10 Ways You're Traveling Wrong In England

okay it's like a tiny area of London and like that's not an entire accent of everyone in England off of England speaks at the Queen and the other half speaks copy like that's not how it works [Music] hello I'm Chloe I am originally from Ely Cambridgeshire but no

one knows what that is and they also live in America now and I'm Sam I'm from Somerset in England but I live in London now and we're here to talk about travelling in England and the etiquette number one striking up a conversation on the tube in terms of

public transport I definitely think it is not okay to strike up a conversation on the tube or the training load yeah there B is so embarrassing yeah I've seen it happen but I hate when it happens to me and I think a lot of British people do feel

like you're on the transport you're on the tube you on the train just you know have little inner thoughts don't speak them don't say anything just get on with life get off number two not taking turns in buying rounds if you go out with a few people in

England be expected to buy an entire round of drinks for the table and then you just have to hope that they drink enough drinks that you get your money back the move goes around the table whereas here you just quiet drink or like by one person during that's

actually quite rude I feel like if you went to a pub with like three or four friends and you didn't offer to buy them a drink they'd be like hmm what's up what did I do to offend you whereas yeah in the UK you're like I'll get the

rounds in get the first round because then people are less drunk at the starts that they remember to get you drinks yeah the last round because by then everyone's gone home yeah I I think actually have a go so you have to see how yeah I don't actually

think there's any rules there but definitely get the rounds in yeah I think that's just like a sign of like respect that you actually like want to hang out with these people so you buy the round but if you're a lightweight and someone who's a really heavy Boozer

and there's like five people you can have to drink five drinks yeah you do kind of sign on for like like a giant night yeah you do actually that's great but Brits like that so that's yeah drink that's not a thing Brits drink because I do not be

like do I'm shocked if you see a lot of drunk rowdy people at the end of night oh yeah and puking in the street yeah definitely puking industry number three standing on the wrong side of the escalator another thing about well I guess like the tube and any

escalator stand on the right if you don't want to walk if you just want to stay there because if you say on the left people who want to walk down or up they can't get past you so always be on the right yeah that is such a big

thing I see so many tourists in London do not understand the system that is to stand on the right and then you walk up the left yeah and everyone does that except the occasional tourist who just stands there and I always go excuse me also a fun thing

that British people do which I don't know if if they do it here you say sorry but actually it's more like you should be sorry oh yeah if they do something to you oh yeah like I'm sorry but you're like yeah buddy say sorry yeah you'll be like

they'll be in the way and you'll move back the way you'll go sorry that's a classic British thing that's true it's like a path of regrets it's so nice of aggressive we're not very direct so we have to just like get our feelings out another way no not

direct totally pass AG number four dawdling along the sidewalk in terms of walking down the street there's no real rules of where you have to stand like on the tube I would just say don't dawdle which is a British ism dawdling is when you want to slide with

no purpose yeah that's a dawdle that basically means don't like waste our time don't don't go yeah don't just stand there and then tip to the side and tip to the left and then look at your phone like we don't want that don't do it or purposeful walking

is important especially in London oh yeah no just move to one side so that we can get through number five placing napkins on the plate when you're done with your meal when we finish our meals is signal that we've done is that we put our knife and fork

together in the center of the plate so it's at like a six o'clock kind of you cuz neat it's just like like it's tidy it's just like a way of like yeah you're kind of helping them out yeah you're like putting the whole you know all the components

together to be like yeah when I used to work as a waitress and like I'd have a lot of American tourists come in and they were just like put their napkin like their cloth napkin just on their plate and like their knife and fork like dirty everywhere and

I'm like now we have to wash that napkin more than we were going to yeah okay because it's gross and you've just made a mess so thank you so much yeah that's what we do number six leaving a tip at a restaurant tipping in the UK it's not

a cultural thing that we do because we have something called a service charge which just a kind of amount of money on top that you know at the end of the meal everyone will just get whatsoever charge and then you just split it you were usually just I

mean this is my experience maybe I'm a bit cheap but I tend to just pay the service charge number seven expecting quick service as a restaurant I've been living in America for a while now and I forget how bad how slow the services in England till I go

back for Christmas every year and my mum just sits there like a patiently like way for a meal for like 45 minutes and me and my sister who also Lucia it's just like oh my god where the hell is it why is it so bad I could be

in three times by now and no one seems to care blast what's the average wait time here ten minutes ten minutes you can get a meal in like ten minutes here even at a nice restaurant like their appetizer for sure would come out within ten minutes I feel

like half an hour in the UK I'm like it's pretty good I can't anymore I've become so impatient by living here it's like simple like a little sandwich and what you can't cut bread yeah I just put the filling give it to me yeah the more simple it

is the longer you have to work so yeah if you visit England don't expect to have really quick food service you learn something that I think we lack yeah yeah plan your activities around a nice half-an-hour way a restaurant number eight sending your order back for something else

I think another thing about etiquette in England would be if you are used to like being able to send a drink back just because you don't like it you cannot do that in English like they'll make your cocktails in America and if you just don't fancy the taste

of it you're like oh another one and they're like so okay with it where is an England has to be something actually very wrong or with the drink like there is a bug in it or something for them to be like okay we'll make remake it for you

yeah it's not like oh your little taste but I don't like it I'm sorry that's amazing I didn't know you could do that here right because if a bartender like suggest to drink to you you shouldn't have to just be like delicious yeah but in Britain you'll just

be like it was lovely loved it not true and also sometimes you don't like something and you just get on with it I didn't all in my egg whose way oh yeah it's easy to see it but we send it back it will be another 45 minutes so

it comes out again yes that's so true number nine avoiding British foods one stereotype that I hear all the time is that British food isn't good and I think that's so untrue I mean yes there are places you can go that are not good just like anywhere yeah

and if you just walk into a random pub you probably won't get a good meal but there are like so many really good places to go I'm finishing yeah Maisie better enjoy fish and chips are good so good yeah you cannot replicate it in America have you

tried – no no don't write I'd like to I'd like to see what what's going on I feel like you can't get that in like fish and chips but I've never really had that in central London and really enjoyed just I feel like it's a bit more of

a regional delicacy or definitely the seaside yes with this I definitely Beach do you say seaside ooh I have to go to the beach to get good fish and chip number 10 imitating British accents so I've been in America so long now that I have gotten used to

people and we're taking my accent and I don't get offended any more but I can imagine if you live in England and some American comes along is like oh I got my doing yeah which we're able to say how you doing so never mind about that like I've

been doing an impression an impression but yeah I think that's yang what do you think I've had that here and it's always like the Mary Poppins cockney accent yes which is just like I don't even know anyone whose real accent that's why yeah like cockney it's like a

tiny area of London and like that's not an entire accent of everyone in England like some like half of England speaks at the Queen and the other half speaks copy like that's not how it works yeah it's so many regional accents and in so many regional accent and

also in Mary Poppins the dude who was cockney was American oh yeah it was Dick Van Dyke like such an American man and there's a horrible British accent to the ad I think would I be offended if an American did I wouldn't I wouldn't be offended at all

but what I kind of get is they'll go I do a really good British accent and then you're like oh yeah that's here and then they say it's terrible yeah I think you have to get that's really good yeah oh my god and it's just nothing I've no

I've never heard my wife been like that's actually pretty good I've heard a couple cuz I've had so many people do it right in here but yeah I don't think some random Erica tourist is gonna be like Oscar will have the accent person no I love the UK

I couldn't really see myself living over anywhere else I do love it it's super steeped in history there's so much there to explore there's so many old towns there's some beautiful countryside it's good food so have fun and report back to us and what you find and enjoy

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