+Bitsy Bite You're absolutely correct. If you want to see an English city, as opposed to the global dormitory village and investment silo London has become, York is a good place to start.
London is an international hub, and is not representative of the general population. But you don't have to go all that far out of London to find villages that are definitely 'English'. I'm only 25 miles north of central London, and there are villages near here that possess far more 'Englishness', so-to-speak. Driving north, you'll notice that London suddenly vanishes. For example, Potters Bar was a part of Middlesex until January 1965, and the county of Middlesex was very much part of London. But, in January 1965, Middlesex was abolished. At that time, Potters Bar became a London-looking outpost in southern Hertfordshire. Drive north out of Potters Bar, and the scenery changes so fast that you might as well be a hundred miles out of London.
I chatted to some art students who were travelling European art cities for their course. Paris, florence, st Petersburg and London were their best cities, however London was the most expensive for them and has to get more money transferred over to them from Bank of Parents. Warm Beer comes from a time when Ale was the main working mans drink. Which is served from a pull pump at room temperature. That was decades ago ! I know as my father use to drink it.
I've always traveled on a budget and have managed quite well. A little pre-planning does wonders. My father used to joke that the English served warm ice in their cocktails. " Two very small cubes that melted on contact!" That was partially true in the '60s, but eventually England caught up to the ice revolution! Lol
I am taking my 3rd trip to London this September. As a budget conscious traveler I try to travel to places when “school breaks” are happening.then I mostly stay in different residences while there quite cheap....London Uni. Has a student residence right beside R.A.Hall and Hyde Park....60$ Canadian a night private room. Bath also has one of the best residence to stay in Last year spent 50 days in England (for my 50th), spent less than 2000 Canadian for ALL accommodation. Do lots of research before you go. Your videos are a Great help....
loving your RU-vid! got recommended through a book blog LOL. now subscribed! I have family in and right outside of London. Been 3x with my family when I was a child. Anyway, thanks to you one day when I can afford to go back and visit I'll be prepared. thank you
Great info! Ive heard a lot that the weather is quite gloomy. But seems like the cool places to go makes up for it. Definitely plan on visiting sometime soon 😁
I've visited London a few times and I live an hour or two away from the main city, and I can say that London is a lot more expensive then a lot of other areas in England, And people seem to act differently there too :)
Superb videos and thanks for the genuine and precise inputs. Visiting soon, and will certainly be using most of what I have gathered. Also I must say, no one does Indian food better than India :)
Oh awesome Anne! Welcome! If you're still struggling with making your itinerary have a look at my 3-Day London Itinerary: loveandlondon.com/3-day-london-itinerary Enjoy the rest of my videos!
British ale is best served at around 15 degrees Celsius 59 degrees Fahrenheit but lager is served chilled, also the first coffee shops opened in London in the 1650s before any tea shops.
London doesn't have to be expensive at all. Buy your food from a supermarket or eat at Spoons as the prices are the same no matter where you are in the UK. Also you can walk everywhere instead of using the tube. Most Indian restaurants in the UK serve the exact same menu of northern Indian dishes and this is because the majority of British Indians are Punjabi. Having been to India I can say that the food in the UK is quite different to the food in the UK.
You can get all sorts of Indian food in London , you just have to look a little harder. Try Southern Indian, Keralan, Punjabi and Sri Lankan , they are very different to the usual Bengali cuisine .
Love your videos!! About to go over to London with my two sons (for the 6th time, but its been a while) Ive shared all of your videos with my family.....You said you lived in VA (me too!!! Richmond and Im from Alexandria) but now live in sunny HOT Tampa, FL ....Cant thank you enough for the helpful information!!!!
@@williamolsen8464 How can you say that. It's the most user friendly BIG city in the world. You must be having a very sad life. I'm a Londoner and it's a big town, like NYC, maybe you just don't get it. Brightons a lovely place and I go there a lot, but , move there no....
Beer is Ale, served not cold as takes away the flavour. Larger ( similar to Bud etc) is served cold. One big difference is ice, over in the US there seems to be ice with every drink, here in the UK you need to ask for ice if you want it in a drink, so a coke will come chilled, but no ice unless asked for.
The major reason it's not a backpacker's dream is because they tend to bring their 'Everest trek quality bags' n the tube. I don't agree about the food either. The delis at the supermarkets are amazing.
Still loving your vidoes, might have to start something myself lol. You have the culture size bang on, apart from the prices, London is very over priced, I also lived there for 11 years. Typical 3 bed house in London around £3000.00 or £1300.00 per month to rent, move out of London to and go further north, Where I live at the minute, you can get 3 bed house for £70.000 and rental is about £300.00 and some great cities and places
Haha,I did laugh at "it rains in London quite a lot!" I stay in Central Scotland and I can say with certainty that London weather is hugely less rainy that Scotland!
Love and London - loved your comment about British food. I saw a YT clip whereby a young, American, lady tried a Cornish Pasty. Her comment was "Cornish Pasty? Seriously?" She seemed to think we ONLY eat traditional foods like a Cornish Pasty and that they are the grand total of British cuisine. Glad to see you acknowledge that we do, in fact, have good food here. Take care, hun.
Come to Eastbourne and Lewes too in East Sussex. The beach in E'bourne is stunning with white cliffs and palms and common lizards in summer. Has it's own microclimate
Speaking of the rain, can you believe how crazy the flooding and delays were today? Crazy! I couldn't take Waterloo period and then I had to wait for three busses to fill up before I could get back to campus from the sheer amount of people trying to get home on delayed busses. It was no one's fault really, but damn. The rain from last night threw the transport system for a loop!
Another wonderful and helpful video! You're getting me so stoked for my trip. Glad to hear that about coffee--I'm a huge fan of both tea and coffee so I'm looking forward to sampling the London varieties. Any good tea/coffee shops you'd recommend?
Hi Lana, so glad you found it helpful :) There are TONS of good coffee shops, mostly run by aussies and kiwis actually! The most popular ones are Monmonth Coffee and Grind, both have locations around the city. For tea, you can get that anywhere really! I'd go for an afternoon tea experience somewhere if you have the time.
I love Poppy's for fish and chips (I'm not a fan really but it's great there and they've won some crazy good fish awards, yes that's a thing). Mother Mash is popular for it's Bangers and Mash, here are some other good places for it! www.timeout.com/london/blog/smashing-stuff-its-your-favourite-bangers-and-mash-in-london-010716
Language. We Canadians have an advantage, we mostly use the American words (Spelt the British way) but also know the British ones, probably because there are more British people in Canada and more British TV. It's funny, British people will assume that we are American, then when we say, actually I'm Canadian, they will give long groveling apologies.
I once worked with a Canadian guy here in London and I thought he was American. ( its that accent) He went really crazy when I asked him what area of America he was from
The warm beer is generational. Today we drink lager mostly which is always chilled. Before WWII bitter was the most popular beer (darker but not as dark as Guinness) and it is served close to room temperature by tradition and because home fridges were smaller.
Lori Loeb it's not 'warm'. It's served at the temperature it's supposed to be at. Lagers need to be chilled to hide the taste. Different beers require different temperatures to bring out the flavours.
Lori Loeb in the UK we also serve coffee and tea hot as well; because that's the appropriate temperature for them to be served at. Ales and stouts should not be served cold. Lagered beers should be served cold, but apart from Wrexham Lager the UK didnt produce lagered beers until the 1950s, then it was perceived as a woman's drink.
Interesting. You do touch on one of the issues that people from the English regions have about London - that it's foully expensive and you will be marked down as "not local" and ripped off. Not entirely true. But there is a big gulf between London and not-London and it gets more marked the further north you go. London is at the heart of the richest and most affluent region of Britain: (and yes, there ARE large pockets of poverty and deprivation down there too. Buit the gulf between "affluent" and "impoverished" is very marked in London. more so than anywhere else in England, with the possible exception of north Cheshire.) The further north you go in England, the more there's a suspicion that London is a cancer tumour on the rest of England that got affluent at our expense and that because government/decision making is concentrated down there, it gets the best of everything. (You also meet Londoners who maintain that they'd be paying less in tax if they didn't have to sustain the impoversihed North, so animosity goes both ways.) One thing you can be sure of: the house I live in in South Manchester is valued at perhaps £95,000. Exactly the same sort of property, we noticed in Wembley on a visit there, is priced in North London at around £320,000. A real WTF? moment. That illustrates the disparity between regions and why there's a lot of needle between the regions.... general affluence in the SE is way ahead of large parts of Britain. And having said that, we found a pub in Wembley that serves CHEAPER beer than Manchester - another WTF? moment that confounded expectations. Prejudice in the North of England is that beer in London is half as good and twice or three times as expensive. Well... we found in Wembley it was cheaper and at least as good....
Love love love your channel! Going to Europe next year so watching every travel video in excitement. Will be my first time out of Australia so I'm crazy excited to go. Do you know of any good vegetarian restaurants around London?
Hi Monica, thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment :) Congrats on your big trip! Lots of places here are veggie-friendly but here's a great list to start you off with veggie-only spots: www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/londons-best-restaurants-for-vegetarian-food
I have allergies to peanuts and nuts and was wondering if there was a way to ask if the food in some places can contain peanut and be understood easily?
Hey Amelie! Just tell them what you've just said :) Lots of people have allergies here so just communicate this to your server when you sit down. You'll be fine!
Oxford?? Super English? Anything but!! Loads of international students, massively multicultural and full of different languages, food, music which will blow your senses!
hi jess I just come back from my London trip it was very good , we have a good time , honestly I didn't break my bank because I try different foods including also American food to kind if balance , now I only didn't like one thing , the people is Rude with tourist , I don't know if it was a wrong perception but that was my feeling 😕
Hi! That's great that you didn't break the bank. Sorry to hear you feel that way, I haven't heard that before but maybe you just met a string of unfriendly people, it happens everywhere :)
hi I love your videos. Found most of it very useful! However, could you maybe do a museum guide? I believe there are many and can't possibly do all so just wanted to do the "must visit" kinds.. and BTW India has better Indian food.. reason, our spices in India are far better quality.. :)
The best Indian chefs come to London, they use the same authentic spices freshly ground, ( you can buy the finest ingredients from all over the world in London ), the biggest difference is it's much more expensive.
Can you suggest some good restaurants for traditional English food, as well as other cuisines? I will be going to London the end of August and don't want to get stuck eating at tourist traps or places that doesn't have the best tasting food. Any suggestions would be helpful. THANKS! :)
Hi Tree! Here are some of my favourite food spots: loveandlondon.com/7-food-spots-in-london-worth-visiting/ and you can find traditional English food at any good pub! Hope that helps a bit. Try to stay away from restaurants and pubs right near the huge touristy areas, most aren't the best!
Adna Dautović go to a place called Whitby in Yorkshire. Best fish and chips on the planet. Don't worry about the fish and chips anyway, just make sure you leave London for at least one day. There is so much more to England than that horrible city
British "Indian" food is magnificent, but it isn't Indian. Many local "curry house" takeaway or small restaurants show more of a Bangladesh heritage. Despite this, British Indian Restaurant food has diverged from what is eaten in India and surroundings to a certain extent and has sort of become its own thing. A wonderful thing.
Authentic Indian food is available only in India and no where else. Indian cusine is much much much more than Butter Chicken and tikkas etc. Most Europeans won't even be able to handle the spices we add. So I'll say British serving Indian food is a whole new thing 😂
The way I view Indian food in the UK is how Chinese food is portrayed in USA. Stuff is carried over originally, but if you ask for Mongolian beef in Shanghai, you will get laughed at.
Hi Eli! I won't be talking about my opinion about Brexit because it's not what this channel is about, and I want to keep things positive. Since this is a channel for visitors to London, however, I will tell you that since the pound is so low right now, I'd recommend buying your pounds for your next visit to the UK ASAP!
Thanks im sorry. I didnt mean to bother. I love your channel !! im not intrested in politics i just thought we can have a first hand opinion. Again ,sorry. Xoxo
You did not bother at ALL Eli :) You're not the only person to ask too! Please don't apologize :) Sorry, hope my response didn't come off harsh, I didn't mean it that way!
In the same way that Mexican food in the US is a million times better than in the UK BUT I have to agree about Indian food though. When I lived in LA for a long time, Mexican food was my favorite but since moving to London almost 3 years ago (or should I say moved back to London since I was born in East London but moved to LA at a young age) Indian food has definitely become my favorite food, it is amazing
Love and London i was there once and they charged me almost 10 pounds for a tip , i thought it was disgusting , where im from a 50 cent/1 euro tip will be given to the nicest of employees only
It should have said "optional service charge"... but that's what happens when you travel, you experience different ways of doing things :) In the US, we tip even more-- 15%-20%!!
it is not legal. if a price is advertised, that is the price that has to be paid. If they are any additional charges such as compulsory service charge or a credit card processing fee, that legally has to be made clear in advance.
You published this on June 23, the day of the EU referendum and said things are super expensive here. Ironically Britain is really cheap for tourists now because of the fall in the pound caused by Brexit.
Love and London I think you find that most English people are sick of being asked but are too polite to say anything about it. I actually think it's a bit racist
WTF has asking about drinking tea got to do with being racist, what has tea got to do with race? It's imbeciles such as you that make everything about race!!!
@ mrlozmoor The same as Scottish, Irish, Welsh, French, Spanish, American (unless you are referring to the Red Indian) Canadian (again unless you are referring to the indigenous Indian) Portuguese, the list is endless. Most races on the planet have had their DNA mixed with other races, there are very few 'pure' races on the planet.
the royal family's last name was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha before king George V changed it to Windsor in 1917. So they aren't 100% British or at lest the Queen at any rate.
This did give me a giggle. The Family Windsor has been German. But don't forget the Queen Mother was Born in Scotland and from an ancient English family. So it's a wash really.
There's so many better places in england than London. If I was visiting from abroad I wouldn't waste my time I'd go to York or the Lake District. Or just skip England and go to the Scottish highlands.
I am a Londoner born here it would be very silly to say that racism does not exist like it exists in every country in the world but we do not accept it and will slap it down if ever it rears its ugly head London is the MOST DIVERSE CITY IN THE WORLD and if you ever hear it then report it straight away and it will be dealt with I have to honestly admit the only racism I have ever heard or seen comes from tourists who's cultures need adjusting somewhat for the future.Best wishes from London
A little useless information, while the queen is English as it gets. Her great great grandfather, was German, queen Victoria's husband Albert's name was saxe Coburg, which the king changed to Windsor during ww1.
London is one of the least typical English places in England !!!!! . The English have moved away from London in vast numbers in the last 30 years or so and now around half of the people living in London were not even born in England.
It started more than 30 years ago. It's gotten more and more expensive. My great-grandmother was born in (@ home) Stepney, she said her mother was born in Whitechapel. My Grandmother was born in Southwark. My father was born in Peckham. I was born in Greenwich. Each generation, just a little further out. Most of the family are around Eltham and Sidcup now. Also, out of all the relatives in this line, only my father married and English person. The rest all married foreigners, myself included. Seems like a tradition that Londoners to marry foreigners.
