WAS OUR TOUR A BAD IDEA

[@monachorum]

Thanks for visiting one of the nicest parts of our country Don (it gets very busy in summer as tourism is THE industry that keeps folk alive). If you don’t mind me saying, the house you visited is pronounced Lan-High-Drock (emphasis on the 2nd syllable) and the town you walked through afterwards, though spelled Fowey, is pronounced Foy (rhyming with ahoy!). Looking forward to your next port. Have a great time.

[@LaLidoLoca]

Good times! I really enjoyed this excursion!

[@nolaventon372]

Living near to this place is a pleasure so we go there often. Their cream teas are a delight.

[@charms87]

I visited this location in April one year and the gardens were amazing. I enjoyed the house, but the gardens were what blew me away. You only saw a very small portion of the gardens.

[@twaunniebusse7262]

I like it when you film and show your excursions. I saw Tony’s video on this and your video added an additional enjoyable layer of viewing experience.

[@lindagraham1147]

Beautiful video of this place. Enjoy when you and Tony cruise together.

[@randa200771]

The coastal area around the west of England is full of fantastic nooks and crannies that hide these beautiful villages. The history goes back hundreds of years often steeped in smuggling and other nefarious acts against the crown and those of wealth and power.

[@shaunareeves1911]

Oh wow, did not expect to see you at a place I know very well! Our house is fairly close and with our National Trust membership this has always been popular. We often go for a walk in the grounds - they are huge and you wouldn't even realise you were on part of the estate when walking along the small river. Rhododendrons and Azaleas gardens are glorious in spring. I'm glad you got to see the kitchens - that's my favourite area in the house. Those size roads in Fowley exist all over Cornwall and yes, there are many the coach wouldn't get down! I'm so glad you had a great day!!

[@Lealelan]

Love when we get to follow along on your excursions with you! Great footage! Thank you!

[@jacquievanauken6394]

Don can you. do more of these videos? Love to see the tours I am handicapped and will never see the sites❤

[@rickrich7325]

I want to take the cruise, just what I love to do, travel, architecture & history & food!

[@RitaCurtis-b5x]

Looked at Tony's video and enjoyed it. I am enjoying yours now. You both are very good tour guides.

[@jamesleech4024]

Great to see you back in England. Don’t leave it too long before you return. Keep up the good work

[@decall2002]

Love your videos, I get to see places I might not get to on my own.

[@robingastonia]

I have really enjoyed Tony and you cruising together. A great cruise. I loved seeing Cornwall. I remember when part of it burned years ago. It is really beautiful. Thank you for sharing all of your videos.

[@jo-nellmoss5710]

Excellent narration of your tour. Thank you.

[@harrietgeesey2822]

Don, you & Tony are great travel buddies. It's nice to see cruise news take a back seat sometimes & the travel vloggers come out. You guys do a great job of that. Can't wait to do a British Isles cruise. Love watching!! Harriet from PA

[@joeseatac331]

The gardens are beautiful! Love the shaping of the bushes. You’d need that many servants just to wash the windows!

[@birbluv9595]

Thank you, Don! I’m glad you took the long bus trip. Your video was much different than Tony’s, and i really appreciate the two different perspectives. I could never visit a place like this because my knees do not allow me to keep up with regular people walking downhill (though my heart is good and i can easily walk uphill.) I learned on my last cruise, the Mediterranean with Holland America in May 2019, that i cannot do excursions because everything is arranged for people with good knees and bad “wind”. My doctors won’t let me hike or do anything that requires me to go downhill. The organized excursions were very difficult and frustrating for me. Guides would see me go quickly uphill and assume I’d be the same going downhill - and i was constantly left behind or got mixed up with other groups also walking downhill!

[@chrisstephens9113]

Living out this cruise thru you. My wife and I got this cruise in a suite as a casino offer but unfortunately we couldn’t make it workout with our vacations. So please continue to shoot plenty of videos.

[@susanjoy3513]

Loved seeing the tour with you.

[@darryld_009]

It is fun watching your and Tony's videos as you are each telling the same but different stories

[@theangryrooster2113]

Great video, beautiful place, love love love the kitchen and the pitt, I would love to have seen that in action. And the copper pots! $$$ On a side note, I watch your videos almost daily or I catch up in the week. It just hit me that Captain Kate is in your intro! She is a very impressive, inspiring human. I catch her videos too off FB.

[@elaineskurski6555]

Great video. Thanks for taking us with you

[@emilydami7887]

Very good tour. You really got a feel of the area

[@nicolemiller4688]

Amazing Don. Love to see your sidekick as well. Carry on fellows❤

[@CaraOleary]

That was a beautiful house!!! that must've been so cool to walk thru it.

[@teresajohnson7698]

Williamsburg, VA is a great place to see some of these things if you can't travel outside the US. Lots of places on the East coast! But I love your video and would love to visit !

[@LauraPerry63]

Thank you for the heads up on the place and all the wonderful shots you got. Thank you sharing

[@emiliawalker4346]

Wow this place is amazing, thanks for bringing us along.

[@motel1029]

Enjoy watching your excursion videos.

[@jameswade7550]

Love the video and great to see Tony and you having a great time. Looks like a great excursion.

[@BeefromSC]

Beautiful scenery

[@ChristineShelley]

Both the estate and the town were beautiful!

[@sarahj.5970]

Thank you to both of you for this excursion report...just wonderful.

[@carljohnson6434]

Looks like you and Tony are having a great time!

[@marilynsue4273]

I'm glad you went! Nice video!

[@bethlowell7336]

Most enjoyable video, Don. What a beautiful house & grounds. Thanks for posting. Cheers

[@joewines3883]

That tour looked Amazing Don. That home a little town was beautiful. Now we want to try a European cruise. Every thing looked beautiful.

[@bonniescutt3648]

Loved this!!

[@Girasole5849]

Love watching your videos on this trip…and Tony’s too. Enjoy.

[@belxsar1504]

Thanks for sharing your excursion and giving us a vicarious thrill, Don! 😀

[@joelroach416]

Beautiful day and views. Biltmore House in North Carolina is even more extravagant than that home.

[@KayFraker]

Don, I enjoy you videos. We always sail with Princess.

[@dawnturner8735]

Lol, I remember you two swearing off of long bus tours. I am looking forward to seeing the rest of your trip.

[@TerranceGoulding]

Great job taking and editing this video Don! My wife and I enjoyed it very much! 😀

[@cynthiareifsnider5794]

Thanks for sharing. It is beautiful!

[@kathymizda5586]

That house was so impressive. Wow

[@kylady1959]

nice video, thanks

[@DanielaBoha]

Awesome 👌 ❤

[@richd6362]

Thanks for the video. The castle and town look great.

[@JandB-TCB]

This is one of your best vlogs. Thanks for sharing. Well done!

[@marthagrant143]

Looks like a good excursion

[@Jeannine29]

Safe travels and thanks for sharing

[@carolfinnis6152]

Thanks Don for sharing your adventure

[@mornadevries7580]

Very nice. Makes me want to visit

[@judydale9661]

Loved your video !!! I agree I can’t believe some people were able to live like that… So opulent!!!

[@maryfinnfan4140]

Nice video Don, thank you. The town of Fowey was an old settlement well before the Norman Conquest in 1066. Fowey church was built between 600 and 699 X

[@maryfinnfan4140]

My step grandmother, Alice, was a "tweeny" in a mansion near Sheffield. She started there aged 12. She got up at 4am to wash all the floors on her hands and knees, then lit the fires, took hot water up to the bedrooms. She got 1 day off per month. She ended up as a Lady's Maid eventually. She was crippled with rheumatoid arthritis in her knees in old age. She was a grand old lass as we say in Yorkshire xx

[@GeannaKovar]

That looks like a lot of fun!

[@richardracette-w6w]

Amazing. We will be there in September 😃

[@donaldedmondson4918]

Looks like a nice place ⚓️

[@lindahuggins4518]

Scary bus ride!!!!!!

[@batgirl1ful]

The grounds are amazing.

[@JoeineKriekel]

Thanks Don, beautiful place....maybe someday

[@TheJm129]

Glad you no longer avoid long bus trips.

[@loriminard6460]

Thanks for sharing this 🎉

[@susanburkettrn2042]

Great video Donny

[@miriamfossett2558]

What a gorgeous place you are visiting! Hope you and Tony are having a wonderful time!

[@oceanside88]

This may be your best video yet 🎉

[@sherrydiener8688]

Hi Don, Looks like the two of you needed this fun trip.

[@BubblyinUSA2010]

My kind of living!❤😊 beautiful estate!

[@angelathomas6770]

Thanks! Enjoy

[@code4forlife]

Loved This Video Don Thank You For Sharing

[@mikesevilla9627]

Beautiful place maybe a group cruise someday!

[@karenross4706]

Hi Don. Hope you and Tony have an awesome trip. You’re very blessed. 😇

[@notinterested6343]

Beautiful place. Yeah, tiny roads, so odd

[@susantopper6809]

I love Cornwall, haven’t been there since 1985

[@lowvizlife]

Looks like beautiful town. Yes those were some narrow streets.

[@davidhudson5452]

Don is the new lawn keeper. Wild look good

[@debbief2882]

I would never be a driver in these port towns. 😱

[@birbluv9595]

I could not ride due to motion sickness and neck surgery which prevents me from being on bouncy rattling transportation.

[@cathyhurst1946]

Thanks Don for sharing. I also think yours was different than Tony's.

[@birbluv9595]

The wealth of Britain’s upper classes back then was astounding. The only way i can justify it is that there had to be rich people who could afford to buy the fantastic artwork, ceramics, silverwork, architecture, etc. We wouldn’t have this stuff to look at if everyone had much less wealth.

[@billybenson3834]

Don't forget the upper class of that era were the employers of the village. We forget that when the rich purchase items they are supporting people's livelihood

[@lovesfall2168]

Enjoyed your video! Have you been to Biltmore house in Asheville North Carolina USA? If not look up a youtube video about it. 250 room mansion they have tours too.

[@marianneward8980]

Euros?? Those are only going to be good the one day you are in Ireland.

[@cindyk3281]

I'm sure it was still cold and drafty to live in.

[@Aust-NZ-SPandtheworld]

Don, not sure if you have caught up with the New Zealand government's consideration of banning cruise ships from entering Milford Sound. This would be such a shame as Milford Sound is a popular destination for most cruisers' reasons for going to NZ.

[@randijaffe-7665]

I fall asleep on those long bus tours - have to stop

[@davidrobertson606]

Did not see any wheel chairs on your tour. Was the estate set up for people with reduced moblity.

[@ivanmorley3735]

I love how Americans aren't used to the width of British roads, especially the rural ones.

[@kobartlett]

Don isn’t American. He’s Canadian.

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

Someone told me that for UK cruises, (It's UK BTW _not_ England), the ship _rarely_ ports at the place that you are visiting, and that people almost always have to take a bus into town. Is this so and are there _always_ buses provided by the cruise line?

[@kennethgregory6228]

Like shopping at Costco

[@philipbarnard2474]

You fell for it. Must be called Land Hard Rock, when the visitors go home. Never heard of this place, and I'm a Brit

[@teresamiller5412]

Some of the best/worst tours are on busses 🚌

[@stephaniefoley5569]

Isn’t this where Doc Martin was filmed??? 📺🎬🎥

[@kathyoliva6966]

I wondered that as well 😁

[@lissajeri1492]

No

[@stephaniefoley5569]

@@lissajeri1492 where?? Thanks 😊

[@lissajeri1492]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Isaac

[@stephaniefoley5569]

@@lissajeri1492 Thank you

[@marilynsue4273]

People like to see open water.

[@wlpark001]

❤

[@trishawatling]

Hi Don, great video. Don, stupid question - How did they make ice in those days ? I can think that in the winter they may have had snow but what about during the summer?

[@andreaward6478]

Large country homes collected ice from their parkland lakes in the winter. They stored it in underground ice houses which were specifically built in shady areas, often in woodland. Ice for the average person was sometimes shipped in from the frozen Arctic. Hope that helps

[@trishawatling]

That’s very interesting, thanks for the info, reply Andrea 👍😊

[@sharonmcmickens9853]

Hey Don

[@TWSmith42]

So much wealth. How'd they lose it all?

[@amandagreen4332]

Taxes and death duties!

[@SolarVibeEnergy]

​@@amandagreen4332& WWI/II & costs to maintain aging buildings many had to sell (Nation Trust charity buy many) those where families still live in they only live in part of house & need tourist income to view the rest, some like Longlete & Woburn Abbey (families still live there) have Safari parks etc on grounds.

[@mindischwart1380]

Who’s house was it