YANKS in ENGLAND!!! What SHOCKED us the Most! 🇺🇸❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

like most Yanks we are fascinated with the English we watch the TV shows and the movies so we thought we were prepared for the culture but we were still shocked by quite a few things today we're going to walk around Hyde Park and Central London and share some of the things that caught us off guard you might be wondering why we're in London especially after we talked about how we've blown our slow travel budget London is by far the most expensive place we've been so far but we decided it was time to upgrade our c camera gear finally and stop using our iPhones to record everything so we came here so that I could buy a new camera and speak English to the people who sell them it's the right decision for our YouTube channel and we got to check London off our bucket list which we're so excited about and now for the things that shocked us about England starting with the expensive housing our Airbnb was almost double the amount we paid in Paris and it is even further out according to newo the rental prices in the United Kingdom are 25% lower compared to the United States and we could have rented for Less have we moved even further out like an hour outside the city but we didn't want to be that far since we weren't going to be here that long we ended up renting a place on Airbnb in Acton which is an area that is going through a bit of transition it's a really cute town and we did see some properties that were for sale says it's a uh six-bedroom double fronted attached family home so it's a really big house we were pretty shocked by those prices because that's an older neighborhood a lot of those places are getting gutted and completely remodeled and I think that one I was looking it was actually a duplex that had been converted to a single but still that's quite a lot of [Music] money this is Kensington Palace where princess Dy lived for over 15 years and across from us is her beautiful Memorial Garden one of the things that really shocked us here is how little the dollar is worth against a British pound right now one pound is worth 79p that's Pence or like a cent in British talk and it just does not go very far [Music] here we were caught off guard by the language barrier in English yes they have a different accent and it is wonderful but there were times when we didn't understand the slang or the accent and sometimes we just could not understand what they were saying I was always taught that the United States is a Melting Pot but after being here in London I can say it is way more of a Melting Pot here the diversity is off the charts here in London we're seeing people from all over the world here all different languages even more diverse than what we saw in Paris the groceries are so affordable here I was pretty shocked by that although I shouldn't be because the groceries are so affordable once you're outside of the United States according to newb the prices are almost 24% lower compared to the US but I think that is inaccurate cuz I think the prices are even higher in the states at least they were when I went shopping with my family I it's just blowing my mind about how cheap the groceries are here you can get everything you need and you get really good [Music] quality another thing that shocked us is that the food stereotype is dead wrong the food here is wonderful of course we did not eat any blood pudding or any of those like traditional dishes but we have eaten out several times and the food was amazing yeah you can find all types of Cuisine here you can get the traditional British pub food which also looked pretty good except for maybe that blood pudding but everything we had was fantastic yeah we ate a variety of restaurants Indian Thai and it was all really delicious and the service was really good another thing that we really appreciate and that caught us off guard was the fact that the price you see is the price that you pay and even has a service charge included into it so you don't have to pay extra for tax or for a service [Music] charge after being in Mainland Europe for about 6 months we kind of got used to places being closed in the afternoon and on Sundays but here it's surprised us that everything is open they don't close for four or five 5 hours in the middle of the afternoon and they don't close on Sundays at least here in London and it's actually been pretty nice so that we when we're ready to go out we're ready to be done working for the day around 4: 5:00 we go out and places are actually [Music] open we rented a place without air conditioning and that's typical because they normally don't have really hot temperatures here however there were a couple days that it was in the mid 80s and there was no Breeze like there is today and those temperatures were about 15 to 17° above normal and let me tell you it was pretty toasty of course we knew that they drive on the left here but we're still shocked about how disorienting it has been for us as pedestrians to remember to look the opposite way before crossing the street we're both really grateful that they have clearly marked signs on the ground to say look right look left or look both ways it is a bit unnerving because we're just not used to that I find the traffic pattern extremely disorienting and I feel like a bit like I'm in upside down World here a Bizarro world because it seems like everything is the same and yet it's completely opposite and my brain just cannot wrap itself around this concept of driving on the opposite side of the road it changes literally everything from crossing the street to driving to Turning is really really confusing we've been living abroad for almost seven years now and no place we've lived have been an English-speaking country so we are very used to hearing other languages spoken all the time hardly any English so it's been very disorienting to be here in England and in London and hear nothing well almost nothing but english-spoken but with various different accents that we are not used to coming from the United States I don't know it's felt kind of weird and it's been a bit of an adjustment it feels so similar times to the US so it feels like we should be feeling like we're at home in our home country but this is not our home country and sometimes we have to do a double take we were not surprised by the pub culture here because this is where pubs were invented they used to be called the public houses pretty common to see those throughout England what we were not expecting to see is how popular they are some of them they're so packed on the inside that they just overflow out into the street and everybody stands around drinking their pints of beer one of the most shocking things about London is all these beautiful Parks we're in Hy park right now it's kind of like Central Park in New York City it is so Lush and green I it's just amazing the trees the leaves are so thick that the sun can't even make it through to the ground their flowers are blooming there's beautiful gardens all over there's Parks all over the city and they all look pretty much just like this one yeah and they're all big and spacious I have been shocked as well by the amount of large parks in the city and also in our neighborhood of course we have seen all of The Monuments before in TVs and movies and textbooks but it just doesn't do it justice you have to see them in person to really take in the full gravity of it and the Majesty of them all my I think my favorite was either Big Ben or maybe the the tower bridge what are what's your favorite Amilia the tower bridge and the Tower of London were both amazing but I think my favorite was Westminster ABY it is massive the detail is absolutely stunning but I got to say I also loved seeing selfes because we used to watch that TV show and to get to see it in person the building itself is spectacular yeah it was really crowded on the inside though we didn't stay in there very long because it's kind of hard to walk it was elbow to Elbow people the thing about the Tower of London that's so amazing is that they build it on top of the Roman ruins which we love you can even see some of them at the bottom of the walls and around the Tower of one it's just fascinating we loved our visit and we are so happy we got to check this place off our bucket list our only complaint is that it is not in our budget to stay longer so we could Explore More of the country tomorrow we're going to head to a cheaper part of the world so we hope you'll hit that subscribe button and the like button so YouTube will let you know when we start posting those videos we hope you enjoyed our tour around London and what shocked us about the English and we will see see you all next time cheers see you later