Isi and Mitch recount their trip up north to The Peak District National Park. They talk about the friendliness of the people, precarious drone flying, mountains, caves and ginger shots. Easy English member James leaves us a belated Halloween tale of terror and we answer YOUR questions in our Unhelpful Advice section.
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The Peak District video: UK Travel VLOG (https://youtu.be/ADxTBfGq_r8) (Easy English 170)
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Intro
Mitch:
[0:23] Good morning, Isi!
Isi:
[0:25] Good morning! So here we are.
Mitch:
[0:27] We're back.
Isi:
[0:28] A bit tired.
Mitch:
[0:30] What did you pick up, from our trip from the north? Have you brought anything back?
Isi:
[0:35] It rains a lot.
Mitch:
[0:36] No, I meant have you brought back any characteristics or personality traits from the north?
Isi:
[0:43] They're very friendly.
Mitch:
[0:44] And you've adopted that now? You've become more friendly yourself?
Isi:
[0:47] I hope I was already. They call you love even more than down here.
Mitch:
[0:53] Tell me the times you were called love and who called you love.
Isi:
[0:57] How many times I was called love? I don't know, not so many times.
Mitch:
[1:01] Supermarket?
Isi:
[1:01] Yeah, mostly in supermarkets, little stores, little pubs, and from different people, all older than me, but not much older, some. But in a very loving, caring way, not in a weird way.
Mitch:
[1:17] So for people who don't know what's happened. We recently made a week-long trip, which ended up in us visiting the Peak District, which is an area, between Manchester and Sheffield. And it's a national park. If you're interested in seeing what the Peak District looks like, it's a really beautiful area, it's crazy dramatic; rocks and cliffs and fields and heaths and caves. We didn't go in any caves but we made a road trip video getting there and driving around some of like the best things to see in the Peak District. We didn't cover it all, but if you wanted to see a video where you can join someone on a road trip, getting there and speaking absolute nonsense for a while. But there's also some really beautiful things that you captured on your phone.
Isi:
[2:09] Yeah, I think it was like, well, first, I think the best thing about this is the drone footage. If you enjoy big pictures of great nature, then that's for you. But also, we did observe and comment on everything, I guess. And that, yeah, it's like you're with us in the car, basically, seeing the difference between the South and the North. Or, as someone wrote in our comments, it's not the North yet.
Mitch:
[2:38] But we were in Derbyshire, and Derbyshire is a Midlands county, but the peaks are so big, they span across into...
Isi:
[2:46] We were directly next to Manchester. So I would say we were in the North.
Mitch:
[2:51] Yeah, we're not going to be too specific about it. We are coming from Brighton, which is the absolute South.
Isi:
[2:59] Yeah, more South, you fall in the sea.
Mitch:
[3:03] We definitely... going back to the whole lovely people thing, we definitely witnessed some Northern character traits, right?
Isi:
[3:13] Yeah, the general thing was really just that people just approached me and I didn't even have a talk with them. That was really nice. So there was a lady that just basically just said hello to me, just because we met at the bananas and then the fruit section. And she was like smiling at me, like she knew me. So it was a bit like, I was like, that's nice. So I said, hello. We said, hello. But that was it.
Mitch:
[3:40] Wow. She'd have hated me if she saw the banana choice I would have gone for, they're so green! What are you doing?
Isi:
[3:47] Yeah. It was really nice. I asked someone for, like someone working there for something and they were so determined to help me. It was really nice. Are people in the North friendlier and then in the South? I thin