ENGLAND'S CHARMING PICTURE POSTCARD VILLAGES IN SPRING
[Music] This weekend we're going to explore some picture postcard villages in the East Midlands which is so lovely because we are in the middle of spring. Yes and the sun is out, it's warm and it's really nice. It is. Yes and we're starting in Braunston in Northamptonshire. Yes - a wonderful little village with a historic canal and a gorgeous countryside so let's explore the area [Music] So you can see plenty of narrow boats. We are still interested in doing a narrow boat cruise
but we just said we should invite Luca and his girlfriend so we can do it together. Yes because we need more hands on deck then. That's so true. All hands on deck - because I want to be the captain and all the others need to do the work. No we should really do that so Luca you're officially invited. Maybe we might not be able to do this year but maybe next spring. Yes so Luca put some - put it on your list - two weeks away or week away so for a narrow trip in the UK. Yes. [Music] We're now in Foxton Locks which has the longest staircase flight of locks in Britain. Yes and
think locks. Yeah not locks at your door. Locks in a canal. We just said this is for I don't know master narrow boaters - yes - so not not something we would do. Yeah but it's also good for training because you've got a series of locks - yes - so you can if you don't master the first one getting the second one. The thing is I don't know if you can see but there are a lot of people so they help you. Maybe yeah. Yeah. I think Jörg had a favourite narrow boat. Yes a narrow boat where you can buy beer so a so a kind of pub narrow boat. Yeah. At first I thought you could draw your own beer. No no, they sell it. They sell it. A very clever business idea today. Yeah, I agree.
[Music] Okay, we're just having a little break. Two tees. I don't know, is that is that Yorkshire tea? Don't know. I don't know. I just said tea. Tea. And we're going to share a jacked potato which is always so good. This is tuna and mayo. Yeah. Looks good [Music]
Look at the gorgeous wisteria. This is honestly like a picture perfect house, isn't it? One of my favourite seasons. I really love wisteria. This house is for sale here in Foxton. It's a beautiful village. I love the front door. Hm, a fox. Yes. I love the, I love the door knocker. We just arrived at the George Dragon pub where we booked a little room for tonight. It's a bank holiday weekend in the UK so it's Sunday today and tomorrow we have a day off week which is really great. This pub is in a gorgeous very picturesque village called Seatan that we're going to explore
after dinner so because it's Sunday we might have a Sunday roast today. We'll see but I want to show you the room. We got an amazing deal because we booked this room only two days ago so we were quite lucky. Jörg is chilling. Are you looking forward to having dinner? Maybe
a Sunday roast? We'll see. Now this is our room. Bed obviously. Then a little desk area. A lovely chair, plenty of towels and self-explanatory, this is the bathroom. Shower. Toilet. Oh look. That's actually lovely because there are lots of peasants here. Grouse, partridge, quail. You know when you see something like that you know that you're in the English countryside. And the view from here. It's great for tonight, isn't it? There is something. You know what? We we've said that a number of times. No matter where you go be it in a little B&B,
in a pub - you always have a kettle and you don't always have that in Germany. No. But, um, well, we did have it in, um, in Rothenburg where we filmed Christmas content. There was one in the bathroom which was quite astonishing but here is a huge one. We both ordered Sunday roast. Now this is beef - yeah - obviously a huge Yorkshire pudding which Jörg is going to have. And potatoes. And we do have, um, cabbage. Yeah. And broccoli cheese. Gluten free. It looks amazing, doesn't it? Oh yeah. It does.
It doesn't get more British than this. Sunday roast. Look how full Jörg's plate is. You look so greedy now with the two Yorkshire puddings. I can see that you had a Guinness. Your cheeks are red. That was lovely. A lovely dinner,
wasn't it? Yes, a late Sunday roast. Yes. And now we're going for a walk. We'll show you the pub from the outside and the lovely village Seaton here. Now this is the pub from the outside. The George & Dragon here in Seatan. And I'm not entirely sure but Jörg and I just said we think
we drove past this little village only a couple of months ago but we didn't have time to explore so let's do it now. This is a very picturesque church here in Seatan. Um, let me check out the name. It's All Hollow's Church. It's beautiful. [Music] Good morning! Good morning! I feel so rested. What about you? Yes. I really slept well. Me too. And it's only 5 minutes past 8 o'clock. We always enjoy the quiet mornings, don't we? Yes, it's lovely outside. Yes. I don't think it will be as sunny as yesterday but the perfect weather
hopefully to explore. Yes it will be okay. Yes so now we we're heading to breakfast. So we enjoyed our breakfast and we now came to a little village called Lyddington. It's only about a 10-minute drive from the George & Dragon Arms and it's absolutely beautiful. Lots of red limestone buildings. Very picturesque. So we have a wonder around. This is the Church
of St Andrew here in Lyddington and next to it is a building called so I I don't really know the pronunciation. Is it Bede House? It belongs to English Heritage. It's absolutely beautiful, isn't it? So this is part of a former palace and in the 1600s it was converted into almshouses. [Music] What do you think? It's really nice. Yes yes. It's so quiet and peaceful. We the moment we drove
into this village we said it's gorgeous. Yeah. No, it's peaceful. It is. It's a bank holiday Monday morning. Yes, I'm - quiet - I'm surprised. Uh, so this here obviously is a small green and then, did you see, um, this can't be a rose? Yeah. Is that a rose? Yes. [Music] So we left Lyddington village which is so beautiful. If you're in the area you should definitely check it out. We loved it. And we're now at Barnsalde Gardens - yes - which
consists of 38 different types of gardens. Yes. Look, this is lovely, isn't it? Yeah, we should have one for our courtyard. Well, then we would only have that and nothing else. Yeah but you will always have something green. Yeah. It has a wonderful size so if you have a small
garden. This is lovely as well. [Music] This is Garden Number Five. Artisan's Cottage Garden. And we thought it would be so nice in today's video to show you lovely blooms in springtime time. I love this garden. Also has it has a wonderful size. Not too big and very very very romantic actually.
[Music] The next garden might be for you. No, it is. It is. It it is. Gentleman's Cottage Garden. Let's have a look. Garden Number Four. Okay, if that is a Gentleman's Garden where is the tea? A gentleman doesn't need tea. He needs a good whiskey and a cigar. No, it's gorgeous. It is gorgeous. I love the bench there. Over there. You can see the rooms, the garden rooms aren't huge but I think it's it gives you ideas for your own home. Now look the back the the story behind the garden is
that - yeah - the guy who - yes - founded it - yeah - I think he was at some point the narrator of gardening's world in BBC. Yeah. BBC. Yeah. He he did - or Gardener's World - everything yeah - Gardener's World. Mhm. So people watching from the UK you might know him. Yeah. [Music] A cheeky slice of cake. Yeah time for some chocolate cake. Well, um,
black forest gateau was or is gone. Yeah. Looks very much like a black forest gateau. Oh almost. Just without the schnaps. This is a gluten free chocolate and vanilla cake. Very cheeky. Cappuccino and tea for Jörg. But it's so nice to sit outside especially because the
weather forecast wasn't the best - no - so it said rain. I mean we can't complain. No. [Music] Now we drove past Stamford and are now in a village called Ufford. Yes so yeah, we really enjoyed a little tea/coffee break and Jörg found this village, right? It says - very lovely. Yeah we just walk around. You know what? I honestly can't believe it because the weather forecast for this weekend wasn't the best. No it said rain and so far no rain.
We visited Stamford about 3 years ago. It's absolutely gorgeous in case you haven't been. And also Burleigh House where we went twice. It's really really beautiful. They use it a lot for filming so yeah, you always find it in some kind of period film. So today we didn't
want to stop in Stamford itself because we only wanted to cover the smaller villages. [Music] We we will end this video here in Grafton Underwood where we came about 4 years ago - yeah - I think. A long long time ago. Weah when we still had our German YouTube channel. Back then do you remember one of the houses here was for sale? Yes. And now - this one is for sale. This one is for sale. And I remember that back then we really liked this
house too. Yeah. It's nice. It's very nice. Seems to be empty already. Yeah. [Music] [Music] You know we saw a lot of wonderful places in the last two days. We have. And you know what? My favourite bit especially at this time of year is always the the old houses with the wisteria because don't you think it always looks like a painting? Yes yes. But my favourite was Foxton Locks. Do we even have that in Germany? I'm not sure. I don't know. Yeah. No,
it was very unusual. Yes and I find it great that these things yeah being kept. Preserved. Yes. So as always we hope you like the video. I can't believe it. I think there will be rain tonight so we could have timed it more perfectly. Yeah. Thank you so much for watching. As always we'll see you again very soon so until next time. Bye. Bye. Bye bye.
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