London walk: Victoria station and how to buy an Oyster Card or train ticket - narrated

[@davidhui7894]

Thank you Angela . Enjoy the video very much . I brought my daughter to study in U.K. 20 years ago from hk and we stayed in Wellington Hall near VIncent Square . We travelled extensively to the souththere last year.

[@tinakampouroglou4479]

Hi Angela....its Tina from Rhodes.....great job...HUGE YES to seeing best bus routes....we have ordered our VISITORS oyster card for ALL of us..awaiting for them to be sent to us.....booked our Phantom of the Opera musical 🎉SUPER EXCITED!!!BYE🤗

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Yes, ordering Oyster Cards to be sent to you in advance is an excellent idea. You will enjoy Phantom, I went a few years ago and really liked it. The No 11 bus video should be out next week then there is another one I want to try that goes more in the direction of Oxford Street I think. Great to hear from you:)

[@tinakampouroglou4479]

@@ChattyWalkswithAngela ....will be awaiting to see.... many thanks again for ALL your help🙏

[@frankmartin1168]

Such a awesome video. I been following you for quit awhile now but to be honest just found you in all the people I follow. I love how you narrate the video. I follow a few people based in London, I use all the ones who do walks so i can decide where and what i want to do when i finally get to the UK. Have a great day!

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Thank you very much Frank for your kind comment, and super-thanks for watching my videos:) The narration is something I tried in order to communicate a bit better with the people watching - I don't like being on camera so prefer to chat from behind the camera. Good luck with visiting the UK soon, sounds like you will be well-armed with some good choices of walks when you get here. Angela

[@frankmartin1168]

@@ChattyWalkswithAngela your so welcome. I thought about doing walk videos here in Orlando. Whenever you say Orlando,FL people automatically say ooohhh Disney World, Universal Studios Orlando, Sea World ect. There is so much more to my city than theme parks. I'm hoping to come London next February or March. Keep up the great work!

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

@@frankmartin1168 The thing we all forget is that where we live is somewhere completely different for someone else, so it will always have something of interest. So definitely show the other side to Orlando, people want to know what it's really like there. And fingers crossed you have a great time in London too:)

[@ivanwill]

Honestly, the simply things I miss from home. Like, stopping in WH Smith's and reading my phone magazines (back in the mid-late 90's), and getting sausage rolls from Greggs!!! I remember my days of running for the tube! Bethnal Green to Archway... PS: I like the commentary, and the knowledge sharing of the stations, and such. Nicely done.

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Thank you for the kind comments:) I wonder how many people still buy magazines to read rather than just look on their phones/tablets etc? And who wouldn't miss a sausage roll from Greggs?!

[@WatchedWalker]

Really enjoyed this video Angela and found the insights into the history of the station very insightful. And as a station I've not been to that often, I learnt there were shops/food upstairs! No idea how I've never noticed the escalators and sign!

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Hello there Mr WW, thank you as always for your kind support. And I'm glad I could educate you that there is an upstairs at Victoria Station, with food, shops and everything, very modern;)

[@ibs5080]

This is truly the icing on the cake to discover dialog with Mr. WW here! I've been a WW subscriber for quite a while now but quite new to this channel. My goodness, what a viewing feast between your two channels. WW knows me. Dual citizen British Canadian here. Currently in Canterbury but also based in Vancouver Canada.

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Well it’s fabulous to have you here on the channel, thank you for commenting👍 A bit of a break from filming fir me at the moment, but I hope to be uploading again very soon. Angela

[@eiyibilgin]

Unbelievable. Thank you so much Angela. I was working at a French baguette shop at Victoria Station in 1990 -1991 It was my unforgettable years.

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

You have some great stories of working in London:)

[@kathymaxted9485]

Your video was soo helpful thankyou

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

You’re welcome 😊

[@marynasaid4840]

Thank you Angela! Wish you success with your channel !

[@eiyibilgin]

Thank you for this special video.

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

You are welcome👍

[@vishuddhathakkar]

Wonderful walk. I have spent countless hours at Victoria Place to catch a train back to Southampton but never filmed it.. You brought back a lot of memories for me.

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Awww thank you so much, really glad it brought back memories👍

[@ChrisSmith-ls7mb]

Hello Angela Love this video, my wife and I have stayed the last two times in London stayed at the Grosvenor. Which is easy to get to from Gatwick and is easy to get to anywhere in the city. We hope to be back again soon. Thanks again. Keep up the great walks. Chris from Canada

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Hey there Chris, lovely to hear from you:) Thank you for the kind comments and I do hope this video brings back some lovely memories of London. You are right, the location is so convenient for both arrival from Gatwick and getting around London to see the main sights. Let's hope you are back enjoying it again in the near future. Angela

[@Twtybird1]

Several times I've stayed at The Grosvenor (now Amba Hotel Grosvenor) which is attached to VIC. I really enjoyed revisiting this station through your video.

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Excellent and thank you👍

[@MarioPetrinovich]

What a wealth of information. Yes. I absolutely adore how you so easily put things into context. People who are not living in London don't notice things like, "In this road are all the major government buildings.", but we would really like to know those things, so that London isn't just a bunch of houses without a context. Like "This kind of people go here.", or "That kind of people meet there.". I always wandered where Londoners meet in the evening, when they want to go out, at what time, to what places they are going, how long they stay out, and how do they go back home? I mean, there are towns where people like to go out early, but in some towns they go out very late. It is true that I am too old to spend my time that way, but I am interested, never-the-less, just to see how people are living in London these days, :) . While we are at stations, the story of Waterloo station, The City, and the Waterloo and City line should be interesting. Regarding things that you didn't mention, guess who won his first major competition in Victoria Palace Theatre? You can see him at the very end of this video (hint, he's Austrian, :) ): kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6a4gaeIfbOMo68

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

That's a brilliant video, thanks for sending that:) Re: what Londoners do in the evening, this is such an interesting question, and I could give you an extremely long answer, depending on location, interests, time of year, stage of life etc. I think going out after work is still quite popular - usually to the pub - for people working in London, but most people have to get home for family responsibilities. London is full of activities in the evening - further education, cinema, exercise and dance lessons and studios, theatres and the like, shopping on certain nights, eating out, visiting friends, choirs and music, bowling, sports, football, the list goes on and on. But I think we are usually finished by 10pm! Thanks for your supportive and helpful comment 👍

[@MarioPetrinovich]

@@ChattyWalkswithAngela 10pm. Hm, rather early. For example, when I was younger (lets say late 20s, early 30s), we used to meet once a week, usually Saturdays, lets say 8 pm, or 8:30 pm. Standard places ("pubs") closed up at 11 pm, so that people can take daytime tramway (they are running until 11:30 pm, and then comes the night service, which is less frequent, fewer lines, which like to go around too much, not directly). Working day we didn't go out, so this was our day off, once a week. Old friends, some of us knew each other for 10 years. So, we didn't go out with colleges from work, we didn't care about them (usually). Colleges from work are just people we know at work. Real friends used to meet once a week, if nothing else comes about. I don't know if London has similar kind of lifestyle. Families with children use to go to each others place (on weekends), with children, lets say, once a month. This is earlier in the day, not too late (maybe 6 pm to 8:30 pm). Here we own a place where we are living (in 90 % of cases).

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

@@MarioPetrinovich Hello, this sounds very similar to here in the UK actually. And it could be me being too sleepy saying 10pm!

[@MarioPetrinovich]

@@ChattyWalkswithAngela Or, because of going out after work. We cannot go out after work simply because we work too early (I worked on shifts, so I don't know for sure, but it should be something like from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm). After that early awakening we are too tired to go out at working days. Croatia is a communist country (still), and communists have some stupid reasons why they are torturing us with that early awakenings.

[@RossRoams]

Very interesting walk. I was in Victoria station a few months back and forgot to film there

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Thanks Ross Roams. It's a funny thing, I wasn't even planning a walk in Victoria Station but thought, as I'm looking for the bus, I might as well do a bit of filming, especially as NanOwen said she is staying in the area and was interested in the distance to Buckingham Palace. I do try to be a little more organised in advance where possible....

[@sabinarajput786]

New subscriber great video xx

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Thank you so much:)

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

Paddington and London Victoria are awesome looking at night

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Agreed, I love the lighting around that whole area.

[@wanderplanet]

Kind and meticulous explanation! Anyone who has seen this video can get a ticket!😃

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Hello wander planet and thank you for your kind comment. I do hope this video helps people as, in my opinion, the Oyster Card system is rather confusing for visitors!

[@johnorchin8567]

Hi Angela, Another enjoyable video, love the narration. I hope you persevere with your channel and it grows, as has Watched Walker. I'm intrigued by your accent, it's not London, is it?

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Hello there John, I hope all is well in your world, and thank you as always for your supportive comment:) If you have any corrections, do go ahead, I always await anything from you that I missed or got wrong so I can learn. Watched Walker is my absolute hero; I can't imagine reaching his dizzy heights, but if there one thing I am in life it is REALLY persistent, so I very much appreciate your encouragement to persevere - which I definitely plan on doing. And my accent is actually from the west country, where I lived until I was 18. An old coal mining community just outside of Bath and with names reflected in much of Midsomer Murders, oddly enough. Now, regarding my next video on the No 11 bus, this was a choice that was largely inspired by your list of good bus routes in London. I felt a bit silly talking into a camera recording the journey from Victoria to Liverpool Street so my commentary is a little quiet, but was fortunate to bag the front seat at the top. The video should be out next week. Angela

[@FredStam]

Again a nice one, like your videos. You said you´re a lecturer but what are you lecturing? I was in Victoria station a few years ago after visiting a Gastroenterology congres and it was my way to Gatwick that time. So it looks a bit familiair to me nicevideo again. Lot of good tip s thanks for that.

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Hello there Fred, good to hear from you as always. Yes indeed, if you have traveled into London to or from Gatwick then chances are Victoria will be familiar to you. My doctoral research was about trust in international business across cultures, which involved researching joint ventures in post-communist Russia. These days I lecture in business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Sounds more like you are on the biological science side of things while I am on the social science side:)

[@FredStam]

@@ChattyWalkswithAngela Interesting to know that a lecturer showes us around london. Inspiring for me when the weather is getting a bit more friendly I want to make some videos about Haarlem in Holland just to show you around. I´ll will notice you when the first video will go on YT. Maybe Haarlem walk is a good name. Have a nice weekend

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

@@FredStam You should definitely do that - there is only one rule for putting videos onto KZbin - just do it! That would be lovely, I'll look forward to it:)

[@서울워크]

Fellow walker! Thank you for sharing:) I wanna go there!

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Hello there Seoulwalk, great to hear from you as always. It's such fun to look around railway stations, especially this one as it is so close to Buckingham Palace and Westminster. Angela

[@eiyibilgin]

Stop video 7:41 This is the shop I worked and these are the baguettes I made 30 years ago. Of course shop was different from now. But lots of things are the same. Even the style of baguettes.

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

That's fantastic! It's amazing how little things have changed😊

[@pogihead1019]

I haven't been to been in 25 years. Forgot that I had to pay to go to the toilet. Chicago O'Hare use to be like that in the 1970's

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Yes, they finally lifted payment for the toilet some time last year - about time!

[@EfeKaptan]

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[@marcotaggiasco9973]

Hi Angela, i will be in london from july 31 to august 7 for a vacation with my son who is 13 years old. would you be our guide? thank you Marco

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Ahhh, that is so very nice of you to think of me:) I don't do guided tours as I am not qualified to do so, but there are loads of blue badge guides in London who do really excellent trips around the key sites. Thank you again! Angela

[@masoodkhan6563]

I used to go there but I was quite enoying

[@MarioPetrinovich]

Hi This is nice example of my idea of how walking videos should be shoot: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWnWgmxor7mneJY "Walkers" usually point camera straight on. That way I can see things that are straight on, people, asphalt, horizontal signalization on streets, and cars. The only building I can see clearly is actually the building at the end of the street (on street that is crossing this one at the right angle), if there is one there. The buildings on the "walking" street I actually don't see at all. This is like watching Mona Lisa, but looking it in the direction which is parallel to the painting. I will not see much that way. Streets aren't cars, people, pavement, and asphalt, streets are buildings. So, in a video I could see thousands of pedestrians, hundreds of cars, but I may not see a single building properly. And that way every street looks just the same, more people and more cars. The only difference is if some street has less or more cars or pedestrians. See how the above video is much more dynamic. "Straight on" videos are static, nothing changes. You see something at the end of the street, and you see this coming closer and closer, for minutes. When you finally come close enough to that, you make a right turn, and again the same, minutes pass in monotony, nothing actually happens. The only thing I could add to the above video is that the walker is shooting only the opposite side of the street. That way we get only half of the story. He could turn camera to shoot his side, also. I might not see the third floor of the building, but in real life I don't see it anyway, ground floor is enough for me to get the feeling, the sense of the street.

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Thanks Mario, I will check that out. KZbin is not notifying me of all comments to I've just found a lot of comments that I haven't replied to yet!

[@omarmacarty5315]

Bussar till London

[@MrTsetso]

23 minutes for how to buy a card?

[@ChattyWalkswithAngela]

Hello, there are time stamps in the description if you want to find a particular part of the video, which is why I put them there. If you are on a mobile device and can't find the time stamps, then I can start putting them in an opening pinned comment - do you think that would help? As this is a walking channel, at present the walking is prioritised over some of the how to elements, which is shown in the title and description. If I do more 'how to' type elements, I might start making some shorter, say 5-minute videos, that concentrate on those aspects. Do let me know if there is anything you think may be helpful to visitors. Angela

[@rahulrathod-vx6yv]

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