The pedestrian-only courtyards and streets are found in every town and city throughout all of Europe. Europe gives pedestrians and public transportation much greater consideration and priority than America does.
I'm so pleased that you enjoyed York, it is a wonderful city, (sorry you didn't get to see the railway museum, I think you would have been blown away.) It's so wonderful to hear you say that everyone has been friendly, Yorkshire folk usually are but then I'm biased!
M & S, colloquial, Marks & Sparks So happy that you seemed to love York, as much as I do...being a Dane, York has special historical meaning for me, Go Vikings!! or not? 🥴🤣 p.s. so funny to actually hear you say, 'it was only about 1/2 a mile away' You did some fine walking in the UK!! hello from Denmark 🌸 🌱
M & S. English "jewry firm" that started in Leeds, 30 mls away. They did'nt much care for the "Palatines" in York. Same'ish now, turks/blackamoors, not welcome. The irony is not lost on me. A different type of malaise is "abroad", but abroad it is. For ever thus.......may be ?
York was the capital of the 'Danelaw' a legacy which continues to this day with the North/South divide Interestingly you'll only find 'by' in places within this former territory such as Derby and Grimsby
I went up the tower of York Minster many years ago, which was a huge mistake. Walking across a metal grid you could see right down through the holes. I was hugging the roof and couldn't move until a very kind American tourist helped me across. It was only one way to go. Fantastic views though! Your enthusiasm is catching. Great episode. Thank you xx
I think those "native Americans" were from Peru. They're there every time I visit which is a couple of times a year. Seems like they're playing panpipes
It's very obvious (thus far) that you've posted more vlogs from York than any other of your stop off points in the UK. I'm not personally from York but I am from Yorkshire, and there's a spark of pride that you've found a lot pleasure and contentment in 'God's own country' as Yorkshire is known. Yorkshire people are known for being direct and blunt speaking when voicing their opinions. But when they take someone to their heart, they stay there for good. When you return to the UK - and I'm certain you WILL return, make sure you make time to visit this neck of the woods (Yorkshire) again.
Nice summary guys of my home city. Yes York gets incredibly busy in the summer months with tourists. Shame you missed the national railway museum. You should visit the yorvic centre (near Fenwicks) and the yorkshore museum next time.
i have lived in york all my life sory i missed you and you probably need half a day for or more for the railway museum so glad you enjoyed your time here and its only a 5 minute walk from the minster if you come again
I don't recognise those two but a lot of those pipe players are from Bolivia or Ecuador. I've not seen any for a while but I always take the time to chat with them. Growing up in one of the Danelaw boroughs, I always love to see what York has done about its history.
So lovely isn't it! y kids used to live in York so I have spent some time there. Son lived above some shops really near the Minster. Glad you liked it.
😲Angela, you made it into CJ Explores video of York! Around 4.02 into their York video, there is a drone shot and you can clearly be seen on the wall with your navy blue jacket and orange Sainsbury's bag!!! I think Nathan is also in it,
Glad you’re having a good time. Yes York has an excellent Railway Museum and how historically it shaped the UK. Just so you know York has City status, not town. 😉. Enjoy, great having you over.
@@susansmiles2242 Yes. I said the UK, Susan. The British invented the railway and the modern gauge system used globally. I do realise there are railways all over the world, but thank you, Susan.
(9:17) Yaaaay! Great to see the 'coffee shop' guys - it brought back a lot of memories. My FIRST ever job was on Saturdays in a book shop (circa 1976). The shop additionally rented (super cheap) that very room where the coffee shop is now. It was very cramped: lined with bookshelves and just a desk, chair and wooden cash drawer. Year round it was just another storage area for books, but during the Summer, it was dusted down, and opened up on Saturdays for tourists. Not much to see, and no upstairs in those days, just the very slight chance they might see a book they liked. 1976 was a doozy of a Summer in the UK, and I'd gone to work in shorts and t-shirt, to be told I'd be manning the 'Bar book shop' that day. Very exciting, because the key to the door was friggin' gynormous! - straight out of a Frankenstein movie. Once inside it was a blissful retreat from the blazing Summer sun. The walls of the bar are solid stone (obvs) but sooo thick (about 2-3ft) that none of the heat gets in. As the day wore on, sitting down, in skimpy clothing, I began to shiver from the cold. To shop visitors it was a welcome respite, but to me, I thought I'd die of hypothermia during the biggest heatwave that Britain had seen in decades. Great video - just wonderful to see the city, all the nooks and crannies again - that we locals never usually bother with. I'll have to visit the café though - and see if it's still as chill as I remember.
It’s a pity you never made the National Railway Museum, it’s awesome, the best in the world. Also the Castle museum is really worth a visit if you ever return. I was surprised you never made the “Jorvik Centre”.
@@paulhanson5164 That's the Great Hall and only surviving part of the vanished Winchester Castle although it does contain the alleged 'King Arthur's' Round Table
The members of any given royal house didn't necessarily have much, if anything, to do with the place their title came from. York was an important town in the north of England because it had been the capital of one of the ancient kingdoms, in the same way that Winchester was important in the south because it had been capital of Wessex. In addition, York was the seat of the second archbishopric, giving it enormous power in mediaeval times. It's for those reasons that the Plantagenets named one of their sons 'Duke of York', not because they lived there. Even Richard III, a popular king in York and who died in the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, wasn't from there - he was born at Fotheringay, in Northamptonshire. He was however given a lot of land in the north and he did stay there a lot so his connection with York is stronger than most. He also had a lot of land in the south-west - maybe he just got about a bit! 😃
@@carolineb3527 It was common for the Monarch to arrive with little or no advance notice at the house of an aristocrat with their enormous retinue in tow for a day or two often longer. It would sometimes almost bankrupt the Lord/Duke as the Monarch never paid for the stay. It was a way of gaining favour with the people and the landed gentry, avoiding the plague if a Royal Palace was in a plague area, it also saved an often poor treasury money. The practice died out somewhat with the Hanovarian Kings as they spoke very little English or French, if any. Queen Victoria had to ban the speaking of German in her Court.
@@tonys1636 George l never learned English and spoke to his ministers and advisors in French. George ll learnt English although German was his native language. George lll was born in England and English was his native language. However, he could read and write in German and he studied French and Latin.
That’s funny that you accidentally photobombed someone else’s channel. So glad that you enjoyed my home town. You’ve left yourself enough to do on another visit too.
A lot of England's most stunning cathedrals are in smaller cities - Ely, Durham, Wells, Lincoln etc. Worth checking out such places if you return to the UK given how much impressed you were with the glorious York Minster.
yeah...you should have gone to the yorvik viking museum....(york is a viking name)...also...william wallace (braveheart)..laid seige to york back in the day...so much history in york..from the romans onwards..and yeah, for such a relatively small town, in the north of england!!
Used to live in York, my brother lives there and my dad lives just outside York. These videos make me want to move back (although knowing property and rent prices I can't afford to!)
You guys should consider that Hundreds of years ago some of your distant ancestors may have walked the same streets and footsteps you have been walking...
Next time, you could go to Chester to see some more walls - and there’s some Roman columns in the basement in what used to be a ladies’ clothes shop. You could go in and ask to see the ruins - the staff were quite old and asked if we wanted to see the Roman columns and not them!
Just outside Chester just over the River Dee in Handbridge is a park that was the Quarry where the Romans got the stone to build Chester, in the park is a statue to the shrine to the Goddess Minerva in its original position.
I'm glad you guys felt like locals in York. I am not from Birmingham but I promise, if you don't visit the second city, specially Birmingham City Centre, your visit to the UK is not even half way through. Birmingham library, New Street station, Bullring, Snow Hilll....
The railway museum is an absolute MUST, although i do'nt know what they're charging to get in, nowadays. The lass''s face just beams all the time; A good antidote to ya man. (Hey, ya alright, it's just how some of us are "shaped") Keep up the good work. x
If it's a public place they can't assume there won't be anyone else there, so if they'd actually asked you to leave they'd have been very entitled. They don't own the place.
I live about a 3 hour drive from York yet I've never stopped to have a look around. Drove right past it loads of times on my way to other places yet never thought to drop in. I really need to sort that out one day. Glad that you had a good time there and a bit strange that it took a vid from people from another continent to show me what I am missing.
York Minister is worth a visit at Christmas. They decorate it and have seasonal hymns. Lots of big Cathedrals in the UK. You must have passed Durham Cathedral on the train to Scotland (its visible from the Train) and thats HUGE, awe inspiring and a bit creepy
The York railway museum is very good. There’s also a Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, which isn’t very far away. There’s also the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden.
@LindyLou. Leeds also has a museum of medicine. Bradford has the Media Museum and a good Industrial Museum and there is the Mining Museum between Wakefield and Huddersfield. Keighley has the Worth Valley Railway which goes to Haworth, where there is the Bronte Museum. Piece Hall in Halifax is also worth a visit and I have only mentioned West Yorkshire.
York Minster, Westminster Abbey, and other Anglican/Episcopalian cathedrals open for tourist visits after morning services, and close before Evensong. Though the public may, of course, attend these services and enjoy both the worship and the fine choirs. On Sundays, these places generally only open for tourists after noon, as the mornings are dedicated to Eucharist and Matins services. BTW, the "native American" musicians you noted were from either Bolivia or Colombia.
Loved this video of you guys exploring my birthplace. ♥️ Our all girls school used to sing in The Minster for special services. Shame you didn't get to see the Castle Museum ( somewhere else your ticket lasts a whole year). Glad you liked it though.... we're not like London at all. Everyone rushing around with no time for each other ( it's even a culture shock for us the first time) 😂 Us Yorkshire people are possibly the most welcoming and friendly people you can meet and I hope you experienced some true Yorkshire hospitality during your stay. ❤️
Yeah, like other folks have said, it's a shame you couldn't go to the Yorvik Centre. I remember going there on school trips a few times when I was a kid, always enjoyed it. The York Dungeon would have been another great day out. Maybe next time...
Chichester cathedral is amazing. The poet john keats wrote his poem the eve of st Agnes after gazing upon a cloister in which a nun was imprisoned.She was said to be so beautiful.
Yet again you found a coffee shop in a strange historical setting first Edinburgh Castle now York City Wall, I actually think it is cool that these places are still used rather than just roped off to look at. Loving these videos & I hope you come back soon
Just FYI, the walls are known as the Bar Walls, named after the four gates, called Bars, which were the historical entrances to the city. In fact you were at one of the Bars during your walk. The best known is Micklegate Bar, known for it's pub run, then Bootham Bar, near the Minster, named after the football ground 😅 , Monk Bar (which I always remember for having a model shop next to it, I think that it's still there), and Walmgate Bar, the one you visited without realising it. Hope you liked your visit to my home town. You might have missed it, but at Monk Bar is a museum dedicated to Richard III.
@Jill Hobson. This sounds so like my comments to Bruce on Scotland History Tours RU-vid channel. Another commenter, who spotted me also commenting on SoGal channel, now asks me how things are going in Danelaw.
Great to see you've really enjoyed your time in York, I might a bias as it's my hometown, but a fun fact is York minster is Northern Europe's largest medieval cathedral and England's largest gothic cathedral
You need at least 5 days for York. Its fab. Afternoon tea at Bettys the Jorvik centre for Vikings, railways all worth a visit . I have really enjoyed your videos. You said M&S had too many own brands but it is there marketing strategy their own brand if marketed as superior under the slogan. There's food and there's M&S food, I am new to your channel I will trawl your back catalogue, I hope to find some videos of your home state. It is probably overlooked as a an area of interest and all areas have something unique and charming
I think the man with the dancing puppet was playing a Concertina. Accordions are much larger and sound better. Pleased you enjoyed yourselves. Looking forward to the next one.
From the Minster to the Railway Museum is only a 20 minute walk, I know that you would be tired, it's been a long and full holiday for all of you, I'm really pleased that you have enjoyed York, I understand why people just go to London, but there really is far more to the UK than London, it's not a place I like, I was there last week and I was pleased to get home to my little flat by myself. I know that before you left for the UK you had many plans, but I'm pleased for you that you pruned it down quite a lot, from watching what Joel posted of his visit over here, they really did spend a lot of time on trains, you both showed the sites of where you were, Joel's was mostly trains whizzing by fields and maybe a minute or so looking into the distance, you were far more sensible and stayed in one place for a few days and had a proper look around, I'm not trying to be mean to him, but it was a good opportunity missed because he thought visiting more places ment seeing more, but it really means travelling more than seeing what is there. Your time in the Minster was a wonderful video and even though it was just a bit of fun, you both being on the walls, that too was a really good video too, you both looked so at ease with yourselves and the surroundings, you were enjoying it all and surely that is the point of going somewhere new to you. Thank you for sharing your visit to the UK with us, it was an incredible journey to watch and it certainly looked like a good one to be on too, tiring yes, but happy memories for you I certainly hope so.
Yea we didn't go to the museum because of timing not tiredness. We spent the whole first day with a couple of subscibers/friends and yes spent a half day going to stores which we chose to do because of everyone talking about them and sending us things from them and we knew we wouldn't have a chance the rest of trip to do the stores. If we go back to York though we will go there. Glad you have been enjoying the videos I know there's alot but as people helped us with the trip we wanted to make sure we filmed.
Although I live in Somerset England has some amazing history and yes I have been to most of the UK and Scotland…… by the way I’m English but I also play Native American Flute and do tribal dances those native are mostly from South America Peru Mexico etc I have played along with them
You can spend the best part of a week looking around the National Railway Museum (one of my fave attractions in York) and still not see everything, so maybe it was good that you didn't go. And yes Nando's; it is actually a South African concern which started here some time ago (20 years?) and has spread to other parts of the world. The Lemon Chicken is my best! York Minister is gobsmackingly BIG! It floors me every time I go in there. On my list to visit when I come back to 'ol Blighty in the not too distant future. Enjoy the rest of your trip. Brian
@@gedsimpson9854 Yes, you are right..... the first branch was in Rosettenville in Jo'burg now that I come to think about it. I lived in that area in the early 90's. I saw they had spread to the UK when I was over in Leeds in 2004. Good stuff.
@angela vara. In her thirties, my mum did something similar, showing she was still able to. Apparently it was about nine months later that I arrived. It made me wonder if future trips by these two might be delayed?
Did you not visit Jorvik? I’m amazed that you didn’t. In addition to being a Roman town, it was once a thriving Viking city and the Jorvik centre is the museum dedicated to it
The London tube stations have busker spots where they can sing, play or whatever. These people have to undergo auditions to be approved and gain a spot.
We went to London on holiday and all our plans went out of the window when we got to the south bank. We spent two and a half days just on the south bank
Ey UP ............................!!! A typical Yorkshire greeting instaed of hello or Hi ---------!! I'm pleased you enjoyed York as it's in YORKSHIRE otherwise referred to as "Gods own Country! ...!! When you were at the tower the mound that the tower is built on what was origioanlly the site of a small castle and was called a "Mott & Baily" castle the mound was the Mott and the Bailey was the castle ..!! You missed a really cool Museum by the tower with a VictoriaN street, it would of blown your minds to be what feels like a trip back in time or a film set ...!! As for food you missed a Yorkshire tradition of "Betty´s Tea Rooms" ... A real treat --!!! You amy of heard of "York Ham" which is a particular way of curing ham and was invented by a butcher that was based in the "SHAMBLES" ....! As you have experienced we are freindly folk in Yorkshire and very down to earth but in relating to the States in the USA, we are probably more like Texans, without the oil, but we had a lot of coal ...!! A typical Yorkshire vs Texan joke ...!! A Texan farmer visited a Yorkshire farmer and was not impresed at the size of the Yorkshire farmer', farm ...! The Texan said, "Gee it takes a whole 3 day´s just to drive from one end of my farm in Texas to the other ...!" The Yorkshire farmer as quick as a whip replied "Aye I had a car like that once, but I got rid of it and bought something reliable ...!" Glad you enjoyed your trip to the UK I used to go to York quite often as a child and made several school trips, so I know the place really well ..! M;y daughter who is twenty is currently visiting freinds in Aberdeen in Scotland and has just visited Edinburgh for a few days and is shocked at the prices ..! My daughter was born in London but has grown up in Alicante Spain, where life is a lot cheaper, even though it´s a tourist destination ...!! Isabelle is studying English at the University of Alicante and a couple of her teachers are from the USA ...!! The cost of Isabelle´s tuition is about 1200 Euros plus books per annum, her freinds who are studying at Aberdeen University have to pay no tuition fees as there is no charge for tuition in Scotland, but you would have to pay 10,000 pounds per year in England ...!! Isabelle's friends are not Spanish (Eastern European) , but grew up in Spain, and went to study at University in Scotland when the UK was still part of the EU so they could transfer at no cost ..! I know that the tuition costs seem ridiculously cheap, in relation to what what you pay in the USA ...! You may not know, that in Scotland the government passed a law that provides all females with FREE "Sanitory Towels" ...! Yet another example of Scotland taking advantage of their rich tax paying neighbous in England ...! Life must feel starnge to be back in "Dorothy Land" Stay safe ...! Cheers ANTHONY
Those squares in all the little towns are market squares. One day a week, different days, according to the town,ĺ these squares host markets. There are fruit and veg stalls, farmers butchers stalls and all sorts of random things. These markets have been held on these sites for hundreds of years and at Christmas time hot chestnut vendors and mulled wine is sold. They are the heart of the towns. The North of England is particularly rich in these.
@Leslie Allen. Ethan replied when I asked about US WW1 Museum near them. They have stuff on RU-vid and you could look further afield on Google? It would be nice for them to show us, like with the holiday in US they covered last trip.
York is a very important part of Roman & Christian history. It was while Constantine was on tour in York with his father & predecessor, the Emperor Constantius, that he was declared the new Emperor by the Roman army stationed in York. Traditionally every Emperor was formerly a soldier and so he was not really eligible to succeed his father, but the loyal garrisons in York ignored tradition and declared him the next Emperor anyways, overruling the Senate back in Rome. Constantine I. ( or Constantine the Great) went on to be one of the most influential Roman Emperors. He made Christianity the state religion of the Empire, effectively spreading Christianity to Europe and establishing the foundations of European & Western culture. It all started in York (or "Eboracum" as the Romans called the city back then. Meaning 'the place where the yew trees grow'). That Yew tree was Christianity.
Wow I did not know this so I appreciate you sharing! Definitely makes me look at the minister in a new light, Definitely have learned to do the audio guides for next time
Fenwicks is awful. I got asked to leave there when I was a student for backchatting a store detective. I was a goth/punk & got followed round. So I approached him & asked why he was following me & pointed out that if I was going to steal I would be stupid to have dressed in a way that stood out.
The UK has gone vegan and Gluten free mad. Everybody is catered to nobody is left out. I find it surprising that the UK has such a bad rep with food. I'm glad you guys had a great time exploring while here. And I'm truly appreciate you coming over for the queen's jubilee. But I feel because of the celebrations you didn't get to see London there was a distraction. How ever you did get to see us at our best.. come again your welcome. We like you but some Americans you can keep. Lol. Xx
The native pipers come to Whitby regularly - well before covid restrictions they did I've not seen them recently I think they sell their DVD's too The puppeteers are also a familiar sight in Whitby at the harbour
York is famous for Christmas shopping markets pubs golden fleece pub Theakstons bitters so on York's beautiful at Christmas atmosphere in the city and minster listening to choir for advent ..Advent is the Christian celebration of Christ birth the 12 days of Christmas the choirs in all cathedrals ministers all over the UK are amazing but it takes you back in time biblical..you have to experience it I really hope you enjoyed your holidays but honestly you need time here relax chill like us be good
The National Railway Museum will easily eat up at least half or a whole day... so if you only have a couple of hours, it's best to give it a miss as it's a Lot of walking. thanks for another great recap.....
