Really great editing and music choices. The four of you seem SO happy together. Subbed to your channel - look forward to catching up with the rest of your vids...👍
Beautifully filmed & wonderfully informative. A great example of what to do when filming. The towns & countryside are truly spectacular. Thanks for this 👍👍👍
Welcome to England. The thought of me hiring a rental car and driving it out of London would scare the hell out of me - and I`ve been driving on our roads since 1984. How someone who doesn`t subscribe to driving on the left does it, I`ll never know. The worst city I`ve ever had to drive through is Dublin, EIRE. It`s a fabulous city, but its roads are a nightmare. `First time I went to Spain ( an unbelievably historic and exciting country ) we got into a hire - car, having to get between Santiago de Compostela (the city of `St James of the Field of Stars,` in Galicia ) to Valladolid - a 12 hour drive. The driver in my car was a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and within 5 minutes of the start of the journey had hit another car....... We arrived in Valladolid at midnight. It was a city of 400,000 population, and we had to find our way to St Alban`s College ( The English College, Valladolid ). None of us, at the time, spoke Spanish. Not even our friend the Professor of Linguistics, Harding Reese. We found a Police Station, which looked like a Fortress, and Gareth Jones - one of my fellows - managed to convince some police officers where we needed to be. They got in their cars and asked us to follow them. They sped through traffic lights with their blue lights flashing and we followed them through red lights, fearing to lose them. We eventually arrived at the college. The following day a young English Priest ( the college was built to educate English / British lads who wanted to become Catholic Priests, but were forbidden to do so in England under the reign of Henry VIII ) took us on a tour of the college. At the time the place was being renovated. A library was found in the old college and from it our young Priest / Host drew out some books. He pointed out to us, through various of the books he showed us, some passages / paragraphs that had been scribbled / erased out by ink - pen, at the hands of one of the members of the Order of Preachers. This is to say, by a member of The Spanish Inquisition. It was history come alive before my eyes - a terrible one but not to be denied. There I go : I started this post by wishing you only a welcome to England and expecting it to stop there. But it is travel I love.
Ps, `also got arrested in Rome by inadvertently intruding onto Soviet Union Territory at its Mission to Italy there in 1985. It was the machine - gun the soldier pointed at us that did it. I can`t remember what we told him that persuaded him that our arrival was entirely unintentional. We were just looking for a Padre with the Stigmata ( wounds of Christ ) upon his body. As if a member of the Soviet Army would believe that, eh ? But it was true - and the next day we found a bus to San Vittorino, to meet a chap called Padre Gino.
I’m just wondering what you call small settlements in the US? A couple of places you described as towns are in fact villages e.g. Lacock and Castle Combe ( which BTW is pronounced with a long o sound, as in cool!). Enjoyed your trip through the Cotswolds.
Anybody who is a Jane Austen fan will recognise Lacock village. It has been used as the setting for several film adaptations of her work and other dramas set in the period.
I once had a job which required me to visit Chipping Camden. When I got there I could not find the place I was looking for (this was before the days of sat nav) so I went into the local tourist information office. The people in there didn't know where it was either, but then it suddenly dawned on me that I was in the wrong town! I had confused Chipping Camden with Chipping Norton.
How do Americans drive on the right side of the road? How do you keep your sword arm free to fight off the bandits and highwaymen? Cause of course you wouldn't be left handed cause that would make you in league with the devil right?... I don't make the rules. 😁
Nice video but Laycock and Castle Combe and Chippenham in the Cotswolds. I live in the Cotswold and I would consider those places not in the Cotswolds. Anyway I must stop nit picking and say your very welcome to England.
Castle Combe Wiltshire is cotswolds it’s in my cotswolds book as is Wiltshire town’s of Bradford on Avon and corsham and malmesbury . Bath is right on the edge central cotswolds is more bibury Cirencester Moreton bourton on water. Any way beautiful area
oh wow i didnt realise where laycock was .its smack bang in the centre of loads of neolithic monuments like silbury hill ,avebury ,west kennet longbarrow
@@MagentaOtterTravels I KNOW, British aren't Built for it ,We're a bunch of miserable Twats ,but happy when it Rains, Totally Bonkers if we get a real winter. 😀
I know Lacock (and The Red Lion) from the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice. A lovely wee village. Never saw any Harry Potter movies. Very close to Bath, another lovely city.
Ernst and Young - now EY - founders were Scotsman, Arthur Young and American, Alvin Ernst. So, neither from the Cotswolds, although they would have been a couple of the few who could afford to live there now.
I have heard of Lacock! It’s supposed to be beautiful so we have been wanting to go there! I didn’t realise it was in The Cotswolds. I love going to real life awesome places that were also HP filming spots…. like Gloucester Cathedral and Alnwick Castle!💕
Glad that you enjoyed your time in the UK. Hope that you come back again and venture a bit further north as the lake district is beautiful as is the cities of York and Durham etc. Scotland is amazing too.
Great film feature. As a Cotswold local it reminded me I need to visit places local to me too. So much to visit and see. Looking for your next video now.
Thanks for watching David! We feel the same way about where we live in the California! There's not nearly has much history as the English country side but we still need to adventure in our own backyard more.
