DURHAM VLOG: Top things to do in Durham, England - city and county!

Durham, located in north-east England, is both a city and region packed with historic castles, UNESCO Cathedrals, incredible museums and beautiful dales and coast - with four-days to explore Durham, here is everything I packed into my visit!
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[@brassj67]

Thank you. Born and raised in Durham for 40yrs and now live in Alberta , Canada. Miss it😞

[@richardbransonmd2006]

Hello

[@dantae666]

Would rather be in canada, england is a horrible mess and a low wage nightmare you are lucky your not here

[@aidanwilliamson5064]

Hows Canada? Durham is quiet recently because of the pandemic, but its still got a few people about

[@msgilmourgirl]

@@dantae666 i would still love living over there! 🇨🇦❤🇬🇧

[@daveheenancomic]

4:41

[@zemesh]

I did my masters in Durham university and I love the place. Now live in Toronto, Canada.

[@Danflyingsolo]

Glad you enjoyed living in the city!

[@DominicWade]

I live in Durham also (well just outside the city), it is a very explorable city and great transport links to other places in the North East.

[@TravellyWorld]

Thanks for Sharing! Safe travels and Hi from Travelly World! 👍👍👍

[@eddyrussell9853]

Excellent video! Thanks for making this.

[@Danflyingsolo]

Thanks :)

[@rosaliapavon5161]

Excelente presentación amigo. Mis saludos del otro extremo del planeta

[@simplesod9552]

Thank you for this video!!! I'm going to Durham in the New Year for a week and now I've got so much fun things to do!

[@Danflyingsolo]

Yay! Have an amazing time :)

[@strings-n-keys]

Hope you had a great time! God was looking out for you. You visited it just in time -- before the lockdown.

[@briggsahoy1]

City of my birth, expat Geordie, Canada. Great video, thank you.

[@barryyoung8306]

Great video of Durham I love this place I live not far in a little village called Esh Winning

[@VickyFlipFlop.]

Oh I love that they've done that with the lego. Such a cool idea to get more kids involved (and me).

[@Danflyingsolo]

Haha yes! I loved how interactive all the museums are!

[@Catch52London]

Durham looks awesome, I still haven't been. Great video! :)

[@Danflyingsolo]

It's a cool spot with loads to do, hope you enjoy it when you visit :)

[@jeylaiskender8500]

Amazing content, thanks for sharing!!! Will visit soon on Early May Bank Holiday :)

[@isabellealice4984]

me and my mate are going to durham in august, we’re well excited

[@Danflyingsolo]

Have an awesome time!

[@raihanjumari6392]

Thanks for the captivating video! My son studies Law at Durham University & we look forward to visiting him in Durham soon m, albeit COVID-19. 🇸🇬 Love from Singapore 🇸🇬

[@cjhobbyfly8597]

Fantastic video... Durham is my home county, the places you show are the places I have loved and lived all my life, to the extent that the Fish Fryer in Beamish used to be in the village I lived in as a kid, so I must have had dozens of fish and chips from that fryer that people all over the world now get their food from... I also worked for the Auckland Project but less about that as they are a horrendous company to work for lol... looking forwards to binge watching more of your videos :)

[@Danflyingsolo]

Sorry to hear about the Auckland P :/

[@ronrichardson3103]

I would love to know about the Auckland project.

[@TomBray-LowCarbonLifestyle]

Can't wait for this beautiful place to re-open properly in the next few months!!

[@Danflyingsolo]

Countdown is on...

[@GuildofKnightlyArts]

When is everything supposed to open back up?

[@TomBray-LowCarbonLifestyle]

@@GuildofKnightlyArts I guess it is nearly there... lots of cafes / restaurants with tables and chairs on the street, shops mostly open... must be nearly fully open, particularly by next month... I guess we will see what Mr Johnson says

[@theextraordinaryworldofzei5851]

@@TomBray-LowCarbonLifestyle we went to stay over 2 weeks ago at my son's student pad and found everything open

[@johnord684]

Get yourself to the coast its stunning ,and some great walks ,and dene's (woods) to explore ,Hawthorn and Csstle Eden Dene's are a must.

[@theextraordinaryworldofzei5851]

my son invited us, his whole family to stay with him in his student pad, last month for 9 days. we went to Beamish, the Castle, Cathedral, town centre incl the market and so much more. we loved it so much we've decided we'll go back for another week later this yr

[@abderrahimouta3652]

Great i wish to go a durham but i cant because im from.morocco

[@meganslater9503]

I live in Durham. I can literally see the cathedral from my window. Why am i watching this? p.s going to the top of the cathedral is terrifying. I swear that staircase id deadly.

[@anglonrx2754]

Aye same

[@hellohoneyfernishere7301]

I live in us but when I’m old enough I want to move here it looks so cool

[@michaelfrank5239]

Rubbish ,its hardly terrifying..

[@iurunner34]

The Auckland Tower is a huge flop. Thank you for showing Beamish. Putting that on the To Do.

[@simonduncan8327]

The north’s best kept secret ssssssshhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!😂😂 I live here it’s a great place England’s most beautiful city

[@shaneD7378]

Did you bump into Dominic Cummings in Bernard castle. Great video

[@JT_Williams]

Top quality content this mate! I've just uploaded an Cinematic of it which has plenty of drones shots if you're curious what the place looks like from the sky :)

[@ronrichardson3103]

Durham is very nice. A good place to live . Very affordable compared .with London .I've lived in both . Durham wins easly . ..

[@briggsahoy1]

Home my birth, Expat Geordie, Canada. Thank you .

[@kristJ25]

Good one Darren but I want beat your numbers as a travelog UK

[@antonys6569]

Hi..I’m living in London..can I get job in Durham...London is too expensive

[@depicuara_rambambar]

Beastars.....

[@Sapphire4056]

very good video, next time have a visit to Seaham which is well loved by lots of people and famous for its seaglass beach

[@DailyDoseOfPiano]

Fun fact: I own this city.

[@mi6uk]

COUNTY DURHAM, DARLINGTON, TEESSIDE, BILLINGHAM, MIDDLESBROUGH, STOCKTON, YARM, NEWCASTLE, JESMOND & YORK - OUR UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. In 1941 in Yarm Richard married Margaret Hawxwell, a local lass from Middlesbrough. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1). Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm High Street until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks. Why? Best ask his son Bill Fairclough (MI6 codename JJ). When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs moved to live in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. Bill also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants (Coopers & Lybrand, now PwC) he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne. So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs! Details including full addresses of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974 and he still seems to be operational as Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings might have noticed (theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2021.07.21.php).

[@mervynhardy6161]

What in god's name is the stupid thump,thump ring , ring racket about. We're trying to learn about our city( until I switched off)

[@urmom7300]

I'm sorry but the cathedral is boring from my perspective (a child)

[@user-do6of8rr6z]

If you are student in Durham university give me like 😉

[@ryanhall7033]

i gave u a dislike.

[@lucythompson295]

Hi

[@user-do6of8rr6z]

Lucy Thompson 👋 how are you?