In honour of your Welsh roots, I think a summer doing all the castles, trip on the ffestiniog railway, walk up Snowdon and an afternoon at the Welsh mountain zoo are in order.
Add in St Davids for the Patron Saint experience along with a good cuppa tea and some Bara Brith with butter in the town.
Also the Coastal Path is one of the best in the world.
It was aluminum before it was aluminium. That doesn't mean you have to like it, but it is so. It was changed for us because someone decided it should follow the pattern of radium, uranium etc instead of platinum, etc. For some arbitrary reason.
Y'all is very American, but it's useful. I'd say it if it didn't sound twattish in my accent. Anyway, if you're offering drinks then nobody should care about your grammar, and mine's a cider please.
That's a British thing you could do - drink proper cider.
Not explicitly, but it was either implied or very easy to infer. What you said sounds as though there is no longer a plural form of you, when there is --- it just happens to be the same word.
I already do this here. But New Orleans never fixes their roads. We literally have an instagram [@lookatthisfuckinstreet](https://www.instagram.com/lookatthisfuckinstreet/) Highly recommended!
Queue. Drink a sports direct mug of tea. Have a massive cooked breakfast. Moan about immigrants (that is optional). You are now entitled to moan about literally anything but be aware that someone will moan about you moaning and point out you’re not entitled to moan because you weren’t born here
I have a friend who lives in VA and he told me NO was his favourite place. I visited him and we went to some friends’ parents out in west VA and I was amazed by their hospitality. I can’t imagine I would ever be viewed as a local anywhere in the US?
In honour of your Welsh roots, and if you are near North Wales, how about visiting the national Eisteddfod next week (from 5 August to 12 August). This year it is in Llyn ac Eifionydd, the Maes (the festival site) is near Pwllheli. And despite being a Welsh cultural event, knowledge of the Welsh language is not a pre-requisite (although it will be catered to Welsh speakers). A good day out to immerse yourself in the Welsh language and traditional culture in a modern setting with singing, dancing, poetry, art.
https://eisteddfod.wales/2023-ll%C5%B7n-ac-eifionydd
The lady said she was coming to the UK. Why on earth would you bring the EU into it? What has freedom of movement got to do with living in the UK? Anybody in UK can quite easily visit Europe. You are so bitter about the big bad 'B' word, I hope you get over it soon, it will only eat away at your mental wellness.
running through a wheat field, apparently.
You have to learn the proper greeting, a.k.a "alright?"
Queueing politely, even if you don't know exactly what you're queueing for.
Drinking Yorkshire tea during the day, and pints of warm beer in the evenings.
A trip to the Suffolk Coast. Southwold, Aldeburgh, Orford, Thorpeness… the [house in the clouds](https://www.thesuffolkcoast.co.uk/where-to-stay-suffolk-coast/the-house-in-the-clouds) is just lovely.
Here's our US entry for wacky accommodations near the sea
[Lucy the Elephant in Margate](https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/42455047?source_impression_id=p3_1691078383_NJaPeK2qVVckH%2BCz)
Oh my days…. How amazing. I would HAVE to reenact scenes from moulin rouge!
Have you read Lots of Bill Bryson? His notes from a small island would give you fab ideas.
But seriously…. Visiting East Anglia should be on your list. From the north Norfolk coast and Holkham Hall and beach and wells-next to-sea to the lovely city of Norwich and the stunning Norfolk Broads it’s a fab place to spend time.
Howarth to see the Brontë home. York & Chester, Edinburgh.
Have afternoon tea served on doilies and silver platters.
Then learn how to tut whilst reading The Daily Mail.
Yeah, but drinking yourself into oblivion on a £3 3litre bottle of the cheapest cider or paint stripper ever known to man is a little bit less classy I would imagine!
Cardiff Castle Tour is amazing. William Burges is the peak Victorian design and Cardiff Castle is beautifully preserved. It looks like a plain castle outside but inside is an absolute gem so it's well worth paying the extra for the apartment tour. Plus, Bute Park (the huge park located behind the castle) was originally designed and landscaped by Capability Brown and he was also a Victorian icon and it's worth having a walk around to see the large collection of mature heritage trees.
Also go to St Fagan's museum of Welsh life near Cardiff (you can get a bus there easily from the city center). It's an outdoor museum where you can enter all sorts of rebuilt historical buildings old history to recent eras. If you are lucky, you can see the miller or the blacksmith working. Truly a great place to see how your Welsh ancestors lived.
Honestly, just explore the place.
Start off in Wales because of your heritage, but visit places other than London afterwards. York & Harrogate are great little places, Manchester is good city, so is Newcastle (where I’m from). Go up to Scotland via the Lake District, you get to see great cities like Edinburgh, and Glasgow. You also get to see a lot of fantastic countryside, keep going up to the highlands and possibly the islands around Scotland. Visit Northern and Republic Ireland. Visit Cornwall, and Devon.
Go to London after all of that.
If you have money just do that, spend time in places, and get a feel for the culture.
Go have a chippy and a pint of guiness at the pub. Then after that get as many plastic surgeries it takes to become the same material as a morrisons plastic bag. Afterwards, make sure to live in a council house whilst living on benefits but at the same time go out and buy a brand new tesla, gucci handbag, and the new iPhone. (Bonus points for having more than 4 kids and 5 previous husbands)
1. Go to Blackpool and grumble about the colour of the sea.
2. Attend a football game and chant until you have no voice left.
3. Get really drunk in a Wetherspoons and wait until the last possible second to need the bathroom. The drunken adrenaline of trying to make it to a bathroom 50 miles away is insane.
4. Wait for a hosepipe ban and complain about every single reservoir in the area.
5. Find an acceptable situation to use the word codswallop.
Anything that is utter nonsense. My first reading of it was in Harry Potter… “they say you-know-who lost his power and disappeared that night, codswallop if you ask me”.
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Dogging
To read such a wholesome post and this to be at the top made me shake with laughter. Thank you
Bet that’s not the first time someone on tops made ya shake like that
To the top this goes!
This comment is amazing
And cottaging
In honour of your Welsh roots, I think a summer doing all the castles, trip on the ffestiniog railway, walk up Snowdon and an afternoon at the Welsh mountain zoo are in order.
Don’t forget sitting on a beach when it’s cold and overcast
And a trip down a slate mine on a rainy day, wearing a waterproof Mac that isn't in any way waterproof... ☹️
Oh no memory flash!
Quintessential!
Add in St Davids for the Patron Saint experience along with a good cuppa tea and some Bara Brith with butter in the town. Also the Coastal Path is one of the best in the world.
St David's has a cafe??
Laugh. I gave you the impression I meant St David's the Cathedral, my intention was St David's the town itself. The town has lots of cafe's
It's grown since I was last there in the 90s then.. It was literally the cathedral and a couple of houses.
snowdon also has a railway up it if OP isn't mobile enough, castle wise i'd recommend Caerphilly
Thank you! I usually walk about 4 miles a day so I'm game for it all!
Bangor, pwlleli, caernarfon, harlech would be on my list.
If were doing a list id add Beaumaris, Cardiff and Raglan
And Conway
Good call
Conwy is essential!
and visit the Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagan's! I love Wales.
Yes, an absolute must if you want to get in touch with your welsh heritage.
A trip to Greggs
Go to the football, do enough charlie to kill an elephant. then stick a firework up your arse.
Sounds like that Spitting Image song!
For some inexplicable reason that line wasn't included in the radio edit.
Driving clockwise around the whole of the M25 and then doing it anti clockwise. Start around 7am Monday for that premium UK experience.
Keep following the M25 until you get to Wales.
And make sure you do it on Friday afternoon going clockwise towards the dartford tunnel
Bude Tunnel.
Came here for this.
I thought you meant you were newly rich British person!
If only....I could buy y'all a pint! Did I say that correctly? The "y'all" is because I live in New Orleans.
No, it's "you all", and tomato not tomato and aluminium not aloominum. I could go on and on, and on.
I have no problem with y'all, but the next person who says aloominum within my hearing will get stabbed with my aluminium knife. /s
It was aluminum before it was aluminium. That doesn't mean you have to like it, but it is so. It was changed for us because someone decided it should follow the pattern of radium, uranium etc instead of platinum, etc. For some arbitrary reason.
How come y'all get a extra syllable?! Doesn't seem fair
Benefits of having history behind us I suppose
Y'all is very American, but it's useful. I'd say it if it didn't sound twattish in my accent. Anyway, if you're offering drinks then nobody should care about your grammar, and mine's a cider please. That's a British thing you could do - drink proper cider.
Tbf, sometimes I say “your” in such a lazy way it could sound like yall
The only U.K. equivalent seems to be the Scouse “youse”
I'm open to all recommendations - cider and otherwise
Scrumpy Jack's, or if you like nice tasting cider Henry Westons. 7.4 is my preference.
I started saying y'all a couple years ago, but more on text/on the internet than irl. It's useful!
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It isn't a gap. We used to have a singular and plural forms of you and dropped it.
You IS the plural form of you.
I didn't say it wasn't...
Not explicitly, but it was either implied or very easy to infer. What you said sounds as though there is no longer a plural form of you, when there is --- it just happens to be the same word.
Imagining I said something and then arguing with it. God I live Reddit!
Imagining I said something and then arguing with it. God I love Reddit!
Your linguistic imprecision does not equal my 'imagining' anything.
Thank you! Now do I call you "mate?" haha
Have a seagull steal your fish and chips whilst getting rained on in the summer.
Ask a taxi driver how long he’s been on, and if town is busy.
You can also complain about any roadworks in the area.
I already do this here. But New Orleans never fixes their roads. We literally have an instagram [@lookatthisfuckinstreet](https://www.instagram.com/lookatthisfuckinstreet/) Highly recommended!
Oh I'm going to enjoy that, thanks!
sink 10 pints and have a kebab
Bake some Welsh cakes!
Queue. Drink a sports direct mug of tea. Have a massive cooked breakfast. Moan about immigrants (that is optional). You are now entitled to moan about literally anything but be aware that someone will moan about you moaning and point out you’re not entitled to moan because you weren’t born here
New Orleans, LA also will not ever consider you a local if you weren't born there. Doesn't matter how many hurricanes you survive.
I have a friend who lives in VA and he told me NO was his favourite place. I visited him and we went to some friends’ parents out in west VA and I was amazed by their hospitality. I can’t imagine I would ever be viewed as a local anywhere in the US?
Well since you mentioned your Welsh heritage, I recommend going and learning Welsh.
Pint and a packet of pork scratchings. Oh, and don't bring any of that enthusiastic American energy with you.
I thought you were going to say you won the lottery as 'minted' means really rich
\*sigh\*
In honour of your Welsh roots, and if you are near North Wales, how about visiting the national Eisteddfod next week (from 5 August to 12 August). This year it is in Llyn ac Eifionydd, the Maes (the festival site) is near Pwllheli. And despite being a Welsh cultural event, knowledge of the Welsh language is not a pre-requisite (although it will be catered to Welsh speakers). A good day out to immerse yourself in the Welsh language and traditional culture in a modern setting with singing, dancing, poetry, art. https://eisteddfod.wales/2023-ll%C5%B7n-ac-eifionydd
Relocate to Ireland, naturalise and get an EU passport and with it freedom of movement.
The lady said she was coming to the UK. Why on earth would you bring the EU into it? What has freedom of movement got to do with living in the UK? Anybody in UK can quite easily visit Europe. You are so bitter about the big bad 'B' word, I hope you get over it soon, it will only eat away at your mental wellness.
Omg calm down
Buy a kebab at 3:00 am then try to eat it as you walk down the road.
running through a wheat field, apparently. You have to learn the proper greeting, a.k.a "alright?" Queueing politely, even if you don't know exactly what you're queueing for. Drinking Yorkshire tea during the day, and pints of warm beer in the evenings.
Get signed off for back pain and then get caught playing 36 holes of golf and Ballroom dancing.
A weekend in Rhyl
A trip to the Suffolk Coast. Southwold, Aldeburgh, Orford, Thorpeness… the [house in the clouds](https://www.thesuffolkcoast.co.uk/where-to-stay-suffolk-coast/the-house-in-the-clouds) is just lovely.
Here's our US entry for wacky accommodations near the sea [Lucy the Elephant in Margate](https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/42455047?source_impression_id=p3_1691078383_NJaPeK2qVVckH%2BCz)
Oh my days…. How amazing. I would HAVE to reenact scenes from moulin rouge! Have you read Lots of Bill Bryson? His notes from a small island would give you fab ideas. But seriously…. Visiting East Anglia should be on your list. From the north Norfolk coast and Holkham Hall and beach and wells-next to-sea to the lovely city of Norwich and the stunning Norfolk Broads it’s a fab place to spend time.
Barbecue in the pissing down rain
Howarth to see the Brontë home. York & Chester, Edinburgh. Have afternoon tea served on doilies and silver platters. Then learn how to tut whilst reading The Daily Mail.
Come and smoke with me in my shed, purched on a Rhondda hillside.
Signe up to "Plenty of Fish".
Have you tried drinking yourself into oblivion?
I mentioned I'm from New Orleans, right?
Yeah, but drinking yourself into oblivion on a £3 3litre bottle of the cheapest cider or paint stripper ever known to man is a little bit less classy I would imagine!
Getting drunk with your mates and harassing teenage gangs.
Have a seagull steal food from your hand and scare the shit out of you!
You should stay away from sheep, no matter what your grandparents told you.
Bude Tunnel
Eat some Welsh rarebit. It's bloody lovely.
Visit the Gower.
Explore the wildlife of wales, the livestock at the farms usually consist of 1. Welsh "People" 2. Cows 3. Sheep (Usually kept near the welsh)
The Welsh Eisteddfod starts tomorrow I believe - try and catch some of the performances etc. online (or in person if you can!)
Cardiff Castle Tour is amazing. William Burges is the peak Victorian design and Cardiff Castle is beautifully preserved. It looks like a plain castle outside but inside is an absolute gem so it's well worth paying the extra for the apartment tour. Plus, Bute Park (the huge park located behind the castle) was originally designed and landscaped by Capability Brown and he was also a Victorian icon and it's worth having a walk around to see the large collection of mature heritage trees. Also go to St Fagan's museum of Welsh life near Cardiff (you can get a bus there easily from the city center). It's an outdoor museum where you can enter all sorts of rebuilt historical buildings old history to recent eras. If you are lucky, you can see the miller or the blacksmith working. Truly a great place to see how your Welsh ancestors lived.
Going to a fish and chip shop or having a chip sandwich
Honestly, just explore the place. Start off in Wales because of your heritage, but visit places other than London afterwards. York & Harrogate are great little places, Manchester is good city, so is Newcastle (where I’m from). Go up to Scotland via the Lake District, you get to see great cities like Edinburgh, and Glasgow. You also get to see a lot of fantastic countryside, keep going up to the highlands and possibly the islands around Scotland. Visit Northern and Republic Ireland. Visit Cornwall, and Devon. Go to London after all of that. If you have money just do that, spend time in places, and get a feel for the culture.
Find a planning application to complain about.
Have a cup of tea with King Charles, we all have.
Go have a chippy and a pint of guiness at the pub. Then after that get as many plastic surgeries it takes to become the same material as a morrisons plastic bag. Afterwards, make sure to live in a council house whilst living on benefits but at the same time go out and buy a brand new tesla, gucci handbag, and the new iPhone. (Bonus points for having more than 4 kids and 5 previous husbands)
Did you win the lottery?
1. Go to Blackpool and grumble about the colour of the sea. 2. Attend a football game and chant until you have no voice left. 3. Get really drunk in a Wetherspoons and wait until the last possible second to need the bathroom. The drunken adrenaline of trying to make it to a bathroom 50 miles away is insane. 4. Wait for a hosepipe ban and complain about every single reservoir in the area. 5. Find an acceptable situation to use the word codswallop.
What ARE the acceptable situations for "codswallop?" I'm chomping at the bit, as we yanks say.
Anything that is utter nonsense. My first reading of it was in Harry Potter… “they say you-know-who lost his power and disappeared that night, codswallop if you ask me”.
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Unemployment, miserable weather and people making "I am going to stab you" eyes when you smile at them in the queue.
Really though mate, why are you smiling at random people in the queue?
Cos I am imagining you naked.
Ah, a masochist then.