It took for me for theTour de France to really appreciate it, then since moving back to Ripon (where I was born) its amazing living here! Though literally speaking is about 10miles east of the Dales, is pretty close though, grew up here haha

I have lived in 4 different countries & each one has something unique & breathtaking. When I lived in Athens I would drop the kids off at kindergarten & on my return home I would see the sun glisten off the Mediterranean. It was breathtaking. I love London, love the Thames as that was home to me as was Athens. Colombia was stunning. Germany's Garmisch Partenkirchen in the Alps. Our world is beautiful & we should all stop & appreciate it.

Thanks, but it was nature who designed our country you're either lucky or not. I haven't much time for sttements saying their area is better or more beautiful, etc.

@@dinerouk well old Lanky doesn't look too bad either, I'm not going so far as to say that you Tykes have it better 😉

Had to comment 'cos I live in Selby.

yorkshire is gods own country proud to be from here

Home is where the heart is!

Amen to that Ned 👍 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

It may rain in England, but then that's perhaps why the place is so green. People complain about how it always rains in the Lake District too, but the response to that is: "Well all that water in the lakes has to come from somewhere!"

The real problem is that you have to leave to appreciate what you have left behind; welcome back. Of course the problem we have is that England is so perfect but tiny; this attracts people to want to come and live here, which in turn takes more and more away from us.

Some of us do appreciate what we have but are saddened by successive government taking it piece by piece for profit and for housing illegals.

I live just west of Leeds and am lucky to have one right in my back garden! So, yes - ladies, they are in the towns too!

On the rare occasions that the UK has a drought, the level in reservoirs sometimes drop to reveal the villages covered as the water level rose. The dry-stone constructions, walls and bridges remain intact and the mortared bits are reduced to rubble.

@@cowboykilla fair point, they often are but when seen in the Dales up and down and everywhere, it's maybe a shade more spectacular 😉

I’ve a friend who is a Dry Stone Diker, so he rebuild’s broken walls, it makes me laugh, he’s a Lord.

@@gabbymcclymont4167 I've met a few nobility and all of them seemed like regular good chaps, funny amicable the sort who would happily buy you a pint.

While staying in Whitby for the music and singing week, in 2011 I got a bus way out and walked back on the coast through those towns, having a pint in each and a lovely time!

When it’s not raining lol.

@@bigg7047 I've spent long summers in the area so my opinion isn't skewed by a week in the tent or a daytrip.

Yorkshire has stunning countryside you can drive for miles through it so pretty 🇬🇧 some of our churches date back to the 12th century - a lot of our roads were first put in place by the Romans - USA is such a new country everything seems so modern there - you'll find dry stone walls everywhere in the countryside and even in the towns and cities - there are hundreds of picture postcard villages all over the UK 🌼

The only snake I have seen in GB was a pet corn snake in a tank! I think that technically we do have a couple of snakes, small harmless grass snakes, and in some areas there are adders. But I have lived really all my life in Yorkshire, grew up in the proper countryside and never once seen a snake, nor have most other people i know. Maybe they have more down south but they aren't commonplace at all. No poisonous/venomous bugs or anything, no predators of humans (except occasionally other humans I guess), I think it is one of the safest places in the world in terms of no really dangerous flora and fauna, temperate climate, environment, super low risk of natural disasters. They call Yorkshire "God's own Country". You should certainly visit York, the N York Moors area, Yorkshire Dales, including some of the castles and towns with picturesque high streets and shops and tea rooms etc and stately homes along the way Some of the towns in the region you might wish to look into include Skipton, Harrogate and places like around Thirsk and Bedale and that area, the small market towns overlooked by ruined castles. Go to the coast and you have some beautiful spots along the Yorkshire coast, Whitby, Scarborough etc. Inland, from the Yorkshire Dales area you should stop by the city of Sheffield which has always had a good music scene and is a university city, in South Yorkshire, part of which (the city) falls within the Peak District National Park which is another stunning area you should explore, peak district, north derbyshire and sheffield. At this rate you'll be making 4 visits to the UK, one for each country! Seeing these walks brought back some memories! Oh and about thinking about the people who have walked where I have, or stood where I stood, thousands of years ago is something I do often think. Even out houses, I may be wrong but I have the idea that houses are mostly not old in the US? That a street full of houses from 120 years ago would be unusual? Or have I been misinformed? Near where I lived some years ago now, in a 100+ yr old terrace house there was the remnants of an old iron age earthworks fort on top of the hill. I used to stand there sometimes and think about all the different people who had definitely stood where I stood, within what was once a fort, at various times over thousands of years and wonder how much was different and how much the same. TL:DR Snakes super rare, very few. Yorkshire area is beautiful, God's own country. Try Peak District too, and Yorkshire coast.

The waterfall that you had to go through the pub to get to was also in robin hood prince of thieves the famous shower scene with Kevin costner

I have never seen a wild snake ever in the UK. But we do have em and there is only one posinous snake

@@weej840 Don't eat that one then. The Adder is a venomous snake.

Yes 👍🏻 so do I! I walk past Tudor house 🏠 and don’t even notice!

An a 62 year old country girl and I have never seen them either 🤷

I think the last time someone died from an adder was in 1990 but could be wrong. You definitely barely see snakes though, I've only seen an adder once and I've only seen a grass snake once I've been around for yonks

Are you forgetting the smooth snake? Admittedly it's scarce but still holds out in parts of the south...

Incorrect actually.... there are three native species of snake in the UK.... the Grass Snake, the Adder and the Smooth Snake.

@@cyberash3000 which is actually a legless lizard - quick tip...if it blinks it's a slow worm (snakes don't have eyelids)...

I am from Wakefield and a lorry driver. Use to love coming off the M62 and going over the tops.

'born and bread' What side was she buttered on? 🤣

Try the Peak District.. it’s as beautiful if not better

The Herdwick sheeep video is one of my fav's They act like docile dogs! Amazing!

one of my fav vidoes!

100% Right and also Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Hampshire..

I wouldn’t say adders are actually harmless. They are poisonous. Grass snakes are harmless.

You are 100% right Joshua but as 67 years old and as someone who lived in the heart of Inner London for 29 years and now lives in the same house that I moved to in Outer London in 1983, I can assure you that it is impossible to see all of Greater London in one lifetime and I tried, my friend:)

I agree, even though I’m from Notts I love London but there’s so much to see outside of it - my then American girlfriend preferred Nottingham to London

Absolutely not. I live in the North East, and it is horrible, don't come. Its not as if there are any idyllic beaches, clear sky zones, historic castles and Roman ruins. Absolutely nothing to see here....

@@richardsanderson9883 😀

Joshua, totally agree

I'm also from Leeds, ruth. 🙂

I'm in Otley lol

If that’s what Yorkshire is,then Cornwall is the land of magic,myth and the best beaches I’ve ever seen.

@@TheCornishCockney I'm from Yorkshire and I spent 20 years in Cornwall. It's my second place in the world. But Cornwall is beautiful but Yorkshire has more of it.

Another very proud Yorkshire Lass here, from the town of a famous brass band!

I live in South Yorkshire and I've been to all the places you've mentioned. Totally agree with you, lovely places to visit xx

NB! Castle Bolton. Mary, Queen of Scots was held prisoner at Bolton for six months.[5] The story goes that she escaped and made her way towards Leyburn only to lose her 'shawl' on the way, hence the name ('The Shawl') of the cliff edge that runs westward out of Leyburn and is a well-known spot for easy walks with excellent views. After her defeat in Scotland at the Battle of Langside in 1568 she fled to England, posing a threat to the position of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I. Mary was initially held at Carlisle Castle under the watch of Henry, 9th Baron Scrope, but Carlisle proved unsuitable and in July 1568 Mary was moved to Bolton.

Though Bram Stoker included Whitby as one of the locations for his novel 'Dracula' - that hardly makes him a 'Yorkshire literary genius' - the guy was Irish. Stoker visited Whitby a few times around 1890, but never lived there. In fact Stoker spent more time in Scotland, Ireland (naturally) and even the USA than he ever spent in Yorkshire.

Yes, I agree! Knaresborough is beautiful.

Love to visit to Knaresborough, lovely place x

Did part of my work experience based in Askham Bryan college, York, as greenkeeper on a golf course there.

better places then sandbanks 👍⭐️in Dorset 😘

UK only has two snakes, the grass snake and the adder, which is the only venomous snake we have here. It stays in grassland area’s only and although it’s poisonous it’s a very timid creature so avoids human contact we’re possible. I’ve only seen one once and known only of one time f someone suffering a bite from one were his arm was outside his sleeping bag at night and the snake bit him which he didn’t know about as he was asleep at the time. His lower arm puffed up looking like Popeye after taking some spinach. 🤪🤓🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Love Brimham Rocks... did you read where some morons toppled some of these iconic rocks ? Not often I want to kill...but for these people I would make an exeption !

@@marynorth7988 i can imagine. Last time we went some idiot was doing a bbq amongst tinder dry heather 🙄

I moved to Scotland from Yorkshire and slow worms were abundant around my house until the cat got his paws on them 😳

@@HighlandMike325 What fun! We have a squiggle of slow worms in our garden (Gloucestershire) - we provide covered bits and wild areas, which they seem to appreciate, as we had babies last summer! Thankfully our one cat who used to chase them is too old now and the others aren't as interested! :)

Yes, my county, definitely God's own county for sure

@@bladeschick1 Durham is God's own county, Yorkshire is the start of the south.😀

@@rayc146 lol nice try 😉😉

I moved away from Harrogate but visit regularly, I never appreciated it when I lived there.

A large boast! And one, even as a Yorkshireman, I would be wary of uttering. They each have their fine points.

There’s a palm tree at the railway station at the Kyle Of Lochalsh at the other end of the country too.

I'm middle aged, live in the Yorkshire Dales & I've never seen a grass snake, let alone an Adder.

I’m an old lady on the edge of Exmoor and have seen weasels, badgers, slow worms, two species of lizard etc etc etc but I’ve never seen an adder