It’s interesting that you mention the rain in England. I always like to remind people that without the rain we wouldn’t have such a beautiful Green countryside, which is definitely worth the occasional downpour.
When I was in the US last, two women in front of me in a queue started to mock me, saying it only ever rained in England. I told them that's why it's green and lush, instead of being brown and dusty like there. They shut up. It actually rains more in New York or New Orleans than it does in the UK, and don't forget we are further north than the Canada/US border, only about 600 miles south of the Arctic circle- the fact that we get any warm dry days at all is amazing.
I think Seattle in north western USA gets its fair share of rain - or even more than that in winter. Here in the west of Scotland we get plenty of rain and almost never have hose pipe bans or any water supply worries. Trees and nature flourish too.
We lived for many years on a Greek island. As we were sitting in the garden one evening, this American tourist was walking past, saying "There's so much water"....." Yes, lady" said my husband, "this is a small island and we're surrounded by it!" They're a little thick I think, even the ones with money who can leave! They have a huge country and I often feel the need to send them bricks for that wall so we're all safe!
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now! Robert Browning (1812-1889)
I'm Canadian but most of my ancestry is English. Rural areas and small villages in England feel like "home," even though I have yet to visit the motherland.
As a groundsman i worked on 2.7 acres of land mostly trees and grass and when cutting the grass in one area the wild foxes would lay in the long grass in the middle which was left wild and raise their head as i went by with my lawn mower then just go back to sleep perhaps because over 12 years they were sure i was not a danger to them. One friendly fox in particular would run up and down the newly cut grass as if were a race track.
I flew from a little fishing village Devon to Vancouver, my first time abroad. Thr next day, riddled with jetlag, I was wide awake at dawn so watched the sun come up in Stanley Park. I saw a small, low sign shaped like an arrow that read "This way to the Heritage Building." I thought it would be interesting so started following the signs. I kept going until suddenly the signs started pointing in the direction I'd just walked. Do thinking I'd missed one O backtracked. Suddenly, the same thing happened! I saw a couple of Mounties on mountain bikes and waved. They came over & I said "Hi, I think your "Heritage Building" signs have are wrong, I think someone has turned some around as a joke sending you back the wrong way. If you follow them, you get to that green, town council, gardener's shed and on the other side of that, they all point back the way you've come. I thought you might be able to tell the gardeners there when you see them at their shed." Now, I thought I was helping out. I was waiting for a "Thank you sir, we will." or something akin to that. But instead they both looked extremely angry and looked at each other. One of them did a slight head shake meanings"No, don't." at a guess. The guy who had been told "No..." hissed at me through clenched teeth, obviously very, very upset, "That green "shed" as you call it IS our heritage building!" They both left quickly, tge shed looked like 1940's vintage, 50's even. It looked EXACTLY like our council gardener's sheds. I realised I'd have to adjust what the locals thought eas old. The house I was living in was early Victorian & there were few buildings in Brixham less than a couple of hundred years old in the town centre. I honestly didn't nean to upset them but by their faces I think I escaped lightly! 😆 I mean, we're still annoyed with the French about William the Bastard invading in 1066!
I particularly love her and her gentle way of speaking. Such a wholesome, lovely couple. Love their videos and their appreciation of everything they see and experience.
The British Isles are all wet because of the Gulf Stream I'd rather be damp then red hot in the summer and frozen solid in the winter and on behalf of the rest of the Isles I'd like to thank our cousins in the Emerald Isle for collecting more than it's fair share of the damp stuff :)
I'm English and I think Ireland is beautiful, I worked in Waterford on the Guinness plant and I loved every minute of my time there, such friendly people despite of our (Oliver Cromwell) history, be happy, safe and healthy ✌️
Yes, these two kind people are wonderful to watch. Viewing the places they go to around the country is a good way to relax, recharge our batteries and realise we have a lot to be thankful for. Thanks Connor for giving us the opportunity to do that.
To answer your questions: - Orangeries were originally for growing exotic fruit as they are basically greenhouses so trap the heat. These days they can be used either for growing plants or as like a conservatory attached to a house. I used to work for a home insurer and we described an orangery as being a more permanent structure than either a greenhouse or conservatory- I can't remember the exact specs but it was basically if the bottom so many feet were built of brick (maybe 2-3ft), then it was classed as an orangery rather than a conservatory (in terms of insurance at least). - Most places you can visit like this you can just turn up during opening hours although a few are by pre-arranged visit only. BUT it's always better to at least check their website first, as during peak season all such places can get overcrowded. Also while a lot of places you can wander around as you please, some added extras like guided tours may need to be booked ahead of time. - With meat vs food names. Most of the words in English use the Anglo-Saxon word for the animal eg cow, pig, sheep. We then use the Norman-French word for the meat eg beef, pork, mutton. Basically it's because the Anglo-Saxons were the poor farmers, and the rich Norman invaders were the ones eating the food! So us in the UK being invaded 1000yrs ago has affected the language you speak today on the other side of the world 🙂
I'm not a meteorologist but I'd be interested to know what the distribution of that rainfall is. Here in the UK we seem to be masters of the light drizzle, whereas other places around the globe dump all their water in a short period. So, even though the average rainfall can be higher in some places, the ratio of nice days to crappy ones can be far more favourable.
@@JamesLMason The USA is a bit odd in that the south-west states (mainly California) gets the most sunshine and counterintuitively not wholly congruent with latitude. So the UK's weather is more like the American north-eastern states, while the latitude is about the same as Canada, thanks to the Gulf Stream. That makes for wetter but milder weather, year round. It makes for nice green grass in the Emerald Isle, Wales and England (sorry Scotland, you're too north but have your own beauty!) compared to the brown scrub of California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. If you look at any map of the globe, you'll see what I mean.
@@McJibbin I know, it freaked me out too but I can confirm there are no indigenous Eskimos in the UK (if you don't count the Scots on a Friday night); they're impervious to cold.
I live very close to Rutland, I'm just across the Border in Lincolnshire about a fifteen minute drive from Rutland, the part of Lincolnshire I'm from South West Lincolnshire is pretty much the same as the area shown, rolling green hills, narrow roads and pretty villages. In general we have a drier climate in Eastern England so much less rain than the West and Northern parts of the UK.
You tend to have what we know as"streaky bacon" in the UK. Over here "Streaky" is usually one of the cheapest cuts but even then, yours is normally sliced far thinner than ours? The usual bacon here is "Back bacon", cut thicker and wider with more meat and far less fat. Much less fluid injected in it too.
Every time someone says something like, imagine riding in a carriage in a beautiful dress, I'm thinking, nope, I'd probably be the poor maid emptying your chamber pot and scrubbing your floors! 🤣🤣
Haha! I remember going into a grand stately home (think Downton Abbey but at least twice the size) with a friend of mine who waxed lyrical about how lovely it would be to live there, take tea in the music room, eat dinner under the grand chandeliers, etc. She was still extolling the virtues of such a life when we got to the huge kitchen, lined with more polished copper kettles, pots, and pans than I'd ever seen in my life... It was at that point that she turned to me and asked if I agreed. I replied that when my mother was thirteen she'd left school to become a scullery maid in a house like that, so, er, no, I didn't agree!
@@carolineb3527😊 lol... How silly can one be to be so easily offended by a mere word! "Scrubber" is descriptive, time spent upon one's knees cleaning ...and surely clean floors are preferred to dirty ones?! As for the other occupation whereby monies are earned via laying in one's back - that's not a "scrubber", that's either a "tart" (as a pastry lieing on a plate) or a "prossie" (short for a "prostitute" - which is considered by many to be the first and oldest profession, and only distinguished from "wifely duties" by the wearing of 'usually' a gold band and the signing of a paper contract!!) ...😊 English...don't you just love our language? It's as beautiful as our luscious "green & pleasant land"❤
This couple give a beautiful vibe to the videos of the places they visit. They refrain from the whistle stop approach - even though they admit their list of 'must see's' is longer than 'can do's'. They dare to linger that extra second or two and it makes a difference to this viewer.
I love how much you love Britain. As a British person I would like to say that if you ever moved here you would be more than welcome as far as I am concerned.
I love all your videos Connor mate. I learn with your history videos, I laugh with your comedy videos but my fav videos you react to are these UK city/town/village tours. It just makes me feel so peaceful. 🩵 x
English words for livestock (cow, sheep) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton) are French-based because in the Middle Ages the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek But French is more specific and thus a better thing to say. It was of course Norman French which differed from Parisian French and the standard French of today. Might have had some Germanic influence itself I would assume, since the Normans were to some extent descended from Vikings.
Rainfall: there is a big difference between the west and the east of the country. The west of Scotland, Glasgow, Manchester, get much more rain than London, which has traditionally depended on artesian wells and the Thames.
Rutland is beautiful, it’s similar to the Cotswolds but smaller and less busy. When we visit we always take our bikes, we’ve cycled around Rutland Water a couple of times, it’s around a twenty mile circuit and very popular. You’ve made me want to go back.
Rutland borders my own home county of Lincolnshire and although Lincolnshire is much larger, it is very similar on that it's mostly made up rolling green countryside, farmland, small villages etc. I've lived in villages like these almost all my life. I've never ever lived in a city. It might look lovely and peaceful in the summer sun but trust me, it takes a certain hardy person, a certain character to live a small, isolated English village in winter. Many of the houses in the villages around where I've lived most of my life have no mains gas, they run their heating off heating oil, they've poor internet and mobile phone connections, theres frequent and prolonged power cuts in winter, the roads are often cut off for days and you can't get out of the village to even get to the supermarket. In the villages themselves around my area there's often nothing more than a post box, maybe a phone box and a small parish church. Growing up the nearest supermarket was a 9 mile drive of country backroads, school was a ten mile journey each direction and though there was a couple of small corner type shops in the village i lived in, they didn't sell much beyond some sweets and newspapers. Theres very few buses, no trains, a car is essential, theres no nightclubs, wine bars, restraunts, clothes shops etc. These are all things you give up to live in the countryside with it's peace and quiet, lower population, lower crime, nice landscapes etc.
I lived in Empingham in Rutland for many years - we only moved out last year and about 6 miles away, to Stamford because we are getting old and downsized. We had a bus every hour that went from Peterborough to Oakham. I don't drive, but managed okay without a car.
I love your reactions. This was just what I needed tonight. When I watch your videos there are so many points when I want to press ‘like’ it’s ridiculous lol Please, keep doing what you do, you’re great
@@stuarthumphrey1787 Oh there’s so much more now, they’re just starting to open the 1950’s town. In case you didn’t know, once you buy a ticket, it gives you entry for 12 months. Don’t know how far away you are, obviously , but it’s great value, too much to see in one day but you can go back as often as you like. Sorry, rambling, I’m very proud of it
Long ago some chap asked a roller salesman how many horses does the car have ,?the salesman replied ,"sufficient sir" you could say the same as regards rain
Naming all the flowers so friendly Shouting at the shrubs so thick Lo behold Lobelia one bite and the Bishop was sick. How nice to be in England Now that Englands here I stand upright in my wheelbarrow and pretend I'm Boudica
We call beef beef because the French brought it into England as "boeuf" after the Norman invasion of 1066. Before then, in English we used to just call it cū, or cow.
The reason we call the meat of the cow "beef", the meat of the pig "pork" and the meat of sheep "mutton" is because after the Norman conquest, the foods took on the French names used by those in charge, the French conquerors, while the actual animals reared by the English peasants kept their English names. As for duck (French, canard) I don't know, but the French word for pigeon is "pigeon/pigeonne" (male/female)! "Poulet" is French for chicken hence the English word "pullet" and the general word for eating birds "poultry".
The Cotswolds are only part of a great band of Early Jurassic rock crossing England southwest to northeast, from Lyme Regis to Whitby, much of it limestone. This is why Northamptonshire and Rutland are somewhat similar to the Cotswolds. Simon Jenkins - a former editor of The Times newspaper - has produced two very useful books, 'A 1000 Best Churches', and another one called something like 'A Thousand Best Historic Houses'. They are very useful guides to seeing beautiful buildings. In an English village you must always visit the Parish Church, which is usually open, free, and very historic. ( Tombs can often predate 1500.) (It is often polite to make a donation.) Some historic houses are still owned by the original families; they have to allow visitors - at least sometimes - if only to pay the upkeep costs. So there will be a charge to go in, but it is often well worth it. However, many historic houses are now run by one of two organisations, the National Trust, a charity, and English Heritage ( that is in England), which is part of government. Both charge for visits, but run the historic houses well and informatively; becoming a member of either organisation can definitely be worth it if you are visiting several houses, since you then get a discount. Those yew trees were youngsters. There are yew trees in the UK dating back I think about 3,000 years or more! Now, they were useful for making longbows, but a word of warning. All parts of the tree are poisonous, to both humans and livestock.
An orangery is similar to a conservatory (which is a glass house/room attached to a domestic building, I think a conservatory is just called a sun room in the US) but instead of a glass roof it has a solid opaque one. They were built originally in the UK on grand houses to grow orange and lemon trees especially, but the roof protected the plants from the effects of direct sunshine. Nowadays of course oranges etc are simply imported in quantity but when the orangeries were built they were exotic fruits. By the way, it really doesn't rain all that much in most of the country, for example London has, on average, half the annual rainfall of New York, most of the rain falls in the extreme West of the country which is exposed to the Atlantic weather systems. The buildings in that part of Northamptonshire and Rutland is another outcrop of the same limestone that the Cotswold villages are built from.
As shown in the video, the sometimes typical very dry, sunny & humid England summer conditions which can happen any time of year in England. Alien conditions for over up there in the US! 🤣😂🤣😂
I also love these two. I live in Wales 🏴 and am surrounded by glorious sights from every angle, but watching these two is calming and therapeutic. Glad you found them 😊
That's why I love watching British shows like Barnaby (Murder Mystery) or Father Brown. Their scenery compensates for the often gruesome deaths happening 😂
I recall watching a movie in the 70's but cannot remember the title. One scene was of an American who was invited to spend the week at an English country stately home. On the first afternoon the lord and his guest are taking tea on the terrace and the conversation went something like this. American. You have beautiful lawn my lord, smooth as a snooker table and the richest green I have ever seen. how can I make my modest lawn back home look like this ? Lord. It is quite easy just mow and roll the grass every week and weed it when needed also during a dry spell give it a good watering. American. And how long will I have to do that to achieve one as good as yours. Lord. About 200 years
Connor has great observation skills. He picks up lots of little details. He may have been a cow in his past life because he loves grass. I still think he would make a great hobbit, ha, ha.
SW ENGLAND (SUB TROPICAL) is orangery OUTDOOR CLIMATE. For non sub tropical WINTER climates an orangery or orangerie is a room or dedicated building, historically where orange and other fruit trees are protected during WINTER.
I'm shocked you would replace a beautiful and traditional cottage garden with a sterile lawn. Most people nowadays try to garden sustainably, and flowers, shrubs and vegetables provide a habitat for birds, bees, and wildlife. Lawns also require a lot of water and labour. Just look at the beauty of a wildflower meadow compared to a bare lawn.
The south west of ENGLAND is the sub tropical part of the country, where sub tropical plants are common. If it's betwwen late spring through summer / early autumn / fall, then BAKED DRY CONDITIONS & DROUGHTS are common in the southern & eastern parts of the country which is a borderline SEMI-ARID CLIMATE in that part of the world (ENGLAND). * Florida US / Midwest US / North US / East US: USA = RAIN.
In Heysham which is just outside Morecambe their are Viking open stone graves which had rainwater in them though when first used would have had covers over them with stunning views out to sea.
😅 ...except, one imagines, in Glasgow, where (according to *Nick Abbot* - LBC,) "It rains in Glasgow: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and for the rest of your life, oh well, it's only weather!!"🏴😊😅😂❤
Orangery is a term used for very large building, made mainly of glass and stone that were used by the super rich to have very rare tropical plants (and maybe oranges) grow.
Rutland borders Leicestershire to the north and west, Lincolnshire to the north-east, and Northamptonshire to the south-west. Love old cemeteries and finding the oldest grave stones !
Really enjoyed this vid! I’m with you on the therapeutic aspect. Re the ‘cow’ vs ‘beef’ thing, I believe the distinction goes back to the Norman invasion, when the (olde) English language absorbed many French words, one of them being ‘boeuf’ when referring to the meat in dishes made from cow, which evolved to be spelt and pronounced ‘beef’. It’s also why we have 2 words for many things, e.g. warranty and guarantee - one has its roots in old English and the other in French. I find historical linguistics really fascinating! 😍
Rutland is a separate county in the middle of Leicestershire, where I live in a similar village. In English, we get the names of farm animals from Anglo-Saxon which is a Germanic language, but the name of the meats come from Latin/French which are romantic languages. You would love our village, and it has a wood framed, white walled thatched cottage you would love. Yew trees were very common in England especially, they were used to provide the best wood for making the English Longbow, a favoured weapon in war during the medieval period hen fast volleys of deadly heavy arrows were fired into the enemies ranks.
Rutland is a beautiful county next to Leicestershire which also has many beautiful villages, the house next door to our previous home was a timber framed house with a thatched roof built in 1669.
You generally have to buy tickets to tour great houses like that, it helps with the upkeep of the properties. I do think they used to grow orange trees in buildings like that, in the Netflix series Queen charlotte there are a few scenes where she goes into part of their home that has orange trees growing in it. I grew up in Canada but my parents are Scottish and my favourite thing about going back to visit family there is when you would be coming in for a landing I would look out the plane window and everything was so green and lush which is because of all the rain, i was born in southern Ontario which got a lot of rain when I was a kid and I live with in western Canada now which gets hardly any rain so miss the days when it would rain all day plus we get massive Forrest. Fires every year now.
Finally! An American reacting to a video about English villages and not a single mention of 'Herry Padderrr'! There's far more to the UK, life and literature than Harry cunting Potter.
We visit this area every year. It's just over an hour from home. We have stayed at the Barnsdale Hotel but mostly stay in local pubs. A beautiful area and the main town, Stamford is ancient and fantastic and contains England's finest Elizabethan Manor, Burghley House. Oh, and I have stayed at Castle Ashby. The last time was when we saw Elton John there on his solo piano tour.
Oh dear Connor, do you still believe those stupid stereotypes? Where I live near Cambridge in England which is close to the first place they visited on this film. Our annual rainfall is around half of that of Providence, RI
I used to live right next door to the falcon in fotheringhay 25 years ago where mary queen of scotts was executes. They used to do buffet sunday lunch very nice in summer gardens. I loved living there😊
I was born at home which black and white at the top but sand stone at the bottom floor, not thatched. It's now a farm museum. My school was refounded in 1282 when England finally invaded North Wales.
Connor, my house was built in 1186 and King Charles 1 stayed the night during the English Civil War. My walled garden is 16th century and the little well is from the 13th century. I live next to a Saxon burial mound and the crypt in our local cathedral goes back to the 6th century. Near by is the remains of a Roman wall, i often sit on it when I have a cup of tea! I would hate to live in a modern property. History is part of my landscape. You should travel more, you seem to be permanently stuck in your bedroom with self inflicted eye, neck and back ache. Get out and travel more, you should take Rick Steves advice and keep on travelling. You have yet to start!
It’s interesting that you mention the rain in England. I always like to remind people that without the rain we wouldn’t have such a beautiful Green countryside, which is definitely worth the occasional downpour.
I love a downpour! It refreshes and cleanses everything. I love being at home with a cuppa, listening to the rain. Give me rain over heat any day.
No showers means no flowers!
Unless those downpours are relentless.. It’s July ‘24 and the weather is abysmal.. Cold, wet, windy.. 👎🏼
When I was in the US last, two women in front of me in a queue started to mock me, saying it only ever rained in England. I told them that's why it's green and lush, instead of being brown and dusty like there. They shut up.
It actually rains more in New York or New Orleans than it does in the UK, and don't forget we are further north than the Canada/US border, only about 600 miles south of the Arctic circle- the fact that we get any warm dry days at all is amazing.
I think Seattle in north western USA gets its fair share of rain - or even more than that in winter. Here in the west of Scotland we get plenty of rain and almost never have hose pipe bans or any water supply worries. Trees and nature flourish too.
We lived for many years on a Greek island. As we were sitting in the garden one evening, this American tourist was walking past, saying "There's so much water"....." Yes, lady" said my husband, "this is a small island and we're surrounded by it!" They're a little thick I think, even the ones with money who can leave! They have a huge country and I often feel the need to send them bricks for that wall so we're all safe!
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England - now!
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
I'm Canadian but most of my ancestry is English. Rural areas and small villages in England feel like "home," even though I have yet to visit the motherland.
Follow your heart , come home.
@agentm83
All roads lead to home.
As a groundsman i worked on 2.7 acres of land mostly trees and grass and when cutting the grass in one area the wild foxes would lay in the long grass in the middle which was left wild and raise their head as i went by with my lawn mower then just go back to sleep perhaps because over 12 years they were sure i was not a danger to them. One friendly fox in particular would run up and down the newly cut grass as if were a race track.
That sounds beautiful ,only in these islands that’s why they are precious
So proud to be English ❤
Why??
Same here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I can imagine Connor skipping across the grass on a summers evening 😁
I flew from a little fishing village Devon to Vancouver, my first time abroad. Thr next day, riddled with jetlag, I was wide awake at dawn so watched the sun come up in Stanley Park.
I saw a small, low sign shaped like an arrow that read "This way to the Heritage Building."
I thought it would be interesting so started following the signs.
I kept going until suddenly the signs started pointing in the direction I'd just walked. Do thinking I'd missed one O backtracked.
Suddenly, the same thing happened!
I saw a couple of Mounties on mountain bikes and waved. They came over & I said "Hi, I think your "Heritage Building" signs have are wrong, I think someone has turned some around as a joke sending you back the wrong way. If you follow them, you get to that green, town council, gardener's shed and on the other side of that, they all point back the way you've come. I thought you might be able to tell the gardeners there when you see them at their shed."
Now, I thought I was helping out. I was waiting for a "Thank you sir, we will." or something akin to that. But instead they both looked extremely angry and looked at each other. One of them did a slight head shake meanings"No, don't." at a guess.
The guy who had been told "No..." hissed at me through clenched teeth, obviously very, very upset, "That green "shed" as you call it IS our heritage building!"
They both left quickly, tge shed looked like 1940's vintage, 50's even. It looked EXACTLY like our council gardener's sheds.
I realised I'd have to adjust what the locals thought eas old. The house I was living in was early Victorian & there were few buildings in Brixham less than a couple of hundred years old in the town centre.
I honestly didn't nean to upset them but by their faces I think I escaped lightly! 😆
I mean, we're still annoyed with the French about William the Bastard invading in 1066!
I particularly love her and her gentle way of speaking. Such a wholesome, lovely couple. Love their videos and their appreciation of everything they see and experience.
Rain, mate. Ireland is even wetter and it's no coincidence that it's called the 'Emerald Isle'. We have to have a small benefit to all the wet stuff.
The British Isles are all wet because of the Gulf Stream I'd rather be damp then red hot in the summer and frozen solid in the winter and on behalf of the rest of the Isles I'd like to thank our cousins in the Emerald Isle for collecting more than it's fair share of the damp stuff :)
I'm English and I think Ireland is beautiful, I worked in Waterford on the Guinness plant and I loved every minute of my time there, such friendly people despite of our (Oliver Cromwell) history, be happy, safe and healthy ✌️
Yes, these two kind people are wonderful to watch. Viewing the places they go to around the country is a good way to relax, recharge our batteries and realise we have a lot to be thankful for. Thanks Connor for giving us the opportunity to do that.
To answer your questions:
- Orangeries were originally for growing exotic fruit as they are basically greenhouses so trap the heat. These days they can be used either for growing plants or as like a conservatory attached to a house. I used to work for a home insurer and we described an orangery as being a more permanent structure than either a greenhouse or conservatory- I can't remember the exact specs but it was basically if the bottom so many feet were built of brick (maybe 2-3ft), then it was classed as an orangery rather than a conservatory (in terms of insurance at least).
- Most places you can visit like this you can just turn up during opening hours although a few are by pre-arranged visit only. BUT it's always better to at least check their website first, as during peak season all such places can get overcrowded. Also while a lot of places you can wander around as you please, some added extras like guided tours may need to be booked ahead of time.
- With meat vs food names. Most of the words in English use the Anglo-Saxon word for the animal eg cow, pig, sheep. We then use the Norman-French word for the meat eg beef, pork, mutton. Basically it's because the Anglo-Saxons were the poor farmers, and the rich Norman invaders were the ones eating the food! So us in the UK being invaded 1000yrs ago has affected the language you speak today on the other side of the world 🙂
I've only just discovered this lovely couple are German and I've watched several of their videos...they remind me just how beautiful my Country is.
I thought she is British and he is German.
@@carlstewart8787she has an accent too. She's very fluent though. I thought she sounded more Dutch tho?
Connor:
average annual rainfall Rhode Island: 49.8 inches
average annual rainfall England: 45.3 inches.
I'm not a meteorologist but I'd be interested to know what the distribution of that rainfall is. Here in the UK we seem to be masters of the light drizzle, whereas other places around the globe dump all their water in a short period. So, even though the average rainfall can be higher in some places, the ratio of nice days to crappy ones can be far more favourable.
@@JamesLMason The USA is a bit odd in that the south-west states (mainly California) gets the most sunshine and counterintuitively not wholly congruent with latitude. So the UK's weather is more like the American north-eastern states, while the latitude is about the same as Canada, thanks to the Gulf Stream. That makes for wetter but milder weather, year round. It makes for nice green grass in the Emerald Isle, Wales and England (sorry Scotland, you're too north but have your own beauty!) compared to the brown scrub of California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. If you look at any map of the globe, you'll see what I mean.
that can't be!
Wait you're right.. 😅
@@McJibbin I know, it freaked me out too but I can confirm there are no indigenous Eskimos in the UK (if you don't count the Scots on a Friday night); they're impervious to cold.
The videos are beautifully filmed, however I find that woman annoying, she's so odd and talks like she's in a Walt Disney movie...UGH!!!
I live very close to Rutland, I'm just across the Border in Lincolnshire about a fifteen minute drive from Rutland, the part of Lincolnshire I'm from South West Lincolnshire is pretty much the same as the area shown, rolling green hills, narrow roads and pretty villages. In general we have a drier climate in Eastern England so much less rain than the West and Northern parts of the UK.
You tend to have what we know as"streaky bacon" in the UK. Over here "Streaky" is usually one of the cheapest cuts but even then, yours is normally sliced far thinner than ours? The usual bacon here is "Back bacon", cut thicker and wider with more meat and far less fat. Much less fluid injected in it too.
...and 0 ractopamine hydrochloride.
These villages are far from rare all over the U.K.
Minutes in a car at the weekend. Yippee 😊
Every time someone says something like, imagine riding in a carriage in a beautiful dress, I'm thinking, nope, I'd probably be the poor maid emptying your chamber pot and scrubbing your floors! 🤣🤣
Haha! I remember going into a grand stately home (think Downton Abbey but at least twice the size) with a friend of mine who waxed lyrical about how lovely it would be to live there, take tea in the music room, eat dinner under the grand chandeliers, etc. She was still extolling the virtues of such a life when we got to the huge kitchen, lined with more polished copper kettles, pots, and pans than I'd ever seen in my life... It was at that point that she turned to me and asked if I agreed. I replied that when my mother was thirteen she'd left school to become a scullery maid in a house like that, so, er, no, I didn't agree!
@@brianbrotherston5940You'd better not be talking about my mother, that's an extraordinarily rude word in British English and is extremely offensive.
@@carolineb3527😊 lol... How silly can one be to be so easily offended by a mere word! "Scrubber" is descriptive, time spent upon one's knees cleaning
...and surely clean floors are preferred to dirty ones?! As for the other occupation whereby monies are earned via laying in one's back - that's not a "scrubber", that's either a "tart" (as a pastry lieing on a plate) or a "prossie" (short for a "prostitute" - which is considered by many to be the first and oldest profession, and only distinguished from "wifely duties" by the wearing of 'usually' a gold band and the signing of a paper contract!!) ...😊 English...don't you just love our language? It's as beautiful as our luscious "green & pleasant land"❤
This couple give a beautiful vibe to the videos of the places they visit. They refrain from the whistle stop approach - even though they admit their list of 'must see's' is longer than 'can do's'. They dare to linger that extra second or two and it makes a difference to this viewer.
I love how much you love Britain. As a British person I would like to say that if you ever moved here you would be more than welcome as far as I am concerned.
I love all your videos Connor mate. I learn with your history videos, I laugh with your comedy videos but my fav videos you react to are these UK city/town/village tours. It just makes me feel so peaceful. 🩵 x
That greenery is caused by the rain, which is why we love it. My Gran used to say the rain was making flowers for her.
The rain keeps the grass very green though 🤣
the house with the windows covered at time stamp 26.26, had just been sand blasted that's why the stonework looked new.
English words for livestock (cow, sheep) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton) are French-based because in the Middle Ages the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats
Dead good walks' channel show some amazing and old cemeteries from around the UK and Europe.
You should say romance or latin based if you are going to say french based, old french based.
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek But French is more specific and thus a better thing to say.
It was of course Norman French which differed from Parisian French and the standard French of today. Might have had some Germanic influence itself I would assume, since the Normans were to some extent descended from Vikings.
@@PiousMoltar then say old english or ænglisc. If you say germanic then say romance.
RobWords has a video that explains this.
Aww I'm so glad you found Kirsten and Joerg, they're a wonderful couple & their videos are so well done
It rains more in New York than London.
Rainfall: there is a big difference between the west and the east of the country. The west of Scotland, Glasgow, Manchester, get much more rain than London, which has traditionally depended on artesian wells and the Thames.
There's nowhere better than an English village in the summer 🏴
I live in the driest part in the whole of England too, so it's even nicer 😁
Which is the driest part please?
Rutland is beautiful, it’s similar to the Cotswolds but smaller and less busy. When we visit we always take our bikes, we’ve cycled around Rutland Water a couple of times, it’s around a twenty mile circuit and very popular. You’ve made me want to go back.
I wondered how long it would take before you commented on a lawn. Less than 2 minutes, not bad :)
His face lights up 😁
Rutland borders my own home county of Lincolnshire and although Lincolnshire is much larger, it is very similar on that it's mostly made up rolling green countryside, farmland, small villages etc.
I've lived in villages like these almost all my life. I've never ever lived in a city.
It might look lovely and peaceful in the summer sun but trust me, it takes a certain hardy person, a certain character to live a small, isolated English village in winter.
Many of the houses in the villages around where I've lived most of my life have no mains gas, they run their heating off heating oil, they've poor internet and mobile phone connections, theres frequent and prolonged power cuts in winter, the roads are often cut off for days and you can't get out of the village to even get to the supermarket.
In the villages themselves around my area there's often nothing more than a post box, maybe a phone box and a small parish church. Growing up the nearest supermarket was a 9 mile drive of country backroads, school was a ten mile journey each direction and though there was a couple of small corner type shops in the village i lived in, they didn't sell much beyond some sweets and newspapers.
Theres very few buses, no trains, a car is essential, theres no nightclubs, wine bars, restraunts, clothes shops etc. These are all things you give up to live in the countryside with it's peace and quiet, lower population, lower crime, nice landscapes etc.
I lived in Empingham in Rutland for many years - we only moved out last year and about 6 miles away, to Stamford because we are getting old and downsized.
We had a bus every hour that went from Peterborough to Oakham. I don't drive, but managed okay without a car.
They did a great video of the Beamish living museum. I think you'd really enjoy it too as it's very historical
I went there years ago with my family, it's great! Honestly there was too much to see, we definitely didn't get to see everything haha
I was going to suggest that too. I think he’d love it, but I am biased as I live less than 5 miles from there lol.
I love your reactions. This was just what I needed tonight. When I watch your videos there are so many points when I want to press ‘like’ it’s ridiculous lol
Please, keep doing what you do, you’re great
@@karengray662 I'd love to go back as I'm sure it's changed since the 80s or 90s. Spent the whole day there
@@stuarthumphrey1787 Oh there’s so much more now, they’re just starting to open the 1950’s town. In case you didn’t know, once you buy a ticket, it gives you entry for 12 months. Don’t know how far away you are, obviously , but it’s great value, too much to see in one day but you can go back as often as you like. Sorry, rambling, I’m very proud of it
Connor our rain produces your fetishism with very green grass! Rutland is a county near Leicester. Millionaire land!
Just googled annual rainfall:-
Rhode Island = 42 to 46 inch
England = 45
So the same.
Long ago some chap asked a roller salesman how many horses does the car have ,?the salesman replied ,"sufficient sir"
you could say the same as regards rain
Naming all the flowers so friendly
Shouting at the shrubs so thick
Lo behold Lobelia one bite and the Bishop was sick.
How nice to be in England
Now that Englands here
I stand upright in my wheelbarrow and pretend I'm Boudica
RIP Viv Stanshall. Let's hope they don't visit Rawlinson End.😅
We call beef beef because the French brought it into England as "boeuf" after the Norman invasion of 1066. Before then, in English we used to just call it cū, or cow.
My attempt at a guess was going to be, because of the dairy aspect from cows... milks, creams and cheeses 🤷🏼♀️
Yours makes complete sense 😊
Why do we call pig meat, pork, ham, gammon and bacon... now that is the humdinger question!
Oh bugger . I was hoping to be the first to comment . You should see my herb garden. Can't wait to smoke it all .
The reason we call the meat of the cow "beef", the meat of the pig "pork" and the meat of sheep "mutton" is because after the Norman conquest, the foods took on the French names used by those in charge, the French conquerors, while the actual animals reared by the English peasants kept their English names. As for duck (French, canard) I don't know, but the French word for pigeon is "pigeon/pigeonne" (male/female)! "Poulet" is French for chicken hence the English word "pullet" and the general word for eating birds "poultry".
The Cotswolds are only part of a great band of Early Jurassic rock crossing England southwest to northeast, from Lyme Regis to Whitby, much of it limestone. This is why Northamptonshire and Rutland are somewhat similar to the Cotswolds.
Simon Jenkins - a former editor of The Times newspaper - has produced two very useful books, 'A 1000 Best Churches', and another one called something like 'A Thousand Best Historic Houses'. They are very useful guides to seeing beautiful buildings. In an English village you must always visit the Parish Church, which is usually open, free, and very historic. ( Tombs can often predate 1500.) (It is often polite to make a donation.) Some historic houses are still owned by the original families; they have to allow visitors - at least sometimes - if only to pay the upkeep costs. So there will be a charge to go in, but it is often well worth it. However, many historic houses are now run by one of two organisations, the National Trust, a charity, and English Heritage ( that is in England), which is part of government. Both charge for visits, but run the historic houses well and informatively; becoming a member of either organisation can definitely be worth it if you are visiting several houses, since you then get a discount.
Those yew trees were youngsters. There are yew trees in the UK dating back I think about 3,000 years or more! Now, they were useful for making longbows, but a word of warning. All parts of the tree are poisonous, to both humans and livestock.
I live in a little village near Northampton and the house opposite me has a thatched roof,very blessed to live here😊
Do look like aqueducts, quite common tho. Tend to call them the arches, as far as I'm aware; and yes just railway lines.
An orangery is similar to a conservatory (which is a glass house/room attached to a domestic building, I think a conservatory is just called a sun room in the US) but instead of a glass roof it has a solid opaque one. They were built originally in the UK on grand houses to grow orange and lemon trees especially, but the roof protected the plants from the effects of direct sunshine. Nowadays of course oranges etc are simply imported in quantity but when the orangeries were built they were exotic fruits. By the way, it really doesn't rain all that much in most of the country, for example London has, on average, half the annual rainfall of New York, most of the rain falls in the extreme West of the country which is exposed to the Atlantic weather systems. The buildings in that part of Northamptonshire and Rutland is another outcrop of the same limestone that the Cotswold villages are built from.
Grief is the price you pay for love, rain is the price we pay for amazing green grass…. So there (!) 😂
As shown in the video, the sometimes typical very dry, sunny & humid England summer conditions which can happen any time of year in England.
Alien conditions for over up there in the US! 🤣😂🤣😂
My God. How beatiful. Take your shoes and socks off and run as fast as you can across a world as it should be
I feel so relaxed with this couple, they make wonderful videos, so relaxing and very pleasant, I really love this couple, they are fantastic.
I also love these two. I live in Wales 🏴 and am surrounded by glorious sights from every angle, but watching these two is calming and therapeutic. Glad you found them 😊
Very cute to watch you swaying to the background music 😊
That's why I love watching British shows like Barnaby (Murder Mystery) or Father Brown. Their scenery compensates for the often gruesome deaths happening 😂
Conor, most places like that you have to book tickets, you have a choice, either just enter the gardens or access to the house and gardens combined.
I recall watching a movie in the 70's but cannot remember the title. One scene was of an American who was invited to spend the week at an English country stately home. On the first afternoon the lord and his guest are taking tea on the terrace and the conversation went something like this.
American. You have beautiful lawn my lord, smooth as a snooker table and the richest green I have ever seen. how can I make my modest lawn back home look like this ?
Lord. It is quite easy just mow and roll the grass every week and weed it when needed also during a dry spell give it a good watering.
American. And how long will I have to do that to achieve one as good as yours.
Lord. About 200 years
Offend us you did, talking about that patch of clear blue sky.
I notice that Connor particularly appreciates an good English lawn .
How does he think we get such flourishing lawns without rain?
Connor has great observation skills. He picks up lots of little details. He may have been a cow in his past life because he loves grass. I still think he would make a great hobbit, ha, ha.
SW ENGLAND (SUB TROPICAL) is orangery OUTDOOR CLIMATE.
For non sub tropical WINTER climates an orangery or orangerie is a room or dedicated building, historically where orange and other fruit trees are protected during WINTER.
No seen you for a while McJibbin, just not wandered across your vids; was a pleasure; hope your keeping well. XX
Hi connor , love these two very nice couple and the cottages they stay in are dreamy 😊.
I'm shocked you would replace a beautiful and traditional cottage garden with a sterile lawn. Most people nowadays try to garden sustainably, and flowers, shrubs and vegetables provide a habitat for birds, bees, and wildlife. Lawns also require a lot of water and labour. Just look at the beauty of a wildflower meadow compared to a bare lawn.
The south west of ENGLAND is the sub tropical part of the country, where sub tropical plants are common. If it's betwwen late spring through summer / early autumn / fall, then BAKED DRY CONDITIONS & DROUGHTS are common in the southern & eastern parts of the country which is a borderline SEMI-ARID CLIMATE in that part of the world (ENGLAND).
* Florida US / Midwest US / North US / East US: USA = RAIN.
It makes me appreciate so much where I come from. I forget how privileged I am to just be able to live here in England.
In Heysham which is just outside Morecambe their are Viking open stone graves which had rainwater in them though when first used would have had covers over them with stunning views out to sea.
The house is old, it just looks new because it has been re-pointed. With the new windows, it must have been freshly renovated.
It indeed rains a lot in the UK, but on average Paris has more rain than London.
We get droughts here, every other year there's a hosepipe ban.
😅 ...except, one imagines, in Glasgow, where (according to *Nick Abbot* - LBC,)
"It rains in Glasgow: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and for the rest of your life,
oh well, it's only weather!!"🏴😊😅😂❤
There called orangeries because peareries doesn't work...
😊 ✔️🥇🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🏆😊❤🏴🖖
Orangery is a term used for very large building, made mainly of glass and stone that were used by the super rich to have very rare tropical plants (and maybe oranges) grow.
The famous rock band, the Rutles, is from this county
Rutland borders Leicestershire to the north and west, Lincolnshire to the north-east, and Northamptonshire to the south-west. Love old cemeteries and finding the oldest grave stones !
Really enjoyed this vid! I’m with you on the therapeutic aspect.
Re the ‘cow’ vs ‘beef’ thing, I believe the distinction goes back to the Norman invasion, when the (olde) English language absorbed many French words, one of them being ‘boeuf’ when referring to the meat in dishes made from cow, which evolved to be spelt and pronounced ‘beef’.
It’s also why we have 2 words for many things, e.g. warranty and guarantee - one has its roots in old English and the other in French.
I find historical linguistics really fascinating! 😍
if it wasnt for the gulf stream we would have polar bears
This is going to annoy the right type of people but on an English sunny day even the slums of Luton look half decent
Yes it does rain a lot... but that is why our countryside is so green... which you love
Rutland is the smallest county in the UK, it's county town is Oakham.
It is around 70/75 miles east of Birmingham.
I think contrary to the US housing is more expensive in the countryside, it's green because it rains quite a lot.
Often the castle and gardens can be visited, you have to buy a ticket online or at the entrance.
Rutland is a separate county in the middle of Leicestershire, where I live in a similar village. In English, we get the names of farm animals from Anglo-Saxon which is a Germanic language, but the name of the meats come from Latin/French which are romantic languages. You would love our village, and it has a wood framed, white walled thatched cottage you would love. Yew trees were very common in England especially, they were used to provide the best wood for making the English Longbow, a favoured weapon in war during the medieval period hen fast volleys of deadly heavy arrows were fired into the enemies ranks.
Orangery- : a protected place and especially a greenhouse for growing oranges in cool climates. I Googled this. Had never heard of that word before
Rutland is a beautiful county next to Leicestershire which also has many beautiful villages, the house next door to our previous home was a timber framed house with a thatched roof built in 1669.
You generally have to buy tickets to tour great houses like that, it helps with the upkeep of the properties.
I do think they used to grow orange trees in buildings like that, in the Netflix series Queen charlotte there are a few scenes where she goes into part of their home that has orange trees growing in it.
I grew up in Canada but my parents are Scottish and my favourite thing about going back to visit family there is when you would be coming in for a landing I would look out the plane window and everything was so green and lush which is because of all the rain, i was born in southern Ontario which got a lot of rain when I was a kid and I live with in western Canada now which gets hardly any rain so miss the days when it would rain all day plus we get massive Forrest. Fires every year now.
Finally! An American reacting to a video about English villages and not a single mention of 'Herry Padderrr'!
There's far more to the UK, life and literature than Harry cunting Potter.
😮 but but but but Connor _likes_
Harry Podder!!! He's a big fan!!😅
Shruberries are so abundant because the knights who say "Ni" demanded them.
Chicken and duck were peasant foods, so retained their Saxon names. Beef was a noble food, so acquired a name from Norman French.
I am lucky to live in the English lake district. Weather not always so good, but scenery and people lovely.
These 2 people in this video are Germans living in the UK i dont know where her german accent has gone she sounds more English than german..
We visit this area every year. It's just over an hour from home. We have stayed at the Barnsdale Hotel but mostly stay in local pubs. A beautiful area and the main town, Stamford is ancient and fantastic and contains England's finest Elizabethan Manor, Burghley House. Oh, and I have stayed at Castle Ashby. The last time was when we saw Elton John there on his solo piano tour.
LOL, no, droughts are more common at that time of year in those parts of the country!
Oh dear Connor, do you still believe those stupid stereotypes? Where I live near Cambridge in England which is close to the first place they visited on this film. Our annual rainfall is around half of that of Providence, RI
Boy, these hosts are so adorable !
Normanton church is partially submerged, it is no longer an active church but you can have a civil marriage ceremony inside
I live not far from there in Kettering, Northamptonshire.A lot of these places charge the public an entrance fee.
I live in west midlands and its a short drive to birmingham.
I used to live right next door to the falcon in fotheringhay 25 years ago where mary queen of scotts was executes. They used to do buffet sunday lunch very nice in summer gardens. I loved living there😊
I just realised its the thatched cottage behind we used to live in.happy days😊
Really nice video Connor, i love these sort of vids. Hope you are doing great 👍
you looked so happy in this .
Connor's face watching this reminds me of a childs face at xmas.
Beef, pork and mutton comes from the French boeuf, porc et mouton. In other words its English when its alive and French when its dead
I was born at home which black and white at the top but sand stone at the bottom floor, not thatched. It's now a farm museum. My school was refounded in 1282 when England finally invaded North Wales.
A quick Google suggests oldest gravestone(ENGLAND)belongs to Ann Green who died April 1518
Connor, my house was built in 1186 and King Charles 1 stayed the night during the English Civil War. My walled garden is 16th century and the little well is from the 13th century. I live next to a Saxon burial mound and the crypt in our local cathedral goes back to the 6th century. Near by is the remains of a Roman wall, i often sit on it when I have a cup of tea! I would hate to live in a modern property. History is part of my landscape. You should travel more, you seem to be permanently stuck in your bedroom with self inflicted eye, neck and back ache. Get out and travel more, you should take Rick Steves advice and keep on travelling. You have yet to start!