Pratica di Shadowing: Learn Real-Life British English - In London! | English Comprehensible Input - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Are you learning English?
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If you are then this is the video for you.
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Today you are going to learn English through comprehensible input where you watch,
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you listen and you learn new English vocabulary.
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As you can see today we are in London
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and we are going to be showing you guys the top five attractions that you cannot miss here in the city.
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Now let's get into the video.
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So here behind me and hopefully as you can see with the chime of the bell we are looking at Big Ben,
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the Houses of Parliament.
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This is where the British government sit and make all of their decisions.
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As you can see it is an absolutely stunning building,
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really beautiful gothic design similar to lots of churches and other traditional buildings here in the UK.
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It's truly magnificent and world famous.
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People from all around the world come to London
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and for many of them the first place they go is
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to see the big clock tower big ben really special great piece of architecture
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and a wonderful thing to have in our city what i'll say for sure
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if you come to london you can't miss this one now big ben is really really cool
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but wait until we look at the second attraction It's going to blow you guys away.
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So as we're walking over to location number two, I thought I would explain to you guys this little wall here.
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As you can see, this wall is decorated with lots of red love hearts.
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Lots of red love hearts with people's names written on them.
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This wall is a memorial.
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It's a memorial for every single person here in the United Kingdom who lost their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Every single heart is an individual person who unfortunately died.
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I think it's a really lovely way to commemorate those who we lost.
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It's a really nice thing that we've done to make sure these people stay in our memories.
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Nice?
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Well, let's move on to the next part.
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so behind me we have the London Eye now I'm gonna be honest do not spend your money
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and go on this thing it's really not worth it like it's really expensive it's really really expensive
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and if you want like a great view of London I recommend going to the Shard
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and going up to the top of the Shard It might be a little bit more expensive, but it is much better than this thing.
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I'm going to be honest with you.
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So this was actually called the Millennium Eye at one point.
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It was meant to be temporary, but after they installed it here, the public enjoyed it so much.
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It brought in so much money through tourism that they decided to make it a permanent feature.
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so now the London Eye is synonymous with London whenever you
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see a picture of London whenever you see videos of this
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place you'll always see the London Eye in one of them like I said
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if you really want to go
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and give it a try I probably recommend booking in advance queues on the day are really long
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and tickets can get really expensive so plan ahead if you want to do it
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but my recommendation skip this one go to the Chardonstad
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cool
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that is attraction number two let's go to number three where
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you'll see one of my favorite spots here in London maybe an English winner yeah 250 jets in kilometers I'm gonna say...
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9.. wow we have a winner congratulations Sam You're a winner.
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How does it feel to be a winner?
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This may be the single greatest moment of my life.
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So, it is really, really busy here in London today, guys.
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As you can see, it's only, what, 10 a.m., 10.30, I think, yet the streets are already really, really crowded.
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Full of tourists.
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Oh, I've just stepped on a branch.
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Yeah, absolutely full of tourists.
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We're currently in the start of December so this is one of the peak tourist seasons here in London.
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People love to come to the city to try and see the Christmas lights to see all the sights.
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London during winter is really romanticized as somebody from here I don't really see it.
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It is usually just a bit gray a bit moody a bit dark
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but you know if tourists want to come here spend the money in my city.
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Why not go for it?
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I mean I understand everyone has different dreams.
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Some people dream to come to London.
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I dream to leave.
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We are quite blessed today because even though it's December and London is notorious for being very rainy,
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very cold, it's actually quite a beautiful day today.
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I mean, the sun is shining, it's relatively warm by winter standards, climate change is doing something, we can say.
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So yeah, I'm quite happy in all honesty.
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I'm not sure if you guys saw the Reading vlog a few weeks ago, but it is much, much nicer than
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that day here in the UK we very rarely get sun
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so when we so when we do get it you have to appreciate it
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and you have to be happy about it most importantly
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so guys here we have a
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famous red telephone box now ever since the invention of the
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mobile telephone these things are completely useless in fact now they're only really used by tourists to take pictures
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and by people to do some not
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so nice things during the night time for example look really really old telephone i don't think anyone has used
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that phone to make a call in at least 15 years
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and then look at the ground dirty full of you know
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cracked empty beer cans um overall you know not quite as glamorous as the movies
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and the tv shows would make you think as a tourist
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it's such a cool city like i really do understand why people come to london
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and like love living here
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and love visiting here um most locals most people who live in
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or around the london area we really don't come to this part of london all that often
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because you we've seen all of these things before we've driven past them a hundred times in the car
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so sometimes it is really nice to do things like this to come back to these parts of the city
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and almost be a tourist for the day it really shows you a city and a completely different perspective
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Okay guys, so we're crossing the street.
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We need to hurry up because the time is almost over.
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So we're crossing the street and we have just arrived at Embankment Underground Station.
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Don't worry, this is not the third attraction that I told you guys about.
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We'll come into that soon.
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But I thought we'd show you just how amazingly the London Underground works.
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As you guys have probably heard from this video, I love to complain about things.
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One thing that works really well in this city is our public transport system.
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So come with me and we'll show you how it works inside.
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So we're now on the inside of the station.
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Greg's!
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I bigged up Nando's last video, it's all about Greg's.
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I love this bakery.
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If you ever want a lukewarm sausage roll
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that you feel like you've paid too much money for this
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is the place to go i told you guys about nando's
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already now it's greg's a second true british staple a true
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piece of british heritage right here here we are in the
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station as you can see it's pretty busy we're here on a saturday
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so there are lots of people in front of us we
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have the barriers to go through the barriers you need to either tap your Oyster card
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or your credit card the barriers will open up and you walk straight through onto the platforms.
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Tap my card and walk through the barriers.
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So come with me we're now through the barriers and we are inside of the station.
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Here we have the two routes that we can go on.
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The yellow line is the The yellow line is the circle line.
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It's called that because, surprise, surprise, it goes in a circle.
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And the green line is the district line.
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Each one of these is a different station.
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And a station with a circle on it has a connection.
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So you can get off the London Underground and get on to our national rail services.
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We are currently... Where are we?
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We are currently at Embankment and we are going to be going to...
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I don't know, I don't know.
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Where are we?
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I don't know, I don't know, I can't remember.
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Give me one second.
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We are currently here at Embankment and we have to go one,
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two, three, three stops and we arrive at Mansion House where we'll go to our third attraction of the day.
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Let's go.
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Really small station.
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And as you can see, busy.
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Excellent, our train is arriving.
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Oh, the train is packed.
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The train is absolutely packed.
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Oh it's so busy, this gives me anxiety.
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I hate London in winter because there are thousands of tourists.
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So this is our public transport system here in London people are very very respectful of each other
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so we're going to try and not be too loud
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but this is what our public transport looks like we have
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some advertisements up the top some maps showing you where you need to go
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and we have just arrived at the next station.
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We're going to stop recording now because there are lots of people here but we'll see you at the next place.
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So right now we are on the train and we're about to get off the train.
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We're getting off the train and onto the platform.
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Onto the platform at Mansion house station.
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The doors slide open and we mind the gap as we step onto the platform.
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You see the big sign up there that says way out and a clock that I believe is telling the wrong time.
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Our clocks went back, nope our clocks went forward about a month ago now here in the UK,
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yet they still haven't changed the time on the platform i'm not surprised in all honesty
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yeah
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that was the london underground experience for you guys i have
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to say i've tried lots of metro systems around the world
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and i haven't found one
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that can quite compete with the london underground yet both in how big it is how many connections it has
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and just overall how iconic it really is
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and then once again we are going to tap through the barriers
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so we're going to use our credit card or our ticket
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and tap through the barrier to let us out i don't
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really know what to say other than this is a cool little street um
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when you're in central london especially more towards like the Soho
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area like this you'll find lots of these small little streets with
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pigeons of course uh eating going to town on some leftover
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pizza lovely um yeah you'll find lots of really nice restaurants bars
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and if you look up there the old Watling that is a sign to a pub
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very very big part of British culture going to the pub of course
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so if you're in London make sure you stop by grab a bite to eat
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and most importantly grab a pint of beer let's go
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so we are stood here in front of St Paul's Cathedral
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now I said this was one of my favorite attractions here in London because of how stunning the architecture is.
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If you are a fan of architecture, especially traditional sort of neoclassical architecture, this building is absolutely stunning.
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Of course you have the most typical columns, the use of white marble, all stuff that reminds you of ancient Rome, ancient Greece.
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There's a clock over on the right side there the tops are encrusted in gold truly truly luxurious and amazing
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an amazingly designed building yeah really impressive this is probably not the best angle of it
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if you see this building from further away you can see
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all of it including the dome on the roof honestly a truly truly fantastic building
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if you're a lover of architecture or someone who
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is religiously inclined I would definitely definitely recommend checking simple simple's Cathedral out
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and taking a tour inside as well the outside is stunning
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but the inside is truly majestic here in front of the
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Cathedral we have a statue of who I believe to be Queen Victoria former Queen of Britain the United Kingdom
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and the British Empire Queen Victoria Empress of India
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if I'm not mistaken but i may be so don't quote me on
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that so what we're showing you now is very customary here in the uk especially in london
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when you stand on an escalator you have to stand on the right side of it
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if you stand on the left side of it you're going
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to block the people trying to walk out walk down
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and they are going to get very angry with you so
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when you're here in london always stand on the right side
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of the escalator unfortunately we just missed our train guys and
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that means we're gonna have to wait an entire minute for
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the next one london man they need to sort these trains out
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so here we have the map of the london underground now
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i promise you somewhere in this confusion it will start to make sense it's actually really really well designed
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and really really well planned out once you know where you're going
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but here you can see all of the different underground lines we have here
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and overground lines
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and just think this does not even include buses London Underground truly one of the best networks in the world
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Please donate to UKKG HelpSelter
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Because they're really putting in the work out here We'll leave their charity
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if we can find it in the bio or in the description Go donate to me guys, 100%
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It appears we have a lot of people dressed up in Santa costumes
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My assumption is some sort of university pub crawl Whatever they're doing it will involve alcohol.
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This is the UK.
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Hello, so I'm joined here with How are you doing today?
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I'm doing absolutely fantastic Fantastic.
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So of course you are dressed like Santa Claus or as we say Father Christmas here in the UK.
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Can you just explain to the lovely people what you are doing today?
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Well today we're doing a pub crawl as you can see there's heaps of Santa Clauses or Father Christmases.
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And we're just gonna go around this area and kind of drink to our hearts desire.
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Fantastic and what is your drink of choice?
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Oh, that's a good question.
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I'm gonna say beer.
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It's just like an all-rounder.
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Okay, thank you so much.
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Do you have an Instagram, anything like that that you'd like to plug right now?
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Yeah, I have an Instagram, it's avalon.cousins, so A-V-A-L-O-N dot C-O-U-S-I-N-S, and that's me.
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Excellent, we'll put it on screen now for you guys to check her out.
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Thank you, nice to meet you.
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Cheers.
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So, behind me, you can see the famous Tower of London.
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Now, this might be my favourite attraction here in London.
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So much history, such beautiful architecture, so much amazing incredible things happened behind those walls.
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The Tower of London is particularly famous because two of Henry VIII's wives were imprisoned and executed behind those walls.
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If you are looking for something to do here in London this is a big big recommendation.
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Take the tour, I did it once when I was much younger and it was fantastic.
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I had an absolutely amazing day.
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If you're someone who loves history, loves learning and loves learning a bit about the local history when you're in a new city, go check out the Tower of London.
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Definitely, definitely worth it in my humble opinion.
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And in the distance behind us we have this big pointy glass building.
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This building is known as the Shard and it is the tallest building in Europe.
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Yes, England is number one in something finally.
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So yeah, everyone's in the festive spirit.
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It is starting to rain.
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It's getting a lot more grey and overcast and very windy, as you can see from my hair.
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But people are in a really good mood today.
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It's Saturday, it's almost Christmas.
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It's a good day.
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so it is super super busy
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but we have arrived at the final landmark of the video
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so if you watched this far thank you
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so much for watching guys we are walking across the world famous tower bridge
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so iconic i mean there's not much i really need to tell you about this bridge
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and as you can see by the sheer number of people walking across it a very big tourist hotspot here in London.
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Come with us as we keep walking across the bridge.
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If you do come to visit London
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and you do decide to visit Tower Bridge make sure to be careful of your belongings on here.
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I know quite a few people who have been pickpocketed.
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They've had their phones, their wallets stolen by people
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without even realizing it as you can see this bridge gets
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super super busy especially during peak tourist season like right now
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but i understand why because this is an absolutely stunningly designed bridge i mean look at
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that in front of us with the amazing amazing architecture stonework
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very very ecclesiastical I would say which means related to the church it really gives
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that feeling that impression
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that we're in a church with the architecture here we are
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walking over the River Thames you see the battleship HMS Belfast
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in the distance that's another big recommendation for you guys
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if you're visiting London that battleship is now a museum
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so you can go see what it was like to be a Royal Navy soldier during World War 2
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and here over the top of the Tower of London you
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can see the modern architecture we have lots of skyscrapers lots
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and lots of glass some interesting looking buildings the one furthest to the left is definitely strange
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and on the right side we have a building
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that looks like a bullet we call
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that the gherkin another really famous piece of modern architecture here in london
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so there you have it guys those were the five attractions
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that i think you can't miss if you come here to the uk i really really hope you've enjoyed today's video
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and i will see you in the next video catch you later
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