What I Never Knew About London England and Why You Should Go!
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- Опубликовано: 5 апр 2024
- What I Never Knew About London England and Why You Should Go!
Our last leg of our trip! After touring Switzerland and Paris, we made it to London. Stick around as I share about our travel experiences in London!
Also, check out this cool list of observations I made about London from an American perspective:
1. Maybe it’s because they speak the same language as me, but it sounds like they are louder than Swiss or French people
2. No cell phone connection in the subway, therefore, a lot more people are talking with each other
3. In the subway, they keep the windows between cars open to allow a free flowing draft to keep it cool (versus Korea where I lived before)
4. There are a rests on the subway and more cushioned seats (versus Korea where I lived before), lower ceiling and super low doors
5. Very efficient dry and soap dispensers next to each other
6. Fridges don’t keep things very chilled. Went to convenient store and monster drink was almost warm
7. More corgi dogs here
8. Sorry I know I’m a bit of a pain for “excuse me” when getting out of the way in right restaurant space
9. People run into each other in the subway frequently without saying sorry even when it’s a hard bump
10. Often times, the light switch is on the outside wall of the bathroom instead of inside the bathroom.
11. Lady spilt coffee on ground next to me at the train station. The husband asked if I was ok and that it didn’t get all over me. A moment later, he went out of his way to ask me once more “are you sure you’re ok?” As he puts his hand on my shoulder.
12. Townhome in America is alley burrough or terraced house and semi-detached in England, or flat
13. When ordering coffee, they ask if you want black or white
14. More vegan friendly than America
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Hi, my name is Tim, and I'm a former expat who lived in South Korea, and I taught English to all ages including kindergarten to adults. During my 5.5 year stint there, I learned valuable life lessons about myself and the world around me. My journey has brought me back to the U.S. as I now have an amazing family. Married to a beautiful Korean girl and giving birth to a 2/3 Korean & 1/3 Caucasian baby boy, I share my life back in America and how I've adjusted from culture shock to reverse culture to finding my own third-sub culture/world of my own and where I fit into society. After building a highly successful real estate business from the ground up and living in the most diverse county in the Southeastern United States, I find myself running into rare chance encounters on numerous occasions here in Atlanta that make me realize there is more to life than meets the eye.
Big Ben is the name of the BELL housed in the Elizabeth Tower.
There was no fire at Westminster Abbey. You're probably thinking of Windsor Castle
That "warm" fridge in your room, did you check whether it was switched on at the socket? Remember our electical sockets have switches to turn them off and on, and sometimes they turn room fridges off at the socket; or even unplug them completely; to conserve energy when the room's not in use.
The London Underground (subway to you) was the first to be built in the world. Very old.
1863
Big Ben is also the only thing in the UK that gets damaged when aliens invade.
WHAT??!! When did Westminster Abbey burn down 😱😱
I think he's confusing it with Notre Dame.
They didn't have the air conditioning working on the tube.......pmsl!
Fire!!what fire!!
"they didn't have the air conditioning on" made me smile. The window is the air conditioning. That's all there is!
The big "tube" (sub-surface) lines have a/c
Big Ben is not the clock faces or the tower, Big Ben is actually related to your Liberty Bell via the same foundry that cast them both.
There is also Little Ben as well, not as well know. Not many people realise if they are near Big Ben, they can open their phones and say "Big Ben, what is the time"
Only yesterday I travelled from Switzerland to Paris, changed stations and caught Eurostar London. The journey is visually easier now but not perfect.
The underground does have cell Phone connection.
Only on a few lines and when overground.
Hi, at 04:14, you mention the fire at Westminster Abbey, not sure what that's about unless you are talking about the one in 1834?
Could he possibly be mixing it up with Notre Dame in Paris? There's a certain similarity in apearance.....
London is a city of 7 metro systems, underground, overground, Dlr, thameslink , Elizabeth line , trams, National rail South London.
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10 different Underground lines alone:)
Fire at Westminster Abbey? That was Notre Dame in France.
Native English people rarely speak to each other on the tube network! You must’ve overheard tourists conversing.
True and I was 70last week but when ever,over the years,I have ventured to strike up a quick chat or conversation,I have,rarely,ben disappointed.
Only 3 weeks ago,I was visiting a West London Football team as an Away supporter and I assumed the locals on the train followed the Home side(same colours). It turns out that supported my team and,unlike me,had been to this stadium many times before and informed me of the station and walk at the end of the journey that I would never have guessed or chosen and it brought us straight to the Away End.
The fire? You thinking of Paris???
My mind was still freshly thinking of Paris ;)
Yes, I was thinking that a fire at Westminster Abbey must have completely passed me by!
There is a simplified version of London, especially for Americans. You should have been directed to it at the airport.
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Big Ben is not or never been the tower its the name of the bell inside
It's not called Big Ben its the 'Elizabeth Tower,' Big Ben is the name of the Big Bell inside. That's like calling the Statue of Liberty 'Big Bertha', also Westminster Abbey didn't have a fire that was Notre Dame in Paris different city.
To be fair, the name change to Elizabeth Tower was made in relatively recent times and I think many tourists need to be cut some slack for still using the Big Ben monniker as it is so well known.
@@revbenf6870 But the Tower was never called Big Ben. Prior to 2012 it was called The Clock Tower.
@@carolineskipper6976Not true. It’s Big Ben to all “normal” people. We all know it’s really the hour bell. Only the most irritating people feel it necessary to tell us what we already know.
Prior to the 'Elizabeth' tower it was always called St. Stephen's Tower which is it's original name . @carolineskipper6976
People like you who keep correcting about Big Ben are a pain in the arse. Everybody knows it as Big Ben for goodness sake.
I made a fantastically lucky decision to move from The South East side of Central London (2 miles) to the very edge of S E London and Kent (11 miles away) to this very house in 1983 and 41 years later,it has been a wonderful move just 1/2 mile from a S E London postal code. We have 76 Open spaces within a 6-mile radius including my local park(185 Acres and 100 yards away and a better 245 Acre one just 3 miles away) It's very safe(still no lock on my back door) and I can "use" London with my Free Pass(I'm 70 now).I went to The Globe Theatre recently(was on the film) and often return to see friends or my football team but I am within touching distance of The Kent then Surrey and Sussex (x2) Countryside and would not move 5 yards. lol Deposit in 1983? £230 and £49 a month for this, slightly below average,3 bedroom house.
Do not try to use Oyster or contactless using the Stansted Exptess. You will get a big fine.
You must buy a ticket. Contactless csn be used to buy s ticket.
The "Welsh" Corgis to which you referred at ine point, you have a choice between the Cardigan Corgi and the Pembrokeshire Corgi. I dont recall which ines our late Queen Elizabeth II iwned and bred, but I know she had 30 in her kifetime, her first one being called Susan, the other bred from her line. Prince Andrew gifted her with two more Corgis (not long before she died in Sept..2022) but he and his ex wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, now look after them both. 🦮🦮🏴😏🏴🖖
In all honesty and respect for your channel, why don’t you just explore the outer ‘Shires’ ,….
Basically, why not try our history, in non-London fun.z
I enjoy your channel btw. Much love x
Im a Brit but I don't live in London,so I enjoy a visit. I think my life would be dire if I actually lived there. I certainly would have a much lower quality of life than where I do live,that's due to my circumstances and income (the opposite of high!). But for a one,two or even three day visit,as a tourist London is fab. In fact there is so much to do there for free I,no joke,can spend LESS MONEY in 3 days in London than I would in Minehead,or even better a little ancient port town called Watchet in West Somerset because while lovely you end up in a cafe or the shops because they're so tiny especially if you're not set up for long distance walks in the nearby countryside. So London CAN BE cheap,lol,to visit! You saw loads but there is a million things else depending on what you like from The Roman Temple of Mithras to The Wallace Collection (very opulent art museum,worth visiting for that millionaire feel. Glad you all had a lovely time. I hope you can visit again. Note my sneaky que,visit our lovely West Country and drop in on Watchet,youll love it. Old harbour town,my Mum born and grew up there. Dying on it's feet by about 2000 year,now alive and vibrant again thanks to local art initiatives.
Thank you for your suggestions and insight! So interesting that it would be cheaper in London than Minehead. I imagine it's the availability of so much to do!
I made a fantastically lucky decision to move from THe South East side of Central London(2 miles) to the very edge of S E London and Kent(11 miles away) to this very move in 1983 and 41 years later,it has been a wonderful move just 1/2 mile from a S E London postal code. We have 76 Open spaces within a 6 mile radius including my local park(185 Acres and 100 yards away and a better 245 Acre one just 3 miles away) It's very safe(still no lock on my back door) and I can "use" London with my Free Pass(I'm 70 now).I went to The Globe THeatre recently(was on the foilm) and often return to see friends or my football tam but I am within touching distance of The Kent then Surrey and Sussex (x2) Countryside and would not move 5 yards. lol Deposit in 1983 ? £230 and £49 a month for this ,slightly below average,3 bedroom house.
The strange US terminology sounds so out of place. Nobody English would ever speak of "going down River Thames to see THE Westminster Abbey". They'd say "going down THE River Thames to see Westminster Abbey".
That's because he's American. Give him a break. I'm sure you wouldn't verbalise everything correctly as a tourist in the States.
wrong. UP river.
Honestly, life is too short to care about this sort of stuff :D
I've lived in London 20 years, and no one ever calls it river Thames, it's just the Thames. Agree though, I find the tiny linguistic differences fascinating. "The Westminster Abbey" sounds incredibly weird, yet "the Houses of Parliament" is normal. I thought maybe it's something to do with plurality but "the National History Musuem" is normal. Then it hit me, if it starts with a proper noun, then we don't use "the". Buckingham/Kensington Palace, Euston Station, Heathrow Airport we'd never use "the" in front. That theory falls apart though when we do use it ahead of "The London Eye" or "the Victoria and Albert museum". I give up 😅😅
@@Nutrient-Goldgive him a break ?? Jesus Americans just can’t deal with any comment whatsoever - you can find something funny or interesting without insulting them. Americans can’t understand concepts of irony , sarcasm , feedback , laughing at themselves etc etc etc …. I lasted a few months with work in the US before getting so sick of their vanilla saccharine ways of talking. They don’t even take the piss out of each other ! Weird
We are getting internet signal on the tube and im dreading it. Who wants to hear other peoples conversation up that close
The British Museum is basically full of stuff we stole from other countries during our Empire days. 😂
As with every other museum in every other country in the world. Don't feel bad about it babe!
We didn’t steal anything … most was donated .. and, or bought …