William Wilberforce was the man who as a Member of Parliament led the abolition of slavery.

There are lots of grave markers and memorials set into the floor of Westminster Abbey. You can walk on all of them EXCEPT the grave of the unknown soldier. No one steps on that; even the Queen walks around it.

My brother worked at the museum his entire working life. His position in security meant that when we had family or friends from abroad we got a free private tour of the museum after it was closed to the public. Was amazing.

Very enjoyable Vlog, great to see a relaxed tour around London. One thing I found when visiting London and in general most European cities is don’t spend a fortune on accommodation, like you said you are never really there most of the time, the accommodation is really just a place to have a shower and sleep, the time on any holiday or vacation is about seeing the place you are not the accommodation. 👍👍👍👍👍

Thanks for sharing your 3 days in London guys, I’ve really enjoyed following you around. I’m from the UK and lived in London for 20 years so none of this is new to me but it’s always nice to hear how visitors experience our capital city. Hope you have fun in Paris 😊

Without doubt the most informative and entertaining vlogs I have seen of my favourite city! So relaxed, so knowledgeable, and so respectful. I binge watched all your videos of London. Thank you so much ❤

Piccadilly used to be festooned with billboards, lights then later neon on every facade and into Leicester Square from the 1920s -70s, but gradually they were taken down to reveal the beautiful buildings beneath, some of which they had no idea what would look like. One corner remains out of 'tradition'.

Just subscribed! I’ll be going to London in two weeks time and you both hit a lot of the spots I’m planning to see, so it’s been really fun watching! And I also watched Joolz Guides!!! He’s so quirky and fun to watch! 💕 Also seeing the same exact play at the Globe! So excited to see that too!!

Your Vlogs are amazing can not wait for the next one thank you i had a great time watching from Scotland xx

I have just finished all 3 of your London videos. I loved your great balance between pre-planning research and your discovery of the unexpected and new. The result was a tour that was knowledgable without being 'know-it-all'. As someone who lived in and just outside London for many years, it was great to see it through your eyes. Hope the Paris leg goes well!

Just found you guys yesterday (Subscribed immediately). Your London videos have taken me back to my very first visit to the UK in 1968...have been many, many, many times since. Should you ever return to the UK you should try visiting York...(2 hrs by train)...I was always a hardcore London fan until I was introduced to York and North Yorkshire. Eager to see your Paris videos...another of my favorite cities.

Hi Guys! Just finished watching your London Vlog series and I absolutely love them! Also, love that you enjoyed your visit(s) to New York City! I’m a proud New Yorker 😊

Loved you love history. Great vlog😊

Yes, Westminster Abbey, actually called The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican (Episcopal) church, like Washington National Cathedral, and not a Roman Catholic church. I sang evensing here, five evenings a week, from aged eight to 13, plus Sung Eucharist on Sundays, and lots of state services, etc. Even after six years, it was still a rush to lead worship at this 1100 yr old church, especially at royal weddings, and other big events. We 28 boys attended a school, just for us, right next to the Abbey. Our subject class sizes were just four to six boys. I had two roomies, and as we often got into little scrapes over the years, we were called the three terrors by some masters. Choir robes hid very unangelic kids!

Hope you are enjoying being here in The UK. Things may be a bit expensive in the capital but I work on the theory that you may never pass this way again and as long as you enjoy the things you do and eat then its money well spent.

Great videos, thank you for sharing. Heading to London next month and your videos have been a great help 😍

"In Memory of This guy". -William Wilberforce! the famous abolitionist. I dont blame you for missing that though, you are absolutely surrounded by so much history in London. Great videos, really interesting.

My wife and I spent part of our honeymoon in London about 30 years ago. Thanks for showing me how things have changed as well as awakening precious memories. Yeah, I had to see the Rosetta Stone when we visited the British Museum. A few years later, we did a trip down the Nile and then visited the Egyptian Museum, another unforgettable experience. Great little series of videos...you really make it feel like we are with you on the journey.

William Wilberforce was a British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming an independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire.

Thanks for the video chaps...Great to see you having a good time exploring our little isle...Big fan here of the USA...Travelled extensively throughout the US on vacations...Covered 43 contiguous states by car...numerous road trips since 1990 in the US...Great video chaps...Big thanks for the upload...have fun, safe travelling!

I enjoyed you video, however, I would point out that Westminster Abbey is not a Catholic Cathedral, it is Anglican. Westminster Cathedral nearby, is the Catholic Cathedral for London.

That was such a good vlog! I have not been to the British Museum since I was about 10 years old! (100 years ago now 😉😩😄) - the Rosetta Stone was not in a glass case back then! But it was just fab “virtually” wandering around with you, seeing new exhibits etc and a trip to Westminster was also a deep joy - not been there for 30 years either! And what is sooo shocking, is that I love only 15 miles from Central London, a mere 25 minute train ride away! and like most Londoners, we don’t visit it! Seeing the Globe in all its glory was good too - are you aware that it was a fellow American who commandeered the “saving” of the Globe theatre? He has a playhouse named in his honour and his daughter, Zoe, is a well loved and popular actress here. If you did know all this - apologies for stating “the bleeding obvious”! 😫🤣. Have a lovely time in Paris - hope you have a smattering of Parle Francais, as the Parisians CAN be quite a bit rude and will ignore you, if you cannot speak “their” language (and I say this, as I visited with a friend who speaks French fluently, and I know a little bit and they were just sooooo rude with their facial expressions and mannerisms!) and if you think London is expensive, Disneyland Paris is off the scale!! 😱😱😵‍💫looking forward to your next episode! Xx

good shout out to Joolz guides his vids are pretty good. I have lived / worked in london all my life and travelled far and wide round the globe - as capital cities go london is a pretty good place to visit - some things very expensive but you can walk around for free and visit lots of galleries and museums for free. I hope you enjoyed it. A play at the globe is a great experience - great choice to pay for the cushions and beer or wine it is well worth it to avoid numb bum. another good theatre choice in summer is the open air theatre in regents park depending on what is showing.

Thank you - lovely to sit in saigon and remember living in london with your informative and entertaining videos

I went to school with someone whose dad was a steeplejack and fell off Westminster Abbey and survived by landing on all the bags of pigeon crap they had collected. Late 60's early 70's.

The trouble is with London there is so much to see museums history green parks there's history each corner you turn around but you have to know. But I hope you enjoyed yourselves 🇺🇲♥️🇬🇧

The Globe Theatre (UK spelling) is under the flight path for City airport, so you were definitely hearing actual planes

Love your videos guys

Love the history of England

In glasgow it was police box Linda like dr who I remember left uk 75 for canada

I am so impressed how you managed to cram so much in with just three days to spare. A real balance of activities that were all very interesting. I enjoyed this series of videos, the commentary was nicely paced and informative. I am now off to watch the Paris video!

What a great video! I live just outside London and always wanted to visit Westminster Abbey. I’m definitely going to visit now! Thank you for taking us with you!

Hey guys. Loved your blog of London, hope you had a good time. About the TKMaxx thing....there’s company here called TJ Hughes. So to avoid confusion TJMaxx was called TKMaxx over here.

You should get the Uber taxi boat going west next time and hop off at Battersea Power Station. It's a new development on the old power station site with many restaurants including a Gordon Ramsay pizza restaurant where you can get a bottomless all you can eat pizza for £15. Plus there's a lovely fish restaurant called Wrights overlooking the Thames which offers a 2 course lunch special for less than £20. The views of the architecture along that side of the river are much nicer also. You could probably walk across Battersea Bridge towards the Kings Road back to your hotel from there. The bridge is lit up at night-time with big clear lightbulbs which is beautiful.

So much to see and so much history and tradition.

Great 3 day tour guys. I'll have to get over there from Australia one day :)

Incredible the names of people buried at Westminster. You may not have known all of em yourselves, but just the writers alone , are many of the biggest names in literature ever.

Did you guys know that if you get a license to go mudlarking in the Thames, then it's entirely possible that you would find pottery /coins/ pipes/ hairpins etc etc that are hundreds of years old! 🤗 the Thames is literally a treasure trove just waiting to be explored.... But incredibly muddy! 😳😂 I actually used to go fishing down in the mud, right next to where I lived near hammersmith bridge as a child and I've gotten stuck knee deep into that mud on multiple occasions! 😂 I also once found a handbag full of cash! 😏❤🇬🇧❤ greetings from London and hopefully you guys return soon? 🙏❤🇬🇧❤

I think this is the beautiful musiem hope many people enjoying visit and thanks you for your share my friend 💚🎉!!

the British Museum exhibits were collected with the approval of the local rulers unfortunately they were not either Greek or Egyptian so there is an ownership problem

The Catholic Cathedral - Westminster Cathedral - is near Victoria Station. It was completed in 1903. The front entrance is interesting. Westminster Abbey is Church of England.

As mentioned, Westminster Abbey is an Anglian church. However it is worth visiting the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral, which was completed at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is brick-built in a neo-Byzantine style, and the interior walls are covered in fantastic mosaics and marble. However the upper walls and ceiling are mainly just brick, which provides a contrast to the more colourful lower parts.

You were not far from Foyles bookstore which I think is the worlds biggest. An identical Globe theatre has been built in Rome. Big shock when I saw that in a park.

If you're traveling around Europe. Get a o2 sim card (major network in uk) or look for the smaller ones as they will for about £15 (20usd) get you unlimited text/calls/data in the UK but also across most of Europe too (data capped at 25gb per month in Europe). Note Vodafone, 3, and we do not include European roaming)

I hope our City offered you all you expected. Lovely to have you here.

Thank you so much for the videos. I'm going to London soon and I your video gave me alot to think about. I'm now more excited to see as much as I can ❤️❤️

Another enjoyable tour of London in good company. Hope ye have a great time in Paris.

I attend a small church that was once in a tiny village called Willen, in Buckinghamshire. Willen is now part of the new city of Milton Keynes in the UK. It was quite an unusual church for a village, as most villages have churches that date back to medieval times. Ours dates back to only 1660. The person who owned most of the land around that area and who paid for the church to be built was a chap called William Busby and his tomb is in Westminster Abbey. He was the headmaster of Westminster School, and he set up a trust in Westminster to look after his church. So, a link has remained to this day between Westminster Abbey and Willen Church. A few years ago our church members were invited to attend an evensong at Westminster, and afterwards were given a private tour of the abbey, when it was closed to other visitors. So I have some wonderful photos of Westminster Abbey without the tourists. I felt very privileged.

Really enjoyed these videos. I live about 40 minutes outside London and I go to London once or twice a month for specific purposes, but there's so much of the touristy areas I've never visited or haven't visited for a long time, so it's cool to see on video like this from an visitor's point of view.

Saw Romeo and Juliet at the Globe one summer evening, grab a cushion when in the seated area.

Brilliant again gents, love your style of travel vlog.

This new Globe Theatre only exists because of Sam Wannamaker (an American) Who got it built a few years ago.

Rotunda is such a great word☺

Thoroughly enjoyed your London vlogs. I’m from Manchester and would always recommend as we have so much history & uniqueness here. we are also only an hour or so from the Lake District and 1.5 hours from York. You could definitely get a few amazing cities done over a couple of days here. Have an amazing time in Paris!! 😁

I've just seen your videos. As a Londoner I'd like to say it was fab to watch such a lovely couple enjoying my city's history - i even learn't a couple of things myself. No disrespect to noisey french school kids but if all tourists were like yourselves I'd spend more time in town having a chat with the city visitors!

All those old buildings built by hand with a hammer and chisel - now power tools. Imagine!

Stumbled across your videos by accident and, as a Londoner, am really enjoying this series…makes me want to explore my own city a bit more! One point though….Westminster Abbey is Anglican / Church of England, not Catholic. The Catholic Westminster Cathedral is down the road, towards Victoria Station….

The lions in Trafalgar Square are built from the French Napoleonic ships cannons that were captured by Nelsons Fleet.

The crazy thing is people were actually trying to sell a banksy for a tenner 😂😂

TJ Maxx is called TK Maxx because there is another chain in the uk called ‘TJ Hughes’. So they had to change it to avoid confusion.

64 years ago, I was baptised in Westminster Cathedral, which is about 10 mins walk from Westminster Abbey.

The first lions for Trafalgar Square were too small, and they were bought by Titus Salt for his mill village Saltaire near Bradford… where they are still on display, just up from the David Hockney gallery in his (former) mill.

Beautiful, I will be in London in Oct cant wait. Dont know if you have ever been but the Vatican, and Saint Peter’s Basilica, is amazing. That is one church not to miss.

Im a tv camera operator and filmed the memorial to Prince Phillip back in March. I was positioned on top of the giant organ and had lots of shots of the royal family. Did you know the British Museum has the most artefacts of any museum in the world, with over 8 million pieces. Only 80,000 or one percent can be on display at any one time. You should also visit the British library, it ties with the Library of Congress for the most books, around 170million.

Baker st we did years ago stayed bed breakfast hotel

Oooohhh. You missed "Gordon's Wine Bar". It's right there by Charring Cross Station. I know you couldn't hit everything, but it's a very special wine bar. London's oldest, I think.

It's called TK Maxx in the UK because there is a similar store called TJ Hughes and when TJ Maxx launched in the UK in the 90s they didn't want people to confuse the two

Pre covid a NZer created a replica Globe and for several summer seasons we were lucky enough to experience Shakespeare's plays in the round. They were so successful they extended the run before taking it around the world to do the same thing. However, Covid came along so I don't think they got very far.

I assume you know that the project was conceived and enabled by Sam Wanamaker, who was an American actor who left the US following persecution by the Macarthy(?) anti -communist purges in the ‘50s. His daughter, Zoe Wanamaker, is a well known British actress.

All museum are free in glasgow smart folk will spend money on food drinks shop win win for all

Really nice vids. So much more you could have seen! The Victoria and Albert museum! Sunset from the Shard beats the London eye hands down! The natural history museum, the Tate gallery and Tate Modern! Camden market as well as Covent Garden! I know you didnt have much time - round two is a must !

Think they were actual planes. London right under approach to Heathrow airport and and aircraft are only few thousand feet high. Loved your video.

Westminster Abbey isn't a Catholic Church, it's an Anglican one. That's why it's used for so many events with the Royal family. Westminster Cathederal (just round the corner) is the Catholic Church. You'll find the candles in most churches in the UK I think, regardless of denomination :)

Would love to show you / other Americans or other tourists around London or other parts of the UK! It’s so beautiful seeing it through your eyes!

Nice video. Still can’t believe how much you paid for your afternoon tea. Wow!

Very enjoyable V logs. Have a safe trip to Paris.

When you're in Trafalgar Square look at the plinth at the base of Nelson's Column. On the side facing up The Strand you will see a Black man bottom left - part of the Royal Navy crew. In the West Indies in 18th century slaves might escape from the plantations and make for the Royal Navy ships because the decks of those ships were classed as British soil, where slavery did not exist. They would ask if crew were required, and were generally welcomed because of their strength, discipline and attitude.

I enjoyed your video! I was at the Globe on the same night when the guy broke his ankle! Did you also notice that Beatrice cut her arm during the volleyball scene? It was certainly eventful - I have seen many show there and never such real life drama. The planes flying overhead are absolutely real - not special effects. One time a helicopter hovered above the globe for the whole play. The night you were there was only the second or third performance and I agree the water was distracting - I told the staff and I think they will change it. Nothing they can do about the flight path! You should have seen the play in the pit for the authentic experience - I always do and it has always made it so special. Glad you enjoyed your time in London!

Why would you spend a Banksy tenner! They're probably worth thousands now.

OK, your Ramesses joke actually made me LOL! The airplanes were real, just something you have to deal with at open-air theatres.

Another very interesting video from you. The British Museum also houses one of the Seven Wonders of the (ancient) World. Which I always think is extraordinary!

TK Maxx is so named in the UK because we used to have a chain store called TJ Hughes, so they wanted to avoid any confusion. That said, apparently it's called TK Maxx everywhere but North America, so I don't know how that happened! 🤷 😁

Really enjoyed your films guys.. Really interesting..thanks.

Funny you mention Joolz. I was there in 2018 and out of no where I see him in Kensington. He’s huge! He’s least 7 feet tall

No idea how you got here but glad i did , Thank you for the positive and honest reviews you have gave to our great city. Please re-visit the rest of the UK . we have so much more to show you ( If USA had paid its taxes this history could of been yours too lol ) Happy travels

Nice video. A tip to avoid the often long queue into the British Museum: there is a secondary entrance at the rear of the building, on the street called Montague Place. Never seen a long queue there.

Great video. Three days is no way long enough to visit London. You need to come back. LOL

I am glad you were able to watch a performance at The Globe Theatre. There are times that you are under the flight path of Heathrow airport. So those planes you heard were real.

Well presented Thank you.

LOVE THIS ,

Enjoyed this very much, but... Westminster Abbey is decidedly NOT a [Roman] Catholic church. It's Church of England (you would know it as Episcopalian).

Oh wow you went to see much ado about nothing. When I saw you pan down I saw myself and my partner in the audience 🤣 ps the planes were real ones lol

Very good video! I've not been to Westminster, looked lovely. I am not a religious person either but I love cathedrals and old churches especially roman they have an amazing atmosphere and they are always cold LOL

Love the music you used around the 20:00 mark. Very soothing.

you can change your camera settings to "Pal" that will sort out the flickering

Glad you got schooled by Joolz, he’s a fine guide!

Mobile phones work the same in the uk as well - most people by heavily subsidised iPhones (or whatever) from one of the carriers and get locked into contracts for a couple of years. Rinse and repeat.

It's nice to hear 2 American guys with intelligence and good taste in art and culture. The usual American tourists we get in the UK are mouthy and loud and haven't got a clue about anything at all going on anywhere in the world. I was last at The British Museum in the 1970s when the Tutankhamun Collection came over here. OMG that was truly STAGGERING!! It blew my mind!! All that gold along with the other items found by Howard Carter. I thought I had died and gone to heaven!! Come back to the UK soon guys, and get up to the Cotswolds, as well as the Lake District. Check out the KZfaq channel called 'The Cotswold Explorer' with a guy called Robin. He lives in the middle of the Cotswolds ( I live in the southern part of it ) and his knowledge is astounding. His Halloween tales of the many strange things that happened in the villages towns and churches are also well worth watching. You won't be disappointed! I know Joolz from Joolz Guides too. He is always very entertaining!

Completely wrong you can get a contracted mobile phone in the UK in fact it is the most popular way instead of outright buying the phone depending on the phone it's normally a two to three-year contract it's just at the phone companies make the SIM cards really easy to find if you want to use them

Umm (15:41) Westminster Abbey isn't a Catholic church ...FYI. It's actually an 'Anglican' church ...which is the English version of the catholic church that Henry VIII invented after he fell out with the Pope*. (But some folks say that Anglicans are more Catholic than the catholics) If'n ya wantin' a proper catholic church, then pop 'next door' to Westminster Cathedral. *Because the Pope endorsed Russia's invasion of the Ukraine, whilst Henry VIII asserted that the Russians are just modern-day Nazis