There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether or not I had food poisoning. Minor food poisoning exists--you don't have to be glued to a toilet or feeling like death to have it. As someone who has had both minor and severe food poisoning on multiple occasions and with a history of IBS I am VERY HYPER-aware of my what's going on with my bowels. I've had enough stomach/gut issues to know when I have had food poisoning so please stop assuming you know "what's really going on" ✌
Those villages are ALL lived in, even in a national park the houses, farms etc are used by people, some of whose families have lived there for a couple of centuries - I lived in some myself, but obviously not for 200 odd years!!! As for Cider, you need to try some of the scrumpy produced in the village of Elmley Castle, its lovely, but STRONG, be careful. The Yew Tee pub in Conderton sells this nectar, the pubs wonderful and it just a few miles north of Gotherington - one of the villages I lived in , where the railways station has reopened and you can have a ride on am antique steam train, via tunnel under Cleeve Hill to Winchcombe and Sudely Castle, a fav place for Queen Lizzie the First to hang around in. On the top of Cleev Hill there is the Iron Age long barrow burial mound of Belas Knap - you can sit inside the entrace/burial chamber - sun floods in at the Winter solstice - magical place. It also is home to vaste fields of Magic Mushrooms in Sept/Oct time
@@clowderlibrary 500 years? That’s cute…. lol. If you’d gone to Chester in the North of England - an old Roman walled city - you could’ve walked along the walls built by actual Roman legionnaires and feel like you’ve gone back 2000 years! (The City was started in 79AD)
I'm not really sure if this is a truth or myth, but the reason us Brits drive on the left hand side of the road is because in the olden days horsemen engaging the enemy needed to be on the left so they could use their weapons to there full potential. Back then as now most people were right handed. I would love that to be true. I hope you enjoyed your trip ❤❤🇬🇧😊😊to merry old England
It is true. It is also the reason old spiral staircases ascend clockwise, so the defender has space to wield their sword and an attacker climbing the stairs would be at a serious disadvantage unless left handed.
If visiting around Oxfordshire, as a bookworm, reader, you should visit the grave of Eric Blaire better known to us all as George Orwell, 1984,❤🇬🇧😊Animal farm at Sutton courtney, near Abingdon
Seeing all that green picturesque beauty, the peace and the tranquility of England - makes me so glad that I live here! Even if the shops do close at 5.00pm 😉😃❤️
In answer to your question, people do live in those cottages. My friend got married in the church in Bibury a few years ago. Was a freezing cold day in the first week of March. We all stood in a long row outside to cheer the bride and groom out of the church, and throw confetti but had to wait while a group of Chinese tourists went along the row taking photos of us all. It was so funny 😆
So much fun seeing an American family travelling in England :) the Cotswolds looks absolutely stunning. Can't wait to visit that part of England some day! Lovely video and really nice editing. Hello from Norway :)
Mackeson Stout, also known as Milk Stout was the preffered product, Guinness is a Porter, a dark "burnt beer" - the Latvian Mackeson was 9%, the brewery opened a branch there in the 1910s, so probably the 6% UK version for pregant Mums, but things were wilder then, so who knows. It was called Milk as it use Lactose sugar in the brewing, and thus was deemed "healthy"!! PS Burnt Beer was what my Grandfather, a native of Cork, claimed all Irish dark beers were know as when he was a kid
Worked in a chemical refinery, very hot . The old timers talked of getting a pint of Guinness for lunch to replace all the liquid lost through the heat
I was given a pint of Guiness every night in hospital after giving birth to my first 2 sons in 1975 and 1978 ( you had to stay in for 10 days at that time) They said it helped you produce milk.
Could be noted that the rivers and waters in the Cotswolds converge with the Thames. The Thames itself is navigable to Lechlade in the south of the Cotswolds.
If you are living in Salisbury it is very easy for you to get around the New Forest without a car, there are 3 circular bus routes operating, the red, blue and green lines. They meet at certain points so that you can change routes. The buses are half the fun as they are open top, It's a great way to see the forest on a hot day. A day ticket allows you to get on and off the bus wherever you want and the routes cover the whole of the forest. If you catch a bus to Fordingbridge which takes about 30 minutes from Salisbury you can catch a red route bus
I loved the New Forest I camped there for a week and every morning we would wake up to ponies & deer outside our tent like a Disney movie, my particular highlight was hiring horses for the day which was amazing and the guide told us "don't worry, around 3 o'clock the horses let you know it's time to head back & they will know the way" she wasn't lying either as soon as we stopped and turned around they were off! I was worried they were going to start running but they kept to a fast walk/slow trot must know its feeding time.
@@clowderlibrary it was great, you could also get a little map that took you on a hike through the forest which led to a beautiful pub in the middle of the Forrest where you could have lunch or just drinks it was beautiful and the map takes you to some lovely spots for scenery or deer/pony watching
@@chipsthedog1 ahhh!! That sounds so fun!! Are there places where you can go horseback riding?? I went on a horseback riding trip when I was 15 and have been wanting to go on another one…would love to do one here in England!
@@clowderlibrary Yes, my partner and I hired horses for the day and it was fantastic. It was about 8 years ago but I am sure it is still available. Also when you visit the south west I'd recommend Cheddar gorge it's beautiful and the caves are something else really impressive & you can pay a little extra for adventure caving where a guide takes you much deeper than tourists are allowed usually, trust me it's breathtaking like underground cathedrals. Interesting side note: they discovered a mummified body left deep in the cave in the mesolithic era roughly 7550BC & the remarkable thing is after dna testing it was found the current school teacher in the village is related to the Cheddar mummy!
Hi Friends, I wanted to mention something that was brought to my attention. I was not aware that food poisoning is taken super seriously here in the UK. I strive to be very honest about my travel experiences and sometimes shit (💩literally) happens. I frequently rate/review food in my videos-I’m not looking to get anyone in trouble or to be dramatic. I honestly thought the whole thing was actually kind of funny-i have a very self deprecating sense of humor. I didn’t contact the restaurant right after the incident because my poisoning was very minor and I just attributed what occurred to me as a one time thing and I was just unlucky. The pie was very delicious and I ate the entire thing and I have no regrets-i have had the kind of food poisoning that nails you to a toilet for a week and this wasn’t it, thankfully. I know the difference between a minor stomach bug and food poisoning-this was food poisoning. Since publishing this video I have sent the restaurant a message so they are aware. If I need to do something similar to this in the future please contact me via email or Instagram and I will handle it on my own. Please do not take it upon yourselves to contact them. Only I can speak for my experiences. ✌
Food poisoning can happen at the best of places. Always good to report it back to the restaurant so that they can learn from it. I've had food poisoning in the past and as you say sometimes it can floor you and sometimes it's a minor upset. But I would always report it, either by phone or just an email.
There’s a donkey roaming as well I saw it three weeks ago when I visited for a few hours from Basingstoke where I was staying for a few days before heading to The Queen’s racecourse at Royal Ascot on her Windsor Estate for horse racing.
Glad you enjoyed the Cotswolds, I have managed hotels in Burford and Bibury (The Swan) (thank you for the correct pronunciation 👍). I think Ted would have enjoyed the birds too!🦆!!
I spent a lot of time on google listening to the pronunciations and hoping I didn’t screw them up 😅-what a beautiful place for you to work!! Ted would have went bonkers for the birds 😂
Here in the West country the only acceptable flavouring additive to zidar is a hint of dead rat, but it appears you have already tried that, full strength, in your pie...;-) Glad you are having a great time. If you return to the Cotswolds area, Lacock near Castle Combe where some of the earliest photographs were taken is well worth a visit. Get yourselves out to the North Devon coast, Poldark country, too. The area around Lynton and Lynmouth is fabulous. Aidan Turner can frequently be seen there. Unfortunately acting pays to poorly for him to be able to afford a shirt......
I don’t know what was in that pie 🥲-no one else got sick from their food. Lacock is on my list of places to see! Just didn’t have time. Aidan Turner must be rather cold running around with no shirt on 🤣
I think the hot breath of his fans panting keeps him fairly warm.. Here is a link for the north Devon area: visitlyntonandlynmouth.com/ The cliff railway at Lynton, Watersmeet and the valley of the rocks are all exceptional, and within a few miles of each other. I stayed at a pub by the water at Lynton, which was great and fairly cheap.
You have shamed me. I have raced and done many car track days at the Castle Combe Circuit. But I have never been to Castle Combe Village. I will put that right......someday.
Sorry about the food poisoning I'd push back slightly on the car being essential for the new forest. It's definitely highly desirable, but you can see a lot hiking or cycling from the stations.
Hi Abbie, Why are you always tormenting us with tasty looking food? Seriously that pie looked delicious even if it did give you a stomach upset! The Cotswolds looked lovely as ever and hope you're enjoying your travels/sightseeing Cheers Jim, Surrey X
Many villages had reading rooms, it was something that was common practice in Victorian times. Rich philanthropist who were normally strict moral church going people. They created the reading rooms for local people to read the newspaper and books and encourage them away from the pub. The rooms would have strict moral codes including no alcohol.
Tourists get bussed up from Salisbury along the main road to Stonehenge which really is not worth stopping for. But, just to the west is the Woodford Valley which leads up to Stonehenge. It is really beautiful, check out Heale House and it's gardens. Just west of Salisbury is the Chalke Valley, just father north explore the Tisbury / Fonthill area. By car just 30minutes away. Laycock is another village well worth visiting. All these places are missed by Brits who only get to see Wiltshire from the motorway on their way to Devon and Cornwall. Do investigate Chichester and Bosham Harbour and Arundel Castle. Further east you have the Sussex and Kent Weald where you will find Hever Castle, Ingham Mote, Grear Dixter and Rye on the way to Canterbury. South Dorset is well worth going to. Lyme Regis and Sidmouth aren't too far away. Keep the videos coming.
It would take weeks to just see some of these places but they are worth googling if you are planning to be in their area. Most tourist buses keep to the main A roads but often there are parallel country lanes following a river and going through unspoilt villages. You mentioned seeing Cornwall to see the Poldark locations. The cliff scenes may have been filmed there but most of the town and country house scenes were filmed in Corsham which is in good old Wiltshire
I suggest that the cider caused the stomach upset dont drink cider on a empty stomach its too acidic. You tummy needs to acclaimatise to our richer foids.
@@karenprice3523 as I’ve said on other comments I only ate toast that day and it was hours between that toast and the pie. The cider I drank the day before was not on an empty stomach. Process of elimination: it was the pie 🙃
@Clowder Library - I previously mentioned the steam railways. As I said it always worth just doing a quick google search if you are visiting an area just to check if there is one local to you and their running times etc. Glad you got over your food poisoning quickly.
I feel for you about you getting food poisoning I’ve had it really bad twice both times eating out ,one was a Sunday roast when I chose the roast pork the other while in Spain when I had a seafood paella ,I have never eaten pork or seafood again when eating out 🤮🤮🤮
Get up North to the Derbyshire Dales...the Yorkshire Dales...the Lake District....and the coup de grace....Scotland...north of Glasgow...this is not chocolate box beauty....but rugged and natural
Northerners always like to decry anything down south. Everything about the Cotswold cottages is natural. The area had been forgotten for hundreds of years. The northern villages are much bleaker and stone much darker. No comparison.
@@free..to..air.. But very natural and gentle beautiful countryside. The Lake District has beautiful scenery but the Peak District is harsh and rugged. Villages there nowhere near as nice as the Cotswolds.
Meant in the nicest possible way, ref food poisoning.But in you're case you're eyes are bigger than you're belly sometimes.Thats an expression that means you're biting off more than u can chew food wise.Hope you're feeling better.
I ate the whole pie but I am definitely very guilty of having bigger eyes than appetite😅-it was delicious so you can imagine how bummed I was when it made me not feel well 🥲-thankfully it was really mild 🙌
The New Forest pretty sums up the difference between the US and UK with regard to hunting and guns. From Saxon times onwards (and maybe earlier) hunting was the reserve of the nobility, and The New Forest was one of the largest of these hunting reserves. Peasants who hunted could be executed as poachers. So outside the upper classes there has never been a culture of hunting, or the guns that later became part of it. The exceptions were farmers who would kill 'pests'- pigeons, rats and later rabbits. In contrast, in the US, hunting was largely a pursuit of the rural poor for food, and later entertainment, so the culture of shooting and having guns in engrained in society. So as a result, Britain has surprisingly large (for its population density) areas of (managed) wilderness full of wildlife in the form of former hunting areas, and no real gun culture.
The New Forest could better be described as a massive deer farm and forestry. Although nobility were the only ones who could hunt, because of "politics" the underlying function of these reserves has been brushed over. They were to provide venison and wood to the navy/army. Venison is very good for preservation, very lean so it doesn't spoil as easily. I think a figure I read was 15,000 deer killed in a large/annual drift to stock the navy fleet. Also the wood, you have to keep slow growing large tree "safe" for hundreds of years before they can be used. There's a reason Bucklers Hard is where it is. Cranborne Chase is the more interesting hunting reserve IMO. Some of the laws regarding the Chase were still in effect as late as the 1850's. Consequently, there's very little development/towns until Victorian times and the archeology of the area is remarkably intact.
You never had food poisoning, you'd be in bed for a week and loose a lot of weight, if it lasted for just a day you had a mild stomach upset that could have been caused by anything.
@@clowderlibrary As i said mild stomach upset, if you had food poisoning it would be coming out of both ends, you have about 5 seconds when you think you're going to 5hit yourself and you will, you certainly wouldn't be going any distance from a toilet the next day.
I agree, food poisoning mostly lasts a week, 1 Day is a stomach bug which you can get in any country in the world especially if it’s something you have never eaten before.
UK citizens take it all for granted. Most will be walking down the road completely unaware that the little church has a history going back to Saxon times. That said, most won't even know what is meant by 'Saxon times'. Classical history (i.e. pre 20th century) isn't really taught in the schools here. At least not in the state schools in the cities anyway
Sorry but l had to laugh when you said you would have hated missing the Cotswolds in one day. It must be very difficult knowing what to go and see when time is limited
Lovely footage but you should have reported the food poisoning and been compensated- it would also prevent others from being poisoned- Sorry for that you should not be getting positioned here in the UK
I'm not really a confrontational person. I don't like conflict, even when I'm the one who has been wronged. It's something i need to get better at. I did reach out to them but *crickets* 🙃
Isn't it kind of slanderous to talk about food poisoning and attributing it to what you ate in that pub? I'm sure the pub owner wouldn't be too happy hearing you say that.
That was the only food I ate that day, other than toast that morning. The pub owner should be aware so no one else gets sick from it in the future 🤷🏻♀️
@@clowderlibrary Much better to let him know, if you went directly to the public health officials he could potentially end up in a lot of trouble and would likely get a very thorough hygiene inspection whatever the outcome.
@@clowderlibrary ...How would the pub owner be aware if you didn't report it to them, or to an outside body? As you didn't do that, and as a matter of fairness, I sent an e-mail to The Royal Oak giving them details of what occurred (including my and your and another person's comment as shown here), and left it to them to progress with this or not. Do be aware that 'food poisoning', as you termed it, is a serious offence here, and not to be used glibly.
@@2eleven48 I do hope you are aware that food poisoning can be both mild and severe. If I was glued to my toilet hacking and pooing myself for a week I would have contacted them. I’m not looking to get anyone in trouble, just stating my experience for transparency-like anyone who ever leaves a yelp review would.
On a Literary note there is a now sadly neglected Children's Author, Cynthia Harnett en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Harnett who wrote a delightful series of historically set Children's Adventure Stories. One of which "The Wool Pack" is set in the Cotswolds. Although written over 60years ago and aimed at "Young Adults" (way before the term was thought of) the stories are a good read and well researched. They give an interesting insight into Early Modern Family and Social Life. I always thought that their format could stand reworking and outlet in other media.
