Good morning adventurers. We've just been packing up here at the yha we're gonna be heading out to york. To york
Roadtrip. We are supposed to go get a car, we don't know
How we're supposed to get there i think i'm supposed to book a bus ticket but i did it yeah
Because there's a train right but it's really expensive. i think so yeah i'm not really sure yeah
We kind of forgot that detail but somehow
We will get to a car rental location and then
We will be driving up to york and i think we're staying in a cute little like converted
Stable or something like that it should be really cute and we hear nothing but, amazing things about york so
We can't wait to finally see it and i think we'll get a drive in in the daylight
Which is our favorite thing so it'll be a beautiful countryside drive yeah, we hear the town's really like
Um charming which is gonna be really nice.
Uh-huh and they have a Christmas market
Yeah, it's just gonna be nice to get out of the city too cuz, we've been in London for about a week now
yeah, we always like seeing the countryside
Yeah, we'll get a nice cosy little place and go see the sights.
But i'm gonna be driving so because Allison lost her ID last night
But uh, yeah, usually she drives mainly because i have to work and edit in the car, so i'm not
Gonna, be able to edit anything but i'm also going to finally learn how to you know
Navigate the English streets so that'll be fun. He's driving on the left, it's gonna be ...
I've researched how to do the roundabouts so yeah i'm gonna get it right
It's gonna be so great and fine and i'm not gonna have to do it so that's even better
Our big plan was to leave our bags here at
The yha, and then just grab some food so we're not lugging
These around
but of course you have to use cash to reserve or to like leave you you have to pay like two pounds to leave your
Bag there, we don't have any cash because we can't get any cash out and then we're trying to you know plan our route?
Well while we're driving up to york, and make sure we avoid tolls because we're not gonna have any cash to pay those either
so
Yeah, that's what we're doing so now we're gonna go get something something to eat
We just stopped in the Costa Coffee and grab a quick bite and a quick coffee. Got like a microwave panini
Yeah, breakfast of champions, and coffee ...
Have we had Costa Coffee?
No, i mean it's been a while, but i heard it being alright. i think the panini was cranberry bacon and something else ... brie
actually i think they were
Toasted that's nice and there's a little cranberry in there and adds a little sweetness too it's really not that bad. It's almost like a thanksgiving meal
but with bacon
All right, we have trained out to near just near heathrow. That's where we're actually picking up the car, but uh
We should be able to grab the 222 and then head over to holi ... holiday inn is that where we're picking it up?
This should let us off hopefully right next to it yeah i see the 222 over there but i think
Maybe it'll come over here to pick up hopefully not exactly sure
We're picking up the car it's this cute little guy, a little Corsa, which i've never heard of before
Yeah, i think this will do yeah. So we had a little bit of a snag when we booked the car
We have a card with Chase, a credit card, and usually what you have to do is you
Deny the insurance from the car rental company and then your card will cover the insurance and which works on Chase but then
They told us that that's not a thing that they do here they said in England that's not really thing they
do it in europe but i could have sworn that we
We've declined it before and use our card insurance so it's kind of a bummer because we couldn't sort it so we have
Collision to some extent through them, yeah but usually you
Don't have to pay any extra for it this wasn't an extra - it's included in the price and they just couldn't remove it so it's
Always something like that when we come to these when we try to rent a car it seems but
There's not really much you can do, it's their way or the highway
Pun definitely intended
All right, I guess that's all, let's hit the road
Are you excited to drive?
I am, actually
On the opposite side?
By the way always make sure
that you take a photo of
Every little mark and dent on the car. it's not enough to just mark it on the paper take photos of the entire thing or video
We do that every time because we've never really gotten busted by it but we've heard horror stories yeah
Like little scratches and you pay like hundreds of dollars
But luckily, or unluckily i don't know, this car has a lot of little scratches and dings so pretty much the whole car
Was marked up before we even got it we still took pictures though. the back right tyre
Is the only thing that seems to be clear so he said specifically just don't scratch that one and you should be fine
That was actually a huge key mark on the side look at this sucker so someone came
by and just keyed this thing at some point
it's pretty nuts
Alright, you guys
We started the car, step one it works, we have our directions, we know where we're going
It's later than
We realized though so now we're gonna get there after dark but our host is sending us supposedly really good directions cos
You know as always everything's down little windy roads
It should be a pretty nice drive, though
Yeah, i think sadly will be mostly highways i think but once we get to york it should be nice and scenic i'm mostly excited
For the little rest areas that you guys have here in England. Oh yeah they're so i don't know
They're so nice they have. And they always have a Waitrose and Waitrose has the best like prepackaged
Meals it's so much better than anything you find on the side of the road in the states like gas stations. Oh in the states you would find like
egg salad sandwiches that you would never actually, want to eat. Yeah alright, let's do this the road trip starts
Now!
We got services y'all, it's all Waitrose, so that's where we're goin'
You guys i'm so hungry i just realize i'm like shaking, about it, famished so
For some reason, we got kind of screwed at
Waitrose
We tried to use our card and it kept declining and it declined our first card twice and then it declined our second credit card so
I think it's just our american cards because
We were able to use the card at other places and they worked so i don't know what's going on with our bank situation
Yeah, we panicked for a moment, cos that's all we have left are those two credit cards and I don't know what we would have done
had those stopped working.
We got the weirdest sandwich ever, it's like a nine grain bread with lettuce, tomato
Chicken, chicken tikka chicken, spicy cheese, yeah, hot chilli sauce, sweet chilli sauce it's pretty
Sloppy, you guys, i think it's gonna be pretty good i hope so. Let's do a little taste test, grab your grab your hunk
It was really packed and freezing in there so we decided to eat in the car
Uh-huh, looks nothing like the pictures but that's okay
Hmm. Rock your world? Take you to the next level? Um
maybe one of the most bland sandwiches I've ever had
probably should, have put a little salt on it or something yeah
I don't know, it's kind of a fail. it'll keep us alive though, yeah dang it Waitrose why'd you screw us like that?
we survived the drive and we made it to this amazing little cottage that we're staying in
We're about a mile or so i think outside of York yeah in a little town
I think the town is called Holtby, or maybe that's just area yeah
But we'll give you guys a proper look around in our next video i think but this
Whole area is gonna be amazing it's just like walking out
Walking around out here it's really reminded us of when we stayed in the Lake District in a town
Near, a town called Cowen Bridge, and that was really cool, it's just like
there's really similar vibe because it was winter at that point. Although, we are pretty glad it's not snowing
Yeah, it's almost cold enough to be but not yet but we ended up going to a
Co-op, that was still open just down the road and we got a couple little like ..
Like English TV dinner kinda things.
They're chicken stews with biscuits on top or dumplings i think. so our place has a little like microwave oven thing we're
Gonna pop them in and see what they're all about
I think they're gonna be pretty good.
And thenI think we might watch a Christmas movie
Cos it sounds so fun
Boo!
did i get you?
I mean I figured you were either there or there
You're a hard one to scare
You always try to scare me. She always sees it coming
On the lookout. what've you been doing? just drinking some
White wine waiting for me yeah i got my christmas jams over here. check this out you guys, they have
This little old-school
Radio, but it has bluetooth
So, we got some sweet Christmas tunes
All right we've got our little TV dinners done. is it too hot are you gonna do a little taste test?
maybe too hot
They're like straight out of the oven that never stopped me before. look at this you guys, they, have, like little biscuit dumplings on top
Yeah, they look a little questionable but could be good
Tastes about how it looks yeah like
Exactly like chicken stew mixed with chicken and dumplings
Is the bread ... i was afraid it's
Gonna be kind of like squishy and spongy. it is a little bit yeah cuz it's a dumpling it's not actually bread. oh?
Okay, i did not realize that. we're gonna enjoy our dinners. i have a frosty pint of guinness and it is hitting the spot right now
Guinness is so good, we actually had two
Cans that i've been carrying around because we haven't been drinking at all so i've just had two
Cans of guinness that i wasn't gonna be about to leave behind at the, at the places we've been staying
but it paid off because now i have a bunch of guinness to drink and i'm very happy, about it yeah you do i
have my wine, my big girl cup of wine
Good night adventurers. We'll see you on the road.