over these past few months in London the hardest part of lockdown is when I catch
a glimpse of the city almost taunting that it still exists it's a painful
reminder that we are so close yet so far from a normal life
so keeping on trend let's do a not normal video and answer some of the
hundreds of lovely questions you guys sent in everything from life in London
the problem with Instagram cafes and the awkward secret I shared when we first
started dating this is suitcase monkey answering your
burning Questions... let's go to the first question oh... I've seen the other the
other more popular youtubers they they do this and then it cuts the next scene
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what's your secret talent tone may not be accurate so I don't really have any cool
party trick or anything but Chiaki has been very impressed with my Japanese
pronunciation I'm trying I've kind of given up
relearning Japanese it's very difficult language but I got some good Japanese
pronunciation she tells me my favorite Japanese sentence Holly one done disco
kala one disco it sounds great color one disco and what it basically
means is like what's that and so it's a really fun game to play around the house
especially when you wear the Japanese person to be like Holly one under Scott
Irwin and irska banana color one and asked I did it'd be kinda sky did the
paper I was a fun what do you love most about London the
history and by that I don't mean just you know history but that's why in the
in the five days in London video I suggested to start with the Tower of
London and the city area cuz that's obviously that's the oldest part and
parts of that that's like two thousand years old but when you're in the Tower
of London that you can you can feel the history that went on there and even at
more more recent stuff then a couple years ago I was walking it's only a
couple minutes from Regent Street and I was walking and I suddenly realized that
up there is where the Beatles played their last ever gig before let it be
it's like right in central London a couple of minutes from from Regent
Street and I was like wow there's that's where the Beatles did their did their
gig so yeah it does lots of little things like that like yeah it's just
yeah it's just great I love kind of being a part of that when the Sun comes
out there's no better place ever the whole city comes alive and it's super
cool where's travel moments always good for laughs later so we've never really
had anything horrendous happen never had any total nightmare stories but one that
immediately springs to mind is we went to Tuscany for a week and the idea was
we're gonna kind of road trip around Tuscany and we rented a car right from
the airport so we landed and within sort of half an hour we were we were in the
car and one of us I'm not gonna say which one of us was driving and within
about ten minutes we'd smashed our wing mirror so we we went back to the airport
we weren't we didn't get the extra insurance we can't had to pay a fortune
there and then the other one of us took over the driving from that point onwards
and everything went absolutely fine have you ever visited Canada I'm from
Vancouver area and we were actually supposed to be going to Canada in a
couple of weeks obviously that's been canceled we were supposed to be going to
Toronto for about six or seven nights and this amazing air B&B really closed
the city centre then we were going to take a flight to Calgary spend a night
in Calgary and then spend about seven or eight nights in Banff and Jasper the
national parks that was the original plan obviously that's not happening now
the flight semi cancelled everything in terms of rebooking it everyone's been
really good in terms of booking calm no cancellation fee there being being a
cancellation fee we booked a car with national car that was totally fine got
the insurance back that we booked for the car specifically as well so that's
all good air transit which was the airline that we booked with no refunds
for that despite the flight literally being canceled and we might be in
vouchers as the best case scenario but to answer the question yes we would like
to go to Canada but one day soon what was the worst thing your wife found out
about you and you were deeply embarrassed so when I was in the dating
game there was a few questions that I would ask there was like a litmus test
to see how they would react and one of them is that I'm a massive professional
wrestling fan I've loved pro wrestling since 1990 I went to WrestleMania 25 I
was in row five at WrestleMania 25 cost me $800 for the seat and this is in 2009
I softly I flew out to Texas I got a limited-edition chair when you
sit on the the first 12 rows or something you get a limited-edition
chair this isn't like a thousand of them in the world and you know that's I'm
just living the dream basically so but I would talk about this to see how they
would react and then I would judge them based on their reactions so when I was
talking to Jackie I think was date number two I mentioned this so I was
like hey and also is what I just done I was on a UK wrestling TV chat show and I
was talking about my favorite wrestling podcasts I was tongue-in-cheek when I
did this but after I got the footage I then did a director's commentary over
the top of it with the idea of hey look I'm now on television
aren't I famous and great I'm going to give you some tips and tricks obviously
I'm part of the part of the industry now quite a well-known celebrity although
you know I don't like to use that word but that is what I've been described as
I sure I told her all this a night I showed this now a lot of people would
run a mile from that but she was quite interested by that which was which was a
relief so then I took her I was like cool wicked here we go so he went to
progress wrestling which is like an independent one in Camden a quick
post-edit note here Jackie also wants me to point out that the show lasted for
five hours and she wasn't really very impressed and that was the last we spoke
of it and one thing just to say while I put your attention I'd never say this in
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thank you very much what's so special about fish and chips in London tell us
your favorite what I like to have whenever we have fish and chips is have
Cod or haddock either orders really bother me a battered sausage 100% gravy
and then get either a bap from the place or if we're just having it here I'll get
some bread so you can have a chip booty and put the chips in there and that's
very nice and dunking them in the in the gravy sauce as well so yeah but the
battered sausage with the fishnet chips that's my top tip I was thinking that
when you have to shoot so many videos do you actually enjoy the moment or are you
constantly with a camera or a phone trying to cover everything in order to
have interesting content so yeah this is something that I'm super super aware of
my internal motto is that my holiday comes first it's not you know it's not
sponsored holiday so if you're just us going a holiday I happen to film it and
then make a video on it we don't do any retakes if a moment happens and we miss
it then you know that's that but to give you an example on last year's Japan
holiday that was probably when I did the most filming that was 15 days holiday I
took two and a half thousand video clips for that whole fortnight most of the
video clips he just likes seven seconds fairly quick so there's
one good thing is that Jackie's really into photography so while she's taking
photographs I'm kind of doing video but yeah it probably takes away you know 15
percent of the holiday but I think I get some of that back when I'm editing it
and going through the footage afterwards I kind of enjoy looking back at it and
it's sort of it's a way of reliving the holiday game while I'm putting it all
together so turns the question ultimately no but it's something that
I'm always aware of and I don't want it to not a small talk like Al and enough
you talk about the weather in England we love the weather the weather is
fascinating like if you live in California today it's sunny so yeah I
know it is sunny yesterday sunny tomorrow it's sunny it's not interesting
in England it's like is there cloud is it like cloud with blue sky is it like
cloud with a bit of Sun is it rain what sort of rain we talk and we're
talking drizzle we talk you're pissing it down how much time is needed to
travel most of Japan a very very long time that's why we have decided to sort
of break down the areas because ultimately we know we're going to keep
going back every every few years first time we went we did Tokyo Mount Fuji and
then kind of up north to Siobhan Sam and then when we went last year we kind of
went Tokyo again but then Kyoto and then give through the kind of mountain area
after that and sort of techie armor and stuff so you know next time we're
planning on going we're thinking Osaka I'm a big Nintendo fan so in Universal
Studios they should have Nintendo land open by them so a psychic we're thinking
maybe starting and then Hiroshi mer sort of further out on the West and then
Kyushu I think it is the the sort of smaller island on the bottom left and
maybe Aachen our so that's kind of all those places bottom I saw it was kind of
the middle all those places in one area so we're trying to break it down you
know if you're only ever going to go once then Tokyo Kyoto or kind of
everything you really need but because we know we're gonna keep going back we
want to try and break it up into little pockets are you going to buy a drone
probably not it's been a few times when I wish you know I wish I had cuz I know
it would make the video look better whereas in the when I send them all
these I wanted I wanted a drone I had this idea where I thought if I film in
slow motion and throw the iPhone up into the sky as
came down the right with this beautiful kind of childlike moment but now it
didn't work would you rather only be able to eat or
only able to drink forever eat food 100% of the time food for us you know as as
anyone who's watched a lot of our videos like the Maldives video like I did a
whole part on food they're like that was probably the best restaurant just
because they cooked so many different dishes from all over the world and
Tuscany as well had really amazing food and probably as well actually were in
Barcelona last year probably my favorite meal of that trip was the morning market
that we went to we got there like 8 a.m. in the morning it was really quiet just
before it got really busy and just the the food and the omelette and stuff are
amazing so food a hundred percent of the time best place you have been I probably
don't have a best place but one that just springs to mind straightaway when I
think of that was in the Japanese Alps at the end of our last year's Japan
holiday there's this amazing gondola ride that takes you up it's one of the
highest peaks in Japan and just the view from the lookout point is absolutely
amazing but what really sort of got it for me
was that you can there's a little cafe and you can eat and stuff there which is
really cool but there's a little ravine and the snow is kind of on either sides
and that basically that ravine will take you all the way to the next mountain
range for a few hours if you want to walk it we just walked for about 10 or
15 minutes and just within that time it literally felt like we were the only
people in the world there was nothing else going on it was total silence and
it was just a bit of a moment he was right at the end of the Japan holiday
and it kind of felt like a bit of a peak which is why I wanted to end the video
with it does anyone sponsor you or all out of pocket so I can assure you I say
no a lot more times than I say yes I've only done two sponsored video one was
with artists who were the people I get most of my music from to three months in
the description below if you're interested I've got a little list here
of things that I've said no to sports underwear I don't think I quite fit the
brand their pocket Wi-Fi a manor-house thing in England a trip to Wales which
is quite nice but it was like winter and I was like
dude if I go and it's really rubbish weather I don't want to be stuck I'm
making a video every night it's great when when it was raining all the time a
yacht week around turkey water shoes a fanny travel pack or a bum bag because
we would say but yeah the point is you know if I if I do respond sir then you
know at least have some confidence that I'm not just doing it because I'm
selling myself out a quick note for any potential sponsors out there I will
absolutely sell myself out if the right free holiday comes along thank you thank
thank you very much have you ever experienced a culture shock in your own
country so yeah I have actually in 2009 I did a solo trip around the
world I did parts of the states Australia New Zealand Thailand Laos
Vietnam China Hong Kong for about five or six months when I came back because
I've been in tourist mode for half a year when I was walking around I was for
the first time seeing it as a tourist I thought oh my god like oh there's all
these buildings that I just walked past every day and don't even think about and
that ultimately was kind of were the inspirations when I made the the London
tourist video like this is how I would do London as the tourists because I'd
had that experience and I was like wow we live in this great place we should
really start doing more stuff what's been on your bucket list for a while
that you haven't ticked off Canada obviously India New Zealand I did I did
mostly New Zealand on my on my solo trip but I missed some part of that Milford
sounding and Queenstown and stuff near the South Melbourne liked to go to the
moon how is a proper cup of tea brewed there what snacks go with tea time on a
daily basis what time is detail we're not really just drinking tea all the
time and having tea time like I don't even really know what tea time
officially is and and all that yeah it's not something we do I would assume it's
probably between like two and four two and five and it's probably tea and
biscuits and stuff to us the question of the thing I can't answer so this is how
I do a cup of tea I'm fairly common so you got your PG tipps or you Tetley's or
your Tesco's own brand and you whack in the hot water
you know maybe half an inch of milk give it give it a bit of a stir and that's it
one thing I would recommend is a chocolate hobnob so they're in the
blue packet if we see chocolate Hobnobs in the supermarket blue packet you've
got to check out the chocolate hobnob is this is such a moorish biscuit and it
goes with the with with the brew really well I'm actually thinking of doing a an
English snack food video so let me know if that's of interest but cup of tea and
a chocolate hobnob hmm what kind of dogs do you see most in London well now your
question assumes that I know breeds of dog
I don't really know breeds of dog I know I know poodle I know Labrador and then
everything else is just a dog so poodles and dogs I see a lot of those around a
place the disappointed you so yeah I spend a bit of time trying to think of
this I don't think I really have a place that's disappointed me like so then I
was kind of thinking like just places in general that disappointed me and I came
up with a few different Instagram cafes because you know I've done a cake cafe
London video and I'm sort of wanted to do another one and so I've been looking
at different different restaurants and cafes and stuff - maybe feature for a
future video and when you're looking on Instagram but there's one that's called
I think it's Elan Elan Elan there's a few of them around London but this like
so Instagram oh you know everything's everything's pink and your screen 13
looks amazing and I was really close to going and filming it I mean like hey
guys check out this place but then you know you go on TripAdvisor
and you know it's over price is bad service the food's here so yeah there's
loads and loads of Instagram cafes in London so I think if ever you are coming
to go to a cafe if it looks really good just double check that it is actually
good as opposed to just looking good hello I wonder if you vlog slash travel
full time if not what do you guys do for a living no it's not full time which is
why it takes me an absolute age to get a video out but to answer the question I
a video and do you prepare the voice-over text before or after the
video cut to be honest I wouldn't like to think about it if I add it up it's
too long my London video for example probably took obviously I was filming
everything that's that's one thing but actually sort of sitting down and
thinking about it writing editing maybe like 5 or 6 weeks in total my process is
that I will once I've got the footage footage I'll look at the footage based
on that then I'll do an intro sometimes I'll write the whole script ahead of
time most the time though to be honest I kind of I'll do an intro I'll get the
footage down and then I'll look at kind of the next thing look at that go write
what I want to say about this write the script and then sort of match the
footage to that and then change things around depending on how it just sort of
fits after that but yeah five or six weeks but for like a big long video or
maybe a couple of weeks for like it is just tips tips video so as I mentioned
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in the comments below some future videos I've got coming up I say I'm going to do
a Vietnam one at some point I still have a few more pound videos left in me I
want to do a video about costs and and how much it costs to go to Japan I might
do one about food I may not do that depends on how I feel
and then for London I've got like a museum one in the pipeline a market one
I just want to kind of finish wait for all this stuff to finish so I can see
what markets are still open to do that one a couple of those London snack
videos that I mentioned before as well thank you very much not quite sure how I