2 things about Buckingham Palace. Firstly, there are times you can go inside. You just have to, shock horror!, look for the pertinent information. 2nd, it is one of the primary residences of a nation's Head of State. Perhaps they'd like to try and stroll into the White House whenever they'd like?! As with the Palace, the White House does permit public tours. Though touring Buckingham Palace is a much simpler process. However, in both cases it involves some kind of advance planning! Morons.
Yep been in Buckingham Palace in late August. You can go in and depending on the time of the year (summer is better) you can visit more rooms. Altough i agree with the "greedy" part, 36 pounds for a couple of rooms is greedy and you can even pay more of you want to see more or make a guided tour. Still the rooms were pretty nice to look at so i consider it a "one and done"-thing.
@@paha4209 not so sure i agree.. sure it may seems like much and most would probably just not go because of it, but its a historical building that should be preseved and maintained, if the entrence fee was 2 pound it would likely be alot of traffic during opening hours, and undoubtly damage for millions of pounds .. same goes for white house ofc ... wich also have(or atleast had) guided tours for US students occasionally .. i belive limited access is essential to preseve some things .. same goes for historical monuments and stuff .. just my thoughts
@@Patrik6920 The access is already limited due to only a limited number of tickets being available during a timeslot. I get your point but i personally feel with how much money the british royalty is already making 20 pounds would be more than enough however Buckingham Palace isn´t the only expensive attraction in London. Most stadium tours as well as sights like the tower of London have similar entry fees.
Well done!They should do the same with the Colosseo,all that stupid people carving their named on the walls and the authority Just giving them s fine which you don't Know if they ll ever pay It.
Yes: I remember those times. I use to ride past it on my motorbike on my way to Devon or Cornwall and sometimes use to stop and walk round Stonehenge - no problem. People back then seem to have more respect for things - no more!
My brother,a pal and I slept the night on top of the stones while rambling across Salisbury plains back in about 1988-89,we left all our gear on the ground and roped up there with just our bed rolls,smoke and beer😊,,back then all that kept you from them was a rope strung around a ring of metal spikes banged in the ground a couple of meters away from the stones about waist height . The English heritage guy(who was irish) in charge of the site that night noticed us at first light and woke us.Once he ascertained that we were just hikers and had just gone up there to kip and hadn't done any damage,which we were very careful not to,he was cool about the whole thing,he confessed to wanting to climb them himself from Time to time and even made us a cuppa before we set off.
Stonehenge is just pile of rocks , that were used as cannon targets in 1890s , that form it has now is after WW 2 restoration, modeled from old paintings . Do you know what else is just a pile of rock, El Alamo in San Antonio , it also has been restored, why bother, when it was Mexican battle.
While working on a cruise ship traveling scandinavia, some americans complained that there where no vikings or tours to the "viking reservations" offered ... as if they where packed away like natives in america.
Native Americans are not "packed away" dumb ass. In Oklahoma alone, there are 32 Native American nations. Perhaps you've been to San Marino or the Vatican in Italy, nations within a nation. Now imagine 32 nations existing in just one U.S. state. Now, before you make a bigger fool of yourself, Americans cannot enter a Native American Nation (reservation) without permission and they each have their own culture and laws.
My step son has been working for years now on such a cruise ship along the norwegian coast line. For some reason, he nowadays seemes a bit more cynical and sarcastic about humanity than a remember him in younger days.
@@valvesofvalvino that did make me laugh it's just the company name I suppose if they flew virgin Atlantic they would expect Richard branson to be the captain 😂
@@theocharisstylianou1822 Black tea is drunk in most of Europe, like all plant infusions, and in fact much of the world. it is how I drink it. Milk in tea to me is disgusting, I drink it with sugar and lemon. But most likely an American in this case, as you said, they like it cold with ice 🥶
Nope, unfortunately Ran was correct. American's do not say "'swimming costumes", which is what this tourist said (not 'swimsuits'). They were more likely to be from the UK or another English speaking Commonwealth country.
I can see why, the greenback is taken all over the world. Unlike most national currencies, the USD is universally fungible. Your European bank won't take USD?
@@karlbmiles WRONG!!! The USD is NOT universally fungible. If I tried buying a beer in the UK, a bier in Germany, a bière in France, or a cerveza in Spain I would be thrown out of the bar if I tried to use greenbacks to pay.
@@karlbmiles You are being a typical US stereotype with that comment. There are 7 countries were the US Dollar is commonly accepted and another 7 where it is used as an unofficial secondary currency. Including On the US, that's only 15 countries out of 195 inthe world. So your claims are just that proven to be incorrect claims.
@@karlbmiles LOL, you'e joking, right? A BANK will absolutely take the currency. I'm talking about working in a store. And, no, it isn't taken all over the world. This may come as a shock to you, but almost anywhere outside of the U.S. will not accept USD. There are places you can trade it in for the equivalent monetary value of whatever the local currency is, and banks will also do this for you...but if you are not in the United States, pretty much nowhere, in any country, will accept USD as payment. You are literally exactly the same as those customers.
You should have just invented an outrageous exchange rate, pocketed the dollars and put your own cash in the till. Take the dollars to the bank to exchange for real money later. 😂
@@jpbaley2016Yanks these days is a term including all Americans, historical accuracy is irrelevant at this point. It’s not the final exam of master degree in history here.
You CAN go into Buckingham Palace, but you need to make an advance booking. My findings with most American tourists is they've made little or no research or preparations. They want everything to "fall in line and stand to attention" as soon as they arrive.!!!
in fairness, we've found that it's more common to need to make advance reservations in places we've vacationed east of the atlantic, while in the US, it's more common to just queue up at the entrance. I think it's a combination of there being more people to do whatever it is on the european side, and managers being more willing to pack people in, on the US side.
@@kenbrown2808 However, even US Americans cannot just queue up at the White House, they must book in advance. So it's still just ignorance on behalf those US Americans.
My boss constantly likes to tell our clients that our building is “ancient” because it was built in 1830. I enjoy reminding him that in many parts of the world that would be considered new. 😊
@@karencotlar2023 my town is the newest settlement in my area, its founded around 1260..... a close by village got a church, its over 1100 years old! its been a replacement for the first old church! oldest city in my country is over 2000 years old.... we have stone age graves in my district from 40.000 years ago... we found things from people living here, from 250.000 years ago!
Ryan, you saying that you have never known milk being put in tea is almost as shocking as finding out recently that Americans don't put butter on bread. 😧
Agree- I've only just got over buttergate (truly shocking) and now I'm being told that they don't know about milk in TEA ?? I feel we failed them in our colonial duty.
You are both forgetting that instead of paying attention to colonial tea making instructions ( different to those actually used by Indians in India pre colonisation...) they were too busy pouring tea into the harbour.
Was in Italy once and heard a tourist say to his wife "We cam all the way to see that. The damn thing isn't even straight". Hint - middle-aged couple wearing matching tracksuits and caps.
If that was Pisa, my wife and I spent the night there, and the square by the tower was full of idiots doing the exact same photo (them holding the tower up).
Went to Rome with my history need son and a packed schedule of must-see sites. I've worked in tourism so I know how to complain 😉😉 Just to see the look on my son's face, 2nd day I whined: I've had it! Tomorrow I want to see something that's less than 100 years old, isn't some shade of fåking ocher and that isn't BROKEN 🙄 HE didn't think I was funny 😒 - but we went to the VESPA Museum 🥰 and that made the rest of the trip bearable 🤣🤣
Sydney Opera House! American - 'oh that's too many stairs, just take our photos out front"! Russian - "look at that incredible architecture, those window views are truly amazing and it's extraordinary orchestral acoustics"! 🧐
@@karlbmiles Stairs are part of the whole experience and the view is great! There is a lift but they always seem to have limited time and patience - or is it a lack of lateral thinking - been there, done that!
@@karlbmilesthe stairs afford you a view of the beautiful interior structure. The Opera House is far more impressive on the inside than the outside. Oops, don't tell tourists that...
Every time they stick it in a movie or TV show it’s always enlarged and appears to be a regular canvas so it can be seen on camera. So it’s natural they assume it’s bigger and a canvas.
@@Virtutymilitar The problem is that it's so well protected/guarded that you can't get close enough to it. I visited the Louvre once and I confess I was disappointed I couldn't discern any detail in the painting, it was behind a shedload of glass as well so taking a photo wasn't easy.
I live in rural Scotland and know somebody it actually happened to; they didn't expect a cream tea but they did just walk around inside the cottage admiring it and talking about how they were Scottish and their family probably lived there once 🙄 Luckily this is Scotland so they were made welcome and invited to stay for tea, which they did.
@@LunaLightbringer Same thing would have happened in Somerset. get tourists around there. That would be funny if some Americans had turned up at my nans old quaint farmhouse lol
However, they were still an ignorant Brit, because most of us would have noticed the separate jug of milk, as that is how it is served in many UK restaurants and cafes.
To be fair to Americans I've met many respectful and sensible American tourists, but the loud and/or stupid ones drown them out totally. I just did a river cruise in Germany (the company we use also being a favourite for American retirees). Two older ladies from a southern state marvelled as we passed a castle on the Rhine, remarking "gee it looks like they just copied the Disney castle!" My wife and I tried to suppress our giggles and didn't have the heart to tell them about either the era of construction, or King Ludwig's castle at Neuschwanstein in Bavaria.
The ones that can't be bothered to look things up before they go to places are probably the ones that use the internet for circulating selfies, pictures of food and unsubstantiated rumours. They should probably be discouraged from procreation.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) you can't entirely predict how kids will turn given their parents. People that could afford traveling that far may be rich enough that their kids can chose to be educated. That's why people pointing to the Idiocracy movie are themselves idiots: education can be made whatever the level of parenting they got, that's been proven over millenniums or we wouldn't have evolved at all.
There are no rocks of the same composition anywhere near Stonehenge. They've been traced to somewhere in or near Wales , so the added mystery is how they were transported there even before you question how the rocks were placed on top of each other.
@@warrengdayI mean not really. Pulleys and ropes have existed for thousands of years, and along with manpower that's all it really takes. The mystery isn't so much how they did it (though some people are interested in narrowing down the exact method) but more why they went through all that effort. Chances are it was just that they wanted to have the most baller rocks in the area, but it's not been 100% established.
There are other varied circled stone sites around the world, intended for celebrating the summer and winter solstice! It's shouldn't be how heavy they are but why they are right there!
Re: going into someone's house. A farmer in, I think, the Cotswolds came downstairs to find a furious American in his kitchen. "We've been sitting in the garden for ages and no-one's come out to take our order!" I wonder how the truth of the situation was explained to them, and how often the F word was used.
The Eiffel Tower: “It was for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, the date that marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, that a great competition was launched in 1886. The first digging work started on the 26th January 1887. On the 31st March 1889, the Tower had been finished in record time - 2 years, 2 months and 5 days - and was established as a veritable technical feat.” It was intended to be a temporary structure that would be dismantled in twenty years, however the people petitioned to keep it. Eiffel’s design was so well constructed that it has stood for 135 years and still standing strong. There’s a movie about its construction that’s well worth watching.
as I recall, the general public thought it was ugly, but then it was discovered that it made an excellent radio transmission antenna, and then it was accepted as useful.
@@infin8ee The craziest thing about it is that no matter where you go in Paris every window will have a view of the tower. If the catacombs had windows you know it would still be there… 😱 (As per every movie/tv show set in Paris)
The “Chinese Wall” you sound as stupid as the people you criticise, it’s the Great Wall of China, calling it the Chinese Wall sounds like a Chinese neighbour has built a wall in their backyard..
It is possible to visit Buckingham palace during some months when it is allowed to do so, just paying the ticket. No photos allowed inside but it is ok for garden and outside areas
And that's not even taking account of the Royal Mews (where the many horse-drawn carriages are on display) and the King's (formerly Queen's) Gallery (containing displays of priceless art belonging to the Royal Collection with changing exhibitions) which are open throughout the year and, though attractions in their own right, are part of the Palace complex.
Exactly. Tea without milk is a departure from the traditional way in which tea is drunk and has been for centuries in the UK and Ireland. Tea without milk is regarded as an exception to the general rule.
I don't agree. For years I took my tea with milk and sugar. Then, after drinking speciality teas in restaurants without milk or sugar, I thought I'd try my regular tea without either. I now wonder why I didn't take my tea black sooner. It is beautiful. I would add that I drink a quality loose leaf tea. Loose leaf definitely has a far better flavour than you get from tea bags.
I worked with visitors at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and Yes , the American tourists were different to say the least. Loud, arrogant and also had to be spoonfed directions and other information.
Now I have a dumb European story. Yah, get this, some Eurotrash didn't know the difference between the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Statue of Liberty in New York created by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi.
@@jopearson3022 For a guy that thinks he's so smart, I'm surprised you didn't correct that dodo , the Statue of Liberty was created by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi.
@@sharonmartin4036 Yes it is, and Thomson Travel without a P is a UK one. Or was. Apparently it’s going by TUI or something now, but that whinge about rain on a Spanish holiday has been going around for a very long time, and we Brits love going on cheap package holidays to the Med and finding things to complain about when we get home. So while it might be a Saffa my suspicion that it was most likely a Brit remains.
You know the Stonehenge review was left by an American because nobody else uses "a bunch" to delineate amount or size: a European or Brit would use "pile" or "heap".
My son works on a ferry between Oslo and Copenhagen. They had a complaint about the floor being crooked 🤣🤣 I've worked at a tourist office, and I've heard som hideous complaints over the years - they were NOT from people from the US! "We've been here for a week, where I've been sick all the time and it's been raining every day. Now we're leaving! We're going to X-town" - I'm happy to see you're well again, Sir, and the weather forecast for the next week is excellent, so you will not have to suffers a couple of 15 minutttes showers every day. Hope you have a splendid holiday in that "town 100 km away". ........... Knowing very well, that this guy will NEVER has a splendid time - ANYWHERE on this planet 😢 Trust me, we all have our fair share of idiots 😉😉
I don't think Americans see anything when they go abroad in their bubble. Or they only see differences with what they have back home. "Shall we go to Disneyland or go to Europe? Toss a coin".
When I was in Istanbul and visiting the Blue Mosque a group of Americans, dressed in caps and plaid golf pants, complained that it wasn't a "real" church.
My Physics visited Florence last Week ! Americans everywhere! Loud , annoying and ask for Mc D. You’re in Florence , so much History and amazing Food !
Is American tea routinely served with milk in it? I'm Canadian and milk always comes separately. Wow - how cosseted were these people who: a) needed to be told to bring 'swimming costumes" to a water park, and; b) expected someone to 'remind' them to bring their passports?? Did their mommies still wake them up to go to work? WTH?
I've heard other people complain that the Mona Lisa is too small. "Effectively A4"? It's actually 21" x 30". That's almost A1, i.e EIGHT TIMES the size of A4. Do people not know the difference between small and far away? Where's Ted to explain?
When i worked in Whitehall I was once physically grabbed by an American: “Say Bud, where’s a good place to eat?” I’m pleased to say I came up with the answer: “I believe Paris is nice…” At this point he let go of my suit lapels and turned round to his group “he says Paris is nice”… Off they waddled to Trafalgar Square. For all I know, their ghosts still wander the area looking for a restaurant called ‘Paris’… :)
While grabbing and phrasing were rude, it might not be the worse thing to do to ask advice to people working near the place where you want to eat, when you're not from the culture, it's hard not to fall into any tourist trap without having some insider clue. But it would also be hard to have thousands of people asking for advice while doing your job.
Welp, that's what you get when you assault some stranger and then expect them to help you... though they were probably so oblivious that it didn't dawn on them that they'd done anything wrong.
You can still get inside the stones at Stonehenge, but only if you apply to with your reason, and go outside visitor times. As a young teen when I went there were no restrictions at all. Loving the fact that it’s now been discovered not only do the ‘blue’ stones come from Wales, but the altar came from the Scottish islands. Not bad for around 5,000 years ago…..
The same point again arises from "no beach in London". No planning, no preparation, no research, nothing.! Does New York have a beach ? And Madrid in Spain, Paris in France, etc.etc.?
There is a beach in London when the tide is out. Because the Thames is connected to the North Sea, each day it is affected by two low tides and two high tides. Thanks to this non-stop movement of the water, the sediment is continuously suspended in the water column giving it its trademark brown colour.
Actually there is a beach in London. It’s about 100 metres long and on the Thames just below the Tower Of London. I played on it a few times as a kid in the 60’s. However it was closed off later because of the pollution. If you watch the movie ‘Battle of Britain’ there’s a clip of a few kids playing on it.
@@JohnResalb but what you may have meant is not what you said is it? Also where did the person complaining say anything about downtown London? New York city consists of five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. Cedar Grove Beach is on Staten Island, Coney Island and Manhattan Beaches are both in Brooklyn. Bronx Beach is in the Bronx. The distance from times Square to Manhattan Beach is less then from Hyde Park to Canary wharf.
The Mona Lisa was stolen on August 21, 1911 from the Louvre Museum in Paris. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, was an Italian handyman and former Louvre employee who managed to hide in a storeroom overnight and take the painting the next morning. It was an audacious heist that made the Mona Lisa famous. Before the theft it wasn't thought to be particularly noteworthy.
The guy complaining about rain in Spain haS probably believed on the phrase "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain," which is a line from the musical "My Fair Lady" and is used as a tongue twister for Eliza Doolittle to practice pronunciation of the "ai" sound. Obviously it is not geographically accurate about where rain falls in Spain. 😂😂😂
I'm a Swede and I can partially agree with some opinions here.. 💠Stonehenge.. is great but 25£ admission is a lot 💠The Mona Lisa is the worst part of the Louvre.. and queuing - often for several hours - to see it isn't really worth the wait because it isn't the most thrilling painting - in my opinion. But the museum itself is well worth the visit. 💠I think most Brits would agree that the Royal Family has been very greedy, but I would still consider it reasonable for the King/Queen to keep their home mostly private.. still that means it isn't all that exciting as an attraction. It's just something you check off the list. 💠There are often ridiculous amounts of people at these places.. for example to see Sagrada Familia in Barcelona you usually have to queue for a few hours to get a ticket for another day. I do understand why: they only allow a certain amount of people in at a time so that once you get to go inside it is a pleasant experience without too many people at once. There are just too many people in the world that want to visit all these places. This news might not have reached the US: some cities in Europe have started limiting the amount of people allowed to visit because it is making it too congested for the locals - to the point of being unlivable. I still love city tourism.. but it's often more pleasant in slightly less popular destinations unless you enjoy standing in line.
One point of correction Most British people know that the royal family do not own Buckingham Palace or most of the other royal residences. They are owned by a company called The Crown Estate and all the revenue from these properties is paid to the treasury NOT the monarch The Sovereign Grant is paid from this revenue and tax payers pay on average £1.30 PER YEAR to the upkeep of the whole royal family
Here in the U.S, there has been plenty of media coverage of the problems caused by overtourism in Europe and elsewhere. Even here, we have our own issues at some places--some national parks for example. Part of the problem, of course, is that the "must see" sights are must-see for a reason. I can't imagine going to France for the first time and not seeing the Louvre or going to Rome and not seeing the Coliseum. I'd go to less touristy places on a third or fourth trip, after I'd seen the major attractions.
This reminds me of an episode of “To the Manor Born”, where Richard thought Audrey may have stolen & sold an almost-priceless Egyptian vase, only to find his mother had used it in an amateur theatre production. “It was so eerie, watching it roll around the floor after the actor drops it.” “Mother, it’s over 2,000 years old!” “So it isn’t even new. Why are you so upset?”
The rocks of Stonehenge were brought there (as in some other such henges of which the UK is plentiful) from very distant places, so they were towed and rolled along the distance at the point that those ancients could call them Rolling Stones, their job being named Rock and Roll.
Parts of Buckingham Palace are indeed open to the public during summer months (May to September) with a limited number of guided tours at other times..... But it's a home and a place of work for the monarch, not an 'attraction' designed for tourists. If you are in London you might want to stand outside it, but it doesn't promise to be something it's not. Sadly one or two of those were definitely British- so the US doesn't have a monopoly on stupid tourists!
There are several beaches along the Thames in London bit only @low tide. There is much more sticky gooey mud. The Thames had been a working river (&a sewer) for thousands of years. When the tide flows in, courtesy of the Moon, - that's your sea view.
Fun fact: You can book to go on a tour around Buckingham Palace, they're only available when the senior royals aren't there (the Queen always spent the Summer at Balmoral so it would be open then), they also hold regualar guarden parties that people can attend, its invite only, I believe the nomination process is similar to an OBE but easier to get a yes from!
"Hello, could I speak to the captain piloting this plane please? The lack of soundproofing to drown out of the noise of the powerful engines concerns me".
Any sensible person from that par of the world would know what Stonehenge was, and any sensible from any other part of the world would have indeed chose where they would go by checking out what is what.
When I was a boy, you could touch the stones at Stonehenge, walk right up to the PrimeMinster's front door and chat to the solitary police man - now it's fenced off and the police carry machine guns!!! Does anyone think the world is a better place today ??.. Politicians - clearly just out to protect their own interests - it stands out a mile.!! I don't know how they get away with it.??? I wish you guys could have experienced for yourself the good old days.!
I did experience those days, but I also remember that nobody regarded them as 'good old days' (obviously) in fact everyone was very much hoping things would improve. Your parents probably thought everything was a great deal better when they were young - mine certainly did.
Bunch of rocks, so is Mount Rushmore... As for the tea, I'd have to agree. Was on an American cruise ship earlier in the year and they don’t understand tea, well not as Brits, Australian etc understand it. Tea to us is a specific thing, not just any collection of stuff from a herb garden. Oh you want, camomile, peppermint, aardvark dandruff and orange peel? No! Just f**king tea, with milk and one sugar. I had to rummage around to find the normal tea every day.
When I was a child we went on a school trip to Stonehenge. You could run around and touch the stones then. If you consider the task of getting the stones there and setting them up, you might just look at them and consider why they are a wonder.
@101steel4 Not really Holiday - English for a time away from doing your job/work/studies - often taken away from home etc. Vacation - English for vacating your normal place of work/study whilst still doing it. For example, I vacated university, but it wasn't a Holiday as that was the time away from the university in order to complete the studies and produce my thesis. It was certainly NOT a time away from studying. Vacation - USA American for going away from work - still being on-call and performing the majority of the work (emails, telephone calls etc) whilst often being away from home.
6:50 The problem is not really the size of the portrait (very standard for the time) but the 2 facts that the (two) barriers around it makes you stand quite far and that on the two side walls you'll find very large paintings, including the gigantic "The Wedding Feast at Cana" by Paolo Veronese on the opposite wall.
Sadly the barriers are necessary nowadays with idiots throwing tomato soup at anything precious not connected with the cause they claim to be championing. Something to do with oil I think. Twits (to put it nicely).
I believe that more of Buck House is being opened to the public after the renovations + King Charles prefers to live at Clarence House and uses the palace mostly as offices & for state banquets etc
Stonehenge is a complete mystery! Look at the photo and that single tower has a pointy part sticking up. That pointy bit sits into the hollow of the crossbeam to keep it stable. No one in history has ever recorded anything about them, because they existed long before such information was kept. So no one knows how they were built, why they were built and what else was around them when they were built. Clearly they were built by man but that’s all we know! Think about a pre-historic time when men were constructing Stonehenge! Now ask yourself what purpose did it serve? Who used it? Was it a place of worship or a residence?
You probably don't know that Australia has stone circles. One was created they think about 11,000 years ago, 5,000 years before Stonehenge, which itself is certainly far from the oldest British or European henge. The difference between Britain and Australia is that our stone circle, actually more of an egg-shape of small stones, is not sacrificed to tourism for money, but sacred to its Aboriginal caretakers. It's the oldest known deliberately built astronomical stone circle in the world, as its stones are arranged to align with the position on the horizon of the setting sun at the equinoxes and the solstices. No tourist visitors are allowed, its location is not disclosed but known to those aware of it and admire it. We respect the wishes of our First People.
Most people drink milk in tea, it’s only those who don’t like or have a dairy intolerance that don’t have milk in their tea. Heck, even the Indians who grow tea for the world, they add milk to tea! The US needs to be taught about proper tea, not this cold sugary stuff they buy! That’s not real tea.
Not sure where you got that "fact" but indians are the most lactose intolerant people on the planet. Its way more common to drink your tea without milk
Aussies say swimming costume...cozzie...but I don't think we'd be that dumb. I got to be close to Stonehenge in 1984. You sound so much like an Aussie in this video lol
Well, I have an even more heinous tea story for u. I began drinking a particular chai tea a few years ago. Indian spices, including a slight peppery after-taste. During Covid I couldn't buy it here. So I began drinking black tea with ground pepper added. Not quite the same, but close. ( Do u want sugar with your tea? No, just pepper. 🤔🤯 😂 )
@@sunisbest1234 Years ago I had a friend who drank black tea with some black pepper in it! I tried it and it was not bad but not enough for me to swap my favourite Earl Grey (definitely nothing added!)
Dover has a small beach, too. I saw it from a ferry. The most impressive thing was the great white wall you‘re shipping to. It was really beautiful to see this. I thought, how must the people felt, when they saw this wall.
@@JasminMernica They think: "free 5* heated and catered hotels, free 'benefits' money, mobile phones, no work or conscription, plenty of underage white girls to molest. woohoo!"
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying…”it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt’. Well these reviewers have just done the latter! 🤔🙄🤷♀️🤣
Imagin you self as a celebrity on a cruise ship, every time you step out of your room, you are going to take pictures and write autograph most of the time. I do know that meny celebity enjoy to get recognized, but it does not sound like a relaxing vication for a celebrity hehe. To be traped on a ship, without eny possible way to get off
To make a comparison between Buckingham Palace (as the primary residence) and the Swedish royal palaces, the Royal Palace in Stockholm can be visited during the weekdays but it's not the permanent residence of the royal couple. That's the (relatively) nearby Drottningholm Palace, and even that one is open some hours during the weekend. On the flipside, Haga Palace, where the Crown princess and her family lives, is not open to the public as far as I know. Possibly because it's not big enough (especially compared to the other two palaces) to be able to act as both private residence and public attraction. But the park it's in is open to the public.
A couple of years ago there was an English woman who booked a holiday in Spain. When she got home she demanded a refund from the tourist agent because there were too many Spanish people and they were all speaking in Spanish. Probably number 4 which you didn't read but we saw the title.
Ryan, you react to so many clips of Americans being....... well American 😮 I want to boost your mood a little.... in 1983, I visited the USA for 3 months.... I was staying in Oregon with my (illegally adopted sister) ... a wonderful lady who lived with my family for a year as an exchange student in 1975?(I think that was the year) Every person I met in the USA was so friendly and welcoming. Her family, including her in-laws made me feel part of the family. So I know how great the majority of Americans are 😊😊
Shock horror I live in Spain in the Sierra Nevada and guess what, not only do we get rain but we have ski slopes with snow and everything. Waiting for an America to now tell me the Sierra Nevada is not in Spain 😂😂😂
The Spanish ones were definitely Brits as Thomson was a UK travel company. Most of the rain in Britain comes in weather fronts across the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico. So if it's dry here then that rain is going elsewhere, usually further south to France, or Spain/Portugal. Also most people pre-book those Spanish vacations in Jan/Feb, and go to Spain in Jul/Aug. How dare Thomson not know it would be raining that week 7 months in advance?
By the way Ryan, you can tour Buckingham Palace, unless the Queen (King now) or other Royal is in residence, in which case no. The easiest way to know if the King is in residence is that the Royal Standard, not the Union Flag, is flying.
If you want to get right up next to the stones at Stonehenge, there is a guided tour you can take either before the site opens to the general public or after it closes to them. The tours are limited to 45 people and have to be booked in advance. It costs £61 for an adult and £37 for a child (5-17). You apparently get about 45 min amongst the stones. Otherwise you only get within about 14 m / 45 ft of them. I don't think how close the general public can get has changed much in 35 years.
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2 things about Buckingham Palace. Firstly, there are times you can go inside. You just have to, shock horror!, look for the pertinent information.
2nd, it is one of the primary residences of a nation's Head of State. Perhaps they'd like to try and stroll into the White House whenever they'd like?! As with the Palace, the White House does permit public tours. Though touring Buckingham Palace is a much simpler process. However, in both cases it involves some kind of advance planning! Morons.
when i was in USA the president was so greedy, he didnt even show me the oval office 😁
Total agree with u
Yep been in Buckingham Palace in late August. You can go in and depending on the time of the year (summer is better) you can visit more rooms. Altough i agree with the "greedy" part, 36 pounds for a couple of rooms is greedy and you can even pay more of you want to see more or make a guided tour. Still the rooms were pretty nice to look at so i consider it a "one and done"-thing.
@@paha4209 not so sure i agree.. sure it may seems like much and most would probably just not go because of it, but its a historical building that should be preseved and maintained, if the entrence fee was 2 pound it would likely be alot of traffic during opening hours, and undoubtly damage for millions of pounds .. same goes for white house ofc ... wich also have(or atleast had) guided tours for US students occasionally .. i belive limited access is essential to preseve some things .. same goes for historical monuments and stuff .. just my thoughts
@@Patrik6920 The access is already limited due to only a limited number of tickets being available during a timeslot. I get your point but i personally feel with how much money the british royalty is already making 20 pounds would be more than enough however Buckingham Palace isn´t the only expensive attraction in London. Most stadium tours as well as sights like the tower of London have similar entry fees.
You used to be able to get inside Stonehenge but too many visitors thought it was cute to vandalise the stones so it got stopped.
Well done!They should do the same with the Colosseo,all that stupid people carving their named on the walls and the authority Just giving them s fine which you don't Know if they ll ever pay It.
Yes: I remember those times. I use to ride past it on my motorbike on my way to Devon or Cornwall and sometimes use to stop and walk round Stonehenge - no problem. People back then seem to have more respect for things - no more!
My brother,a pal and I slept the night on top of the stones while rambling across Salisbury plains back in about 1988-89,we left all our gear on the ground and roped up there with just our bed rolls,smoke and beer😊,,back then all that kept you from them was a rope strung around a ring of metal spikes banged in the ground a couple of meters away from the stones about waist height . The English heritage guy(who was irish) in charge of the site that night noticed us at first light and woke us.Once he ascertained that we were just hikers and had just gone up there to kip and hadn't done any damage,which we were very careful not to,he was cool about the whole thing,he confessed to wanting to climb them himself from Time to time and even made us a cuppa before we set off.
I remember walking around Stonehenge. Magical.
So I can't even spray paint them? Disappointing.
I have heard a complaint about Finland's midnight sun being the same as the one in the day 🤣
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In the same category: Tourists asking here in Norway who has the switch to turn on the Aurora Borealis !! 😀
@@josteingravvik2381 They have to purchase the Auroa package in order to see it. Would probably work with many tourists.
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The best thing about Americans is that they make the rest of the world seem like geniuses.
YES, YES, YES!!!
No matter how stupid I get, I'll always be smarter than an a 'murican!
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Yep 😂
Stonehenge is just pile of rocks , that were used as cannon targets in 1890s , that form it has now is after WW 2 restoration, modeled from old paintings .
Do you know what else is just a pile of rock, El Alamo in San Antonio , it also has been restored, why bother, when it was Mexican battle.
While working on a cruise ship traveling scandinavia, some americans complained that there where no vikings or tours to the "viking reservations" offered ... as if they where packed away like natives in america.
😮 That‘ crazy.
Native Americans are not "packed away" dumb ass. In Oklahoma alone, there are 32 Native American nations. Perhaps you've been to San Marino or the Vatican in Italy, nations within a nation. Now imagine 32 nations existing in just one U.S. state. Now, before you make a bigger fool of yourself, Americans cannot enter a Native American Nation (reservation) without permission and they each have their own culture and laws.
Somehow this makes those reservation sound like …. I don‘t know…. a place in a zoo or something. Sounds horrible in this context
My step son has been working for years now on such a cruise ship along the norwegian coast line. For some reason, he nowadays seemes a bit more cynical and sarcastic about humanity than a remember him in younger days.
As an American, please let me apologize for these deeply embarrassing fellow citizens.
That person who complained about celebrity cruises would really hate monarch airlines 🤣🤣
A bit like going on a stag do with Virgin airlines. when you really want a trip on the slapper express.
:o)))
"Excuse me Captain, where's Queen Liz?... I'd like to speak to her".
@@valvesofvalvino that did make me laugh it's just the company name I suppose if they flew virgin Atlantic they would expect Richard branson to be the captain 😂
@@janolaful or maybe that he and the crew are virgin? 😅
Thankfully most Americans don't travel.
Milk in tea is English ,,, black tea is American!!😂😂
@@theocharisstylianou1822 pretty sure thats asian considering thats where it mostly grows.
@@theocharisstylianou1822 Black tea is drunk in most of Europe, like all plant infusions, and in fact much of the world.
it is how I drink it. Milk in tea to me is disgusting, I drink it with sugar and lemon. But most likely an American in this case, as you said, they like it cold with ice 🥶
@@theocharisstylianou1822 Originated in China, but i guess...
Thank god and/or any diety.
"We were not told to bring swimsuits to a water park" is the most American statement ever.
A "Don't put your cat in the microwave" type of thing
Nope, unfortunately Ran was correct. American's do not say "'swimming costumes", which is what this tourist said (not 'swimsuits'). They were more likely to be from the UK or another English speaking Commonwealth country.
Americans would not have described them as swimming costumes. That sounds very British to me. (I'm not from either country but have been to both).
No it’s not. Even dumb Americans would know to bring a swimsuit.
ya, definetly an american said it...
Those prehistoric people who built Stonehenge should have taken into account the possibility of Americans existing at some point in the future..
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They were probably expecting a theme park with a multimedia ‘Stonehenge experience’ - and tons of plastic merchandise.
@@noelleggett5368There is a gift shop. One that has to be across the road to preserve the view or something iirc.
seeing that stonehenge is fake and was built in the 1950s.
They did , but the assumed we would be smart enough to feed them to the smilodons
Ryan, you missed the best in #23 : we were not reminded to bring our passports…
When I worked in retail I had multiple American tourists complain that it was "outrageous" that we didn't accept American dollars (in Europe)
I can see why, the greenback is taken all over the world. Unlike most national currencies, the USD is universally fungible. Your European bank won't take USD?
@@karlbmiles WRONG!!! The USD is NOT universally fungible. If I tried buying a beer in the UK, a bier in Germany, a bière in France, or a cerveza in Spain I would be thrown out of the bar if I tried to use greenbacks to pay.
@@karlbmiles You are being a typical US stereotype with that comment. There are 7 countries were the US Dollar is commonly accepted and another 7 where it is used as an unofficial secondary currency. Including On the US, that's only 15 countries out of 195 inthe world. So your claims are just that proven to be incorrect claims.
@@karlbmiles LOL, you'e joking, right? A BANK will absolutely take the currency. I'm talking about working in a store. And, no, it isn't taken all over the world. This may come as a shock to you, but almost anywhere outside of the U.S. will not accept USD. There are places you can trade it in for the equivalent monetary value of whatever the local currency is, and banks will also do this for you...but if you are not in the United States, pretty much nowhere, in any country, will accept USD as payment.
You are literally exactly the same as those customers.
You should have just invented an outrageous exchange rate, pocketed the dollars and put your own cash in the till. Take the dollars to the bank to exchange for real money later. 😂
What Yanks call " tea" is diabetes in a glass !!
There ARE tours of Buckingham Palace !
Tried sweet tea in the south...Not wrong on the sweet part lol
Southerners are not Yanks. Yankees were the North.
@@jpbaley2016Yanks these days is a term including all Americans, historical accuracy is irrelevant at this point. It’s not the final exam of master degree in history here.
That's the US South. Their "tea" has enough sugar to give it the consistency of sludge. It's disgusting.
@@Utopian_Futures Like when we were called Limey's....
You CAN go into Buckingham Palace, but you need to make an advance booking.
My findings with most American tourists is they've made little or no research or preparations.
They want everything to "fall in line and stand to attention" as soon as they arrive.!!!
in fairness, we've found that it's more common to need to make advance reservations in places we've vacationed east of the atlantic, while in the US, it's more common to just queue up at the entrance. I think it's a combination of there being more people to do whatever it is on the european side, and managers being more willing to pack people in, on the US side.
@@kenbrown2808 However, even US Americans cannot just queue up at the White House, they must book in advance. So it's still just ignorance on behalf those US Americans.
I have to admit, I gave the Mona a miss and went off to look at other great paintings, without the crowd!
Thats your excuse?@kenbrown2808
@@heatherhoward2513 Better use of those opening hours, I agree. Mona Lisa doesn't have to be bad to have better things to see!
take it from an European...Americans cant comprehend age of things, older than 5 years...
And Europe is just one country, as Well Africa❤️....
My boss constantly likes to tell our clients that our building is “ancient” because it was built in 1830. I enjoy reminding him that in many parts of the world that would be considered new. 😊
@@karencotlar2023 my town is the newest settlement in my area, its founded around 1260.....
a close by village got a church, its over 1100 years old!
its been a replacement for the first old church!
oldest city in my country is over 2000 years old....
we have stone age graves in my district from 40.000 years ago...
we found things from people living here, from 250.000 years ago!
@@Arltratlo That’s very cool! I’d love to live somewhere with that kind of history.
Australia is younger than America but we get it.
Ryan, you saying that you have never known milk being put in tea is almost as shocking as finding out recently that Americans don't put butter on bread. 😧
Agree- I've only just got over buttergate (truly shocking) and now I'm being told that they don't know about milk in TEA ?? I feel we failed them in our colonial duty.
You are both forgetting that instead of paying attention to colonial tea making instructions ( different to those actually used by Indians in India pre colonisation...) they were too busy pouring tea into the harbour.
As a child in the US,I always had milk in my tea, except if I was sick, then it was lemon. And sandwiches are normally buttered in the States.
@@triarb5790 But was the harbour properly warmed beforehand?
Most would drink tea as sweet tea/iced tea which doesn’t usually have milk. Of course bubble tea vendors have other ideas!
Was in Italy once and heard a tourist say to his wife "We cam all the way to see that. The damn thing isn't even straight". Hint - middle-aged couple wearing matching tracksuits and caps.
If that was Pisa, my wife and I spent the night there, and the square by the tower was full of idiots doing the exact same photo (them holding the tower up).
Gotta call bullshit on that one. Why would anyone go see it if it was straight?
@drjamespotter my friend got knocked down there and broke her femur. The police got called, but she couldn't point out the person.
Went to Rome with my history need son and a packed schedule of must-see sites.
I've worked in tourism so I know how to complain 😉😉
Just to see the look on my son's face, 2nd day I whined: I've had it! Tomorrow I want to see something that's less than 100 years old, isn't some shade of fåking ocher and that isn't BROKEN 🙄
HE didn't think I was funny 😒
- but we went to the VESPA Museum 🥰 and that made the rest of the trip bearable 🤣🤣
@@drjamespotter Got it in one!
Sydney Opera House! American - 'oh that's too many stairs, just take our photos out front"! Russian - "look at that incredible architecture, those window views are truly amazing and it's extraordinary orchestral acoustics"! 🧐
Just curious, what's the fun of stairs? There is an elevator on the Harbor Bridge side of the Opera House.
@@karlbmiles Stairs are part of the whole experience and the view is great! There is a lift but they always seem to have limited time and patience - or is it a lack of lateral thinking - been there, done that!
@@karlbmilesthe stairs afford you a view of the beautiful interior structure. The Opera House is far more impressive on the inside than the outside. Oops, don't tell tourists that...
And the danes; “Ohh, that’s Jørgen Utzons masterpiece. Man, they buttfucked him”
@@karlbmiles Sydney HARBOUR Bridge. We aren't dumb Yanks at spelling.
Heads up for Americans. The Mona Lisa is not painted on canvas. Its painted on wood.
And honestly, it is a small painting, SO WHAT? It makes it even more exquisite!
Every time they stick it in a movie or TV show it’s always enlarged and appears to be a regular canvas so it can be seen on camera. So it’s natural they assume it’s bigger and a canvas.
It is however fairly small.
@@Virtutymilitar The problem is that it's so well protected/guarded that you can't get close enough to it. I visited the Louvre once and I confess I was disappointed I couldn't discern any detail in the painting, it was behind a shedload of glass as well so taking a photo wasn't easy.
I've never seen it, but my understanding is that it's also tiny.
There are many examples of Americans going into private cottages in the countryside, expecting a cream tea!
Yes, they just open the gate and enter the front door! Howdy! 🧐
I live in rural Scotland and know somebody it actually happened to; they didn't expect a cream tea but they did just walk around inside the cottage admiring it and talking about how they were Scottish and their family probably lived there once 🙄 Luckily this is Scotland so they were made welcome and invited to stay for tea, which they did.
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My sister experienced this in Whitby @LunaLightbringer
@@LunaLightbringer Same thing would have happened in Somerset. get tourists around there. That would be funny if some Americans had turned up at my nans old quaint farmhouse lol
"No milk in the tea" definitely sounds like a British person visiting somewhere in Asia
However, they were still an ignorant Brit, because most of us would have noticed the separate jug of milk, as that is how it is served in many UK restaurants and cafes.
@@Thurgosh_OG If they *were* British, yeah. They could also just have asked for milk.
was it not a visitor to Rome complaining?
I dunno. Most Europe dont drink tea with milk and it is never offered either.
To be fair to Americans I've met many respectful and sensible American tourists, but the loud and/or stupid ones drown them out totally. I just did a river cruise in Germany (the company we use also being a favourite for American retirees). Two older ladies from a southern state marvelled as we passed a castle on the Rhine, remarking "gee it looks like they just copied the Disney castle!" My wife and I tried to suppress our giggles and didn't have the heart to tell them about either the era of construction, or King Ludwig's castle at Neuschwanstein in Bavaria.
The ones that can't be bothered to look things up before they go to places are probably the ones that use the internet for circulating selfies, pictures of food and unsubstantiated rumours. They should probably be discouraged from procreation.
I've heard that way more people die every year from taking risky selfies, than from shark attacks.
Nature is doing her's to protect us 😉😉
Fortunately (or unfortunately) you can't entirely predict how kids will turn given their parents. People that could afford traveling that far may be rich enough that their kids can chose to be educated. That's why people pointing to the Idiocracy movie are themselves idiots: education can be made whatever the level of parenting they got, that's been proven over millenniums or we wouldn't have evolved at all.
There are no rocks of the same composition anywhere near Stonehenge. They've been traced to somewhere in or near Wales , so the added mystery is how they were transported there even before you question how the rocks were placed on top of each other.
Placing on top of eachother is easy. It takes an effort but nothing mysterical about that.
@@DenUitvreter When the stones weigh over 20 tonnes and have to be raised 7 metres it is.
@@warrengdayI mean not really. Pulleys and ropes have existed for thousands of years, and along with manpower that's all it really takes. The mystery isn't so much how they did it (though some people are interested in narrowing down the exact method) but more why they went through all that effort. Chances are it was just that they wanted to have the most baller rocks in the area, but it's not been 100% established.
There are other varied circled stone sites around the world, intended for celebrating the summer and winter solstice! It's shouldn't be how heavy they are but why they are right there!
@@warrengday No, it's been done with concrete blocks as an experiment. Rope, rollers and a few blokes and it's not even a week's job.
Re: going into someone's house. A farmer in, I think, the Cotswolds came downstairs to find a furious American in his kitchen. "We've been sitting in the garden for ages and no-one's come out to take our order!" I wonder how the truth of the situation was explained to them, and how often the F word was used.
These are not 'attractions' in the same vein as Disneyland, the expectation to be 'entertained' is shocking. Not least American visitors to Auschwitz
The Eiffel Tower: “It was for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, the date that marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, that a great competition was launched in 1886.
The first digging work started on the 26th January 1887. On the 31st March 1889, the Tower had been finished in record time - 2 years, 2 months and 5 days - and was established as a veritable technical feat.”
It was intended to be a temporary structure that would be dismantled in twenty years, however the people petitioned to keep it. Eiffel’s design was so well constructed that it has stood for 135 years and still standing strong. There’s a movie about its construction that’s well worth watching.
as I recall, the general public thought it was ugly, but then it was discovered that it made an excellent radio transmission antenna, and then it was accepted as useful.
And now they are slowly replacing the original metal that is rusting with exact copies to keep the tower going for even longer.
Who was it that said he would eat his lunch there everyday since it was the only place he didn't have to look at it?
@@infin8ee The craziest thing about it is that no matter where you go in Paris every window will have a view of the tower. If the catacombs had windows you know it would still be there… 😱
(As per every movie/tv show set in Paris)
@@YeahNo no thats total bs
The Chinese wall is older than most countries and states of the world. Especially older than the USA. This ignorance of some people is embarrassing.
most of the chinese wall thats still standing is from the 1600s and most open to tourists has been extensively renovated
The “Chinese Wall” you sound as stupid as the people you criticise, it’s the Great Wall of China, calling it the Chinese Wall sounds like a Chinese neighbour has built a wall in their backyard..
It was only really a wall in a few places. Mostly it was just bamboo buckets filled with sand.
Those people don't understand the value in that, it's sad really
Yank ignorance of the world is only embarrassing to Yanks, who are internationally scorned and mocked for their stupidity from gross ignorance.
The Mona Lisa is actually painted on poplar tree wood. I guess you could say, "The Mona Lisa is just a piece of painted wood." 😅
Let them despise the greatest Genius of all times and see what happens! Everithing must have a limit,even ignorance and arrogance of the americans.
So is my garage door. But nobody wants to visit it.
@@flitsertheo 😆
It is possible to visit Buckingham palace during some months when it is allowed to do so, just paying the ticket. No photos allowed inside but it is ok for garden and outside areas
As long as you are quiet, listen to instructions and be respectful!
And that's not even taking account of the Royal Mews (where the many horse-drawn carriages are on display) and the King's (formerly Queen's) Gallery (containing displays of priceless art belonging to the Royal Collection with changing exhibitions) which are open throughout the year and, though attractions in their own right, are part of the Palace complex.
@@MrBulky992 It's just not enough "Hollywood" or "Disneyland"! 😁
The Stonehenge reviewer must be North American. Brits and speakers of British English would refer to them as stones.
Rockhenge.
I’m British and I say rock when talking about a big stone.
@@krystiankowalski7335 That's because you are a blockhead. And you sound Polish not British. Joke
It does say “that our country has to offer”, so I’m leaning toward dissatisfied Brit.
@@richardedgar9670 Or could have been he meant the USA
Ah, the ignorance of American tourist on full display.
I'm not defending them but I can tell by the way they're written that not all of those complaints are from US americans.
I'm on my sixth trip to Paris and the Eiffel Tower always impresses, even on a rainy, misty morning, as was yesterday.
Ryan, proper tea has milk in it- what you think of as tea is sugar in a glass! 🏴🇬🇧
And tealeaves brewed in a pot!
Best if brewed for exactly three minutes.
Exactly. Tea without milk is a departure from the traditional way in which tea is drunk and has been for centuries in the UK and Ireland. Tea without milk is regarded as an exception to the general rule.
That's iced-tea dummy.
I don't agree. For years I took my tea with milk and sugar. Then, after drinking speciality teas in restaurants without milk or sugar, I thought I'd try my regular tea without either. I now wonder why I didn't take my tea black sooner. It is beautiful. I would add that I drink a quality loose leaf tea. Loose leaf definitely has a far better flavour than you get from tea bags.
I worked with visitors at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and Yes , the American tourists were different to say the least. Loud, arrogant and also had to be spoonfed directions and other information.
Just imagine that guy asking everyone on the cruise what series or movie they was in.
i know, most Americans dont know that the statue of liberty been made in France...
by a guy called Gustave Eifel!
I'm surprised that they didn't complain that it wasn't as good as the original Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas!
Now I have a dumb European story.
Yah, get this, some Eurotrash didn't know the difference between the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Statue of Liberty in New York created by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi.
@@jopearson3022 For a guy that thinks he's so smart, I'm surprised you didn't correct that dodo , the Statue of Liberty was created by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi.
@@karlbmiles With the internal framing made by Gustave Eifel.
Who cares about Bartholdi. Without Eiffel for the structural integrity, that thing wouldn't have stood the test of time.
Embarrassingly, number 12 is almost certainly a Brit. Thomson is a UK travel company.
Thompsons Travel is an African travel agency with offices in the UK and some European countries.
@@sharonmartin4036 Yes it is, and Thomson Travel without a P is a UK one. Or was. Apparently it’s going by TUI or something now, but that whinge about rain on a Spanish holiday has been going around for a very long time, and we Brits love going on cheap package holidays to the Med and finding things to complain about when we get home. So while it might be a Saffa my suspicion that it was most likely a Brit remains.
You know the Stonehenge review was left by an American because nobody else uses "a bunch" to delineate amount or size: a European or Brit would use "pile" or "heap".
Fuck load.
As an Australian I would most certainly agree it really was just a bunch of rocks 😂
Don't forget a bunch of wankers which is an apt term to describe a group of Yanks!
It says 'our country'. Which, admittedly, doesn't *preclude* it being written by an especially ignorant American, but does make it a bit less likely.
as a german, i would say bunch. but ofc not to stonehenge^^
My son works on a ferry between Oslo and Copenhagen. They had a complaint about the floor being crooked 🤣🤣
I've worked at a tourist office, and I've heard som hideous complaints over the years - they were NOT from people from the US!
"We've been here for a week, where I've been sick all the time and it's been raining every day. Now we're leaving! We're going to X-town"
- I'm happy to see you're well again, Sir, and the weather forecast for the next week is excellent, so you will not have to suffers a couple of 15 minutttes showers every day. Hope you have a splendid holiday in that "town 100 km away".
........... Knowing very well, that this guy will NEVER has a splendid time - ANYWHERE on this planet 😢
Trust me, we all have our fair share of idiots 😉😉
I don't think Americans see anything when they go abroad in their bubble. Or they only see differences with what they have back home. "Shall we go to Disneyland or go to Europe? Toss a coin".
When I was in Istanbul and visiting the Blue Mosque a group of Americans, dressed in caps and plaid golf pants, complained that it wasn't a "real" church.
@@DanDownunda8888 but it did used to be a real church which makes their comment even more stupid.
They're built Disneylands in China, Japan, and France, so much for the local culture.
My Physics visited Florence last Week ! Americans everywhere! Loud , annoying and ask for Mc D. You’re in Florence , so much History and amazing Food !
Is American tea routinely served with milk in it? I'm Canadian and milk always comes separately. Wow - how cosseted were these people who: a) needed to be told to bring 'swimming costumes" to a water park, and; b) expected someone to 'remind' them to bring their passports?? Did their mommies still wake them up to go to work? WTH?
It rains everywhere - even in deserts (albeit not as much).
It doesn't rain in Antarctica. It's too cold. They do get snow though. :)
I've heard other people complain that the Mona Lisa is too small. "Effectively A4"? It's actually 21" x 30". That's almost A1, i.e EIGHT TIMES the size of A4. Do people not know the difference between small and far away? Where's Ted to explain?
USA doesn't use A0-A4 IIRC
Mona Lisa comment clearly is not American due to a) use of metric, and b) use of international (ex-North America) paper sizing...
When i worked in Whitehall I was once physically grabbed by an American:
“Say Bud, where’s a good place to eat?”
I’m pleased to say I came up with the answer:
“I believe Paris is nice…”
At this point he let go of my suit lapels and turned round to his group “he says Paris is nice”…
Off they waddled to Trafalgar Square.
For all I know, their ghosts still wander the area looking for a restaurant called ‘Paris’… :)
I need to remember this one,m great reply!!!!!
While grabbing and phrasing were rude, it might not be the worse thing to do to ask advice to people working near the place where you want to eat, when you're not from the culture, it's hard not to fall into any tourist trap without having some insider clue. But it would also be hard to have thousands of people asking for advice while doing your job.
@@crepinhauser5274 you’re right. A simple ‘excuse me’ (or similar) without the grabbing would have resulted in a very different response :)
Welp, that's what you get when you assault some stranger and then expect them to help you... though they were probably so oblivious that it didn't dawn on them that they'd done anything wrong.
@@bob_the_bomb4508 Anyone tried to grab me would be missing some teeth.
You can still get inside the stones at Stonehenge, but only if you apply to with your reason, and go outside visitor times. As a young teen when I went there were no restrictions at all. Loving the fact that it’s now been discovered not only do the ‘blue’ stones come from Wales, but the altar came from the Scottish islands. Not bad for around 5,000 years ago…..
I heard that and wondered if the builders held a "bring your own stone" party.
The same point again arises from "no beach in London".
No planning, no preparation, no research, nothing.!
Does New York have a beach ?
And Madrid in Spain, Paris in France, etc.etc.?
There is a beach in London when the tide is out.
Because the Thames is connected to the North Sea, each day it is affected by two low tides and two high tides. Thanks to this non-stop movement of the water, the sediment is continuously suspended in the water column giving it its trademark brown colour.
Actually there is a beach in London. It’s about 100 metres long and on the Thames just below the Tower Of London. I played on it a few times as a kid in the 60’s.
However it was closed off later because of the pollution.
If you watch the movie ‘Battle of Britain’ there’s a clip of a few kids playing on it.
yes New York has many beaches.
@@stephenhodgson3506 the comment meant downtown - so the equivalent pointed out was 35 miles.
Where does 35 miles from downtown NYC get you?
@@JohnResalb but what you may have meant is not what you said is it? Also where did the person complaining say anything about downtown London?
New York city consists of five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. Cedar Grove Beach is on Staten Island, Coney Island and Manhattan Beaches are both in Brooklyn. Bronx Beach is in the Bronx. The distance from times Square to Manhattan Beach is less then from Hyde Park to Canary wharf.
The Mona Lisa smile is well known for being enigmatic!
The Mona Lisa was stolen on August 21, 1911 from the Louvre Museum in Paris. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, was an Italian handyman and former Louvre employee who managed to hide in a storeroom overnight and take the painting the next morning. It was an audacious heist that made the Mona Lisa famous. Before the theft it wasn't thought to be particularly noteworthy.
@@DanDownunda8888 yeah, that's true, I've read a book about that; very fascinating.
It was famous and renowned since the renaissance@@DanDownunda8888
The guy complaining about rain in Spain haS probably believed on the phrase "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain," which is a line from the musical "My Fair Lady" and is used as a tongue twister for Eliza Doolittle to practice pronunciation of the "ai" sound. Obviously it is not geographically accurate about where rain falls in Spain. 😂😂😂
It even says “mainly”, not “only”. You do hear about “sunny Spain”, though.
I cry in BASQUE 😂
Swimming costumes is definitely british. I know.. I am one!
Also Australian, if you ignore the bogans.
Invented for dipping women in the sea for health benefits, including ladylike caps! Naturally, reinvented for more comfort and mobility in Australia!
We may not all say it, but we all know what it is.
@@judithstrachan9399 True!
You are a swimming costume?
London's River Thames does have some beaches at low tide. Born and worked in London, have seen them.
That's what I was thinking!
Not really ones you'd sunbath on though, more go for a treasure hunt!
@@heatherhoward2513 Indeed, or just appreciate the unique view/perspective.
@@heatherhoward2513with a permit!
I'm a Swede and I can partially agree with some opinions here..
💠Stonehenge.. is great but 25£ admission is a lot
💠The Mona Lisa is the worst part of the Louvre.. and queuing - often for several hours - to see it isn't really worth the wait because it isn't the most thrilling painting - in my opinion. But the museum itself is well worth the visit.
💠I think most Brits would agree that the Royal Family has been very greedy, but I would still consider it reasonable for the King/Queen to keep their home mostly private.. still that means it isn't all that exciting as an attraction. It's just something you check off the list.
💠There are often ridiculous amounts of people at these places.. for example to see Sagrada Familia in Barcelona you usually have to queue for a few hours to get a ticket for another day. I do understand why: they only allow a certain amount of people in at a time so that once you get to go inside it is a pleasant experience without too many people at once. There are just too many people in the world that want to visit all these places.
This news might not have reached the US: some cities in Europe have started limiting the amount of people allowed to visit because it is making it too congested for the locals - to the point of being unlivable.
I still love city tourism.. but it's often more pleasant in slightly less popular destinations unless you enjoy standing in line.
One point of correction
Most British people know that the royal family do not own Buckingham Palace or most of the other royal residences. They are owned by a company called The Crown Estate and all the revenue from these properties is paid to the treasury NOT the monarch
The Sovereign Grant is paid from this revenue and tax payers pay on average £1.30 PER YEAR to the upkeep of the whole royal family
@@susansmiles2242 That's true, but the net worth of the Royal family is still said to be about 22 billion pounds, so I still think it's a fair point.
Here in the U.S, there has been plenty of media coverage of the problems caused by overtourism in Europe and elsewhere. Even here, we have our own issues at some places--some national parks for example. Part of the problem, of course, is that the "must see" sights are must-see for a reason. I can't imagine going to France for the first time and not seeing the Louvre or going to Rome and not seeing the Coliseum. I'd go to less touristy places on a third or fourth trip, after I'd seen the major attractions.
There are guided tours through parts of Buckingham Palace now, but you have to check what days of the year (usually Summer I think!) and times! 🙏
Looks like I should have complained about the rain in Death Valley when I visited it ...
Maybe you wanted to die?
I WISH it had rained when we were in Death Valley! Too hot - maybe I should write a review...
Stonehenge was built about 2500 BC
Yeah, but that was years ago! (couldn´t resist being satirical)
This reminds me of an episode of “To the Manor Born”, where Richard thought Audrey may have stolen & sold an almost-priceless Egyptian vase, only to find his mother had used it in an amateur theatre production.
“It was so eerie, watching it roll around the floor after the actor drops it.” “Mother, it’s over 2,000 years old!” “So it isn’t even new. Why are you so upset?”
@@84com83 lol
Some elements date back 8000 years.
The rocks of Stonehenge were brought there (as in some other such henges of which the UK is plentiful) from very distant places, so they were towed and rolled along the distance at the point that those ancients could call them Rolling Stones, their job being named Rock and Roll.
Parts of Buckingham Palace are indeed open to the public during summer months (May to September) with a limited number of guided tours at other times..... But it's a home and a place of work for the monarch, not an 'attraction' designed for tourists. If you are in London you might want to stand outside it, but it doesn't promise to be something it's not.
Sadly one or two of those were definitely British- so the US doesn't have a monopoly on stupid tourists!
The swimming costume one was definitely one of ours!
@@Badgersj And the mention of Thompsons Holidays - re the rain in Spain.
@@carolineskipper6976 Yes, it makes one weep.
Oh my God! Who stole the beach from London? Please bring it back, I'm going there next month 🙏
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There are several beaches along the Thames in London bit only @low tide. There is much more sticky gooey mud. The Thames had been a working river (&a sewer) for thousands of years. When the tide flows in, courtesy of the Moon, - that's your sea view.
@@rogerjenkinson7979sounds perfect for the disappointed American! 🙄
Fun fact: You can book to go on a tour around Buckingham Palace, they're only available when the senior royals aren't there (the Queen always spent the Summer at Balmoral so it would be open then), they also hold regualar guarden parties that people can attend, its invite only, I believe the nomination process is similar to an OBE but easier to get a yes from!
about the Cruises .....one traveller even requested that their cabin be "better sound-proofed against the sounds of the sea 🤣
"Hello, could I speak to the captain piloting this plane please? The lack of soundproofing to drown out of the noise of the powerful engines concerns me".
Surely any sensible person would have checked out what Stonehenge was!!!
The key word is 'sensible'.
Any sensible person from that par of the world would know what Stonehenge was, and any sensible from any other part of the world would have indeed chose where they would go by checking out what is what.
Also for that American wanting to get inside Buckingham palace, see how easy it is to get into the white house!
STONEhenge is a bunch of ROCKS!!! No way!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I love your reaction to all of the comments in the video, Ryan! You make me laugh as well!
When I was a boy, you could touch the stones at Stonehenge, walk right up to the PrimeMinster's front door and chat to the solitary police man - now it's fenced off and the police carry machine guns!!!
Does anyone think the world is a better place today ??..
Politicians - clearly just out to protect their own interests - it stands out a mile.!!
I don't know how they get away with it.???
I wish you guys could have experienced for yourself the good old days.!
There was a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street. People have damaged the stones at Stonehenge. Politicians aren't the problem, people are.
@@drjamespotter Oh I'm pretty sure that Politicians are making things much worse than the general public are.
@@drjamespotter yes, for voting for them in the first place. I agree.
I did experience those days, but I also remember that nobody regarded them as 'good old days' (obviously) in fact everyone was very much hoping things would improve. Your parents probably thought everything was a great deal better when they were young - mine certainly did.
Stepping around the base of monolithics lower the soil level and unearth the stones. It's made to protect them, same in Carnac.
Bunch of rocks, so is Mount Rushmore... As for the tea, I'd have to agree. Was on an American cruise ship earlier in the year and they don’t understand tea, well not as Brits, Australian etc understand it. Tea to us is a specific thing, not just any collection of stuff from a herb garden. Oh you want, camomile, peppermint, aardvark dandruff and orange peel? No! Just f**king tea, with milk and one sugar. I had to rummage around to find the normal tea every day.
LOL...Loved your comment...
Oh, that must have been a terrible ordeal for you. Not being able to have English tea when being out of England. The horror.
People used to chip bits off the Stones at Stonehenge as souvenirs 😑
😢
When I was a child we went on a school trip to Stonehenge. You could run around and touch the stones then. If you consider the task of getting the stones there and setting them up, you might just look at them and consider why they are a wonder.
Parts of Stonhenge are over 8000 years old. But impressively it was built beside a trackway that's even older.
English - Holiday.
American English - vacation.
@101steel4
Not really
Holiday - English for a time away from doing your job/work/studies - often taken away from home etc.
Vacation - English for vacating your normal place of work/study whilst still doing it. For example, I vacated university, but it wasn't a Holiday as that was the time away from the university in order to complete the studies and produce my thesis. It was certainly NOT a time away from studying.
Vacation - USA American for going away from work - still being on-call and performing the majority of the work (emails, telephone calls etc) whilst often being away from home.
Totally vacant !!
Which why British holidays are in the summer and American holidays are in the winter.
6:50 The problem is not really the size of the portrait (very standard for the time) but the 2 facts that the (two) barriers around it makes you stand quite far and that on the two side walls you'll find very large paintings, including the gigantic "The Wedding Feast at Cana" by Paolo Veronese on the opposite wall.
Sadly the barriers are necessary nowadays with idiots throwing tomato soup at anything precious not connected with the cause they claim to be championing. Something to do with oil I think. Twits (to put it nicely).
Buckingham Palace is open to the public whilst the monarch is not in residence.
Only for a limited time in the summer months.
@@nicolad8822yes, that is when “ The Monarch is not in Residence”.!
I believe that more of Buck House is being opened to the public after the renovations + King Charles prefers to live at Clarence House and uses the palace mostly as offices & for state banquets etc
Like to see what an American would say if foreign visitor tried to get into the White House
@@That_is_for_me_to_know I doubt they'd get anywhere near it given the number of big blokes with guns standing around near all the entrances.
12:14 We call what Americans call vacations holidays, so a holidaymaker is just somebody on vacation.
Stonehenge is a complete mystery! Look at the photo and that single tower has a pointy part sticking up. That pointy bit sits into the hollow of the crossbeam to keep it stable. No one in history has ever recorded anything about them, because they existed long before such information was kept. So no one knows how they were built, why they were built and what else was around them when they were built. Clearly they were built by man but that’s all we know! Think about a pre-historic time when men were constructing Stonehenge! Now ask yourself what purpose did it serve? Who used it? Was it a place of worship or a residence?
There’s speculation it may have been some kind of calendar, but nobody’s sure why they needed one.
@@judithstrachan9399agriculture.
Lego.
neuralwarp I never touched you.
You probably don't know that Australia has stone circles. One was created they think about 11,000 years ago, 5,000 years before Stonehenge, which itself is certainly far from the oldest British or European henge. The difference between Britain and Australia is that our stone circle, actually more of an egg-shape of small stones, is not sacrificed to tourism for money, but sacred to its Aboriginal caretakers. It's the oldest known deliberately built astronomical stone circle in the world, as its stones are arranged to align with the position on the horizon of the setting sun at the equinoxes and the solstices. No tourist visitors are allowed, its location is not disclosed but known to those aware of it and admire it. We respect the wishes of our First People.
Most people drink milk in tea, it’s only those who don’t like or have a dairy intolerance that don’t have milk in their tea. Heck, even the Indians who grow tea for the world, they add milk to tea! The US needs to be taught about proper tea, not this cold sugary stuff they buy! That’s not real tea.
Yes, milk in Australia other than Green Tea, herbal teas
Most of us. I gave it up years ago, mild intolerance.
I also have it so weak it’s helpless.
Not sure where you got that "fact" but indians are the most lactose intolerant people on the planet. Its way more common to drink your tea without milk
I love cold, fresh milk. And Earl Grey. But, I will never drink them from the same cup. 😀
@@janfrodeengh5904Earl Grey is supposed to be drunk without milk.
Aussies say swimming costume...cozzie...but I don't think we'd be that dumb. I got to be close to Stonehenge in 1984. You sound so much like an Aussie in this video lol
Well, Ry is an honorary Aussie by now.
I tell my friends, don't bother with Stonehenge. If you can glimpse it from the highway you've seen enough.
Rain in Spain
It's a pain
I have to complain
What? Again?
Same.
American also think McDonald's is a Restaurant 😂😂😂
I actually love the Mona Lisa review. The viewer is on spot here
No milk in tea??? Are you serious?
There are about 1500 types of tea. Many do not have milk added, some do. I prefer mine without but am currently drinking a coffee!
And lemon. ❤
Well, I have an even more heinous tea story for u. I began drinking a particular chai tea a few years ago. Indian spices, including a slight peppery after-taste. During Covid I couldn't buy it here. So I began drinking black tea with ground pepper added. Not quite the same, but close. ( Do u want sugar with your tea? No, just pepper. 🤔🤯 😂 )
@@sunisbest1234 Years ago I had a friend who drank black tea with some black pepper in it! I tried it and it was not bad but not enough for me to swap my favourite Earl Grey (definitely nothing added!)
There is a beach in London, where the Romans originaly landed from the Thames. In fact, there are a few other beaches too.
Dover has a small beach, too. I saw it from a ferry. The most impressive thing was the great white wall you‘re shipping to. It was really beautiful to see this. I thought, how must the people felt, when they saw this wall.
@@JasminMernica They think: "free 5* heated and catered hotels, free 'benefits' money, mobile phones, no work or conscription, plenty of underage white girls to molest. woohoo!"
During the summer months u can book tickets go in Buckingham Palace
True. I've done that !! Didn't get access to the whole thing, of course, but a good chunk of it !!
@@josteingravvik2381 Cool !! :) !!
@@josteingravvik2381 yeah still means queen was too greedy to let you in to more rooms . :) sorry i could not resist .
@@richardhrubes4585 😅🤣😂
@@richardhrubes4585 😄
To be honest us Brits say swimming costume (women mainly) 😂
We do in Tasmania too!
@@jenniferharrison8915and NSW!
And Aussies...also cozzie
@@Fiona-zc6oz 😂😂 yes! Forgot the cozzy
@@Thee_Penguin That's more Queensland!
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying…”it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt’.
Well these reviewers have just done the latter! 🤔🙄🤷♀️🤣
But honestly? I've rarely laughed so hard. I'm glad you can report on it in such a relaxed and funny way.
I've been up the Eiffel Tower twice now, it's the wonder of it being built in the first place, and the views are incredible
That’s like saying that Niagra Falls is just a drop from one level to a lower level and water runs over it!
And if you're in New York City it's only a six-hour drive to Niagara, New York to see it.
@@karlbmiles But to see the Horseshoe Falls properly you have to cross the border into Canada. The other falls in the US are not very spectacular.
Imagin you self as a celebrity on a cruise ship, every time you step out of your room, you are going to take pictures and write autograph most of the time. I do know that meny celebity enjoy to get recognized, but it does not sound like a relaxing vication for a celebrity hehe.
To be traped on a ship, without eny possible way to get off
To make a comparison between Buckingham Palace (as the primary residence) and the Swedish royal palaces, the Royal Palace in Stockholm can be visited during the weekdays but it's not the permanent residence of the royal couple. That's the (relatively) nearby Drottningholm Palace, and even that one is open some hours during the weekend. On the flipside, Haga Palace, where the Crown princess and her family lives, is not open to the public as far as I know. Possibly because it's not big enough (especially compared to the other two palaces) to be able to act as both private residence and public attraction. But the park it's in is open to the public.
8:37 this is a bit like going to the US and expecting to be let into the white house lol
From What I gather, it's only open to US citizens and they have to book in advance and provide ID etc.
Well, some parts of the White House are open to the public, so....?
A couple of years ago there was an English woman who booked a holiday in Spain. When she got home she demanded a refund from the tourist agent because there were too many Spanish people and they were all speaking in Spanish. Probably number 4 which you didn't read but we saw the title.
We’ve just got home from a Celebrity cruise and I thank the lord there were no celebrities on board. There were though very many Americans 😱
I found the same problem when I visited the USA, too many Americans 😆
Ryan, you react to so many clips of Americans being....... well American 😮
I want to boost your mood a little.... in 1983, I visited the USA for 3 months.... I was staying in Oregon with my (illegally adopted sister) ... a wonderful lady who lived with my family for a year as an exchange student in 1975?(I think that was the year)
Every person I met in the USA was so friendly and welcoming. Her family, including her in-laws made me feel part of the family. So I know how great the majority of Americans are 😊😊
Why on earth does it matter what size a painting is???
Well, Rembrandt’s Nachtwacht is quite large, and so is Picasso’s Guernica. ;-)
Ask the Dutch who in 1715 cut a piece of the "Nachtwacht", the famous painting from Rembrandt. Just because it didn't fit in its new location.
@@flitsertheoThe painting was put up in reverence to its owner; it was not revered itself, apparently.
@@flitsertheoreally? I did not know that. I made a specific visit to see that, just after it was restored after being vandalised. Love it.
Duh, Mona Lisa is a single person's portrait.
The so-called Nachtwacht (IT HAS NO TITLE PEOPLE) is a group portrait of the local militia showing off.
Shock horror I live in Spain in the Sierra Nevada and guess what, not only do we get rain but we have ski slopes with snow and everything.
Waiting for an America to now tell me the Sierra Nevada is not in Spain 😂😂😂
And it hasn't happende yet? You must be so dissapointed.
@Facetterdk As long as the sun rises, never upset.
The Spanish ones were definitely Brits as Thomson was a UK travel company. Most of the rain in Britain comes in weather fronts across the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico. So if it's dry here then that rain is going elsewhere, usually further south to France, or Spain/Portugal. Also most people pre-book those Spanish vacations in Jan/Feb, and go to Spain in Jul/Aug. How dare Thomson not know it would be raining that week 7 months in advance?
13:30 "It never rains in California... Men, it pours."
By the way Ryan, you can tour Buckingham Palace, unless the Queen (King now) or other Royal is in residence, in which case no. The easiest way to know if the King is in residence is that the Royal Standard, not the Union Flag, is flying.
The Monna Lisa isn't about a fictional character. It's a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. It's Italian title is La Gioconda.
If you want to get right up next to the stones at Stonehenge, there is a guided tour you can take either before the site opens to the general public or after it closes to them. The tours are limited to 45 people and have to be booked in advance. It costs £61 for an adult and £37 for a child (5-17). You apparently get about 45 min amongst the stones.
Otherwise you only get within about 14 m / 45 ft of them.
I don't think how close the general public can get has changed much in 35 years.
1977, I sat on one.