Pratica di Shadowing: Learn Real British English: In Windsor With The Queen! | Comprehensible Input B1 Intermediate - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Hello everybody!
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If you are trying to learn some English then go no further because this is the video for you.
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In today's video you are going to learn English through comprehensible input.
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Very simple, you watch, you listen and you learn English vocabulary.
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Today we are in the small English town of Windsor and and there is a building behind us.
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I wonder who lives there?
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So, let's get into the video.
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So, Windsor is a very historic old English town.
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Of course, we have the famous Windsor Castle behind us, one of the primary residencies of the British royal family.
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But, as you guys know, not their biggest fan.
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So, that's enough Windsor Castle for me for one day.
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Let's take a walk down this nice cobbled street
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when you see stones in the floor like this we call it a cobbled street
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and hanging up on the top of the street are some great british flags unfortunately these flags are torn
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and tattered that's not exactly uh the best message to be showing people especially right outside your castle
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if you continue walking down we have a taurus shop known as windsor's gifts
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and souvenirs and quite possibly the worst flag i've ever seen in my life in fact
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a lot of hatred is filled in my heart right now so yeah let's keep going
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so here at the Torah shop there are a lot of
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different items for sale first we have some scars to keep
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your neck warm in the cold British winter we have some
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souvenirs some stuffed toys these are little bears dressed like the king's guard and they will cost you 10 pounds each
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Here we go here, we have some fridge magnets.
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This one is with the late Princess Diana.
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Some more featuring the castle.
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And some looking at...
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Why does that say London?
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We are not in London, guys.
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In fact, this is a completely different county.
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Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter.
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Taurus won't know.
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Now you do.
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Moving on, we have some more stuffed animals of...
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yeah stuffed animals some jumpers a little tote bag have some umbrellas these are very very useful
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if you come to england
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because it rains a lot some more fridge magnets with family
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crests family insinnias i guess we would call them a bit
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odd it's my family name on there no it is not i'm clearly not popular enough
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and finally some postcards some postcards
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so you can send your loved ones pictures of the dead queen what a depressing postcard
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that is nice let's move on
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my mum went to London and all I got was this lousy t-shirt well
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if your mum bought you this t-shirt she didn't go to London so there are two lies here
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it's basically London though Well basically isn't London.
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That's like saying James you're basically a fish.
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You have two eyes and a mouth.
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That is not the same thing.
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In what way is it not the same thing?
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There's a very nice public space here.
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I would call this a little square but it's called Church Street Gardens.
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Once again, not in London.
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We have William the Conqueror, you know, back 1066, Battle of Hastings.
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Apparently, he founded Windsor Castle.
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I live 10 minutes away here, and I did not know that.
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Henry VIII, he was famous for murdering lots of his wives.
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Yeah, nice.
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Some really nice coat of arms.
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These things here are coats of arms.
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This here is a lion, I guess, even though it looks...
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No, that's just dirty.
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Okay, it is a lion.
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I thought he was breathing fire.
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And here, with Henry III, you have perhaps one of the most typical British symbols, the three lions.
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That is the same symbol that our national football team use.
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Lucky us.
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So, you guys probably can't tell from the sun, but it's absolutely freezing in England at the moment.
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It took me about 15 minutes to de-ice my car.
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My car was covered in frost and ice this morning so I had to get a scraper and scrape it all off.
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It was horrible.
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My hands are turning to ice.
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It's really not nice today.
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okay continuing on we have some nice neoclassical architecture here neoclassical architecture is the architecture
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that reminds you of ancient greece
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and rome it's very popular here in europe especially here in
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london you see we have these columns these big archways
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and there is a big statue up the top now I'm not going to pretend
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that I know who
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that is it's really nicely designed I can give some credit
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where credit is due the architecture around this part is really really lovely
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so guys we are stood in front of a traditional British fish
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and chip shop now these takeaways these fast-food restaurants are probably
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our most typical our most traditional like I said here in Britain.
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However unfortunately we really don't see that many anymore.
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These serve very typical British food.
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Fried fish, fried sausages, anything covered in batter and deep fat fried you can probably find it here.
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And in some places especially in Scotland
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and up in the north of britain they even do deep
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fried mars bars yes you heard me right they take a normal mars chocolate bar cover it in batter
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and deep fry it like it's a piece of kfc um
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i have tried it once i will say it is nice it's not the sort of taste
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or texture profile you would expect
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but it is really really nice I would try it again
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um yeah like I said unfortunately these institutions are dying out due to rising costs
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and now all we really see are new American brands arriving
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on the uh on the UK streets especially in terms of fast food
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so if you do come to England
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and you want to try out some traditional local food I really highly recommend coming to a chippy Do not sit down, it is not a sit-down restaurant.
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Take it back to your hotel,
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take it to a park bench or something and eat it there. So the owner has...
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Can I say something?
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Yeah of course you can.
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So this fish and chips is 14 years here.
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How are you guys?
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You alright?
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This fish and chips is 14 years in this place in Windsor.
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And this Cabal Donut that you see is just 2 days ago we started.
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We're trying to do some late business for them.
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The people when they leave the pubs they have nothing to eat.
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Because we close it at 10 o'clock.
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Now we stay until 11, 12, maybe 1 o'clock.
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And we do really nice fish and chips.
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You need to come to try it.
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I'm serious, I'm not trying to sell off.
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It's really good fish and chips.
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I swear to God.
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That's it, if you've got something else to say.
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Thank you, I really appreciate it.
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If you're in Windsor, make sure to come down to Chippy of Windsor Fish and Chips.
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If you have a look at the price, as a local, I can say these are really good and competitive prices and they come with a drink included as well.
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So this looks like a lovely traditional fish and chip shop, you'll get lots of great food here.
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Cheers, thank you mate, appreciate it.
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Okay, so we're at the crossing and I'm pushing the button so we can cross the street.
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Now we have to wait.
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The lights have turned red.
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So, as you can see, the green sign is telling us we can cross.
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The chime went off.
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Chime, alarm, beep, whatever you want to call it, went off.
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And we crossed the road safely.
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England or Britain is not like lots of countries in Europe.
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you can just cross the road whenever you want just make sure you don't get hit by a car okay
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and now we have arrived on the high street as you can see this street is a little bit wider
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and with this barrier here this is a pedestrian only street amazing i know
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so one of the favorite my favorite things about windsor is
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the fact it's pedestrian only you can really walk you can take your time
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and you don't have to worry so much about cars.
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Hey Liz so how you doing?
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Excellent excellent.
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So what do you think the number one way in the world is to learn English?
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Well funny enough that's exactly what Paddington said as well.
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He also said you need to watch AJ's whiteboard videos 347 times.
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Uh huh, uh huh.
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Mm hmm, okay, bye Les, appreciate it.
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So as you walk down the high street, we're seeing lots of different shops.
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Now, like I said before, most of these shops are now chains.
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We have Starbucks famous American cafe coffee chain on the right hand side.
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On the left hand side, we have Krispy Kreme coffee and donuts.
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Now, I will be honest, I do like a Krispy Kreme.
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I would say a doughnut is really one of my guilty pleasures in life.
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No matter what, no matter if I'm trying to watch my weight, count my calories, I will always eat a doughnut if possible.
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We have Franco Manga, which is another...
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Sorry, Franco Manga.
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That's probably the worst pronunciation of that name ever.
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Franco Manga.
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We have...
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It's an Italian...
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Italian.
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pizza restaurant, another chain I guess.
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Now we have here a shop named Office.
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Now these people do not sell office supplies, in fact what they sell are trendy trainers or as the Americans would say sneakers.
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They sell shoes, it is a shoe store.
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If we continue walking down we have a Ben and Jerry's shop
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which sell ice cream and other desserts on the left hand side.
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Honestly we really don't see very many Ben & Jerry's stores so that is quite unique.
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It's not the most common thing in the world.
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Here we have Superdrug which is a common cosmetics chain here in the UK.
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They sell makeup, they sell body products, they sell all the things that you might want to put on your body.
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They also have a pharmacy in the back so you can pick up your medicine.
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Medicine to make sure you don't get sick or medicine to heal you one or the other.
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Considering it is a Monday and it is 11 o'clock it is still quite busy.
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We are right at the start of the year
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so people have just started coming back to work but Windsor is quite a big tourist hotspot.
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There's definitely lots of people who come here.
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On the left there is Waterstones, quite a famous bookstore.
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If you like to read in English, Waterstones is a very good option when you come here.
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They are probably the best bookstore in the UK.
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And on the right, up in front here, we have Daniel, which is a department store.
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Now, a department store is a very special type of shop.
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It's a shop with lots and lots of little shops inside.
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Lots of little departments inside.
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Now, Daniel sells absolutely everything.
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From clothes, to toys, to sporting equipment, to technology.
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pretty much anything you want you could probably find it there in Daniel
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hi um how long till the sausage rolls are done oh
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fantastic oh what do I get one sausage roll please no that's it excellent
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Thank you, appreciate it.
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You are not going to believe this.
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You're not going to believe the rollercoaster of emotions that I've just been through.
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So imagine I was waiting in the queue at Greg's, everybody's favourite, and there was one sausage roll left
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and the entire time I'm thinking come on I've been waiting in the queue five minutes
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please please no one ordered a sausage roll three people in
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front of me first two don't get it I'm thinking we
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might be here okay last person can I please have a
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sausage roll my heart sank I was defeated in all honesty
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and just when all hope was lost just
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when I thought you know I had wasted five minutes of
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my life they brought out a new batch of sausage rolls
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so not only did I get the sausage roll that I
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so desired it is warm it is crispy
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and I'm a happy man genuinely for those of you who don't know
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because I imagine this is quite a British thing this is a Greg's sausage roll
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one of our national dishes I would say this is like like tacos to the Mexicans like same level
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if we break it up
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and you see inside there's actually a pastry with some hot
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pork sausage in the middle now I know this really doesn't look all
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that appetizing but I promise you it is fantastic so let me give a little taste test Very good crunch.
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It's very hot in the middle.
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It has just come out of the oven.
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As Greg's sausage rolls go, this is as good as it gets guys.
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I'm giving this a solid 15 out of 10.
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Incredible.
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Mind-blowing.
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Oh, what a go.
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I'm so happy.
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I'm literally so happy.
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So I'm here stood in front of the Piper pub.
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As you can see, this is a Scottish-themed pub the person on the sign and the name, the person is holding some bagpipes.
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Bagpipes are the traditional Scottish instrument.
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They're the instrument that you always hear and always think about when you see representations of Scotland.
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Now this colour and pattern, it's called tartan, and in Scotland it's very very traditional, very very popular.
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So you have this tartan sort of pattern here.
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A little bit of outdoor seating in front of the pub with a nice umbrella
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but with freezing cold weather like today you're not going to want to sit there.
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So guys here we are at Windsor and Eton Central Station.
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If you guys are looking for a very quick day trip
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that you can do from London I highly highly recommend coming down to Windsor.
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This is the station you will arrive at.
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head to Slough on the train change at Slough and then it's just one stop from Slough here to Windsor
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Windsor is a really beautiful historic old town like I'm sure
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you see there's a lot of really nice architecture a lot of really pretty spaces around here
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and of course you have Windsor Castle
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that you guys saw at the front big model steam train behind me it's very cool no I am personally
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quite a big fan of trains especially big steam trains like this some of the more old
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and traditional ones I think they are really really cool
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and here on the side we have another coat of arms
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this is quite interesting on the left hand side we have a lion representing England I believe St George
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and on the right hand side we have a unicorn you might not believe this
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but the unicorn is actually the national animal of Scotland.
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Yes, Scotland's national animal is a mythical creature and is a unicorn right there.
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Really beautiful, excellent little model and I'm really happy that they put it here on the train station.
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And coming with me, I'm going to quickly show you how these self-service ticket booths work.
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So you can call this machine a few things.
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A self-service ticket booth, a ticket machine, something like that.
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This whole thing is the machine.
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Here we have the screen showing you the different tickets.
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So as you can see with these big red crosses through coins
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and notes this machine is card only you cannot pay using
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cash the big red crosses mean you cannot use cash card only
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if you look at here on this touch screen on this touch screen you can choose the different tickets
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that you might want to buy so
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if you wanted to go to Twyford on a single
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that it's just there not the return as well here you
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have your ticket press here you can pay now here we
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have the automatic card reader for I don't know this is
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for your rail card a rail card is something you can buy here in the UK
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that will get you discounts on tickets
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this is the contactless card reader and this is for chip
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and pin so you insert your card into here
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and put in your pin number you press in your pin number on the buttons
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when you're finished you press the green button at the bottom enter
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so yeah at the end your tickets will drop into this little bin here you'll push the door open
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and collect your tickets that's how this works so thank you guys
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