UK's Most Scenic Drive? Exmoor's Little Switzerland | England Road Trip Travel Vlog 27

Hello and welcome to Travel Beans. I'm Emma, behind the camera is Alex and today we are exploring Exmoor National Park and arguably one of the most scenic drives in the UK. Good morning all you lovely beans. This morning we are in Minehead in Exmoor National Park. We arrived at the YHA late last night and the drive here was spectacular. As you drive towards Exmoor you have this wall of trees in front of you and as you actually drive from Minehead town to the YHA you're driving through all this forested land so it really feels like you're getting away from everything. The location of the YHA itself is located right in the middle of all this green area. This is a great location for exploring Exmoor which is exactly what we're going to do today. We're making our way to a place we found called 21 Mile Drive which is supposed to be a very scenic and beautiful drive around here in Exmoor but the thing that kind of intrigued me is it's called Little Switzerland because I guess it resembles a bit like Switzerland and I always laugh that places have to be like little something. Venice is always the one that gets called up like St Petersburg is the Venice of Russia. So true, any city that has water is referred to as Little Venice. Yeah the Little Venice, the Venice of something but like most of the time with this channel any outrage from me especially is fabricated because I like to pretend to be annoyed but we also do that all the time like wow it's like this place like yesterday we said oh it's like the Lord of the Rings woods or something like that. Yeah I think it's human nature to compare things to what what else you know yeah for sure. So we decided to pull over because well as well as having spectacular views up here we actually saw some wild horses ponies something like that so we thought we'd go and see if we can get a closer view. I think they're the Exmoor ponies. Oh nice a bit like the new forest I guess they just have wild ones roaming around. We've changed drivers because the roads have got really really small and narrow and winding and this one for someone that travels so much is one of the worst travelers you're ever going to meet because she travels it constantly. I get a bit of motion sickness on boats and cars especially. But when she's driving nothing. Yeah I'm just fine. So we've just picked up ourselves a map from the tourist office to do this drive because it's not marked it's a dreadful map there's a particular to scale and not that easy to understand but see what I mean little Switzerland. They're driving down these little windy roads is amazing so far we have just been driving through this like proper dense forest with this stream running through so I felt like I had to pull over and I really want to show you guys so come with me. Not too shabby eh? I want to see too. You're stuck in there mate you can't go out. I can see it. So we've carried on driving for like say another 10 minutes since we stopped in that woodland area and now we're presented with this which is an incredibly dramatic view you've got Linton village which you can see like in the distance over there and then if you saw yesterday's video we went to a beach that was kind of black rocks everywhere and it's very similar here so I guess this whole shoreline is very similar also along the edge of the hillside here there is a footpath which I believe is continued from where we were the other day so that coastal footpath goes all the way around the entire southwest. This is definitely the best bit of the journey so far the road has got really really small and it's causing us quite the problems when it comes to other cars coming. So far on this drive there is nothing Swiss about it unless Switzerland is nice and this is nice but that's the only Swiss thing I can think about it. That's so true I would say like all the little towns and villages are very like quintessentially English and then all of the nature I feel like I'm in a movie to be honest it doesn't feel like Switzerland it doesn't feel like England either I don't even know what what this is. So I don't know how many times we have to say it doesn't feel like England until it becomes England because there's just lots of things that make up this wonderful country but this forest land and I know we're about to get onto the coast in a minute it's so dramatic. I cannot believe that as a teenager or a young adult I would ever say anything bad about this country I used to think England was ---- turns out England's pretty bloody epic. You used to bash it but you should have been bashing off to it oh ow! PG please We are now at the final stop of our scenic drive the Valley of the Rocks but we have decided after almost completing this little journey that little Switzerland is not the right name for it we should be calling this little England because well obviously it's in England but it's got all of the aspects of England that we love all kind of squeezed and condensed into this little spot called Exmoor. It's got the beautiful quintessentially English villages fantastic countryside and landscapes amazing wildlife flora fauna everything you could imagine is just squeezed into the small space. So the reasons we're here at the Valley of the Rocks is not only because it's geologically very interesting but also there are feral goats everywhere. As we've been presenting this they're getting closer and closer we can hear them getting closer. I feel a little intimidated because they are wild goats tend to headbutt things and I don't like being headbutted so I'm just gonna back off a little bit as they edge closer. I hope this place has tickled your geological interest because it certainly tickled mine. This is a dry valley with a slightly interesting past the theory is that during the ice age a certain river was running straight into the sea then sheet of ice stopping and directing it a different way which was this way so this u-shape was carved out by the river then you haven't forgotten about that other river have you with the sheet of ice because that has melted now in a certain point of time and then the water went back into the ocean leaving our poor little defenseless u-shape to dry up. You should be a geology teacher. I should. Something you don't see behind the beans is that this one at the moment at least is going is nagging me. Why are you nagging me? To include my joke in the video my really good joke. Come on then spontaneously tell them your joke. Valley of the rocks more like valley of the plops there's good ---- everywhere what makes me laugh now we've reached this viewpoint it seems like the perfect place to end our video thank you guys so much for watching hit that like button if you like the video and let us know in the comments where is the best scenic drive you've ever done also for the uk subscribers here i'm sure there is a better scenic drive but where is it because i haven't seen it and it is in a very concentrated small area so bear that in mind with your recommendations finally don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to hit the notification bell and now i'm gonna feel like the king on the top of the hill and all my little minions and goats underneath are going to listen to me scream thank you very much for watching guys see you next time