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That's weird! You haven't been to world famous Hammam where actually all this steam & scrubbing has started but going to a steamer in Georgia. Georgia offers many good things but not with bath.
We’ve seen this in numerous countries, but this is how they track stray dogs. Sometimes this means they provide them with basic medical care as well but it depends on the country.
👋🏼 Small struggling Travel Channel here. I love your content, thanks for this great video! You inspire me to keep grinding my channel, maby one day I’ll grow as big as you 🥲
Such an amazing comment, thank you. Well, we were only in London for 5 days, but we can definitely see it as an awesome place to spend 55 years. We loved it. We have also spent a lot of time in Thailand too. Amazing country, with wonderful people. You can't go wrong 🇬🇧👏🇹🇭👏
So glad you enjoyed the vlog 😃 And we get it, we used to live in Southern CA and it was so expensive. We probably know more about London than San Diego, where we lived for four years. The expense is, in part, why we only stayed in London 5 days (as a stopover) despite the fact that we wanted to stay for weeks, if not months. We will definitely be back though ✈️🇬🇧
@@ThePassportCouple Next time, Wardour street, Wong Kei. (China town). Beef fried noodles, free Jasmine tea. In the last 30 years their price has risen by about 40 pence. It isn't a show stopper, but the history of this place is 100%. Glad you enjoyed London. It could do with a tidy up. Like most of our great cities, (Europe, North America) it has attracted too much of the wrong elements. Thank you for a positive take on one of ours x
@@peterv4533 Yes, they can be abrupt for sure. I used to also get my hair cut above the shops on China towns main street. They were a bit the same. My Chinese was better than their English, in that I made an effort to use body language. I think they are like the French. They don't want to give you any satisfaction what so ever. I go back for more whenever in town.
You did well to share a full english, cant say ive witnessed that before 😂 Should find a greasy cafe for the breakfast though, better than a posh version 😉 Great video guys, what a lovely couple 😊
Thanks for the amazing comment 🙌 We will definitely try a greasy cafe next time. If you have any recommendations, please let us know and we will add it to our next visit. Thanks again 😃
'popovers' are basically failed yorkies. if you swap the butter for a higher temp oil and pre-heat the oven to highest to get the oil hot before adding the batter they will puff up like yorkies
In Italy at the restaurant you can ask for tap water, but you have to explicitly ask for it, because since Italians deem that a "low class" choice usually they don't ask for that at the restaurant (often even at home, so...). But if you ask for it, they have to bring it to you and it's free. Don't be fooled if they say that the tap water is not good: in Rome we have a very good tap water (it's the same water of the "nasoni", the little drinking fountains all around the city). There can be a trick they use to make you pay even ofr tap water: they present it to you as "microfiltered water", i.e. treated with a system to make it less chlorinated and rich of calcium carbonate, but the chlorine taste in tap water isn't so strong usually (just a bit when you open the tap the first time in the morning, and not every day), while the calcium carbonate is very present, but it doesn't affect the taste so much.
This is a great tip, thank you so much for sharing 🙌 We love the drinking fountains around the city and will happily drink directly from it, or fill our water bottle. The water is delicious 😃
You are obviously older than you look if Big Ben (the Elizabeth Tower as it’s called. Big Ben is the bell) was under construction when you last visited!!!!
What you are seeing is really the back of Buckingham Palace. It’s more impressive at the back where you don’t get to go unless you’ve been invited to a royal garden party.
I moved to England from the US over a decade ago and I still remember being in awe of London! Having moved around a bit through the country and travelled to Scotland, Wales and Ireland (north and republic) I always find the people amazingly friendly! Such beautiful countryside, cities and people.
That's amazing, we are glad to hear it has been such a great experience for you, and are definitely jealous you live there 🇬🇧💛 We are still in awe of everything London and agree that everybody is very friendly.
The cast from Back to the Future said the show on Broadway was rubbish. They said The best Actor in that show was the car. The west End show was Amazing according to them...
You really picked up right from the start that a lot of the classic British foods are related to the lifestyle, and the climate. Pies, sausage rolls, cornish pasties, and of course, the Sandwich, were all made to be eaten on the go, or at least, portable foods where you didn't need to carry a hamper full of plates and cutlery. Most foods are warming, comfort foods perfectly suited to a cold or grey and drizzly day, with herbs and spices lending that warming feel even to cold dishes. The British also import, adopt, and adapt influences, including cuisine, from every corner of the world, and have done as far back as historians can go. Archaeologists found evidence of wine trading from the Byzantine Empire going on in the Dark Ages, where Britain, as one of the worlds only 3 sources of Tin, essential to Bronze, was trading with merchants to buy wines, spices, and so on, in addition to gems and other trade goods. It may not seem that special today to find foods from around the entire world in a major city, but believe me that before globalization of big brands, it was actually very rare, yet Britain was doing it.
Thanks for sharing this fascinating information. We feel that a great way to experience a destination's culture and explore it's history is through their food. London was no exception and did not disappoint. Thanks for watching and for leaving such great nuggets of information. Love the bit about the wine trade 😃
Thank you for Hopefully showing the world how to eat British food, I hate watching American's eating each item individually (Like children) then moaning its dry. You got to wet it up a bit and mix it together.
So true, the gates were erected in 1989, to prevent attack from the IRA, but the hydraulic barricades were not installed until 2004, this is to prevent suicide bombers.
Harold Wilson used to be our local MP. He gave my dad a ride to work one rainy morning. BTW, Passport Couple, you were very unlucky with the weather (it's warm and sunny here now).
Fantastic video and welcome to our beautiful city! Another recommendation is to go for a cheese toastie (toasted cheese sandwich) the best one (personal opinion here) would have to be Pistachio & Pickle (cool name right?) in Islington - there are 2 branches but if you head to the original one which is along Camden Passage (this gorgeous Georgian narrow street)
Wow, thank you for such a great comment and for the recommendations too. A cheese toastie at Pistachio & Pickle (super cool name) is officially going on our next London itinerary ✈️🇬🇧 Can't wait 😃
