Just a little rant on how stupid things are getting in the UK

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A cute advert I see in front of U-rated movies or PG-rated movies in the UK at Showcase Cinemas, advertising the Nickelodeon Film Club.

Motogp Onboard Donington Park | Great Britain 2006

(Please note that the sound goes weird at the beginning.)
An advert for the Scottish whiskey, The Famous Grouse!
Adults, remember to drink alcohol responsibly.

The Activision logo from the 1990's, taken from the Toy Story 2 Video Game.

The previous Traveller's Tales logo, taken from the Toy Story 2 video game

Warwick Castle lies in the town of Warwick of the English county of Warwickshire. In 1978, Warwick Castle was sold to Tussauds, a large visitor attraction business. Tussauds performed extensive restorations   more...to the castle and grounds in addition to opening its gates to the public. The castle today is a popular tourist attraction and attracts tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world.  less

I wanted to do a video showing the typical England horsebox that’s used to carry horses to and from horse shows. These units incorporate horse areas AND living and sleeping areas for the horse owners.   more... This is Part Three of a 3 part series on the event in Tweseldown, England.

The song is “On the Road Again” by Canned Heat.  less

This sculpture in Horsham, England, is technically called “Cosmic Cycle”, but none of my friends, who LIVE in Horsham, call it by that name . . . . they tend to call it MUCH less “complimentary” names!   more...LOL . . . I’ve always called it “The Flushing Earth”, and it’s one of the more bizarre sculptures I’ve ever seen! . . . . granted, it’s fun to WATCH! LOL, but still BIZARRE!!

The song is “How Bizarre”, by OMC, which I think is a PERFECT song choice!  less

St. Marks Church was constructed in 1840. Thirty years later, the BEAUTIFUL 141 foot tall spire shown in this video was added to the church, as a memorial to Mary, the only daughter of Canon A.H. Bridges.   more... Sadly, the CHURCH was demolished around 1988, to make way for a huge, and, in my opinion as a retired professional architect, “less than attractive” office building, leaving only the spire as a reminder of the beautiful structure which one stood at this site for so many years.

The song is “Novio” by Moby.

(Many thanks to my England friend Ren, for her help on making this video :) )  less

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I first heard this song by Natasha Bedingfield yesterday. I think the song is so beautiful and powerful, so it inspired me to use it in a video. I hope you like the song too! :)

The photos are some of   more...the ones I've taken in England on various trips.  less

Here is the second part of my brief video tour around portions of Horsham, in the southern part of England.

The song for the video is a beautiful version of “True Colors” done by Eva Cassidy.

Yep, another vid of me wandering aimlessly around LOL . . . I love exploring old towns and cities in England and other countries. It is SUCH a joy to wander around places NOT set up with the typical   more...BORRRRING “grid pattern” that so many USA towns and cities embrace, so in places like the older parts of Horsham, England for instance, you’re sure to find quaint and VERY old meandering alleyways that exist to this day, as you walk around exploring the sights.

The song choice is “100 Years” by Five For Fighting.  less

Yep, it’s another video of me wandering around (no surprise THERE! LOL) . . . . I’ve become QUITE good at aimless wandering in my 56 years on the planet LOL

I’ve always found airports around the world   more...to be a really interesting “ecosystem” to observe . . . happy people arriving for holidays or to see loved ones, sad people leaving loved ones or flyin’ back home to return to work, sad people arriving after great holidays, happy people leaving for vacations, bored business travelers rushing about, new visitors to the country with anxious looks on their faces, as they try to negotiate through an airport they’ve never been in before, parents tryin’ to keep track of overexcited young kids who are racing around everywhere . . .

The song I chose for the video is “Leaving on a Jet Plane” . . . I’ve always liked this song, particularly the Peter, Paul, & Mary version from my younger years, but I’ve always thought that the lyrics of the song would make this song a great candidate for a romantic duet between a male and female singer, yet I was unable to find such a duet on iTunes, so I created a duet by inter splicing audio clips from the John Denver version and a version by Brit singer Sophie Barker. . . . THANKFULLY both singers sing their versions in the same MUSICAL KEY! LOL, so that made the splicing project VASTLY easier!!

For those that have never heard of Sophie. . . she’s a singer best known for her work with the British down tempo group Zero 7. Sophie left University College London after two years to become a full-time singer, signing with Sony Records. She is the co-writer of the band's biggest hit, "Destiny".

Barker released a solo album, Earthbound, in 2006. In 2006 she was also featured in a British Airways UK television campaign singing her version of "Leaving on a Jet Plane".  less

I always enjoy visiting the seashore in the countries I visit. Here are some video clips taken on the southern shore of England, at Brighton. The really interesting thing here is that there is almost   more...NO sand on their beaches!! . . . only PEBBLES!

The song is “Everytime It Rains” by Ace of Base.  less

Here is another of my travelogue type videos (so no racing hydroplane boats or planes as in some of my other videos! LOL). This video is about the small village of Amberley, which has about 500 residents,   more...and is located in the Horsham District of West Sussex, in Southern England. Most of the structures here were built in the 16th to 18th century, when Amberley was a farming community located on the main coaching road between Arundel and London. (I’ve done a video about Arundel Castle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jZ0ggnC3w) and a video about the Cathedral of Our Lady & St. Philip Howard in Arundel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vuRQidKBw), if you’d like to check those out too).

There are approximately 55,000 thatched structures in England, and the village of Amberley is noted for its many thatched buildings. Wikipedia has a great web page about thatched roofs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatch.

Amberley Castle (current website http://www.amberleycastle.co.uk/) used to be owned by Bishops from nearby Chichester, who used it as a hunting lodge and retreat. The castle is now a luxury country hotel that “offers 19 luxurious bedrooms and suites, many with four-poster beds and all featuring Jacuzzi bathrooms. Facilities include two restaurants, lounge areas, tennis court, croquet lawn, gardens and lakes, 18-hole professional putting course and a stunning thatched roof tree house complete with rope bridge”.

The nave of St. Michael’s Church was built around 1140, and additional construction done around 1230. The faded wall paintings shown in this video were done around the 12-13th century, and depict scenes from the life of Christ.

The song I used for the video is “Heartland” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. I went to the reunion concert of this group a few years ago and it was an amazing evening :) :) I couldn’t, however, fully grasp the reality that SOOOOO many years had passed since I used to listen to this group when I was going to the university “way back when”!! LOL . . . “tempus fugits” . . .  less

Here is a video about another of the wonderful old English castles . . . this one in the charming town of Tonbridge, in Southern England . . . not to be confused with nearby “Tunbridge Wells”, altho’   more...“Tonbridge” WAS originally called “Tunbridge”, but later changed to Tonbridge to help minimize at least SOME of the confusion, with nearby Tunbridge Wells LOL, but, BUT . . . you still need to be careful when buying TRAIN tickets, so as not to get a ticket to the wrong place! :)

I visited this castle during the off season, so I had the interior of the castle TOTALLY to myself for the hour I was wandering around inside, so it was great walking in all the rooms and stairways, trying to visualize the people, and their lifestyle, that used to live here and defend it from attacks since it was first constructed in the 11th Century. The “Gatehouse”, which is the main visual topic of this video, was constructed in the 13th Century.

Being a retired architect, I found it REALLY interesting to learn that the architect for this castle and for a series of other castles for the same royal client, did SUCH a good job designing “state of the art” castles for him, that the royal client had the architect KILLED after the architect completed his work, rather than run the risk of the architect then going to OTHER clients to design similarly great defensive castles for THEM!! so geez . . . talk about an UNGRATEFUL CLIENT!

After the castle was built, the basement was used to store food for the winter months. The food and beverages 700 years ago would have included such things as smoked meats, garlic and herbs, barrels of wine, beer, salted fish, baskets of wheat, chestnuts, etc.

Swords in those days were cleaned in sawdust and sand, arrows with metal tips stuck in a barrel of sand to avoid rusting. Chain mail, which was greasy, muddy and bloody from battles, was washed in a mixture of sand, gravel and water, then hung up to dry inside a cloth covering.

Here’s a link to a LOT!! more history on the castle and surrounding area:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonbridge

and,

Here’s a link to other websites with lots of info:
http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Kent/Tonbridge/Tonbridge_Castle

and,

http://www.tonbridge-kent.com/Amenit/castle.htm

and,

Here’s a link to the official castle website: http://www.tonbridgecastle.org/cgi-bin/buildpage.pl?mysql=2

The song I chose for the video is “Indian Boy” by Brulé. The song seems to go really well with the peaceful tranquility of this castle, where so much death and violence occurred so many years ago. Some Tonbridge locals say that there have been numerous ghost sightings at the castle, which wouldn’t be surprising, given how many people died violent deaths there. I felt I was being watched the entire time I was inside the castle on my own, but that was probably because of the presence of the security surveillance cameras! LOL
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Welcome to Arundel Castle, in Arundel, West Sussex, England . . . I love wandering around old castles in Europe. The Arundel Castle was "remodeled" and expanded around 1300AD, and the initial   more...castle built around 1100AD . . . it's always interesting to me how castles were often times remodeled WELL before the United States was even in EXISTENCE! :)

For more info on Arundel Castle (one of my favorite castles), please check out:

http://www.arundelcastle.org/_pages/01_castle.htm

In addition to the castle (which also has a restaurant), the grounds include a beautiful old chapel, and gardens, and the town of Arundel is the quintessential old English town, which also has a beautiful large cathedral called “Cathedral of Our Lady & St. Philip Howard” that I also did a video on. Here are the video links to the Cathedral video on both YouTube and LiveVideo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vuRQidKBw

and

http://www.livevideo.com/video/DCE207A0164D4629A6CB4C4C3165AADC/-cathedral-of-our-lady-and-st-.aspx

For castle history buffs, this website has lots of detailed info on the Arundel Castle:

http://www.castles-abbeys.co.uk/Arundel-Castle.html

The song is “Scarborough Fair” by Amy Nuttall.  less

As we were wandering around Chichester, England, my friend and I found “Wests Bar”, which is a great, friendly pub inside a former church.

The song is “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” by Alan Jackson and   more...Jimmy Buffett.  less

It was great to watch one of my England friends on her horse competing at the Hunter Trial at the cross-country course at Tweseldown, in Southern England. The jumps for this competition were 2’-9” high.
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This video is Part One of a three part series of videos I did about this event.

The song is “Love Today” by Mika.  less

Brighton Pier (originally called Palace Pier) is a wonderful example of an old historic amusement pier, which is located at the southern seaport of Brighton, England. Construction on the pier began in   more...1891 and opened in May 1899, with a construction cost of around $300,000 (a LOT of money back then!). A concert hall opened on the pier two years later, but now no longer exists. Much of the original pier architecture remains, so when you walk on the pier, it’s like going back to a different era!

The song is “On The Beach” by Chris Rea.  less