hi we're john and leah and this is things that british people do when they go on holiday
slash vacation yeah now we can relate to all of this because we do these things when we go
on our big america trips so we're gonna throw in a few little personal stories but just have
a little laugh about what we do and i'll be surprised if you guys do these things as well
i do think they're quite british yeah but let us know if they're universal yeah we'd love to know
okay so the first one oh my goodness this is so off is that we pack as if we're relocating oh my
gosh the amount of stuff packing like just in case this that things you never wear every trip we go
on it's like i think i touched five percent of the clothes and we should say as well yeah that leah
like on a trip for example packed a crate of fiji water she packed a couple of cartons of oatly
milk she packed a kettle she packed literally her entire kitchen in her suitcase because she
couldn't be without her home comfort i even packed cinnamon sticks clothes and yeah my own tea bags
because i was just like i have to have my tea the way i have it yeah but that's just great that's
just brits you know we are just that's what they say in the girl guides always be prepared always
the next one is incredible yeah you speak english but with an accent so this is especially applies
to going to europe like going to spain and being like taxi and like you just say english
words but slowly louder with an accent could be table for two uh cable table two now now later
like it's amazing it's so rude and patronizing it but it's just you can't help yourself from doing
it one time when i lived in london with uh like greek cypriot family friends they rented another
room out to a brazilian girl and they rented out obviously i started you know this story
i love it it's so good she would be like this should be does she speak english completely fluent
yeah the brazilian girl spoke really good english like we'd always speak on the bus to and from
central london style and my auntie would be like marillio do you want cake and then she'd be like
leo do you want cake like just asked me in a normal way and like she just shouted at the
brazilian girl it was so awkward and funny yeah and um yeah they just they've got the
thing they just speak to people like louder yeah and with an accent yeah and they think that that
means they'll get understood yeah oh you want cake even though she's speaking she's from east london
right the next one is that we commit fashion crimes when abroad always and i can definitely
relate to this of putting my socks and sliders together i'll do that doing lovely buying ugly
t-shirts i got one the other day that said dad in army writing and it was like the toughest job
you'll ever love and i was like it's so cringe it's amazing so i bought it and i was wearing
anything dad yeah it's just so good with like proper army like macho dad it's just so funny
didn't i buy that hideous thing from walmart that said home celebrity like because you're
a celebrity in your own home what did your dad think that loved it although they both thought
the size was ridiculous okay yeah they were like you are i was like this is an extra large and they
were like that's ridiculous it's down to my to my ankles yeah just crazy um so soft it's even
got pockets so cute but i'll encourage leah as well to buy ugly things so like it wasn't abroad
but it was four-hour holiday when i made you buy that multi-colored like knitted like kimono almost
with matching shorts you actually made me buy something was like a jamaican flag but it was
like it was basically like a two piece a three it was a three actually three that was the top
don't get me wrong like it looked amazing it looked so cool i just
couldn't rock it any longer i gave it to charity
oh i bet someone somewhere it was like i found the best thing in the charity shop yeah
which apparently the reason is is because there was already a tj something yet he just used
it now so it could have been tv max yeah okay next what we do apparently when we're away on
vacation is drink 24 7. now i don't think this is true for us but i do think for brits in general
there is any excuse to have a drink when you're on holiday so like morning afternoon evening any time
of the day you're allowed there's no rules you can be asleep at any time of the day when you're
on holiday and you can also drink at any time of the day there's no one no one's calling you out i
don't think we particularly have this reputation on the continent yeah with europe because they
tend to think like brits abroad we have a terrible reputation in spain in france in like all these
places because the brits just go they take over they're loud they're horrible they're drunk and so
brits actually the view americans have of brits is so different to what mainland europe view bridges
yeah especially brits on holiday yeah misbehaving particularly the party towns like majorca
ibiza yeah all those all of the canary islands that have loads of brits abroad yeah trash trash
real like just trash yeah so when we were thinking of changing our channel name to bricks abroad it's
like well for our american viewers that'd be cute but to everyone else they'd be like oh god i hate
brits abroad yeah because we're actually not those annoying brits no we're not we're different we
just get tipsy on prosecco we don't get wasted on jagerbombs like for instance before my flight to
cyprus i met these elderly brits they were like 60 and 65. that's not even elderly and they told
me that they because i was like oh did you pay for the lounge at the airport and they were like yeah
you get six free drinks they're like we've had six beers each they stank a booze they were drunk on
the flight they were so friendly in the queue because they'd obviously had six beers each and
they were like i was like i can't relate because i don't have any grandparents that drink like that
that's just yeah i couldn't relate to something like that so boozy i was like sorry but not for
me no we're more american like that yeah so i'll have two proseccos and i'll call it a day and give
someone else my vouchers yeah do you know what when i was in a bar i heard someone in america
go can i get a champagne they're like we've just got prosecco and he was like what and he was like
prosecco and he was like i think she'll like that and then got that i was like america still doesn't
like prosecco is still not mainstream in america and i don't know why i really don't know why is
it too budget for them i think maybe wow maybe we really are trash oh well the next thing that we do
on holiday which we do is go to the supermarket and buy english food so you know just if you've
forgotten a few of your home comforts you just go and pick them out and go find them like i will go
straight to the oatley and i'll check out the prize yeah gotta see what i'm in for we go find
what we get back home or we go to the british isle of which there's a small section yeah and we might
buy marmite we might buy some tea bags if you've got two bags or like we buy the british stuff that
we miss when we're at home i know it's so basic isn't it considering you're only away for like a
short amount of time it's like can you not go that long without da da and the answer is why should i
have to yeah nothing's not right it's wrong here in america it might be ten times the price yeah
but still but i'm 10 times as desperate yeah love this one so this is like bringing home a tacky
memento whether it's joel starbucks mugs yeah which i actually don't think are tacky they're not
tacky they're just very touristy i suppose aren't they all the fridge magnets i pick up from my dad
aren't they i love them we can't call them tack like we're supporting local businesses yeah by by
picking up your supporting starbucks but yeah but we we're supporting people we're picking up these
little junky gifts and just taking them home yeah it's nice to have a little memento isn't it oh i
love a memento i love a souvenir but yeah i think brits we like to do that we like memories we like
filling our home with brick-a-brac yeah and i do look forward to seeing your sort of shelving one
day with all of the mugs because i think it could be displayed in a really cool way like they're not
hidden in a cupboard no the only way that it won't be annoying for you is if they're like
you don't want them to just constantly have dust in them you kind of want them to be used a lot so
they're getting washed up a lot i put that i know they're stacked at the moment i've got nine in the
cupboard and two stored under my bed that because i've got too many mods but they stack nicely
on top of each other so i've got three sets of columns of three but then i just rotate the same
sort of two or three so because by the time i've then washed them they're back in the cupboard so i
have to like shift them around so that i use them you need to all get about the same wear wear and
tear they do wow how are we gonna fix this i don't know but the good thing about the starbucks ones
do tend to wash very well yes i haven't noticed any wear and tear yet so yeah that's good and
you say they stuck well not an advert but i'm really interested yeah they don't stack skew in
not at all they stack perfectly on top of each other it's wow amazing i recommend if someone
wants to collect mementos collect starbucks mugs it's called the bean there series right in their
series been there done that it's so good and then it means in my future home when they're
all displayed properly then they will you'll be able to come around and i only get the mugs
i don't get them from holidays i don't know why i've just made it my john lear trip
thing so that one day when we retire i can go oh we went to all these places and you'll come
over and you'll go oh i got the nashville mug oh i remember that yeah it's so it's so
good because we will forget the places we've been to we will all the places we've been oh
yeah and on that note guys that's everything just brits do on holiday yeah let us know if
it's exclusive to us or if you guys do those things also or any other things we
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