Life in a British Coastal Town | Slow British English

More action, more jobs. If you want to go from this side of the village... Good morning and welcome back to another video. My name is Evie and this is a vlog in slow I do not have much time this morning because in like five minutes I have to work, I have to teach classes, so I'm gonna make a coffee super quickly. This morning I did not have any milk so I had to go out to the shops and it was such a beautiful day. It's really sunny here so like everyone is in like a really really good mood but I'll tell you more later. First, coffee. Okay, when I make coffee I like to start with some caramel syrup. This is a caramel syrup. I do a dash. Okay, next coffee. This is like, this is espresso concentrated. So then some ice cubes, some ice cubes, a couple more and then milk that I bought earlier. That was so not aesthetic. It's because I was looking in the camera. That is so embarrassing. Okay, right, coffee. That was actually like a bit embarrassing. Okay, wake up. We have coffee, a spoon to mix it. Now it is 9 57 in the morning which means I've got to sit down and I've got to teach. I've got to teach a class so let's go. I went for a walk with Wilson to enjoy the sunshine. Come on. Because you may not know this but in the UK it has rained every single day of 2026. So I wanted to enjoy the sunshine while it was there. I wanted to get some vitamin D and lots of people were outside today. So there were lots of people walking in the street and saying good morning to each other. Everyone was in like a really really good mood. I have a couple hours more of teaching to do and after that we are gonna do something fun. Okay, so I will see you in in a couple hours. Okay, so I have just finished work and now I have the afternoon free. So what I thought that we can do is we could go to a village. We can go see... Wilson is here. We can go and explore a really nice village and I can show you what the English countryside is like. We know what London looks like. What is the countryside in the UK like? So I'm going to need a coat because it's still quite cold. It's not really cold but it's quite cold. But right now it's not raining which is great. So I want to enjoy the dry weather. I want to enjoy the dry weather while we have it. So let's go. Are you ready? Okay, we just arrived. He is super excited so I'm going to put on his harness. I don't know where it is. Okay, I'm gonna put on his harness and yeah we'll get going. I need to put on my welly boots because it's really muddy. Let's go over the bridge. Here is where the river flows through the village. I go over the bridge and that is the road. So if you want to go from this side of the village to that side of the village, you have to go through the river. So I'm now here in the village and we are just going to take a little walk and I can show you some things but yeah it's super beautiful. This part of the UK is very expensive so in the past these villages were fishing villages. So this is where people who were fishermen used to live. But now it's just some people who are Cornish, so we are in Cornwall, so some people who are Cornish live here and there is actually a Cornish language but a lot of the houses now are holiday lets so they're only used for tourism. I also wanted to show you these flowers. So these are daffodils and they're basically associated with spring here. So these little yellow flowers. There are also lots of these thatched cottages so with the straw roof. That's called thatching. Here's a little shop. So in general the British countryside is very peaceful, especially here in Cornwall. So I grew up here in Cornwall and it's very calm, it's very peaceful. There are very small communities and everybody knows each other. So in general it's a really nice place to live, a really safe place to live and I mean look at the views. Isn't that beautiful? There's a boat and just in front of it are these two swans. Two swans. Did you know that in the UK the Queen, well now the King, and the Royal Family own every single swan? So you cannot harm a swan, it's actually illegal. How beautiful are they? Very elegant, very graceful. There's lots of boats out there. If a boat is colourful like these ones, you can't point there, those are fishing boats. I can try and zoom in a little bit. So these are fishing boats. Normally down here people catch crabs and lobsters, things like this. Shellfish. It's kind of muddy. It's a good thing I have my welly boots. Okay and here we are at the end of the path. You can see all of the river here. So beautiful. Okay he's pulling. So down here there are some problems. So it's very peaceful living here but there's not always a load of opportunities for people. So many people move away from the rural areas and we call this urbanisation. So lots of people move away from here to go and live places that have more action, more jobs, more opportunities like London for example. But it is really beautiful. There probably is nowhere more beautiful. Are you in a rush Wilson? So pretty. So this part of the UK has more of like a seasonal economy. So a seasonal economy is where in the summer it's really busy because we have lots of tourists but in the winter it's very quiet here. So people prefer to come in the summer and they like to go to the beach and things like this. So most people who live in Cornwall work in the tourism industry. So during the summer they work every day and then in the winter it's kind of tricky to to find a job or find consistent employment unless you work in a school or a supermarket or maybe you are an accountant but we do not have many like businessmen here unless you own your tourism business. Another thing is in the UK we love to drink. We love beer, we love wine. Here in Cornwall we are famous for our cider. So nearly every village has a pub like this one here in this little town I'm in and in the summer especially when we have a sunny day the pub is really busy. So it's not like in London where people go for a drink after work. Here it's when we have nice weather or if you want to sit inside by the fire it's nice to go to a pub as well. It's really nice weather today, super tranquil. There's even this super cute old tractor. We recently had a storm in the UK and lots of trees fell down including here right in my path so I think we have to go underneath. Underneath the fallen tree but there are so many trees down and I've been seeing them as I've walked around today so we're now going to go for a walk with with Wilson to try and get rid of some extra energy. So let's go through the forest. One more tree here, one tree there and here. It's so crazy and another one up there. I'll see if I can show you. Can you see this tree? Completely snapped, it snapped. So the storm was, the storm was really really strong, really powerful. So hopefully there's another one. So many fallen trees. It really smells here like wild garlic. You can see it growing in the hedgerows. It's here and it smells really strong of garlic. Kind of gross. Somebody has parked their boat here and I think you can see it's just started to rain. He hates the rain so I think we're going to walk down to the sea and then turn back. Another very common thing to see in the countryside is people selling eggs. So they're selling eggs and they have a little honesty pot where you put your money. Okay so we just got back in the car. Unfortunately, unfortunately it started raining so Wilson hates the rain. I hate the rain. I think we enjoyed the sunshine while it lasted, while we had it. But now it's time to to go back, back home, back inside, dry off. I have a few other things to do today but my main goal was enjoy the sunshine and I think I did that for as long as I could. But unfortunately we have still had rain every day of 2026 in the UK. So what can you do? What can you do? I don't know. So me and Wilson are gonna go home. He's drying himself right now. I don't know if you can see. So we are gonna head back. I'm here at the supermarket to get some things for dinner, to get something to eat. And basically here in the UK we have four main supermarkets called the big four. So I'm here at Tesco and this is one of the kind of big four supermarkets. But also there are two more, Lidl's and Aldi which are very very popular as well. So I'm going to go inside, get some food for dinner and I'll see you in a moment. Okay we just got home and when Wilson goes out he thinks he needs a reward. Do you want a treat? You want a treat? He's gonna snatch it. Gentle, gentle. So now that we're back home I think I'm gonna chill for a bit. I'm just gonna, just gonna relax. So I'll see you soon. So I've got some things for for dinner. So I'm having pie. We love pies. The UK we love pies. In particular this brand Pucca. We love Pucca pies. I'm vegetarian so mine is vegan and I will make that with mashed potatoes and cabbage and leek here. But the other thing I wanted to show you is in British supermarkets right now we have lots of things for Easter and in the UK we normally celebrate Easter with eggs because an egg symbolizes, an egg symbolizes a new beginning. So one of the brands of chocolate eggs that we have is this one by Cadbury which is I think it's a British chocolate brand. And they make these things called cream eggs which are basically like chocolate eggs with icing inside. They have icing inside so really sugary. And it looks like an egg. Can you see? So these are like a classic. Everyone in the UK knows what cream egg is. The normal one, the kind of classic one is with milk chocolate but they also do them with white chocolate which I think is new. This is new with white chocolate and they have a caramel egg but that's a completely different thing. So basically my plans for the rest of the day are it's raining so I'm going to cook dinner. I'm going to cook pie. I'm going to light the fire and I'm going to chill but I wanted to show you. So the cream egg is chocolate. My phone ran out of storage but this is the cream egg. I just wanted to show you but it's really good. Yeah but honestly I think this video is gonna probably end here. I wanted to say thank you so much for your support, for your comments, for liking videos and subscribing. I'm completely new to YouTube so this is my first time making a channel and I have no idea what I'm doing. I have no idea. So I really really appreciate your support. Please do let me know in the comments what videos you would like to see. What videos do you want to see? 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