ready for tokyo
2021
okay i'm out of breath oh what a view
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hey guys welcome back to the girl gun
london channel if you're new here my
name is caitlin i'm an american who's
lived in the uk for almost 10 years
and today i'm taking you on a walk with
me through the english countryside
so it was actually sunny this morning
but classic
england weather i've brought my
sunglasses so of course now it's pretty
cloudy
but there are some really good views
around here we'll walk up a hill
show you what there is to see and
yeah so come along with me and i'll tell
you some things along the way
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so this is in the chiltern
hills which is in the southeast of
england
and i won't say exactly where we are
there's lots of places that look just
like this
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okay so we are coming up to a really old
church
i don't actually know when it dates back
to but i'm just gonna say
old and then we're going to climb
a pretty steep hill which i don't know
if i'm prepped for
um we've been doing some exercise in
lockdown
but not a ton in the past couple weeks
because we had easter so i ate a lot of
chocolate
so you could see me struggling for a
breath as i walk up this hill
but yeah it's a really beautiful view at
the top so definitely
worth it and otherwise i hope you've
been
enjoying the views of the trees and
the pathways as you can see there are a
lot of people who like to come out
and go for walks in the countryside and
that's one of the best parts
i find about living in england i
couldn't really do this
why i say couldn't really i definitely
couldn't do this in florida there's
nowhere to really walk like this
where i was from and obviously we do
have some beautiful
natural scenery in the u.s as well but
in england i do feel like
it's more accessible for more people so
that is definitely one of the positives
of living in england and we're about to
pass someone wearing a suit so i'm gonna
show up
okay so the sun has come out for like
five seconds so i've
taken the chance to put my sunglasses
back on and
we just passed a british person and
actually had a conversation
which is some kind of unusual and that
was really nice
ends it in a little bit of complaining
to bond watch my video on things british
people love for more about that
but i wanted to show you these badger
trails so
this may just look like a regular kind
of trail in the woods
but this is probably a badger trail
that's going to lead to what they call
is it a set
is that their home um and so badgers
will make these
kind of overgenerate over like
generations so it's not just a temporary
trail we actually had a badger living
under our deck
last summer and we think it was because
it was injured or sick
they typically tend to say that they
you'll find them under decks and sheds
if they've gone off
because they kind of need to recover or
they don't feel well
but yeah you just pass things like
badger trails and other
animal trails in the countryside and
actually in this area is a wildlife
hospital called tiggy
and winkles winkles they say they're the
largest wildlife hospital in the world
and we can definitely do a video one day
taking you to tiggy winkles
but tiggy winkles is the place to go if
you were in the uk
um well kind of in this area i don't
know about other areas will have their
own wildlife hospitals but in this area
if you were to find an injured animal in
the wild
you would call ticky winkles and they
have a whole team to help come and
collect it they take them there
to rehab them make them better and
if possible to release them back into
the wild if not possible
then they live out their lives in the
really
natural areas of tiki winkles so
um we're now approaching a more narrow
trail so i'll stop talking lest we all
end up in the bushes but those are some
of your wildlife facts for the day
this is a public footpath sign
the english i'm not not going to say the
british again because i've been told off
for saying the british when i mean the
english but i
definitely know in england they love
their public footpaths and it's a way of
marking where you can walk
in the wild because it's not always you
know we're mostly just kind of in nature
but they will have things that say
public footpath
and even down here if you look over here
it will tell you it's a circular walk
kind of footpath
for the county that we're currently in
and every county will have
things like that so as you're walking um
that helps you know where to go so up
here
it will say private area it says private
access only and this says public
footpath this way so we know that we're
going to head this way
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okay so i said we were going to pass by
a church and we have found it again
it's very old i don't know the actual
year um
but passing churches like these is just
commonplace in england which is very
strange to an american who is definitely
not used to things being older than like
50 years when i passed them
if that you'll also notice that the
union flag at the top is flying at half
mast
and that is because prince philip passed
away a couple of days ago
so that is in respect to him
so around the country the union flag
will be flying
at half mass so i'm glad that we got to
capture it um it's obviously it's not
something that happens
very often
oh it's real steep people this isn't
even the hill yet
okay so i've heard a trick
if you zigzag like this
that'll make it easier to climb a hill
i'm not sure it's making it any easier
okay i can do this
okay
oh god okay
okay rocky steps
now we've got steps thank
the lord
i did it i did it you guys
made it to the top of this hill look at
this view
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okay so i'm trying out the zigzag method
which is gonna hopefully help me not
break an ankle
as i scale down this what i would call a
mountain even though it's not a mountain
but if you've ever been to florida
you'll know that florida is completely
flat and so to me
this is basically the same as scaling
the side of a mountain
i'm also really tempted to roll down but
there's people here
and i feel like i shouldn't
but we should come back and i should
roll down this hill
i would say zigzag method is working
also if you are wondering why i didn't
use the path okay so
come with me to the end of this lane and
i'll show you a swing gate looks like
which is a very um maybe it's not a
british thing but we don't have them in
florida so
if you're elsewhere in the u.s and you
have them let me know but this is a
really popular kind of countryside gate
sometimes they'll have something for you
to actually step on and
walk over a fence but this one is just a
swing gate i feel like i've talked about
swing gates a lot but there's not much
to do in england right now
as i've said so this is basically the
best we've got
we also have a pub sign authentic so
pub sign and
swing it open
okay so we found the badger home
his little set where he goes into
i hope he pops his snout out
oh look at these mopeds going by
enjoying their sunday
okay so we've made it to the end of our
kind of cloudy a little bit sunny
english countryside walk i hope you've
enjoyed the views again i'm hoping to do
many more videos taking you out and
about it's just a bit hard right now
because there's not many places to go
out and about but
stick around make sure you subscribe and
when we can go places
then i'll definitely take you along