Hi I'm Joel and I'm Lia and today we're talking about places to go in the UK
that you might not thought of before for a holiday
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so these are destinations that we've been to ourselves that we really like in
the UK but you might not necessarily have heard about them to go on holiday
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some discounts you can use below. yeah so here's some destinations like Joel said
that we've been to all of these places on this list so 100% recommend these places
to have a holiday so we're going to start with cities so some cities
obviously there's London um maybe we'll skip over London because it's such a
huge pace and it's the most obvious of all holiday destinations in the UK other
cities that you can check out. Near me, where my family live is about an
hour away from Birmingham and Birmingham is an amazing city and it's got
incredible shopping... just shopping really um shopping and culture theatre, cool just
really nice city um and also great if you're trying to learn the Birmingham accent
just go around there just listen and take it all in
it's quite entertaining I love Birminham, I know you do you're
saying it wrong it's Birmingham Birminham anyone who's not from like
the Midlands calls it anyone from London calls it Birminham it's Birmingham. It annoys her so much
It annoys me so much. If you wanna annoy her just call it Birminham. Anyway next one
Manchester's really nice I've only been there once or twice it's a really good
city it's sort of like the northern London
like loads of media companies like the BBC have moved up to Manchester from
London so it's like quite booming at the moment there's good theatre there's good
shops it's just quite a nice city also Manchester's got a really great
university and so has Birmingham so if you're thinking about places to study
for university the cities are incredible you've obviously got Manchester Birmingham
Leeds any of the London universities you'll have an amazing time yeah
Newcastle has got an incredible vibe we went there for some screen tests and we
only spent sort of like nine hours in the city but just the bars and the
nightlife as well there's a really good chicken shop as well, when we used to eat chicken
yeah that was fun that was really fun everything was so cheap, compared to London
not like not like ridiculously cheap but just cheaper than London and
Birmingham prices only a bit less than London but yeah if you branch out. Also, Cardiff
is really nice they've got massive castle there called Cardiff Castle and
it's just amazing loads of lovely grounds and yeah really good night life as well
if you're into that sort of thing yeah - partying. Joel and I aren't really into that no we're
more into work rather than partying. Married to the job
Married to the job yeah let's move on from cities so moving away towns or not not
quite countryside but just a little bit more rural like sort of seaside as well as
seaside towns yeah Brighton Brighton is really good amazing, is Brighton
technically a city, no? yeah, I think so. What makes a city? Cathedral I think. Is it? Yeah I
think if it's if you've got a Cathedral that makes it a city if it doesn't have
a cathedral then it's a town oh all right that makes sense yeah
Coventry Coventry Cathedral so if I just think of if it's got a cathedral then
Isn't that interesting? It's a weird rule in England and then towns are
just the surrounding places, yeah slightly smaller or they might not even be
smaller it's just they don't have a cathedral I don't know why that's the
rule someone let us know why that's the rule
there'll be some of you know it alls that will know it. So Brighton is
really good I the lanes in Brighton yes it's so nice.
there's cobbled streets with lovely little shops and once you've kind of explored it for
about an hour or two you're kind of like oh I'm done but then you realise
there's more yeah oh never been down these parts of the lanes before. Also have you been to Bournemouth? It's
really lovely. Don't think I have been to Bournemouth, no. But has Bournemouth got
sea? Yeah. Just checking! My geography's amazing!
I've been to Weymouth, is that far? That is far, it's really far down.
So, you've got lots of like surfing culture
when you go a bit more towards the sea seaside in England like theres surfery shops
and like suddenly you're like oh we do water sports here interesting
like you just forget there's an optional when you live in London. Such a Londoner yeah you completely forget and it
actually feels like you're going on holiday if you live in England and you
go somewhere else it's just different surroundings like oh this is really nice
I took a really nice bike ride and over Easter, along the sort of there's
like almost along the coast of like Brighton, and it was so nice, I was like this is a
gorgeous Easter day! It's called promenade isn't it? promenade but then just further, so I was in the middle of nowhere! So countryside
so um countryside we've got
Stratford-upon-Avon which is sort of like a little bit of the town but has
also got loads of countryside and loads of green and what's really nice about
Stratford-upon-Avon is that it's the birthplace of Shakespeare so you've got
loads of sort of like touristy things and historical things to check out
whilst you're there it's amazing you've got the RSC so you can actually go and
watch a Shakespeare play outside of London and just really sort of take it
all in submerge yourself in like British culture and theatre writing it's like
amazing it's so good it's really really nice another place which is where I'm
from is Winchester which used to be the capital of England before it was London
back in the day like, hundreds of years ago but again that classes as a city because it's got a
cathedral but it's surrounded by loads of countryside so it's a really great
place to go for historic buildings I think they've got
one of the oldest buildings in the UK and it's just really lovely cobbled
streets nice it looks a bit Hogwarts-y really but again close to the
countryside so you can go on day trips out of the city
speaking of Hogwarts you can really see where JK Rowling got her inspiration
from if you go to Edinburgh coz obviously she was writing Harry Potter
while she was living up in Edinburgh and sometimes when you're walking down
some of these cobbled streets, it's so Harry Potter-y and Hogwarts-y it's
unreal you're like oh my god I can see her vision it's so amazing so obviously
you've got Edinburgh which is a city and you've got all the amazing shops and
stuff but if you come more into sort of like old Edinburgh, you've got
Edinburgh castle there's so much going on there especially if you were to go in
August time because there's a huge the biggest theatre festival in the world
going on, the biggest theatre and comedy festival the Edinburgh Fringe so if you
manage to get over there in August if you book in early before it gets super
expensive then you can have an incredible summer in the UK
never been to Scotland really want to go oh definitely
got to go it's the best. It's cold though cold place! it's cold and don't
forget with Scottish currency you can use British Pounds over there and they do use
sterling but all of their notes look different yeah so it's quite annoying
when you come back to London because people look at you a bit funny but you
have to say it's sterling you can use it it's legal tender another lovely place
in the countryside which is honestly deep into the countryside there's no
town sort of nearby, in Surrey if you go to Dorking um I went to school near
there and in Holmbury St Mary there's the house that is used in The Holiday the
film with Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz like sometimes tourists drive past it
and stop and have photos with the cottage it's like adorable
and just the Surrey hills and the countryside there you're so cut off
and away from everything is amazing if you want a really really rural
experience like Dorking but different is the Yorkshire Dales I went there a few years
ago literally in the middle of nowhere just rolling hills full of sheep and
stone built walls and everything the cottages are all made out of stone it's
so beautiful that's amazing we went to it was near a place called Wensley Dale
which is where Wallace and Gromit they like their cheese
from Wensley Dale and we went to the cheese factory and we got the loads of
samples of cheese for free and we were just like eating all the cheese it was so good
I remember when I was driving down to Weymouth we drove past somewhere called
Cheddar and I was like Britain is amazing have you been to the Cheddar
Gorge no amazing, there's so many places that I want to go to in the UK
and I live here and I've not been to these places so good and also Britain is
so green there's so many different shades of green definitely I know that
sounds really like you know "ra-ra" but sometimes you're just looking and you're like
there's so many shades of green beautiful and the thing is because
our country's so small even if you're visiting London you can always go on a
day trip out somewhere else get a train somewhere else one hour to
Brighton you can even go to Paris for the day you can, it's ridiculous
You can get the train there. Why haven't we done that?
too expensive. No we can book it in advance and just be like "oh we're going to Paris that week
for a fiver" yeah so good! Anyway,
hopefully you found those helpful do let us know if you're planning on going
anywhere else in the UK other than London and if you want any specific
recommendations we might be able to make another video on this subject yeah
pending this yeah and we are thinking of doing a little series, aren't we? Of going to
places in the Uk and like vlogging it and giving you facts about each different place I think
it'd be really cool if Joel and I went to a place that went off found stuff
separately and then came back. Imagine that as a TV show ok
guys I hope you enjoyed this video and we will see you next time thank you