The UK and Canada are on the same latitude so I doubt our winters are darker in terms of daylight hours, but in southern England we get almost no snow and snow makes a place a lot brighter.
@@AdventuresAndNaps I was thinking UK and Canada as an average more than a specific location, the variation in latitude is close enough to not make a vast difference. Sunset tonight in Toronto is 21 minutes after sunset in London.
I saw Hadrians Wall on your English Heritage feature. Its an amazing thing to see especially at Housteads Fort and Vindolanda. It is a long way up for you straddling as it does Cumbria and Northumberland but you could include it in a trip to the Lake District.
@@AdventuresAndNaps if you go to Hadrian's wall you'll probably think whats happened to it as it did last for centuries, but what happened was people wanted barns , housing and other military uses etc and came up with the idea of why should you collect rocks and stones in fields when someone else has done it all ready plus as a bonus they have faced ( one or more flat surface edges done ) some already hence the small town / village called Wall along it .
Helpful Friday tips as usual from our favourite Canadian expat. Items 1 & 6 being the most important on list,. There is no problem or sad feeling that cannot be improved by a good cup of tea and with a trip to the local you are guaranteed to find someone to help brighten your day.
Another great video .. what is your favourite English biscuits ? I saw the very funny beer video and the ones you did on crisps. .Are you a jafa cake lady or into hob nobs ..plain or milk chocolate . ?
National Trust membership is more useful than English Heritage membership, at least in the Winter. This is because English Heritage houses normally have their roofs missing. All National Trust Properties have roofs. This is also why you found that you need an umbrella.
The winter is SE England is relatively mild compared to the Midwest US and Canada. Where they have extreme freezing temperatures and many feet of snow.
While England doesn't get the snow that I'm used to back in Ontario, it feels a lot colder here because of the damp - winters back home always felt dry/cold
Railcards - Is there a 'Old Grump who doesn't want to sit near noisy youngsters' version, didn't see it on your list?! Thanks for your perspective Alanna!
When I was younger I would feel so sad and sleepy during the winter months and I never knew why. It was only when the internet became more popular that I looked it up
Excellent video as usual. Great ideas and tips. Cup of tea advice is very apt in this weather. If you want some ideas for more taste tests of British type stuff - 1) Chocolate Easter Eggs now it's nearly Easter. 2) Ditto Hot Cross buns - plenty of different makes you can buy. 3) Cornish Pasties - plenty of supermarket types to try and compare. A word of advice however - don't think you have to finish off all the buns, pasties etc at one session.
@@AdventuresAndNaps yesss I second that, you need to do a hot cross bun taste test!! I've seen some odd novelty ones advertised - chocolate and salted caramel 🤔 hm I could really do with your opinion on those before I can decide to try them 🤓😆
Oh Dear me. I have been living in England for a while now and I seem to have my work cut out for me. I don't appear to have ever made it past "Find a Local Pub".
You're not wrong... British winters are grim... and they seem to last for eternity. The summers, though... nowhere is more beautiful than Britain in the summer. It's swings and roundabouts.
I believe that after a year's membership of English Heritage you get free access to CADW (Welsh Heritage) and Historic Scotland. I have CADW membership which allows free access to all three. Saved me a fortune when visiting Edinburgh Castle.
Must be really annoying though, if you're a fully paid up member of English Heritage, and then you discover that the attraction you want to visit is one of the (vastly more numerous) properties that are owned and/or controlled by The National Trust!
Hey Alanna! Quick tip on English Heritage membership: go one better and get Cadw membership (Welsh Heritage) instead - it allows you free entry into Cadw & Manx National Heritage and 50% off entry into Historic Scotland and English Heritage sites (and free entry when you renew membership).
I can’t argue with any of the included items though obviously tea choice is most important with Yorkshire being the only winner. It just improves everything. Thank you for the video, I hope you have a great weekend and I look forward to tomorrow’s video.
Tea is the best. My favourite is Twinnings, when its on offer. Otherwise Sainsbury's Gold Label The SAD light is a good idea Its pretty dark between mid December and early March, I hate January & February. Good quality umbrellas are better, I find they just get in the way, I prefer a water resistant or waterproof coat and a hat, its a personal choice, easy when you have no hair to get wet. Or just go pop in the nearest pub! Great advice, Alana. You have such a positive attitude, it really cheers everyone up!
Perspective is everything! I am 🇨🇦 but come from the other side of Canada where it rains far more than it does in Kent. I barely ever notice the rain here because it is nothing in comparison to the West Coast of Canada. Another suggestion is to discover France and Belgium by bus it is really cheep and there are day trips to Calais and Brugge. I did the English Heritage pass for years and it really paid off as a had a fully expensed company car and totally took the piss ( Canadian translation- took advantage in a bad way) driving all over the country at my company’s expense. 😁 Tea is important and I am a big fan but I have always been amazed at how many 🇬🇧 don’t like tea.
"I love taste-testing new stuff". A masterpiece of understatement. English Heritage card is an excellent idea; I'm not sure if the National Trust does one too. A bit of research will reveal places of interest that are free admission. For example Avebury stone circle is adjacent to the village of Avebury and is not fenced off at all. Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed is also freely accessible. When it comes to tea, leaf tea is far far better than teabags. Yorkshire tea is available in leaf form. On the subject of #6, in the days before licensing laws were relaxed there was the lock-in, an occasion wheen regular customers would drink after hours. Good video as always.
Yes, the national trust does offer a similar membership scheme. The annual cost for an individual membership is £76.80 (optionally £6.40 per month,) £38.40 or £10 depending on your age group, (26+, 18-25, or under 18 respectively.) under 5s are free. As a couple (both 18+, living at the same address,) you can buy a 'joint membership' at £127.20 per year (optionally £10.60 per month;) Family membership is also available which covers 1 or 2 adults plus their children and/or grandchildren aged under 18 for an annual cost of £83.40 (1 adult; optionally £6.95 per month) or £133.80 (2 adults; optionally £11.15 per month.) There are also three Life Membership options: Individual - £1845 (£1380 if you're 60 or over) Joint - £2,305 (for 'life partners' - £1730 if one or both of you are 60 or over) Family - £2,415 (for 'life partners' plus their children/grandchildren aged under 18.)
Experiences can be so different! Where I live in the Yukon, I have no sun at all for 2 months of the year. In the summer, 21 hours a day. My ex needed a SAD light, and she was a northern native! I've been fine without - must have been that being born in England that makes darkness "normal" for me. :)
Thanks Alanna. Hopefully if Covid's being managed well enough in summer someone might introduce you to the concept of the pub crawl. Might make an interesting Vlog 😄
Also a coffee drinker (Czech-American 4 years in the UK). I love fruit teas. I get much maligned for this, haha. My sad lamp spent this winter in a cupboard, but Vit D is MANDATORY. Were you paid for your English Heritage advert? I love my National Trust membership, for the same reasons. No brollys for me, I don't mind getting wet.
I'll be honest, I almost forgot about this. Thankfully I didn't. 🙂 All fair and accurate points. Nice one Alanna. I was wondering if you'd be interested in doing a video on US/CAN/UK things that TV and movies get wrong? I had this thought the other day and figured it could be a fun video for you. For instance, they typical US/Canadian disfunctional Thanksgiving, UK folks in TV crime dramas always having 'posh' accents, people never saying goodbye when they hang up the phone and so on. Up to you of course. 😀
#1 thing Hollywood always gets wrong about America, is guns. In the movies, you see guns *everywhere*, constantly. I've lived in the Midwest for 47 years (including three years in Barry County, MI, where more than half the population is enthusiastic about deer hunting), and while I know a number of people who own firearms, I've only once actually *seen* one in person, and it was an antique rifle that an old man found in an attic and wanted to identify to see if it had any value. In practice, day to day, the firearms are all put away in gun safes and whatever, so unless you participate in related activities, you never see them. The police have *access* to guns, but again, they keep them put away, so you don't generally see them. When I was in college (in northern Indiana), we used to joke that campus security was more intimidating than the local police, because campus security carried big heavy flashlights. (The police have the ability to become intimidating when the situation warrants it, of course. But day to day they prefer the "we're here to help lost children find their parents" public image. Unless they're pulling you over for speeding.)
On the umbrella thing, Alanna........you've probably heard it before, but how do you tell an English man in summer? He's the one in a T shirt, shorts, sandals, with a raincoat over his arm and an umbrella in his hand xx
Always good to have a hot drink after been caught in a sudden down pour. Or to run into a pub with a wood fire & a pint to warm up. Which reminds me need to visit the pub near my house more, its an easy walk. I find with sudden downpours in the time its taken to say "looks like it might rain" you're already soacked
I'll have a hot cuppa squash please lol... These are some great points! Loved doing the English Heritage sites when I was younger. Now I've gotten old & hit my 30s, I've started doing National Trust places instead lol... Used to love it when my local bar at uni knew my drink order, although, it probably means I spent too much time there! 🍺😬😂
Is that squash as in cordial, the fruity drink you add water to, or squash as in the juice of the actual fruit? Just curious. On a cold morning, a hot cup of blackberry juice is gorgeous but blackcurrant is a fine alternative.
@@hallefranklin2646 Cheers for confirming. I wasn't sure if you were from the UK or over there as they have different meaning. I've caused confusion with it myself when I asked for squash in New York and got strange looks. 🙂
What is your opinion on, Cottage pie, and mushy peas, how about a cheese and corned beef toastie, a jacket potato with cheese and baked beans, even a crisp sandwich. I would love to hear you take on some of out goto meals and snacks. I'm thinking also cheese on toast, a sausage and egg barn, a salad sandwich with salad cream, Gypsy (or French) toast, bangers and mash with onion gravy. Your video;s ar so much fun, I love them, keep them coming x
If your gong to Scotland 🏴, take a 20’ x 30” inch’s rectangle or enough wrap around your head 11/2 times. or a fine mech fabric, and take or get when over here a small Sellotape. *So take your baseball (this is easier if cap is on someone’s head. * Cut a load of sellotape and with the long edge held about one inch above the front of the cap and sellotape down.* gather and tape all the away around tape back edge from top to bottom This will prevent the dreaded MIDGES, THEY CAN DRIVE A PERSON MAD. So with a can of Iron Bru in hand cutting about the country. You may need more tape to tape the ankles of your trousers and around wrists. Now all you need it a gallon of bug repellent and off toy go.🏴
Friendly algae comment :) And really amazed you did not lose that fantabulous umbrella your mom gave you. I lose nothing, but umbrellas are just to be ... left :o ^^
I really like your videos. I have been wanting to move to the UK for years and it's been hard finding a page that shows the realistic side of things as a foreigner moving there. Thank you for all the details and explanations.
Yorkshire tea is (in my opinion) the best, I'm happy you like it Alanna (I do vaguely remember the video where you tested the different brands of tea). Small foldable umbrella's are very useful, better than the big bulky things
Mens collapsible umbrella easily fits in a trousers map pocket and can be used for defence where as a full sized one is a blinking nuisance. Your never over 26 ! 😉 Yorkshire Tea a great brew. Got your winning beer from taste test which I'll try in a minute.
Those brollies are notorious for either breaking after a week or going inside out at least 3 times a day. I'm luckky enough to live just up the road of Llancaeach Fawr Manor in South Wales, been around since tudor times i think and it's haunted. They've been doing ghost tours for as long as i can remember
It's AN English Heritage membership not A English Heritage membership. By the way it is considered bad luck to fully open an umbrella indoors. That's why we have umbrella stands for them to drain into unfurled.
I'm surprised you didn't mention National Trust membership too. If you have both you will be covered for most of the historical sites but speaking personally we found we had more places to go in Kent with NT rather than English Heritage.
I deal with SAD too, so I feel you! I agree with the umbrella too! I don’t have one, and I’ve got soaked so badly walking home from school everyday this week!! This was a really nice video! Hope you’re having a nice day!
@@AdventuresAndNaps It also has a little clip on the right of the windscreen for a parking ticket, and an ice scraper under the filler flap. It's nice little touches like that have made my last two car purchases the same make and model, a l,5 litre petrol Skoda Octavia.
Darker in winter yes. But I could not put up with winters in Canada. Alberta is like the Kalmyk steppe in Russia......snow still on the ground in May and a featureless desert otherwise. Calgary looks like the apocalypse.
As you were going through your list, it occurred to me that everyone arriving in the UK should get a "local". Judging from some of your past videos, I'm surprised you didn't have it as number one!
If you are thinking of English Heritage, think also about the National Trust. They are similar, but the property distributions vary, so check which will work better for you.
Loved that as always Alanna although now I'm starting to question if I'm actually English after all lol can't stand tea, don't drink cow juice , don't have a Railcard or heritage card , don't use an umbrella ever what's wrong with me lol mind you that umbrella of yours is genius 🙂 having a local though yes then 😃 enjoyed this very much ngl and until the next one have a fantastic weekend Alanna 🍻
Not being a foreigner, I don't know how useful my comments could be, but here goes anyway! 1) Agreed regarding tea, but for those who are more into coffee, it's worth taste testing that too. We Brits are into coffee more than we used to be (or so it seems to this increasingly ancient Briton!) so why not explore the options and find your favourite? 2) Agreed re. Vitamin D, and you should consider supplementing your Vitamin C and Zinc here as well. 3) This couldn't be a more timely recommendation, as it was announced recently that the government may be withdrawing (or at any rate reducing) its funding for English Heritage. They will need as much support as they can get from us, Brits and non-Brits alike! 4) There was a time, nearly a century ago, when the umbrella was the essential accessory of the businessman. According to Roald Dahl, businessmen carried umbrellas in all weather - it was how you could spot them, in the street or on public transport. You don't have to be a businessman (or even a man!) to carry one: the essential mentality, given British climate, is that it's better to have one and not need it than to be caught in a downfall and regret not having one. The tricky thing is when spring arrives, and you leave the house to discover a very warm sunny day but have had warnings from the Met Office that there may be scattered showers. You could find yourself agonising over the risk.... 5) Railcards are a must if you are eligible in any way - they're available for the Young Person, Family, Armed Forces or Pensioner, and as rail fares are hiked above and beyond wages every year, they help to make fares less eye-watering, though in many cases only just! 6) The local is indeed worth finding, if only for a touch of R&R without space or time to go on a holiday.
@@samuelhiscott2411 that's why I mentioned it, when I see on the weather map I feel sort of lucky but the local farmers certainly could do with more rain
I prefer a National Trust membership. It is the same as English Heritage but is more country houses and estates as well as coastal and countryside locations.
I never use the train as I am from the North (still waiting on that levelling up to provide ANY infastructure) but WOW I did not know there were so many different kinds of railcard. Sounds like a right fuck on to be honest.
Hard disagree on an umbrella. In theory, they're great, sure. The problem is - at least where I've lived - it's rare that you've got a day when it's both raining and not windy enough to turn the darn thing inside out.
I would never go to Stonehenge again. I visited it twice in the 1960s or 1970s, not sure when. At that time it cost nothing to park, and I think it was just pulling in at the roadside. Then you could walk up to it and stand between the stones, which gives you a sense of the mysticism of it. Now you have to view it from a distance from behind a fence. It's not the same experience and I can understand why a lot of foreign visitors find it disappointing. You have to get in the circle to feel the aura and majesty of those large monoliths.
The bit about the 'local' pub is definitely one for wealthier parts of the nation (eg the south-east). Speaking for myself as a Midlander, when I moved to my current address (turn of the century) I had a pub within three minutes walk and another within ten minutes walk. The closer one got burnt out one Boxing Day (it was a sh**hole, to be fair - the first time i entered, I got the same feeling as a gunslinger in a Western movie - the music stops, everybody stares at the new guy and you feel the crunch of sawdust under your boots as you walk to the bar) and the other was demolished to build a supermarket. The closest to me now is actually a chain restaurant - how 'american' is that, eh? (yes - I know Canada and the USA are different...). Pubs are a bit of luxury these days, is my point. The town I grew up in had at least 26 pubs in the '80s, but I don't know how many survive today. One other thing: tea. It may have been a British institution in previous generations, but I grew up drinking coffee (the only time I drank tea was when visiting elderly relatives). Yorkshire Tea is pretty decent, I agree - I even have a box of bags in my cupboard, but they might soon qualify to be a museum exhibit, so little tea do I drink.
As a lifelong UK resident, I can't agree with most of them, sorry. It's not *bad* advice, but it's definitely not need stuff. I don't have tea in, I don't use an umbrella (I have a coat instead), I don't use the train, and I don't go to a local pub. So if these things seem scary to you, don't think you actually need them :) The English Heritage is a good idea though.
Love your comment about 'finding your local'... I get oddly attached to pubs when I find one I like. And they don't have to be that 'local'... I go all over the UK for live music gigs and in every town I've been to on a regular or semi-regular occasion, no matter how far away they are, I've got my 'local' in that place that I'm drawn to... what can I say, I'm a creature of habit... ;o)
I've always been a "try everything twice" kinda guy. May have done it wrong the first time. Pubs are so expensive, nowadays. £5 a pint is taking the p155.
You forgot the bad joke book. Learn a few, entertain your new friends :). Who doesn't love a bad joke? Another great video, anything involving tea has got to be good.
Up here in Scotland we have a word for that dark, damp winter-iness you mention:- Driech (prounounced "dreech" with a Scottish "ch").
*Alanna:* "I *love Yorkshire".* Yay! You've got class young lady......👍
9:30 I've gotta admit I'm a touch disappointed that you didn't break into 'YMCA'
I always leave a comment bcoz you're one of only 3 youtubers i subcribe to that actually replies to comments! and for that I thank you lass!
That's so kind, thank you!!
Also for anyone visiting Vancouver, B.C an umbrella is a good idea, don't buy a tee shirt with Vancouver on it buy the umbrella with Vancouver on it.
The UK and Canada are on the same latitude so I doubt our winters are darker in terms of daylight hours, but in southern England we get almost no snow and snow makes a place a lot brighter.
Toronto is the same latitude as Marseille, France, making Toronto south of the French Riviera ☀️
@@AdventuresAndNaps I was thinking UK and Canada as an average more than a specific location, the variation in latitude is close enough to not make a vast difference. Sunset tonight in Toronto is 21 minutes after sunset in London.
I saw Hadrians Wall on your English Heritage feature. Its an amazing thing to see especially at Housteads Fort and Vindolanda. It is a long way up for you straddling as it does Cumbria and Northumberland but you could include it in a trip to the Lake District.
I'd love to!
@@AdventuresAndNaps if you go to Hadrian's wall you'll probably think whats happened to it as it did last for centuries, but what happened was people wanted barns , housing and other military uses etc and came up with the idea of why should you collect rocks and stones in fields when someone else has done it all ready plus as a bonus they have faced ( one or more flat surface edges done ) some already hence the small town / village called Wall along it .
Helpful Friday tips as usual from our favourite Canadian expat. Items 1 & 6 being the most important on list,. There is no problem or sad feeling that cannot be improved by a good cup of tea and with a trip to the local you are guaranteed to find someone to help brighten your day.
Thanks for watching!!
@@AdventuresAndNaps Sweetheart I love you a lot my dear. I am your boyfriend my dear.
Another great video .. what is your favourite English biscuits ? I saw the very funny beer video and the ones you did on crisps.
.Are you a jafa cake lady or into hob nobs ..plain or milk chocolate . ?
Sound advice Alanna, as always, but how you have managed to hold on to the same umbrella for all that time, without losing it, is truly a miracle ! 😀
No kidding! 😂
National Trust membership is more useful than English Heritage membership, at least in the Winter. This is because English Heritage houses normally have their roofs missing. All National Trust Properties have roofs. This is also why you found that you need an umbrella.
True! Although I find EH has more of the castle and big stuff
Hi Alanna. The only thing better than a nice mug of Yorkshire is a nice mug of Yorkshire and a packet of chocolate digestives-food of the Gods!
So true!
The winter is SE England is relatively mild compared to the Midwest US and Canada. Where they have extreme freezing temperatures and many feet of snow.
While England doesn't get the snow that I'm used to back in Ontario, it feels a lot colder here because of the damp - winters back home always felt dry/cold
In SE England we are fortunate to have such benign weather - whilst Canada can have extreme weather in winter.
The weather in the SW is even better, especially Cornwall
Your umbrella passion just adds to your cuteness.
Railcards - Is there a 'Old Grump who doesn't want to sit near noisy youngsters' version, didn't see it on your list?!
Thanks for your perspective Alanna!
Yep there is, some have a quiet carriage, if not you can go first class 😉
Just finishing N number of cuppas/brews already to compensate for the wonderful weather. Happy Fridays!
Thanks for watching!!
When I was younger I would feel so sad and sleepy during the winter months and I never knew why. It was only when the internet became more popular that I looked it up
An English Heritage membership can pay for itself in a couple of weeks if you are visiting lots of sites. Top tip.
Very true!
Excellent video as usual. Great ideas and tips. Cup of tea advice is very apt in this weather. If you want some ideas for more taste tests of British type stuff - 1) Chocolate Easter Eggs now it's nearly Easter. 2) Ditto Hot Cross buns - plenty of different makes you can buy. 3) Cornish Pasties - plenty of supermarket types to try and compare. A word of advice however - don't think you have to finish off all the buns, pasties etc at one session.
Awesome, thank you!
@@AdventuresAndNaps yesss I second that, you need to do a hot cross bun taste test!! I've seen some odd novelty ones advertised - chocolate and salted caramel 🤔 hm I could really do with your opinion on those before I can decide to try them 🤓😆
The Heritage sites membership sounds like a genius idea. How cool!!
It's so helpful!
Oh Dear me. I have been living in England for a while now and I seem to have my work cut out for me. I don't appear to have ever made it past "Find a Local Pub".
You're not wrong... British winters are grim... and they seem to last for eternity. The summers, though... nowhere is more beautiful than Britain in the summer. It's swings and roundabouts.
I believe that after a year's membership of English Heritage you get free access to CADW (Welsh Heritage) and Historic Scotland.
I have CADW membership which allows free access to all three. Saved me a fortune when visiting Edinburgh Castle.
That's awesome!
Yes it's a liberty, how much they charge to get in the castle. Locals won't pay it. I don't consider people from Commonwealth countries, 'foreigners.'
Must be really annoying though, if you're a fully paid up member of English Heritage, and then you discover that the attraction you want to visit is one of the (vastly more numerous) properties that are owned and/or controlled by The National Trust!
@@DaveBartlett Be a member of both. I am. NT takes care of the countryside and coastline, not just properties.
Hey Alanna!
Quick tip on English Heritage membership: go one better and get Cadw membership (Welsh Heritage) instead - it allows you free entry into Cadw & Manx National Heritage and 50% off entry into Historic Scotland and English Heritage sites (and free entry when you renew membership).
I can’t argue with any of the included items though obviously tea choice is most important with Yorkshire being the only winner. It just improves everything. Thank you for the video, I hope you have a great weekend and I look forward to tomorrow’s video.
Thanks so much!
Also a must is buying a T shirt without huge lettering on and ditching the baseball cap. You can blend in better that way.
Happy Friday, Alanna!
Same to you!
Tea is the best. My favourite is Twinnings, when its on offer. Otherwise Sainsbury's Gold Label
The SAD light is a good idea
Its pretty dark between mid December and early March, I hate January & February.
Good quality umbrellas are better, I find they just get in the way, I prefer a water resistant or waterproof coat and a hat, its a personal choice, easy when you have no hair to get wet. Or just go pop in the nearest pub!
Great advice, Alana.
You have such a positive attitude, it really cheers everyone up!
Cool video! The English Heritage thing is a good deal, I think I paid more than that to go to the naval museum in Portsmouth!
It really is!
Perspective is everything! I am 🇨🇦 but come from the other side of Canada where it rains far more than it does in Kent. I barely ever notice the rain here because it is nothing in comparison to the West Coast of Canada. Another suggestion is to discover France and Belgium by bus it is really cheep and there are day trips to Calais and Brugge. I did the English Heritage pass for years and it really paid off as a had a fully expensed company car and totally took the piss ( Canadian translation- took advantage in a bad way) driving all over the country at my company’s expense. 😁 Tea is important and I am a big fan but I have always been amazed at how many 🇬🇧 don’t like tea.
would be an interesting comparison for west coast Can to West coast uk, mizzle
Hi , Alanna, very interesting, as a non tea drinker who doesn't own an umbrella I thought it was good.
Brit living in Ontario give me English winters any time compared to Ontario winter(have not seen grass for 4months just white stuff and ice)
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Thanks for watching!
...as always --- you make me smile! Thanks Alanna, hope to see you in the UK soon!
Your love for the umbrella was so clearly and vividly communicated
"You need an umbrella" - or just a thick, waterproof winter jacket/rain jacket with a hood attached!
Yorkshire tea is my brew. Absolutely lovely cuppa. 🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦.
So good!
I buy national trust membership, similar thing but allows entry to thousands of places, including loads of English heritage sites.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Would recommend a National Trust membership too. Some great parks and historical houses you can get in to, all for free.
Great suggestion!
Some valuable advice there Alanna, and an Alanna vid on a Friday is perfect 👌
Glad you think so!
@@AdventuresAndNaps of course 😀👍👍
Ottawa in the winter feels like the coldest place on earth - SE England is mild in comparison.
Thanks for watching!!
English Heritage or National Trust, check their sites depending on where you live, some areas and regions have more of one than the other.
Alanna you are such an absolute ray of sunshine during these difficult times for many people. Keep up the good work, you are amazing!😊
Thank you so much!
"I love taste-testing new stuff". A masterpiece of understatement. English Heritage card is an excellent idea; I'm not sure if the National Trust does one too. A bit of research will reveal places of interest that are free admission. For example Avebury stone circle is adjacent to the village of Avebury and is not fenced off at all. Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed is also freely accessible. When it comes to tea, leaf tea is far far better than teabags. Yorkshire tea is available in leaf form. On the subject of #6, in the days before licensing laws were relaxed there was the lock-in, an occasion wheen regular customers would drink after hours. Good video as always.
Thanks for watching!!
Yes, the national trust does offer a similar membership scheme.
The annual cost for an individual membership is £76.80 (optionally £6.40 per month,) £38.40 or £10 depending on your age group, (26+, 18-25, or under 18 respectively.) under 5s are free.
As a couple (both 18+, living at the same address,) you can buy a 'joint membership' at £127.20 per year (optionally £10.60 per month;)
Family membership is also available which covers 1 or 2 adults plus their children and/or grandchildren aged under 18 for an annual cost of £83.40 (1 adult; optionally £6.95 per month) or £133.80 (2 adults; optionally £11.15 per month.)
There are also three Life Membership options:
Individual - £1845 (£1380 if you're 60 or over)
Joint - £2,305 (for 'life partners' - £1730 if one or both of you are 60 or over)
Family - £2,415 (for 'life partners' plus their children/grandchildren aged under 18.)
It's bad luck to open an umbrella indoors.
Experiences can be so different! Where I live in the Yukon, I have no sun at all for 2 months of the year. In the summer, 21 hours a day. My ex needed a SAD light, and she was a northern native! I've been fine without - must have been that being born in England that makes darkness "normal" for me. :)
I think Yukon is probably pretty extreme to the typical southern experience! Thanks for watching!
In the UK a SAD light is essential to get me through February.
Thanks Alanna. Hopefully if Covid's being managed well enough in summer someone might introduce you to the concept of the pub crawl. Might make an interesting Vlog 😄
Also a coffee drinker (Czech-American 4 years in the UK). I love fruit teas. I get much maligned for this, haha. My sad lamp spent this winter in a cupboard, but Vit D is MANDATORY. Were you paid for your English Heritage advert? I love my National Trust membership, for the same reasons. No brollys for me, I don't mind getting wet.
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I'll be honest, I almost forgot about this. Thankfully I didn't. 🙂 All fair and accurate points. Nice one Alanna.
I was wondering if you'd be interested in doing a video on US/CAN/UK things that TV and movies get wrong? I had this thought the other day and figured it could be a fun video for you. For instance, they typical US/Canadian disfunctional Thanksgiving, UK folks in TV crime dramas always having 'posh' accents, people never saying goodbye when they hang up the phone and so on. Up to you of course. 😀
#1 thing Hollywood always gets wrong about America, is guns. In the movies, you see guns *everywhere*, constantly. I've lived in the Midwest for 47 years (including three years in Barry County, MI, where more than half the population is enthusiastic about deer hunting), and while I know a number of people who own firearms, I've only once actually *seen* one in person, and it was an antique rifle that an old man found in an attic and wanted to identify to see if it had any value. In practice, day to day, the firearms are all put away in gun safes and whatever, so unless you participate in related activities, you never see them. The police have *access* to guns, but again, they keep them put away, so you don't generally see them. When I was in college (in northern Indiana), we used to joke that campus security was more intimidating than the local police, because campus security carried big heavy flashlights. (The police have the ability to become intimidating when the situation warrants it, of course. But day to day they prefer the "we're here to help lost children find their parents" public image. Unless they're pulling you over for speeding.)
On the umbrella thing, Alanna........you've probably heard it before, but how do you tell an English man in summer? He's the one in a T shirt, shorts, sandals, with a raincoat over his arm and an umbrella in his hand xx
Always good to have a hot drink after been caught in a sudden down pour. Or to run into a pub with a wood fire & a pint to warm up. Which reminds me need to visit the pub near my house more, its an easy walk. I find with sudden downpours in the time its taken to say "looks like it might rain" you're already soacked
So true!
I'll have a hot cuppa squash please lol...
These are some great points! Loved doing the English Heritage sites when I was younger. Now I've gotten old & hit my 30s, I've started doing National Trust places instead lol...
Used to love it when my local bar at uni knew my drink order, although, it probably means I spent too much time there! 🍺😬😂
😂 Cheers Gem!!
Is that squash as in cordial, the fruity drink you add water to, or squash as in the juice of the actual fruit? Just curious.
On a cold morning, a hot cup of blackberry juice is gorgeous but blackcurrant is a fine alternative.
Warm ribena! Not had that in donkeys years!
@@Elwaves2925 squash is cordial yes. like orange or ribena
@@hallefranklin2646 Cheers for confirming. I wasn't sure if you were from the UK or over there as they have different meaning. I've caused confusion with it myself when I asked for squash in New York and got strange looks. 🙂
a sense of humour is a must
Alanna - I’m considering expatriating to the UK. I love your perspective, and you are just darling. Thanks!
Thanks so much!!
What is your opinion on, Cottage pie, and mushy peas, how about a cheese and corned beef toastie, a jacket potato with cheese and baked beans, even a crisp sandwich. I would love to hear you take on some of out goto meals and snacks. I'm thinking also cheese on toast, a sausage and egg barn, a salad sandwich with salad cream, Gypsy (or French) toast, bangers and mash with onion gravy. Your video;s ar so much fun, I love them, keep them coming x
Yorkshire Tea is English Breakfast. It's a different blend of tea than the normal 'bog standard' teabags.
If your gong to Scotland 🏴, take a 20’ x 30” inch’s rectangle or enough wrap around your head 11/2 times. or a fine mech fabric, and take or get when over here a small Sellotape. *So take your baseball (this is easier if cap is on someone’s head. * Cut a load of sellotape and with the long edge held about one inch above the front of the cap and sellotape down.* gather and tape all the away around tape back edge from top to bottom
This will prevent the dreaded MIDGES, THEY CAN DRIVE A PERSON MAD. So with a can of Iron Bru in hand cutting about the country. You may need more tape to tape the ankles of your trousers and around wrists. Now all you need it a gallon of bug repellent and off toy go.🏴
Friendly algae comment :) And really amazed you did not lose that fantabulous umbrella your mom gave you. I lose nothing, but umbrellas are just to be ... left :o ^^
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@@AdventuresAndNaps Always :D
I really like your videos. I have been wanting to move to the UK for years and it's been hard finding a page that shows the realistic side of things as a foreigner moving there. Thank you for all the details and explanations.
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Yorkshire tea is (in my opinion) the best, I'm happy you like it Alanna (I do vaguely remember the video where you tested the different brands of tea). Small foldable umbrella's are very useful, better than the big bulky things
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Mens collapsible umbrella easily fits in a trousers map pocket and can be used for defence where as a full sized one is a blinking nuisance.
Your never over 26 ! 😉
Yorkshire Tea a great brew.
Got your winning beer from taste test which I'll try in a minute.
I can’t wait to visit the UK one day! Love this video! ❤️
Yay thank you!!
Well done for going for Yorkshire Tea. Take it one further though and go for Yorkshire Gold. Proper tea! No sugar. Drop of milk.
Those brollies are notorious for either breaking after a week or going inside out at least 3 times a day. I'm luckky enough to live just up the road of Llancaeach Fawr Manor in South Wales, been around since tudor times i think and it's haunted. They've been doing ghost tours for as long as i can remember
It's AN English Heritage membership not A English Heritage membership.
By the way it is considered bad luck to fully open an umbrella indoors. That's why we have umbrella stands for them to drain into unfurled.
I'm surprised you didn't mention National Trust membership too. If you have both you will be covered for most of the historical sites but speaking personally we found we had more places to go in Kent with NT rather than English Heritage.
That brolly would have blown out on me within a weeks use!
For visiting Canadians if they have a Canadian National Trust membership they will also be able to use it for English Heritage sites.
I deal with SAD too, so I feel you! I agree with the umbrella too! I don’t have one, and I’ve got soaked so badly walking home from school everyday this week!! This was a really nice video! Hope you’re having a nice day!
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My car came with a mini umbrella in a holder under the passenger seat. Very convenient.
Awesome!!
@@AdventuresAndNaps It also has a little clip on the right of the windscreen for a parking ticket, and an ice scraper under the filler flap. It's nice little touches like that have made my last two car purchases the same make and model, a l,5 litre petrol Skoda Octavia.
Great video as always Alanna.🙂
Thank you!!
Good info. UK Island weather isnt stable. More unstable in Scotland. Reading the weather in Scotland is an interesting art when walking!
Darker in winter yes. But I could not put up with winters in Canada. Alberta is like the Kalmyk steppe in Russia......snow still on the ground in May and a featureless desert otherwise. Calgary looks like the apocalypse.
As you were going through your list, it occurred to me that everyone arriving in the UK should get a "local". Judging from some of your past videos, I'm surprised you didn't have it as number one!
If you are thinking of English Heritage, think also about the National Trust.
They are similar, but the property distributions vary, so check which will work better for you.
Good suggestion!
Loved that as always Alanna although now I'm starting to question if I'm actually English after all lol can't stand tea, don't drink cow juice , don't have a Railcard or heritage card , don't use an umbrella ever what's wrong with me lol mind you that umbrella of yours is genius 🙂 having a local though yes then 😃 enjoyed this very much ngl and until the next one have a fantastic weekend Alanna 🍻
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No. You’re not English. ‘Englishness’ is a state of mind.
Taylors of Harrogate - BEST tea I've had!!
As for what I can purchase whenever I want here in south Texas it's got to be PG Tips.
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I really like the winter. I get sad when the days get longer & the sun is out for ages. I think I'm an outlier though.
Yorkshire tea was specially blended for soft water areas.
Not being a foreigner, I don't know how useful my comments could be, but here goes anyway!
1) Agreed regarding tea, but for those who are more into coffee, it's worth taste testing that too. We Brits are into coffee more than we used to be (or so it seems to this increasingly ancient Briton!) so why not explore the options and find your favourite?
2) Agreed re. Vitamin D, and you should consider supplementing your Vitamin C and Zinc here as well.
3) This couldn't be a more timely recommendation, as it was announced recently that the government may be withdrawing (or at any rate reducing) its funding for English Heritage. They will need as much support as they can get from us, Brits and non-Brits alike!
4) There was a time, nearly a century ago, when the umbrella was the essential accessory of the businessman. According to Roald Dahl, businessmen carried umbrellas in all weather - it was how you could spot them, in the street or on public transport. You don't have to be a businessman (or even a man!) to carry one: the essential mentality, given British climate, is that it's better to have one and not need it than to be caught in a downfall and regret not having one. The tricky thing is when spring arrives, and you leave the house to discover a very warm sunny day but have had warnings from the Met Office that there may be scattered showers. You could find yourself agonising over the risk....
5) Railcards are a must if you are eligible in any way - they're available for the Young Person, Family, Armed Forces or Pensioner, and as rail fares are hiked above and beyond wages every year, they help to make fares less eye-watering, though in many cases only just!
6) The local is indeed worth finding, if only for a touch of R&R without space or time to go on a holiday.
... and a sense of humour above all.
Wow you've really thought about umbrellas a lot.
I really have 😂
Thanks. Alana. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
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Only certain parts of the uk are wet, I live in Lowestoft Suffolk in East Anglia, and for years its been dryer here than parts of Africa
I grew up in the promised land aka Suffolk and people are surprised at the low rainfall.
@@geoffpoole483 yeah there's times where I pray for rain lol
Indeed I think east anglia is semi arid in some years with rainfall under 20 inches pretty remarkable given the stereotype about uk weather
@@samuelhiscott2411 that's why I mentioned it, when I see on the weather map I feel sort of lucky but the local farmers certainly could do with more rain
Winter in the UK is a bit grim, but SAD lights! OK, if you want. How have we survived....more tea.
I prefer a National Trust membership. It is the same as English Heritage but is more country houses and estates as well as coastal and countryside locations.
That's fair! I like the big monuments like castles and such.
Very informative video. By the way very nice tiny umbrella and its case, easy to carry and use.
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I love that plant on your right. Any tips ? Maybe a video?
I never use the train as I am from the North (still waiting on that levelling up to provide ANY infastructure) but WOW I did not know there were so many different kinds of railcard. Sounds like a right fuck on to be honest.
The National Trust may be a better bet than English Heritage for some. They have more stately homes and gardens
Hard disagree on an umbrella. In theory, they're great, sure. The problem is - at least where I've lived - it's rare that you've got a day when it's both raining and not windy enough to turn the darn thing inside out.
I would never go to Stonehenge again. I visited it twice in the 1960s or 1970s, not sure when. At that time it cost nothing to park, and I think it was just pulling in at the roadside. Then you could walk up to it and stand between the stones, which gives you a sense of the mysticism of it. Now you have to view it from a distance from behind a fence. It's not the same experience and I can understand why a lot of foreign visitors find it disappointing. You have to get in the circle to feel the aura and majesty of those large monoliths.
You are just as cute as a basket of speckled puppies! You always make me smile and enlighten my day.
Thanks Alanna for today's vid .Useful information. .👍👍
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The bit about the 'local' pub is definitely one for wealthier parts of the nation (eg the south-east). Speaking for myself as a Midlander, when I moved to my current address (turn of the century) I had a pub within three minutes walk and another within ten minutes walk. The closer one got burnt out one Boxing Day (it was a sh**hole, to be fair - the first time i entered, I got the same feeling as a gunslinger in a Western movie - the music stops, everybody stares at the new guy and you feel the crunch of sawdust under your boots as you walk to the bar) and the other was demolished to build a supermarket. The closest to me now is actually a chain restaurant - how 'american' is that, eh? (yes - I know Canada and the USA are different...). Pubs are a bit of luxury these days, is my point. The town I grew up in had at least 26 pubs in the '80s, but I don't know how many survive today.
One other thing: tea. It may have been a British institution in previous generations, but I grew up drinking coffee (the only time I drank tea was when visiting elderly relatives). Yorkshire Tea is pretty decent, I agree - I even have a box of bags in my cupboard, but they might soon qualify to be a museum exhibit, so little tea do I drink.
Another great video. It's the little things like those on your list which can make a big difference to everyday life. Keep it up.
Thanks! Will do!
As a lifelong UK resident, I can't agree with most of them, sorry. It's not *bad* advice, but it's definitely not need stuff. I don't have tea in, I don't use an umbrella (I have a coat instead), I don't use the train, and I don't go to a local pub. So if these things seem scary to you, don't think you actually need them :) The English Heritage is a good idea though.
Love your comment about 'finding your local'... I get oddly attached to pubs when I find one I like. And they don't have to be that 'local'... I go all over the UK for live music gigs and in every town I've been to on a regular or semi-regular occasion, no matter how far away they are, I've got my 'local' in that place that I'm drawn to... what can I say, I'm a creature of habit... ;o)
I've always been a "try everything twice" kinda guy. May have done it wrong the first time.
Pubs are so expensive, nowadays. £5 a pint is taking the p155.
I have to find a small umbrella like you have. I know your mother gave it to you 20 yrs ago. I will keep looking for a small one. Thanks!
I found your umbrella on Amazon after searching & searching.
You forgot the bad joke book. Learn a few, entertain your new friends :). Who doesn't love a bad joke? Another great video, anything involving tea has got to be good.
What goes up a chimney down but can't come down a chimney up?
The National Trust does the same thing as English Heritage!
True! But I find they do more houses and gardens and English Heritage does more castles and larger stuff - both good, though!