American Reacts to 5 Ways British and American Road Trips Are Very Different

[@charleshedley4381]

British here. Am I alone in never using the phrase "road trip"? We might drive somewhere (eg, when I was a child we would leave London ~5.30am to visit my father's family in a remote part of Cumbria). But it wasn't a road trip, it was just a long drive which needed games, some singing, stop for my sister to be car-sick etc. Happy days!

[@duncanliath]

Fellow Brit here - you are not alone! Never heard anyone in the UK use the american expression 'road trip' when refering to the distance needed to drive from one point in the UK to another

[@rebeccat94]

Yes, it's either 'a short drive', or 'a long drive.'

[@britbazza3568]

Nope definitely not alone. I regularly drive from one side of the UK to the other and it's basically just a day out or a long drive

[@sbjchef]

Lol the USA has 10 times the paved roads in the UK and nowhere is more than a days drive out longest mainland journey is 874 miles.

[@adrianmcgrath1984]

If you haven’t read it, “Notes from a small island” by Bill Bryson is a must. There is a documentary version available on KZbin that is not as detailed. Bill went on a backpacking trip around Europe in 1973 and ended up staying in the UK for the next 25 years or so - I think he returned to the US for a brief period in the ‘90s ? His book describes the country brilliantly, and one of the topics he discusses is travel. He describes asking for directions and variously being given advice such as “you can’t get there from here” or that he should have left yesterday. Although written in an era before you first visited, you will recognize and laugh at so many of his observations

[@rkeirle1]

Australia sat nav, straight for two days, turn left😂

[@pulchralutetia]

Provided you don't get killed by kangaroos first.

[@zosemabubble7825]

​@@pulchralutetiaOr drop bears. 😂

[@chrisperyagh]

We don't do 'road trips' here - we 'go for a drive'.

[@B-A-L]

Don't forget the UK is tiny compared to the USA and we just don't have the space for huge 5 lane highways. We do have the space for lots of smaller b-roads which makes driving a car and riding a motorbike a pleasure and an experience and not just a necessity.

[@pulchralutetia]

Land's End to John O'Groats is about 14 hours by car!

[@claregale9011]

I like living on a smaller land mass , I can get to the seaside in an hour to spend the day then home again . 😊

[@lewistaylor1965]

They do that in Florida...hehe

[@claregale9011]

@@lewistaylor1965 obviously 🙄

[@36814]

One UK classic he neglected to mention is the "transport caff " . These are cheap and cheerful , no frills cafes serving big portion cardiac arrest inducing meals located on the A roads not the motorways .

[@jamiecroot5563]

the york to scarborough drive is a road I've driven on plenty of times to commute and it's one of my favourite roads to drive on

[@simonmetcalfe5926]

The weird thing about American cars, is comfort and luxury is defined by space and not quality. I'd rather travel in a small European car, than a Yankee luxury model.

[@ethelmini]

That was lost on me too. Nowadays, if you have to wear a seatbelt more space is out of reach anyway. As long as you're not bigger than your seat...

[@Desert_Rogue_Tanker]

Yet comfy cars like Bentley's and Rolls Royce are enormous but they have high quality. If I Intend to go on back roads then yeah a euro car might be better.but a straight slog, I'm going american

[@lg_believe333]

Yes, but have you travelled in a new Mustang which is an American muscle car. The original was nice but the new version has all the mod cons and is made from quality.

[@simonmetcalfe5926]

@@lg_believe333 Is it made outside of America? Otherwise, I wouldn't bother trying.

[@simonmetcalfe5926]

@@Desert_Rogue_Tanker Our Wheelie Bins are made from higher quality plastics, than American car interiors.

[@Mrsmess6466]

As a child we used to drive from Cheshire to Cornwall before the M5 got as far as it did and before the links to the M6. That was a journey on A roads that were not dual carriageway. That was quite the road trip.

[@FallenAngel53]

ILL bet 😂 We called the 303 the Matelot expressway

[@alfresco8442]

As a kid I made the same trip (from just north of Liverpool) before motorways were even a thing at all. We used to start off about 6.00 am to get to Penzance in time for the evening meal. It meant driving right through the middle of Bristol docks. And the routes through Devon and Cornwall were so primitive that we considered Bridgewater to be the half-way point.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Joel, I thoroughly enjoy most of your videos, particularly so your original content travel ones. While the now Illinois-based former Humberside guy has a witty sense of humour, his videos are becoming steadily more anodine and reflect the fact that he's been living in the US for longer than he lived in England.

[@rebeccat94]

Agreed! Although I'm not sure I can agree on the humour - he grates on me.

[@leehallam9365]

When we were kids we would travel on our annual holiday from Manchester, sometimes to Cornwall or Devon. There definately were no overnight stays, or even stops at service stations. It usually involved an insanely early start to avoid the Traffic and one stop at a layby somewhere near Bristol for sandwiches and drinks from a vacuum flask. We would always arrive hours before we could go into the accommodation. In fact we even did that when we went to North Wales which was under 100 miles, the difference being there was no stop at a layby, just a queue to get through Conwy, before they built the tunnel. Still you got a good look at the castle and suspension bridge.

[@robng15]

We, for a period of time, lived in both Inverness and Newark-on-Trent, a distance of 435 miles, door to door, taking about 8hrs 30mins with breaks. We were doing this journey roughly every 2 weeks. So, you can do long journeys in the UK!

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

I’m 63, Australian, I drive 7 hours 3 times a year to babysit the grandkids for school holidays. I drive 1.5 hours to go the an eye specialist/ grocery shopping. lol perspective.

[@stevo728822]

And Australian road tolls.

[@solentbum]

The first question is , What is a Road Trip? Does my regular jaunt to the New Forest for a walk and Ice creams count (40 miles) . Or maybe my frequent trips to Swanage for lunch, 75 miles each way. or maybe driving from Portsmouth to Prague (700+ miles) How about Portsmouth to the Scottish Borders at the start of a holiday. (2400 Miles in a week) Frankly the name 'Road Trip' is pointless. We just drive to where we want to be.

[@davidfuters7152]

Morning I just googled some info for you This is England only ! England is about 600 miles long , 300 miles wide and I only asked for the biggest city’s London 11 mil , Birmingham 2.5 mil , Manchester 2.5mil , Leeds 1.7 mil , Liverpool 800 th , Newcastle 700 th , Nottingham 700 th Sheffield 600 th The thing to realise is the biggest gap between the city’s is only 100 miles and there are 41.2 million licensed vehicles on the roads , so this is why are roads are a bit busy, and those numbers do not include visitors from abroad Hope this helps 👍👍👍

[@B-A-L]

That 300 miles is a bit misleading because that is only at the southern part of England from the western tip of Cornwall to the eastern tip of Kent. The average width is probably around 100 miles. Another way to look at England is that you are never more than 78 miles away from the sea.

[@NorthEastLad58]

The A64 journey time from York to Scarborough can double on a Bank Holiday. By the time you arrive it is more than likely raining! 😂

[@Mr_Fahrenheit]

The best thing to get kids to look for and count how many they see while in the car is motorcycle’s, then when they grow up and start driving they will automatically be looking out for motorcycles at junction’s And Roundabouts ect.

[@margaretflounders8510]

Great idea!

[@ausomebeak]

It's less about distance in the UK and more about time. Depending on the roads to be travelled, a 40 mile trip can vary by 45mins! And a long trip starts at an hour!! And we're often coming home same day.

[@dizzydevil547]

Also NOT forggeting the time of the year too as in easter, christmas and so on! We travel to my parents from Bristol to Manchester in the car (not often as i dont drive and my partner is now a pensioner so he finds the drive tireing ) BUT we do try to go at least once a yr to visit and stay at my mums etc .....NOW in the past the quickest it took us was 3 hrs (but that was traveling overnight after we finished work at midnight) average is 4 hrs with a stop off at keel services ...I have never been home in the 19 yrs of living i Bristol for christmas due to work and then caring commitments at home ....WELL we finaly went to my mums for christmas a bout 2 yrs ago ...the drive took us over 6 hrs due to weather ,roadworks and OBV the time of year as everyone was on the move to visit family!

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

He did our service stations a disservice. They have a lot on offer.

[@pulchralutetia]

Tebay Services in Cumbria is phenomenal (if expensive).

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

@@pulchralutetia that’s the one couldn’t remember the name. Is that the one with the duck pond?

[@StephenWhittaker-g5g]

he didnt mention the slot machines, and arcade games for example lol

[@pulchralutetia]

@@phoenix-xu9xj Not sure if there’s a duck pond but it’s a really nice building with a fantastic farm shop with local produce.

[@johnpage4581]

I remember a documentary on American air bases in the 2nd world war in England, and a garage owner in Lincolnshire who made more money out of the times he pulled out the cars from the ditches,as he said the Americans could not get use to the small lanes and bends.

[@johnp8131]

Did Filey, via Scarborough to York and back again in a day a few years ago on a visit/beer tour. No problem, bus to Scarborough then train to York.

[@davidmckie7128]

When I visit New Zealand and have a road trip around the islands, we always stay in Motels and they are all very nice and clean.

[@SteveRGash]

Northern English man here. A road trip, which I’ve done 6 times is over the North Sea by ferry, through Europe and into Sweden. Then North to the north cape of Europe ( Nordkapp ) we camped or stayed in furnished wooden huts. It’s a 6000 mile trip

[@StephenWhittaker-g5g]

the UK did once have a Motel it had wobbley walls lots of drama and affairs and run by Meg Mortimer lol

[@damianleah6744]

Most roads in the Uk are just clogged up and very busy. So in the morning rush hour for example it can take an hour just to travel 5/6 miles. I live approximately 60 miles from Blackpool and if the traffic is light, it would take an hour. But if the roads are very busy, it’s anyone’s guess. 😂

[@zosemabubble7825]

So true, it used to take me an hour to drive to work from Reading to Bracknell, which is about 6 miles, during school term-time. During the school holidays, it would take 25 minutes.

[@36814]

I stayed at several motels in California , Arizona and Utah and never had a negative or threatening experience . Breakfast offerings were a bit limited but otherwise all were clean and safe .

[@petersp63]

We Played Eye Spy and also looked for new Registration Numbers!

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

Gosh, I want to have I ever used to manage driving from Brighton to Northumberland in a little Ford Fiesta. I was a single woman and we didn’t even have mobile phones then.

[@BP-kx2ig]

Why is it difficult to understand? Britain is a very old country so roads mainly take the route they did 1000 years ago. The USA is a very new country so the roads were built according to the countryside which is flat,straight and long. I remember taking a coach trip in the Yukatan peninsular in Mexico and wondering why the road was endlessly straight. I realised why - new country.

[@BP-kx2ig]

To continue, a new country does not have to concern itself about building a road through a town/village as there were not any. An old country like Britain would not rebuild the roads straight in order to avoid the towns/villages. Nor would they ignore the existing towns/villages and build a road straight through them so that drivers can get to their destination 1 minute earlier.

[@dominicjohn8954]

It takes 5 days non-stop by car from Cornwall to London travelling at 2mph.

[@billyhills9933]

I remember travelling, as a child passenger, from the south east to the M1 and The North (that's what it says on the sign) pre-M25. You had to drive through the centre of London, and I mean Hyde Park Corner and Marble Arch central. Even when the M25 is at its worst, it doesn't compare to that nonsense and most of the time you can fly round it.

[@mattwainwright9198]

Ive never taken a long journey by car but i have in just about every other form of transport. Ive taken long bus journeys around Britain and long interrailing train journeys around Europe and even walked the entire Yorkshire Coast, but never a long journey by car.

[@improvesheffield4824]

Yeah, that journey from York to Scarborough is a nightmare during the holiday season. It takes a lot longer than you would expect. However, there is little to no support for drastically increasing road capacity in such locations so most people are resigned to accepting the extra long journey times. Of course, the train is a very viable alternative.

[@huwlloyd6341]

Hi Joel. With all due respect, I think you are a little wrong here. No one here would define an hours drive to the coast from York as a road trip. Cardiff to the south of Spain or to Italy yes.

[@timglennon6814]

As a Brit, I have never played Road Trip Bingo.

[@nolaj114]

We called it 'Spotto".

[@DianeLittle-dd6ej]

he has put on so much weight since moving to the USA compared to when he started out his videos in the us

[@john43397]

The video maker has been away from home a long time. Whilst he may come back over from time to time. He has lost track of many of the changes that have taken place since he departed. Yes more than an hour and a half is concerned a drag by many Brits to travel by car recreationally. You can travel reasonable fast from top to bottom. When traffic is running smoothly. There are now four and five lane motorways.

[@vaudevillian7]

He has very rarely come back from what I understand from watching a few his videos

[@garyrigby21]

Try walking from Lands end to John O' Groats then tell me how small Britain is!

[@stevealexR1]

We do have 5 lane motorways in England too!

[@dukedepommefrite]

My Brother lives in Scotland so I have to drive a long way from the Midlands to see him. It takes about 6 hours and it feels like a lifetime.

[@paulhadfield7909]

lack of traffic makes long journeys fun, likeon a trian but in traffic for 5 hours, soons drags, motels sound like a fun place to party

[@philipashley9723]

Put yourself in my position, 70 years ago, when I was 10, my parents left our home in Birkenhead, Cheshire, UK, to drive to Norwich on the east coat.There wasn't much in the way of large roads in those days, and it took us 12 hours, including camping in a field, halfway, over night! I believe the distance is only about 259 miles? 😁

[@tonycasey3183]

Lawrence was beginning to put me off motels, but Joel made them more attractive with the drugs and hookers!

[@Hornet71]

I laughed that he mentioned drugs and hookers but not a every motel though. They are cheap …… the motels.

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Joel. I toured US by Greyhound and used to often do York to Scarborough. I also did northern England to holidays in Cornwall. For work I used to have make trips from Yorkshire to Hastings, but in time to start work, so a bit faster than 1066, which it sounded like your Yorkshire trip was in.

[@ausomebeak]

Yellow car game is "see yellow car, hit the person beside you". Number plate game variation...make rude phrases using the letters in the plate.

[@zosemabubble7825]

I once drove from Reading to Plymouth in 2 1/2 hours, in my little Peugeot 106 with a 1.1 engine. It was the middle of the day, nice clear roads, and I was probably doing about 85 all the way. Naughty! 😂😂😂

[@ianmax69]

Those little Pugs where great motors my 1.4D ran on fresh air

[@zosemabubble7825]

@@ianmax69 I got to Plymouth and back on half a tank of petrol! 🤩

[@adrianmcgrath1984]

It isn’t just the size of vehicles that makes a difference. It may be imperceptible on a short journey, but engine size makes a huge difference. The dodge caravan was sold in Europe with a 1litre engine. In the US it came with a 3.8 V6. Brits think big engines are extravagant displays of raw power, the reality is that a bigger, well balanced engine runs at low revs and is a far smoother and more comfortable ride.

[@cephid1]

I had a road trip yesterday thanks to a lorry fire, took me 1.5 hours to travel 13 miles, the motorway was blocked for several hours, I took the back winding roads and they were heavy with traffic to

[@paulqueripel3493]

Last year they started roadworks on a roundabout on a road into London from the M3, without telling anyone. That first morning it took someone I know 3 hours to go 5 miles. Works took over a year, and they've just started an 8-9 month job on another roundabout on the same road.

[@dogblessamerica]

If you travel up to Scotland from London, that's a road trip, especially if you want to go to the far north west, where the roads have to wind around endless sea lochs and mountains

[@stevo728822]

The traditional road trip game in the UK was "eye spy".

[@36814]

Best UK number plate I ever saw was in Glasgow and read W1TCH - a black Porsche if I recall correctly .

[@paulqueripel3493]

I spotted JE55 FKU the other day. Was the ex called Jess? 2010 car, I checked, so it is a private plate.

[@baylessnow]

"Scarbro" Where's that Joel?

[@michaelayling8855]

The US needs to invest in a high speed railway system instead of blowing all their money on warmongering.

[@dormie200]

Using "Road trip" alone confirms he is Americanised LOL -- I'm 70 and have never heard that term applied that way over here.

[@chrisperyagh]

No - we just 'go out for a drive' here. In the '90s when fuel prices were more favourable I used to go out for drives in the small hours when the roads were quiet, sometimes with works colleagues and just end up driving to and around London, Kent, Essex, Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Bristol and other places a fair distance from West and East Sussex, stop off at some motorway services for a snack and get back home around 6am. There wasn't any real purpose to it and no planning as well as taking turns driving my car (I had a Citroen XM V6 Si at the time). I'd buy an A-Z map of where I'd been as a souvenir.

[@Thorpeman]

A road trip is when you drive to Malaga, Rome, Warsaw or the Nubergring for a bit of fun. Driving to one end of the U.K. to the other is called a day trip

[@allenwilliams1306]

Nonsense. Any drive longer than ninety minutes in duration is a road trip.

[@damianleah6744]

You cannot drive from Wick to St Ives in a so called “Day trip”

[@ZoeBrain]

​@@allenwilliams1306I had to commute 2 his each way to go to middle school.

[@mej6519]

the the trek to the ring is about 5 hours,,,,, depending on what your driving there..

[@allenwilliams1306]

@@ZoeBrain You didn't have a 2 hour drive each way to middle school anywhere in the UK..

[@FTFLCY]

I've just come back from a 10 day road trip. Home (Bath) to the ferry over to Ireland and stayed in Wexford, Cork, Galway, Belfast, Bangor, Howth, having a night at Portmeirion on the way back. 1200 miles, 80% of which were twisty back roads (and A470!). Stayed at bougie places and gave my tasty new car (I think you'd approve, Joel!) a good run. Great fun all round.😁

[@thomassharmer7127]

I've driven extensively round the UK. Our motorways and service stations have improved a lot over the years, but the traffic has increased massively too. I've driven a little around the East Coast of the USA, but the longest 'road trip' I did was from New York to Pennsylvania. Not that far in American terms, but I was struck by the long, long tracts of open countryside and largely empty roads once I got beyond New Jersey.

[@d2ndborn]

a few years back 2008, I was in Barstow CA, for work. Had to stay in a motel. I remembered it was the same hotel I had stayed in before as a child around 1968. I do not think they had cleaned the carpet since then, I would have to toss my white socks in the trash. And yes, I had drug heads and ladies of the night knocking on my door all of the time.

[@JenniferRussell-qw2co]

I think our idea of a road trip would be taking either Eurotunnel/Ferry to France, and away you go to 'wherever' you fancy. France is perfect for a driving holiday, you should try it. You can stop off at towns/villages en route, just tootling about to your heart's content. You see more of interest away from multi-lane highways going at breakneck speed. For you it will be a doddle, bcos the French drive on the 'wrong' side of the road like you 🤪 Having said all that Land's End to John O'Groats would be one heck of a road trip, even for us, but especially for you if you thought your little journey in Yorkshire seemed a long way. Mind you, you could do the L.E. - J O'G trip by motorway. I hope you make it back to Blighty again soon, you are practically a local now 🙋‍♀️🇬🇧🤗

[@viceroyzh]

I was always happy with all the US motels on all my US road trips. No bugs or shady people. But most of them were significantly more than just 30 bucks.

[@Cjbx11]

Even by UK standards travelling from York to Scarborough would be considered a very short road trip.

[@mattk5020]

Very good video mate, check out the tourist places of Devon and Cornwall.

[@Uk.wildman]

Took me 7 hour's to drive from sheffield to Swansea about 400 miles traffic was horrendous

[@kevinquealey]

This is a silly video. Pathe news, sorry lost in the Pond keeps reminding us that the UK is a lot smaller than the UK. Who would have thought so. Take Canada and Australia out of the equation and most of the first world is tiny by comparison to the USA. You need to travel North to South in the UK for a proper road trip. I travel a lot by car from Glasgow to London, a distance of about 430 miles in which the drive is almost all on 3/4 Lane motorways and usually takes about 8 hours. On a human scale still a bit of a road trip. Pathe news needs to be informed that even small towns in the UK have hotels now, they even have electricity for lightning.

[@FallenAngel53]

York to Scarborugh is nothing. 😂

[@ianmax69]

Crickey !! Lawrence is rapidly turning into The Grimsby Hillbilly!! Look at them grey whiskers Must have been the stress of that road trip :D Joel you should stay in Britain longer than just a couple of weeks dude.. You need to a job on YO1 as a presenter for 6 months on an internship or something like that... then get your own car here and drive yourself on road trips... Then you experience Britain far deeper espically how things change seasonally and you'll understand UK driving habits and we can get to see how you cope with "roundabouts" Best Wishes from Durham ... Ian

[@JohnResalb]

Well, I don't do road trips and I don't know anyone who does. If we're going round the country, we can't possibly achieve the same mileage by road.

[@gordonconnah411]

TBH, we don't really do road trips in the UK, or Europe in general.

[@nicolad8822]

Since Laurence left England we’ve built 3 new motorways. 🤣

[@rogerk6180]

We take a train of fly if it is more then a couple of hours drive.. much more convenient.

[@clairedrew5487]

Joel, you’re so lovely. If you want a nearby pad to explore Manchester in the future. Get in touch. You would also be near enough to explore some of the beautiful scenery in Lancashire 😊

[@clairedrew5487]

Just to be clear, I have a husband, a 23 year old son and am a nurse. That’s meant to demonstrate I’m not weird.

[@georgecarlinismytribe]

I suppose the UK equivalent of a US Road Trip would be driving to, and through parts of Europe via the channel tunnel.

[@richardpoynton4026]

Not a major highway - medium, I’d say. Major would be 3 or 4 lanes each direction. That said, most UK roads are single lane in each direction, with both lanes comprising one road with no separation barrier between the lanes. Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

[@kennethbowry1521]

Scarborough to Bridlington the highway to Hell in the summer, I driving from London to Scarborough it took me Four Hours flew for first couple of hours but the the door of hell opened Caravans it took well over 9O minuets to cover the last 20 miles or so I chewed the steering wheel off.

[@britbazza3568]

Bog standard Motels are basic accommodation in USA? Hotels in UK also have a basic price range starting at £29 per night. Yet we get private ensuite shower a Hypnos luxury bed. ( Bed company with a Royal Warrant. In other words the Royal family use them) Reason being because they are super luxurious beds. Tvs free internet and all is very clean. I thought the USA was supposed to be ahead of the UK k with luxury too!

[@Julie-ym6dp]

My family used to travel from Yorkshire to Torquay and split up the journey. I hated it

[@Julie-ym6dp]

Too far to travel by road and if dad wanted to stop for a rest at a service station, I wasn’t usually tired, so would be bored n restless in the car

[@johnp8131]

Used to travel a couple of times a year from Cambridge to either Campbeltown or Forres near Inverness. Usually by car and both were nine hours plus with a fuel stop. Did it a couple of times then found out the RAF would pay for an overnight stop, providing I travelled in my own time. An overnight B&B in the Scottish borders was much more civilised. I suppose a coach for the whole Squadron groundcrew would have been too expensive and slow? And insufficient military accommodation on the way aswell?

[@philiptodd7062]

I sing in the car but not loudly

[@marionpetford7374]

I live in the midlands and it takes me longer to get to the south of England than to get to Spain

[@charleshedley4381]

My parents lived in London. When they retired and decided to return to Cumbia, I tried to persuade them that Paris was a much better option: closer, cheaper, and quicker, to travel to. I failed. 🙁

[@lordcharfield]

God forbid that Americans have to “pay more attention” 😂

[@maddermax74]

shows how out of date he is with his info UK plates you can now identify by first 2 letters as that is the area code there from and its been this way since 2001, like my first 2 letters are CP the C stands for Cymru aka wales and 2nd letter P for swansea

[@Dunk1970]

Great video as usual. But please can you translate one of the strange phrases you used: "Come on Brits, relax." I've read it over and over a few times and I can't work it out. I even tried thinking of it literarly instead of as a colloquialism, but it surely can't mean that. That would destroy our whole culture, especially in the south. No no no.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’m not a fan of road trips but I’m very curious about how road trips can be different.

[@Joe_Sheffield]

Drug dealers and ladies of the night.. that's why we love motels. 😂😂

[@user-nc8pi9zh8v]

Big cars do not mean comfortable especially usa ones, as for what Lawrence says these days is out of date more and more

[@danmayberry1185]

A double puzzle for Americans: Lawrence took a self deprecating shot at his family by calling it "middle class." He followed the rule of punching up (never down), 1. because UK middle class implies bougie professionals with refined accents who eat posh biscuits; and 2. they are the butt of jokes about being spoon fed and out of touch. Credibility and admiration goes to the working class. And upper class is a different planet of posh peers, royals and hyphenated surnames. The current US election pledge to help the "middle class" would cause a riot in the UK. US class distinction is as follows: upper class: your name is on the building you work in; middle class: your name on your desk; working class: your name on your uniform.

[@rebeccat94]

Americans don't have the same class system as the British - all workers are the middle classes the distinction is blue collar, white collar. The upper class equivalent are the rich. Although recently some blue collar workers have started to refer to themselves as working class - a term they've probably adopted due to the social media Atlantic 2-way word/phrase swap.

[@DavidHayter-u3m]

Is it me or is there a little lag between the audio and video? Noticed it on the last few videos, or......I had 1 too many drinks last night! haha

[@michael7286]

Vehicles are getting bigger over here in Britain but parking spaces aren't. For me the most annoying thing is road works everywhere and very poor highway maintenance ... the bodging up of potholes instead of doing a proper job that would prove to be more cost effective in the long run. British roads are becoming more and more congested every year and the joy of driving is no longer enjoyable.

[@sarahboardman1337]

YOUR THUMBNAIL IS A DUAL CARRIAGEWAY USUALLY AN A-ROAD, DIFFERENT TO A MOTORWAY WHICH HAS 3 LANES AND AN EMERGENCY LANE.

[@dang1086]

The A64 is horrendous.

[@nigelclinning2448]

Our roads aren’t really small, just American ones far too big.

[@MrRash-188]

why does he like the uk so much

[@steviekeane]

Britains roads are terrible in my opinion. Any joy driving were lost 30yrs ago . Too many drivers on our roads, huge fuel prices , road works on motorways . And too many d head drivers .

[@fishtigua]

Watch 6 beers in 6 countries in a day. So European.

[@EmArgh]

Trust me, we sing like mad here, not in key most the time. Dunno why he says that here..

[@lindashortall8761]

We play yellow car if your first to see a yellow car u slap the person near you lol .coz yellow cars ain't popular here.

[@enemde3025]

Come on JPS. You should know how to pronounced SCARBOROUGH, or any other town ending in "borough", by now !! SCARBRA not SCAR BUR ROW ! Public TRANSIT !? TRANSPORT . First difference. We don't call it a ROAD TRIP ! " SUB COMPACT CAR " !? Car bingo....WHAT !!??

[@davidsivills3599]

You can't compare a continent to the size of the uk there is no comparison, you can only compare the uk to countries of similar size.