My Mom Visited England: Here's What Happened
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- My mom visited me this Christmas in England - here's what we did! I'm so thankfully I was able to share my life in the UK with her this year :)
As a foreigner living in the UK, Christmas can be hard being away from your family - so I'm extra grateful to have has such a nice time together this year!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a RUclips video every Tuesday & Friday plus an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
Alanna x
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Some times it takes foreign eyes to show us the beauty of our own country. Glad you had a good visit with you Mum.
Well, only naive silly foreign can see something in UK .... In real life it is animals and mud....
That gorgeous smile of yours could have melted all the snow in Kent. Glad you gave mum a lovely trip.
Lovely trip ? Why inhabitants run from this beauty country☺️seems soon only government and king continue to live well , any body remember what is money in UK?😆😆😆😆
I always wanted to go to Britain at Christmas, so this was the next best thing! So glad you & your mom enjoyed yourselves....she must be so proud of you!
Thank you so much!! ☺️🎄
Writing from the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. This visit with your mum was delightful! Tea in Rochester looked the best! And at Christmas!! Traipsing through the beautifully decorated castle rooms - so elegant on a sunny day! But knowing I’ll never see the foregoing or the cathedral has brought me to tears which the singing reindeer dried! So much beauty and history!! Thank you for your videos!!
Never see chatedral ? You are in prison ? You can move there right now and don't surprise if you be disappointed ....
I love a cathedral. So thankful that we have so many amazing examples in this country.
Glad you and your mum had a nice time. There's something special about sharing experiences like that.
Christmas puddings vary considerably, both in content and quality. The same applies to mince pies. Love them both.
Ooooo! I (and my American wife) have been to Rochester many times. Always loved the place.
You know you're growing old when you aren't sure which year it is. Happy new year, Alanna!
Looks like you and your mum enjoyed Christmas. You look and sound refreshed and happy. Thanks for the tour. So much history in the UK. 🎄🍻
Thanks so much! Merry Christmas!!
Alanna, I am so pleased to hear your Mum had a lovely time on her visit to England. You used your local knowledge to enjoy the places most people who are born here don't blink an eye at. We are exposed to it as kids and our memories are usually intertwined with hours walking around the places as bored school kids.
Taking time away from the Internet is a wise thing; young people don't tend to do much. As with many things with our parents, you must treasure the moments you have.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Alanna.
Leeds castle has lots of concerts in the grounds in summer.
6:02 it was the Dowager 'house' for Queens of England
Happy Holidays Alanna and Family! ❤🌲❄️ You saved the Holidays by renting a car and sharing your lovely part of England and having an adventure with your Mom!👍
Best wishes for fun, happy and healthy adventures and naps for you all in 2023😊!
so glad you had such a lovely time with your mum xx
Hey Alanna, I'm so glad your Mum had a great visit & you both had a good time together. Hopefully it won't be too long before she can visit again and you can take her more places. Also nice to see the candy cane mike return, it's been a while since it was used last. 😊
Thank you so much! Merry Christmas!
Very happy for you and your mum that she had a good trip
Thank you! ☺️
Oh, Christmas pudding with brandy sauce is lovely, although i have a soft spot for brandy snaps with brandy cream piped in them too. (Im sure the brandy isnt a theme) and im with you on the salt and pepper pots. I collect them
What a beautiful tour in this episode! Literally, on a beautiful day, you took us to beautiful buildings with staggeringly beautiful interiors and we even saw lots of beautiful food, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
Glad to hear that your Mum had a great time. Merry Christmas Alanna.
Thanks! Merry Christmas!
Full English breakfast and full English afternoon tea = absolute heaven...
If Leeds castle was build on that date then it’s older than the Aztec Empire.
It's basically twice as old as the fall of the aztec empire
The weekend after Thanksgiving Monday (yes I'm a Canuck) my dad would start making Christmas Puddings and my Mum would start making mincemeat. So we had both and I would eat the jam tarts. Cause I don't like either. I hope your Mum has made it safely back to Ontario. It is minus 15C today in the Niagara Region, but the sun is shining. Have a happy and prosperous new year. 🎉
Aww, so happy for you that you got to see your mum and that your mum had a lovely time. 🤗
I was so grateful to share England with her! ☺️
Wow Alanna really committed to that candy cane Mike and I absolutely love it.
Happy New Year Alanna & everyone else!
Love the green screen! Thank you for sharing part of your Mom's (Mum) visit with us...
Thanks for watching!!
On the whole 'jam vs cream' debate, speaking as a gannet, hear my word. Cream is structural. You can build walls with clotted cream, making a reservoir in which an ocean of jam can be scooped. You can't do that the other way round, so put cream first and allow gluttony to get the better of you. Simples, QED!
Excellent point.
But jam is a spread. To me it would feel like putting making a sandwich and putting butter on top of your ham.
Oh, who really cares? It tastes the same any old hoo!! It is much more important how you pronounce scone. 🤭
@@revbenf6870 which is correct? 🤔
@@elizabethw.454 Scone, obviously
So glad you had a Wonderful Christmas visiting with your mom.
Thanks for the tour.
You are hilarious and it was so adorable how your eyes opened wide when you declared "I want them I need them" referring to the Dachshund butter dish and hedge hog Salt and pepper shakers.
" You don't understand I need these things" You are so endearing
I wish you all the best in 2023
from Vancouver BC. Take Care
Bless…. you write it ‘mom’ and call her ‘mum’ 💕 . You ARE British! Always love your stuff…
Hi Alanna, good to hear you had a good time with mom, will have to come back in the summer, if we get one also well done for lasting 7 years Cheers
Thanks so much! Merry Christmas!
As a retired British chef and pastry chef I can tell you that although most catering outlets use ccomercial ready made christmas puddings which are horrible when you make them yourself using a really good recipie they are delicious flamed with brandy and served with lightly whipped double cream.
Rochester looks super historic and picturesque - must visit someday. Sounds like your Mom had an awesome time in the UK
That the snow came down so quickly (four inches in a couple of hours) and lasted for a week was pretty rare for Kent.
My, you have a gorgeous smile. All you needed to do, was to stand amid the trees and smile and all the snow would melt.
Another great video! Glad you and your Mum had a nice time even if it was freeeeeeeeeeeeezing!
Hi Alanna, lovely video. Thank you. As you may know, Rochester is also associated with Charles Dickens. Have a good 2023. God bless you.
Christmas Pudding yes, every day of the year. Some days with Custard, some days with Brandy Sauce (set fire to at the table).
Christmas pudding ☃️ but needs to be a good quality one
Leeds Castle looks lovely - never been - will defo go now.
I was in Canterbury on Christmas Day - nice place!
Love stained glass - there are courses available where they teach you to make your own - very cool when you think that your work may still be appreciated in hundreds of years time
Ahh Canterbury on Christmas Day, how cool! Hope you had a great time 🙏🏻
@@AdventuresAndNaps thanks, a good time was had by all ☃️
Thank you for this , l have a 3 day recuse from work due to an injury on the ice , nothing so terrible, no worries. It looked like a nice visit with your Mom. Tea looked great , the cathedral also. Hope you have a healthy, happy and prosperous new year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Alanna and your family!🎄❄☃️🎅 It sounds great you had fun and fantastic time with your mum! May 2023 bring happiness and new friends, success and good health! May new adventures creat great emotions and joy and all your dreams come true!🤗💝🎉🎊
Thanks for the guided tour Alannah, some great places there!
Hope you all had a wonderful time, & your Mom brought over some favourite Canadian snacks! 🙏🙏
Thank you! ☺️
Christmas pudding for me, warm with brandy sauce!
Except I'll have ice-cream, not the sauce!
Glad you got to spend time with your mum.
Absolutely love Christmas pudding. But only at Christmas! Same for Turkey. Anything else would be sacrilege! 🤣
I’ve never been a fan of Xmas pudding but my dad bless him absolutely loved them on Christmas Day x
There are quite a few 'moated manor houses' in UK because the moat provided a good layer of protection from the the turbulent natives that use live in the countryside....
Love the hat!!! lol I like the pudding, with Custard. Hedgehogs look cute! Cragside is for you, contact the estate agent. A nice estate that had the first hydroelectric power station. It's still working today. No elec bills. In fact, they leave the heating on high all the time!
If it gets to cold in the U.k I have warm cuddles here in Toronto for you 💝
Christmas pudding, with lashings of brandy cream. No contest. I actually stock up on Christmas puddings as soon as they go on sale after Christmas, so I can eat them through the year.
Lovely video! Has lifted my spirits. :)
Nice video Alanna . I hope your Mum got home OK and is not getting too snowed in with what is hitting your area now/ All the best for 2023!
Thank you so much! Happy New Year!
Lovely video, really enjoyed it. As a Canadian, we always had mince pies an plum pudding at Christmas……but then my mum was British. I never cared for fruit cake though.
Hi Alanna! Thank you for the little trip around Rochester - my old stomping ground! I used to walk through The Vines Gardens every day to go to work in what was the Civic Centre in Strood, just across the bridge! My Dad and Stepmum lived in Canterbury for many years and my Stepmum was one of the people who 'signed' services for the deaf :-) I've been to Leeds Castle, but only once so I loved seeing inside there again - they scrub the place up well for Christmas!! :-) Agree totally about Christmas pudding - better left! Love a mince pie though and you totally eat your scones the right way - cream first! Loved this nostalgia trip - thank you again! x
IMO, Canterbury Cathedral is possibly the finest building in the World. You visited at the right time in Summer the city which is small, is overwhelmed by tourists.
I think I'm going to have to start a Society for the Defence of Christmas Puddings. I do like them, and they are immensely part of our tradition. Dickens mentions them in ' A Christmas Carol'.
My mother took to using a Christmas Pudding recipe from a really old cookbook written by Eliza Acton in 1845; it was lighter - although still pretty solid - and a dark orange colour, rather than nearly black as modern Christmas Puddings tend to be. It is easier to eat, yet obviously very traditional.
Christmas Puddings keep, and slices left over are easily cooked again with milk in a microwave. So DON'T TRY TO EAT TOO MUCH! Then it goes down much easier. The traditional accompaniments are either Brandy Butter or Brandy Cream, but custard will do.
Jam first and cream after, the jam will soak into the scone and help stick the cream on top .....
Cream first on scones is Cornish, jam first on scones is Devonish
Thanks A. we allways enjoy your vids. All the best cheeky chops.
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Christmas Pudding wins every time over a mince pie, whether you have it with cream, ice cream or custard, or any combination of those. Brandy sauce is a goodie, too.
Great video as per usual though...
Re scones: whether you put the cream or jam on first doesn't matter, either way is delicious. Pleased that you enjoyed Mince Pies, I love them too.
Glad you had a good time with your mum. I lost mine in September so this Xmas was difficult.
Really interesting visits Alanna.
Here in Thanet, I think we had a small flurry of snow, we get less snow than the rest of Kent, let alone the rest of Britain.
Christmas pudding with home made brandy butter, delicious. We started to visit cathedrals, not religious but blown away with the architecture, have visited nearly three quarters of them in the uk. Enjoy your new year Alanna!
The Norman ones are fantastic not so keen on the modern or the Art Deco ones (Guildford started the building in the '30's halted during the war finally finished in the '70's). Not quite as long as medieval ones or that one in Spain that's still not finished after a few hundred years.
Merry Christmas Alannah - big hugs. I’ve lived abroad before and Xmas etc was hard. I’m so glad you were able to see your mum xx
Thank you so much!
What a lovely video!
Love watching your videos I live very close to these places and watching someone from another country reacting to them makes me feel quite proud. (didn't want to use the word foreigner, didn't seem right somehow. You just seem like one of us now)
The views from the M2 are underrated.
My secret to enjoying Christmas pudding?
Lather it with brandy butter - It's DELICIOUS!
For stained glass overload, among other overwhelming things, try the Sainte Chapelle in Paris. Gothic goes psychedelic!
What a truly lovely and endearing video. I think if you watch the British film The Holly and The Ivy then you'll get an insight into how some families run at Christmas.
I gather it is pretty snowy in the USA at present, even in Florida!
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.🎅
🙏🏻
Hey, happy new year! Rochester is an odd one, it’s a gorgeous little place and I’m sure it’s technically a city as opposed to town as it’s home to a cathedral 👍🏻
Great video!
Rochester used to be a city till 1998, due to a merger of government districts, and an oversight it lost it's city status and didn't realize till 4 years later , it's been trying since to get back it's city status.Tom Scott did a video on it
Love Leeds Castle 🏰 ❤
I'm so glad you were able to spend time with your Mum. Looks like you had a great time. ❤ Afternoon tea looked amazing!
Thanks so much!
Happy New Year If you want to visit a great cathedral come to Durham sometime commissioned by William the conqueror 👋
@@brianwakely9977 I doubt William the Conqueror is in a fit state to commission her to visit Durham or anywhere else.😀
I have just realised I have never been to Kent, apart from driving through the part of it that leads to Dover. A Christmastime trip there is definitely needed. Lovely video.
Bit of trivia for ya!
Leeds castle was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn. 🇬🇧🇨🇦💜
Did you know, Alanna, there's an American youtuber called Tyler Rumple who did a reaction to one of your reactions. You made it big in America girl. 🇬🇧🇨🇦💜
He has two other channels as well, Tyler Bucket ( Canada ) and Tyler Walker ( Norway ).
Anne Boleyn may have stayed at the original Leeds castle )the current one was built in the 1800’s), but her childhood home was Hever castle, but a very nice castle non the less.
@@cheryla7480 ..and an identical twin who is also a RUclipsr:Ryan:)
and an identical twin who is also a RUclipsr:Ryan:)
That was so interesting. I was born in Rochester and was then moved away so I have no memory of it so I must visit now. Mince pies all the way,
Yorkshire Gold does make a banging cuppa! As a slightly lighter alternative that's also lovely, try M&S English Breakfast (in a bright yellow box).
Anyhoo, I'm glad to hear your Mum enjoyed her visit and I hope you both had a lovely Christmas ☺️
I have never been to Leeds Castle in my whole life, living in Kent for 60plus years. Boughton Monchelsea is the place closest to it, to pick up a parcel. Oops how could I forget Maidstone in a BT call centre for two years. Happy New Year.
Leeds castle is most interesting and relevant to the Americans from the state of Virginia, because the family name is Culpeper and they used to own a large amount of land there.
I love your mic, very festive! I'm glad your Mom had a good time in England, even with the weather and rail strikes!
A quick heating tip. If you can get a good amount of government grant then an air pump is a great heating option. My bills really dropped when I got it. You need the grant as it is expensive to install. I got £11,000 grant on £16,000 cost.
Leeds Castle is one of those ones where never shredded by artillery, or slighted by Parliament or time was lived in by rich folk who repeatedly jazzed it up. Other shiny examples of this are expensive to get into Warwick Castle and of course Windsor.
The way to eat Christmas pudding is to have it with lime jelly (jello) and ice cream.
The cold, sweet jelly and ice cream offsets the warm pudding. Throw in a mince pie as well to make your Christmas dinner even more filling.
The stained glass is outstanding. The food looked so good, yum yum yum. So happy you had a super visit with your mum.
Thanks so much Jillian! 💛
Hello Allana, So glad you liked Rochester, as I live right in the centre, just off the high street. I love your videos, and find it fascinating to hear views of living in England from your point of view.
I suppose I take living here very much for granted, so maybe I will look at my town through different eyes. Thank you for being so complimentary. I lived alone in France for many years, so I have a pretty fair idea of what it's like to be a foreigner. I do hope you stay here always.
Hope that your mum enjoyed her visit.
I'm glad that you, your mother and your partner had a good Christmas. Plenty of mulled wine and cider no doubt!! See you next year in 2023😀😀🎅🎉
Wow , that reminds me ...I love Christmas pudding but haven't eaten any in donkeys years ,as none of my family or friends like it ! 🤦😅
there'always room for christmas pud!
I went to Canterbury one Sunday morning. Walking around the quadrangle at the cathedral I heard the choir practicing for the Sunday service. OMG!! It was the most beautiful sound I had heard in ages. Rochester, Canterbury & Leeds Castle are definitely some of the better places to visit in Kent. There’s loads more stuff to see though.
Check out the different way the Cornish and the Devonshire people eat their scones.
Hope you had a great Christmas! The weather's been odd. I'm on the NE coast and we had a light dusting of snow a couple of weeks ago then just a bit of rain. The south seems to have got all the snow. One of the weather stations is apparently at where I'm from in Northern Ireland and it was officially recording a white Christmas, yet calling my mum, not a bit of snow there. Between rail strikes, cancellations due to sickness and weather I've given up thinking about my next venture in that direction lol.
If you want to see a "real" castle in Kent, I recommend Bodiam, near Tunbridge Wells (also worth a visit) and you could take in Bedgebury pinetum and Bewl water which is a HUGE lake, all are in the same vicinity.
Lived in Maidstone area for 12 years or so in 60's and early 70's before moving to Scotland and never visited Leeds Castle, though passed by on many occasions. Passed by 6 or 7 years ago, and decided on spur of moment to visit it. Enjoyed it very much. Didn't realise just how large and interesting it was.
Yes, your mother has exquisite timing. She travelled to Kent in time for the county's rare snowstorm, and returned to Ontario just in time to experience the province's worst blizzard in living memory. Please post your mom's travel plans for 2023 as soon as possible, so I may arrange to be anywhere she isn't. 🤭🥴 btw, as you're in Kent, once Spring rolls around you should visit the huge grounds of Knole House in Sevenoaks. The 400 hectares are full of different deer and great parkland and woods.
Love the wireless microphone
Mince pie every time Christmas pudding to heavy !
I don't think I've ever met anyone who actually likes christmas pudding