The UK Has a European Colony, Why Isn't It Spanish?
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2025
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Actual on site filming, he actually cared for second channel
He cared for Gibraltar which says a lot since I do not think majority of Europeans and British know its an actual country
A cynic might say he fancied going to Gibraltar so he made it a tax-deductible business expense 😅
Second channel don't care (unless it's a tax deduction to)
Rain dodger
@@ibx2cat What about third channel?
18:13 can't wait for the 'Toycat visits british antarctica' video!!
If you’ve never been bitten by a wild penguin, are you really even living? 🤔
"They drive on the righthand side of the road." *U.K flag pops up*
yeah, i was looking for this comment xD
To be fair in other parts of the anglosphere we drive on the right. America and Canada are on the normal side of the road
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se*wierd dumb stupid side
Hello, sir, can I help you? -> No, I’m just checking the menu to determine whether Gibraltar is more Spanish or British. 😂
I think the bus fare was so cheap 'cause the spanish government implemented an economical help package around 2023 which made public transport way cheaper (I went from paying 3,3€/trip to 1,3€/trip)
Exact same thing is still in place across England
@@Nooticusnah England is defo not cheap u must be mistaken
@@LondonMoneyCashEnterprise bus fares are like a flat fare of £1.50 nationwide and have been for the last 2 years almost now. you must be mistaken. look it up.
@@Nooticus it’s £1.75 in London which I don’t consider cheap at all, they’re looking to increase it further. You are right about subsidies for the uk but not for London
No, what happened is the Government decided to subsidise bus fares to a maximum of £2 single-ticket but does not apply in London (on TfL-services), In Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, so not a nationwide flat fare of £1.50.
In London, TfL already controls the fares (since 1933/formation of the London Passenger Transport Board [LPTB]) under the direction of the Mayor of London but only for tickets valid on services run under contract to "London Buses Limited".
I agree that it is not particularly cheap though as £1 = ~ €2.32 or US$2.54 assuming that the Spanish government truly is subsidising fares at €1.30 (either way that's a bargain)
Of course it has to be noted that when you’re looking across the straights from Britain’s Iberian enclave, you’re looking at Spain’s own African exclave of Ceuta.
I’m not sure how easy it would be, but visiting both Gibraltar and Ceuta in the same trip would make for quite an interesting video
That’s pretty much why Spain can’t really do much about Gibraltar. Morocco would lose their shit.
@@ccf3294 yep and Spain in-turn supports Morocco’s control of Laayoune and Dakhla, so there is a chain of self-reinforcing partnerships between Britain, Spain, Morocco, as well as France and America.
Actually the mountain he showed in the video was in Morocco, but if you look a little to the left from there (irl) you can also see Ceuta
It is fun to watch, even if the channel owner is getting older from first time I watched him, when he went amazed over the border between Norway and Sweden for some reason - still is as exited as he ever have been over borders and how borders can connect all sorts of places. Keep up the good work, it is seldom one watch someone so existed over borders and maps.
This video is right up my alley. Even down to checking out the McDonald's menu. I never eat McDonald's at home but love to check it out when traveling abroad
I think this video crossed the line ToyCat. You clearly cared while making this video. While it was an amazing video, I am upset and feel betrayed. I expect less effort next time.
You were 10min away from Ceuta by helicopter ( Algeciras - Ceuta is one of the few Comercial helicopter lines in the world), you should go back and check Ceuta!
Give way sign isn't Stop sign in other countries, it also means Give way. Stop sign that is used in the UK is also used in other countries, it does have the same shape and it also says Stop on it.
As a Philadelphian I am so, so proud you wore the Wawa hoodie. Thank you so much.
Why you proud of that?
I was kinda baffled he had a WaWa hoodie 💀. I didn’t think England had WaWas. It would be like if he wore a quick trip hoodie or a bucees hoodie tbh
fun fact: oranges are a hybrid between mandarines and grapefruit and somehow the result of this hybridisation produces one of two different hybrid species - the sweet orange we're used to; and the bitter orange that grows there in Seville, which is mostly just used in processed form like marmelade and i think orangeat
Bro, you didn’t even go to Morrison’s! Clearly the most British thing in Gibraltar.
12:14 In case anyone is wondering: the Liechtensteinian McDonald's is a swiss McDonald's.
And the Andorra one is Spanish:(
Basically cuz the locals were asked "Do you wanna go back to being part of Spain and being spanisha again?" And most of them said "Fuck No".
They ran a "Plebiscito".
How timely considering I just planned a trip through Spain and Portugal including a 2 day stop in Gibraltar. As someone exclusively subscribed to Toycat’s 2nd channel, I love this! More on location videos like this!
Great transition from 2nd to 3rd channel content :D
great transition to allow me to talk about @AndrewAndrews, the premiere source of in real life toycat content!
This is one of the most enjoyable videos you’ve put out recently Toycat! Pointing out Africa and Europe really put into perspective how strategic it is geographically :) Unsubscribed. Too much effort for a 2nd channel video. Not what I come here for.
real
04:54 you wrongfully gave that Europe point to the UK. A little bit of British bias going on there mate, eh? 😅
Wawa sweatshirt in Gibraltar? That must be a first in history! 😂😂
Do the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa
yes but they are legally spanish
Gibraltar is also legally british but that wont change some peoples mind on the matter
Having been to Gibraltar only recently, regardless of the legal status, it is clear that Gibraltar is neither Spanish nor British, but Gibraltarian.
@@darrenmurray861 It's like Hong Kong not british and not chinese
I seen a thing on a wanted criminal in UK who fled to Spain on the lam... but when he realised the net was closing he swam over the gap, walked up the beach and surrendered himself to the British authorities instead. That was very smart move cos he avoided all the extradition process and being stuck in a Spanish prison for months while it went thru.
Are Spanish prisons bad ? It’s not like a Mexican prison is it ? I thought Europe was at least a second world continent
11:44 are we just not gonna question how or why or anything related to how these two rivals are just sitting right next to each other McDonald’s and Burger King seems like they’re in the same building too but that’s probably just an illusion because the McDonald sign is behind the building I’m guessing.
Close but definitely not the same building
I thought that was normal?
Definitely make more on site videos‼️
Awesome and informative video! Now do Tristan da Cunha :)
It would be one way to get him off the internet for a while. Since it's only accessible by boat. That WAS your intention wasn't it?
Spanish McDonalds sell beer as an option when you buy a meal deal, British ones don’t. So the best way to work it out is: can you buy a beer in a Gib McD’s?
Yes you can.
13:42 honestly this was fascinating as well as frieghtning
In August 2017 I drove, about 6:30 AM to around 9 AM from La Linea de la Concepcion using the A-381 and AP-4, all the way to the Santa Justa station and dropped off my rental car. The sun did not rise until 7:30 AM. I was staying two days in Gibraltar at the time. It was a bit hot, temps getting up to +35 degrees, and the aircon not functioning quite as well as it should. I went to more local places, avoiding McDonald's. On the Spanish side, for breakfast I had some toast and I thought the spirit of the late Andrew Sachs had been working in the kitchen - hence the extra butter chips on my toast plate (Mr. Fawlty: "Manuel, there is too much butter, on those trays!"). It was a good visit overall, all the same.
2:49 The Wawa hoodie!!!!! ❤
yeah im in shock
Toycat, are flights to Gibraltar cheaper than flights to Malaga for you since it’s technically a domestic flight?
I only ask because I live in San Diego USA where you can get a flight to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico for about $300 round trip. If you use the Cross Border Express and fly out of the Tijuana airport, it is about $100 round trip since it becomes a domestic flight.
Its actually the opposite lol
Love the Wawa hoodie! Orange trees growing just as street trees also interested me in a trip to Nice, France. They look great. I live in Florida and now wonder why we don’t do that?
Americans don’t like female trees. They’re explicitly banned in most cities foliage departments. That’s why we have so much pollen. Since the 1950s the lawncare departments in every American city has been instructed to plant male trees so we don’t have to clean up rotting fruit on the sidewalks everywhere. This means come spring the trees are gizzing everywhere with their yellow clouds of tree cum. That’s why pollen season wasn’t bad in past decades but now it causes giant yellow hazes in every major metropolitan region 🫠. I get the cities didn’t want to clean up fruit but they created a new problem. Now arborists think they should’ve planted only female trees but not let any pollinator trees near them so that the females couldn’t grow fruits to drop. That’s why we have no female trees on the sidewalks
Crown Dependencies and Over seas Territories aren't part of the UK.
Unlike France who's Over Sea Territories are fully part of France the British ones are all self governed and apart from in international deplomacy and defence they are free from interference by the British government.
... what country are they a part of? France integrates them fully, but not fully integrated doesn't mean not a part of
Yes, they are legally part of the UK, they just have autonomy.
@@ibx2catthey are a part of Northern Macedonia.
@@ibx2cat They're just not part of any country proper - they are territories governed by the UK. I know you've addressed this before, Toycat, and that you don't like making the distinction, but it's not much effort to make it. What next? Puerto Rico has actually been part of the US this whole time?
BOTs are not like French departments, I would rather you called them what they are.
@@ibx2cat They're territories which aren't recognised as countries and as such is why they aren't represented in the UN. Just like The Isle of Man, it's linked with but not a part of the UK.
Not being integrated by definition would mean they're not part of the country.
This is also the reason why British citizens don't have the automatic right to reside in the Oversea Territories.
I live in Gib and would descibe it as a British themed Disney park in the south of Spain. Government and professionals speak English but most of the service workers migrate over the border from economically depressed La Linea and speak hardly any English. Eventually I think it'll turn into an approximation of Monaco and is already a proto version of it with the filthy rich in the marina on their yachts.
I'd add to that a 70s British theme park lool
Well said, I live in Seville and I’m Spanish and American. I’ve gone to Gib several times and it’s like a theme park for whenever I want to visit something like the U.K but without spending the money time and effort to go to the U.K. Very nice place!
Nice Wawa hoodie! Are you from the Philadelphia region?
On second thought, this is a silly question. You're obviously from the U.K. It's just that most people from outside my area have no idea what Wawa is, let alone someone from a different continent.
Listen to his accent and take a wild guess
I made this comment right before I went to bed lol
Surprisingly fun and wholesome travel blog. Can't wait for the episode where Andrew colonizes Haiti for the British crown during its instability without a formal President.
Loved this third channel style video. So fun and well edited.
Also i cant believe you’re actually going to go to Haiti… i thought it was a joke lol… Good luck i guess !
Great to see something like this on the second channel rather than the third
What’s the name of the third channel?
@@davidroddini1512 Andrew Andrews
@@Akiriui Thanks! I have to go check it out!
Why did you give a flag point to the UK when you said “and they drive on the right hand side of the road like in mainland Europe”?
2nd channel
don't care
I've eaten Seville Oranges "as is". They're like the orange versions of moderately sour candy where you can actually get used to the taste.
Please, please, PLEASE go to Cap-Haitian when you go to Haiti. Visit the Citadel and the beaches on the northern coast
You tryna get him killed?
@@TizerisT. Northern Haiti is safer than Miami
i’d love to see more on sight filming if you ever end up talking about another area within the UK, or if you end up traveling elsewhere
Where did you get the wawa hoodie?
Please explain the American milk Bar/service station anorak.
okay but how was the Seville orange juice
Why did driving on the right side of the road give a british flag?
I can’t wait to visit! Nice to see one of my fav RUclipsrs in my fav place!!
Someine from the northeastern US here- WHY DO YOU HAVE A WAWA SWEATSHIRT???
I love gas station merch
Interesting oranges trees. I'm from Argentina and many cities here have those trees normally close to the main square. But they are not oranges, I can't remember, even in Spanish, what their name is. Now I don't know if the orange trees are a Spanish thing that brought here to South America 🤔
Did you return the car?
finders keepers
I like your Wawa hoodie. It's a Philly thing. For those curious-- Wawa is a convenience store chain located in the broader Philadelphia Metro. It's name comes from a local Native American tribe in a rural section of Pennsylvania called Wawa. The name honors the tribe's favorite game, the Canada goose.
It's mad how Spain gets mad about Gibraltar, but Spain themselves hold on to Ceuta and Melilla
Was 2022 in Sevilla, stranded for a day in Lisbon 😅
also this is about Gibraltar
In was in Gibraltar when this video came out lmao
as a Delaware County Resident I am happy our cultural export (Wawa) has reached the UK.
Can't wait for you visiting Tristan da Cunha
Can the UK really spread across every continent if it's not actually attached to every continent and just islands? (this is a joke, I may just be unfunny but this made myself laugh)
I think you'll find the rain in Spain falls mainly - not always - on the plain :)
I swear to god if he says "second channel, don't care" at the end after flying to Gibraltar, I'll die
second channel, just here for the tax write off
I’ve crossed two international borders by foot: Italy-Vatican, France-Monaco
Thank you for showing me around Seville! Ya'll should read 'Digital Fortress' by author Dan Brown, some of it takes place in Seville, Spain.
also in cyprus there’s one
"famous for things that are nothing to do with the mainland"
*stares at the Pitcairns*
Anyway...
The music went hard I be vibin'
Have fun in Haiti ToyCat! Try the dirt cookies.
Curious to see his take on Haiti! 👀
The real question is do they speak Spanish, English or British ? If they speak Spanish then they’re Spanish, English then they’re international or American and if they speak British then they’re English
"Wow, their butts are SO ugly"
**proceeds to zoom in**
You say "sorry Australia" but the Australian head of state is the British king or queen
All I could think about was James bond, the funny thing is I can't remember what happened there. 😆
So, if I've never been to the British iles, but iv been to Gibraltar, does that mean I've been to the UK?
I don't know if its correct or not but as someone from England, I'd see it as you going to a British territory but not actually the UK, which I'd only see as the Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Island.
It's quite simple really. Spain sentenced the entire population of the Netherlands to death, for heresy, and sent an army to carry it out. They were stopped by a coalition of allies, Britain among them, and as part of the surrender agreement, Spain ceded Gibraltar to the UK, "in perpetuity"- FOR ALL TIME, in other words. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Real life dripstone cave?!
If you come to Canada, AKA Victoria British Columbia- the Americans can take a choice of a few ferries from Washington state ( Seattle ) to the city and spend the day in what they consider Britain... sort of. The Monkee love was quite funny ! g
I have been to Victoria actually
Loved this video
For Management and logistics reason Mcdonalds will treat Gibraltar as part of their Spanish operations. It's just easier and cheaper this way.
How’s that possible that the channel grows in quality? He claimed that all the money will be spent on kebabs!!
Shout out to WaWa the East coast legend of a convenience store
Next video pitcairn island!!
These videos are always entertaining. Thanks for this great video. Also please be safe when going to haiti.
“I love you…until I piss you off piss you off so much that you bite me hard!”
St Helena next !
Another British colony in Spain is the British holiday resorts there
A big chunk of my province, Alicante, may be considered another British colony haha
Rest in piece British Mallorca
(Northern) Ireland is the OG UK colony 😢😂
Ireland dates its colonisations back to the Normans which would mean that England was the original colony then Wales then Ireland.
The British sure do own a lot of islands that piss their neighbors off
Don't know if its all of them, but a lot of them have voted to stay with us, so its not like we're keeping them by force...
What a happy surprise this was
The remainder of the British Empire. after the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, the British still own rather a few territories around the globe.
Gibralter (Jabal Tarik), named after the man who conquered Spain
Jabal Tariq means mountain Tariq. Jabal Tariq is the original Arabic name.
Great vid
about gibraltar
Andrew, no matter the context: This is fine. I’m fine. Everything’s fine! 😊
Narrator: Everything, and particularly this and Andrew, were not, in fact, as you can clearly see, fine. 🧐
bro took his elytra
I’ve been watching you for years I don’t know why I’m shocked to discover you aren’t just a head and shoulders in the corner of the screen???
£13 for a "mega" breakfast is outrageous. Clearly one for the unwitting tourist. If you want to see lots of chip shops bunched up against each other in England, Matlock Bath would suit you.
1. Australia isn’t a continent
2. The Pitcairn Islands is in Oceania, so yes it’s in every continent
Australia is usually considered a continent in English-speaking countries (as well as here in Russia), while Oceania is a ‘geographical region’/‘part of the world’.
Hi toycat can you cover the 2024 election in Taiwan
the wawa sweatshirt?!?!
Achivement unlocked: going outside
my nanna was born here but lived in madrid and spoke spanish
RIP toycat