for UK cruises, (It's UK BTW _not_ England), the ship _rarely_ ports at the place that you are visiting, and that people almost always have to take a bus into town. Is this so and are there _always_ buses provided by the cruise line?

  • @kennethgregory6228
    @kennethgregory6228 2 месяца назад

    Like shopping at Costco

  • @philipbarnard2474
    @philipbarnard2474 2 месяца назад

    You fell for it. Must be called Land Hard Rock, when the visitors go home. Never heard of this place, and I'm a Brit

  • @teresamiller5412
    @teresamiller5412 2 месяца назад

    Some of the best/worst tours are on busses 🚌

  • @stephaniefoley5569
    @stephaniefoley5569 2 месяца назад +2

    Isn’t this where Doc Martin was filmed??? 📺🎬🎥

  • @marilynsue4273
    @marilynsue4273 2 месяца назад

    People like to see open water.

  • @wlpark001
    @wlpark001 2 месяца назад

  • @trishawatling
    @trishawatling 2 месяца назад

    Hi Don, great video. Don, stupid question - How did they make ice in those days ? I can think that in the winter they may have had snow but what about during the summer?

    • @andreaward6478
      @andreaward6478 2 месяца назад

      Large country homes collected ice from their parkland lakes in the winter. They stored it in underground ice houses which were specifically built in shady areas, often in woodland. Ice for the average person was sometimes shipped in from the frozen Arctic. Hope that helps

    • @trishawatling
      @trishawatling 2 месяца назад

      That’s very interesting, thanks for the info, reply Andrea 👍😊

  • @sharonmcmickens9853
    @sharonmcmickens9853 2 месяца назад

    Hey Don

  • @TWSmith42
    @TWSmith42 2 месяца назад

    So much wealth. How'd they lose it all?

    • @amandagreen4332
      @amandagreen4332 2 месяца назад

      Taxes and death duties!

    • @SolarVibeEnergy
      @SolarVibeEnergy 2 месяца назад

      ​@@amandagreen4332& WWI/II & costs to maintain aging buildings many had to sell (Nation Trust charity buy many) those where families still live in they only live in part of house & need tourist income to view the rest, some like Longlete & Woburn Abbey (families still live there) have Safari parks etc on grounds.

  • @mindischwart1380
    @mindischwart1380 2 месяца назад

    Who’s house was it