Girl Gone London - American Explores the Beautiful English Countryside
Added 2025-07-02 07:00:07 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/SmjNxS7sBDw?si=cCN2S3eZ90hkA3by
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I’m sure you’ve had a plethora of recommendations for your holiday to England in 2026. And you won’t be able to do everything. But as you’re nature lovers, I’d really recommend walking some of the south West Coast path in Cornwall. It’s spectacular.
NJ
2025-09-07 11:04:24 +0000 UTCInteresting fact...our Royals own so much land that they charge rent to our struggling Public Services. There's a bit of property where this richest of Families, charge our National Health Service to park their ambulances...
Karl Devereux
2025-08-01 16:16:33 +0000 UTCMadonna bought a house in England, it had a public footpath going through her property, she tried to get it closed...she moved back to America
buster
2025-07-18 17:46:03 +0000 UTCI'd love for them to watch that, but who knows what the copyright issues would be!
Emily
2025-07-07 15:23:41 +0000 UTCShe's great. One of my favourite honorary Brits.
Terrahawk
2025-07-03 17:23:48 +0000 UTCAs someone whose from the UK whose been to the New Forest it's absolutely stunning. If you can find a video on it you shuold give it a go
The Snow Dog
2025-07-03 17:05:06 +0000 UTCThis might be a longshot, but since you liked Jeremy Clarkson in his other shows, and you like looking at the British countryside, the Amazon Prime series "Clarkson's Farm" would be a great one to watch.
Jim Barnes
2025-07-03 01:37:09 +0000 UTCAmerica also has some incredible countryside and nature, but I think we are lucky that we are able to access our countryside much more easily. Benefits of living in a tiny ass country!
Jay
2025-07-02 22:11:20 +0000 UTCPersonally I think Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is a far better show to watch for that, as it shows a wide variety of British (and French) locations.
Jay
2025-07-02 22:09:02 +0000 UTCGoogle hadrian's wall it sort of underlines the bottom of Scotland and you can for free walk along it from one side of the country to the other over 80 miles, you cant wild camp but you can hire sherpers to transport your rucksack and tents to the next camp site for ease. it takes around 5 days to complete if your fit enough.
Daz
2025-07-02 18:44:32 +0000 UTCSorry for all the spam 😂 we do have some fairly big woods too but nothing on the scale of the US mostly for one reason, late 18th and 19th century naval supremacy - the ships had to be built from something
Kieran B
2025-07-02 17:54:19 +0000 UTCHedgerows are amazing, every region of the country has its own distinctive laying style that’s hundreds of years old
Kieran B
2025-07-02 17:48:56 +0000 UTCThere 140,000 miles of those public footpaths - I did an ultramarathon last year and that’s along the Ridgeway, which is the oldest road in England - it’s been used since the Bronze Age 5000 years ago. It’s 87 miles long in total , and there’s loads of long walks like Coast to Coast and others you can do. Ironically I’m now writing this after just passing thought someone’s big garden on a footpath (with an old shell of a windmill at one end) and now along the river. Have just sat down by a fishing spot with my feet over the river while I finish watching the video 😂 It makes a huge huge difference as you say, one reason we have a walking culture here. And as I mentioned before I feel it’s absence deep in my soul in the US, as stunningly beautiful as much of the US is - here you’re connected to it, it’s everywhere
Kieran B
2025-07-02 17:44:38 +0000 UTCYeah New York gets way more rain than London in terms of rainfall for example
Kieran B
2025-07-02 16:57:51 +0000 UTCThe green is why the dairy and beef cattle are all pretty much grass fed as standard, it's not a USP it's just the norm
Kieran B
2025-07-02 16:55:56 +0000 UTCIt's so different to the US, whenever I'm there i miss the countryside, sure there's beautiful and vast parks (and small parks) but you have to drive to get to them; when I lived in Sheffield I could walk 25 minutes and I'd be in the city centre and 25 minutes and I'd be on the edge of the Peak District, all it took was walking a couple of miles if that and you'd have no idea you were just next to the 6th largest city in England. Because the planning and zoning rules are very different you don't get the same sprawl, there's a much clearer line between town, city and countryside - wherever you are it's fairly accessible. There's definitely much more variety to the English countryside than just the Shire, that's a very particular part of England; look at the Peak District, Yorkshire Moors and the Lake District for example.
Kieran B
2025-07-02 16:50:59 +0000 UTCI don't drive and experience this type of countryside plenty, although it might be easier it's far from impossible
Kieran B
2025-07-02 16:45:24 +0000 UTCIf its beautiful countryside and landscapes you're after come up north 😎
ElDubz420
2025-07-02 14:47:34 +0000 UTCI'm amazed nobody has suggested Clarkson's farm as a series to watch given how they love the English countryside and British humour so much. I'm certain they would love it.
David Broome
2025-07-02 14:20:53 +0000 UTCYou would be amazed by the footpaths. Describing what they are doesn't them justice. Look at this map, the red lines. As you zoom in more and more just keep appearing. https://footpathmap.co.uk/map/?zoom=6.4&lng=-2.85235&lat=52.91706
Simon Robbins
2025-07-02 12:51:56 +0000 UTCI live in London and have done so most of my life, apart from a year in Sydney, Australia, and part-time in Italy, where my wife comes from. I would say that the climate in the south-east of England overall is my favourite. No extremes, be they bush fires, floods or snow storms.
Thomas
2025-07-02 12:47:52 +0000 UTCYeah I hate the beach; can’t stand it
Moody Marco
2025-07-02 12:33:25 +0000 UTCAs someone who was born and brought up in London, the uk countryside was not something that I was massively familiar with. It's only in recent years, when I moved to Wales with my wife and daughter, that I've really begun to appreciate it. One thing I would say, though, having experienced the last 7 years in Wales, is that the temperature and climate is much warmer and drier in London and the south east of the uk - I mean markedly so. I used to live in Kent as well, and that used to get very dry and hot during the summrr summer. I imagine it has a lot to do with how flat it is compared to the rolling hills and valleys of Wales. I mean I've been in London this last week visiting my my mum and the temperature has been 34 (94f) for the last couple of days, and 30 for the few days before that.
Paul08031977
2025-07-02 11:52:45 +0000 UTCGet yersens down the Yorkshire Dales
Daz Parker
2025-07-02 11:22:03 +0000 UTCAs the UK is relatively small in terms of area, the countryside particularly needs organising and protecting by laws. Many large towns and cities have a green-belt area around them as well to protect against urban sprawl. Regards greenery we do tend to moan about the drizzle and clouds and not appreciate what it produces. Being in the North-East corner of the Atlantic the UK and Ireland benfits from the Gulf-Stream warm waters meaning very mild temperatures and very few harsh Winters, unlike Canada which is on a similar lattitude.
Fordy7169
2025-07-02 11:06:26 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure NZ is on any nature-lovers bucket-list <3
Christopher Bergren
2025-07-02 10:57:00 +0000 UTCAs someone from Sweden, with a pretty dull nature, who spent his first 5 years in a green hippie volkswagen-bus travelling around England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland (b4 heading to Normandy and all that) I think each country has its own specific nature To me, I still keep closest the hills, forests and coziness of the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland (Newcastle, NI specifically) But there is so much diverse beauty in nature, so to me it is as stupid to judge nature to nature as it is to have idiotic music competions like ESC =) Truly. It is not a contest, it is just a great palette of nature we as humans are lucky to live in and which we obviously slowly will destroy, just like we do with our own human relationships ;) But let's hope nature outlives us!
Christopher Bergren
2025-07-02 10:52:11 +0000 UTCNope Middle Earth is down here in New Zealand!
SimonNZ
2025-07-02 10:18:49 +0000 UTCEngland is a small country, but you will still need a car to access the sort of countryside you saw in these images. One alternative would be to spend a couple of days in one of the smaller older towns, of which there are many, where you can Uber out to nearby villages and explore as well as take in lunch at a traditional pub (usually situated next to the village green and duck pond). My brother lives in Woodbridge, Suffolk, about two hours from me in West London, but easily accessible by train. It’s a charming riverside town with the bonus of an amazing historical site a few minutes away (by Uber) called Sutton Hoo. Eighty years ago there was a massive treasure find in a farmer’s field. It was the treasure of a Saxon king from 1,400 years ago complete with the remnants of his 90ft ship. It’s all very family friendly, with stuff for the kids to do plus pushchair or buggy friendly trails and you can picnic there. There is a beautiful 2021 movie about the Sutton Hoo find, called The Dig, starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan on Netflix. Here’s the trailer https://youtu.be/JZQz0rkNajo?si=CJXh4bFPYzXi2FUN
Thomas
2025-07-02 09:29:41 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9luNBiapz1U try this in wales much better
fpvxart
2025-07-02 09:04:56 +0000 UTCFrom around 7 till 15 I grew up literally across the road from a woodlands, complete with a big field with a park and lake. Any time I wasn't playing football, I spent exploring the woods. And just up the street was a vast grassland area that lead to "the flash" which is a wetland area. I do at times miss being woke up by quacking ducks. Heres a drone shot of the area I lived https://i.ibb.co/Lhs5CNhd/area.jpg
Danny
2025-07-02 07:50:16 +0000 UTCGood reaction guys. As you're coming over here next year, I feel this may be the start of a long run of videos where you plan your itinerary 😁 Your excitement in this one was evident, and you really ain't seen nothing yet. You watch the right videos and you'll end up needing a couple of months over here to cover the itinerary you'll build up. 😁
Simon Crockford
2025-07-02 07:49:27 +0000 UTCLovely video though in terms of pictures a bit South of England centric. It is very beautiful especially when combined with old village architecture (cotswolds,oxfordshire etc) but there are other and possibly more dramatic landscapes north (peak district, my own home country the Lake district, Yorkshire dales) , eastward East Anglia - flat, some marshland the Norfolk broads but particularly beautiful villages and country churches. West you have the rugged coastline of Devon and Cornwall and we haven't even mentioned the mountainous Wales and Scotland or Northern Ireland! Check out videos on any of these. We have a more varied countryside than the original video had time to show.
Kourga
2025-07-02 07:43:25 +0000 UTC
