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Can a foreigner find UK locations? | GeoGuessr challenge

I'm so bad at geography.. so naturally, we need to play UK Geoguessr. Even though I'm a Canadian living in the UK for the last 8 years, I'm SO BAD at knowing where places are. Manchester?? Reading? Edinburgh?? Who knows lol 0:00 what are we doing today 0:56 nice place, where though? 7:48 city this time 17:13 middle of nowhere 21:49 probably so frustrating to watch lol Please subscribe here! https://www.youtube.com/c/AdventuresandNaps?sub_confirmation=1 Want exclusive content? Join my YT membership community here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkJrZ_GpGyrbQZ7YtdjKT7Q/join Want more? Check out: 8 Years in Britain: https://youtu.be/9wScAUlYurw British things that just make sense: https://youtu.be/5at0XpEsMdI FOLLOW THE ADVENTURE Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/adventuresandnaps Livestreams: https://www.twitch.tv/adventuresandnaps FB: http://www.facebook.com/adventuresandnaps IG: https://www.instagram.com/adventures.and.naps Newsletter: https://adventuresandnaps.com/newsletter You can donate to my channel here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=RBUBGBNGG5J6G Music by Epidemic Sound, get 60 days free: https://share.epidemicsound.com/pna7us Hey! I'm Alanna - a thirty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England. I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a Youtube video every Tuesday plus an additional video every Saturday on Patreon + YT Memberships. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch. Alanna x

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3 weeks ago

I have no concept of geography and that's going to become very obvious almost immediately hi everyone it's me for those of you who don't know me my name is Elena and I'm a Canadian but I have been living here in the UK for the last eight years now just cuz I've been here eight years doesn't mean I know how to read a map So today we're going to play some UK geoguesser now what is that basically you are plopped down on Google Street View somewhere in the world and you have to figure out where you
are and in the spirit of embarrassing myself online we are going to do it today only UK places and I know that I'm going to struggle so can a foreigner find these UK places let's find out all right everyone here we go who's nervous me thank you so much for asking so we are going to do only UK places leave a comment down below how many of these did you get right I think I might vomit all right we will not have a time limit because I am an idiot here we go everybody good luck this looks like the U
K okay we've got an abandoned I mean it's a beautiful building it's a shame it's abandoned we've got a blurred out house I wonder why lots of construction on this road beautiful little neighborhood wow these houses are look how big though you got a little everyone's got a beautiful little uh driveway all right so first things first we need to get to like a main road if at all possible or a sign perhaps okay whales okay right that looks Welsh to me I haven't been to whales in many years okay so h
ere is our is our map we are somewhere now I I imagine Oaken halt is probably um not very big so we need to figure it out all right let's see if we can get to a main road I'll tell you what though I could have sworn this was England for some reason this looks very English to me now I've been to Wales I've been up snowdonia I was woful unprepared but I made it to the top in the rain and in sweatpants if you can believe it but I've also been to um Conway in the north and um ciff I thought Cardiff
was really nice like nice City Historic the castle is beautiful okay we are most certainly in Wales but where about the Tradesman arms unfortunately not helpful let's just see if we can get out into anything that resembles a main road or a highway or literally anything but I'll tell you what this looks like a beautiful place anybody from Wales here hi can you read what okay Flint castle that's that's a good good show whereabouts is this is nice teddy bear tow day nursery and Vogue hair fash that
's probably not helpful but Flint Castle literally not a foggy idea where that would be we probably have to be pretty close up on the map to Oak Wood was that the original sign no it was Oak and something wasn't it I think we got to be pretty close zoomed in to try and find a castle one might think but let's just I'm just going to okay we've got a burial chain these are in Welsh that's what was it in Welsh not even going to attempt to say that word I think the Welsh language is so interesting an
d I hope it doesn't die out um no I'm sure it's difficult to maintain you know when so many people just speak English and you know what I love the English language because I know how to speak it but it's uh it'll be a real shame if if um Welsh dies away oh my God I was just about to give up I feel like it's been a million minutes I'm probably going to have to cut the absolute crap out of this video I have found Flint follow for Flint Castle we found it now I don't know how close we are so let's
just leave our map there for a hot second and let's continue on and hopefully follow the signage for Flint Castle although Oaken Holt that's actually where we started and no I don't think we saw that we technically so with geog guesser if you've never played you're you're supposed to pinpoint where you started and we saw the sign for tin Holt okay hold on let's return to the start that's a really small street so we might not be able to find that but can we find this road that we are on currently
I'm actually kind of hopeful that we might figure this out which honestly is more than I was expecting Caesar Avenue but what is this road called why is there so few signs I'm lost help me okay there's a spar here I remember walking past the spars so say this is the sign maybe did we is there a spar anywhere no okay so could we maybe have gone in from the other direction I am facing northish north west is that mean anything to anybody I don't remember seeing the yacht in but we did see Caesar's
Avenue and that was that creepy little Street wasn't it oh my god I've never actually been able now normally when I play um geoguesser it's with you guys on Twitch so I live stream on Twitch every Wednesday night and every Sunday night you are more than welcome to come along you do not have to pay or subscribe or anything to join I will be there regardless and a lot of times I play with you guys and um we play as a team so um I am carried often when we play together I've never actually been abl
e to pinpoint a place um that closely and you know what here's this weird creepy little Street and I think we are right here and I'm going to guess oh my god I've never been able to do that wow this is so exhilarating and this is never going to happen again anyways back to what I was saying if you want to join us on Twitch there's always links in the description we play geog guest we play other games together we hang out we do crafts and y y y this is the first time I've ever played this game by
myself the the twitch Community will never believe that I got this okay wow thrilling stuff let's go to the next location and just hope for the best now this is beautiful and a beautiful sunny day don't often see that okay so we are at Morningside children Nursery not quite helpful a s's Breeze is that a post office perhaps something shut down let's just have a mosy around does anybody recognize this street Scotland you guys I think they're giving me really easy hey I didn't know Scotland had a
Pizza Hut I think the game's giving me really easy ones because it knows where I am sometimes I don't even know what country anyway morning Side Road we're in Scotland and to be fair these buildings kind of look like Scotland I haven't been to Scotland in a long time but I've been to Edinburgh um that's kind of it to be honest I know that's embarrassing what if this is Edinburgh can you believe it now sometimes these buildings or these shops will have the name of the place but unfortunately I d
on't know a lot of Scottish place names oh could it be now this could be the outskirts of Edinburgh let's be honest okay let's take it easy no because the Royal Edinburgh hospital is nearby okay oh my God I'm going to pass away now edra is a big place Western General no Royal infirmary is that the same as Royal Edinburgh perhaps they don't have enough on the sign you know not enough space okay um but we don't know how far away it is do we or if that's even how many hospitals does does this place
have Liberton Hospital jeez Louise oh I just saw moring side did you see that or did I just make that up I could have sworn I just saw hey Edinburgh boot camp I wonder what that is morning side oh oh my God now we were on morning Side Road or something something along those lines this could be completely unrelated is is this thing still on are you guys still there wow I am buzzing that could that that might just be a red herring because I don't we're kind of on a main road where there's loads o
f um shops and things okay get rid of the map for a hot second if we were to follow this road o an M&S to the hospital how wow look at these homes but oh we're not not allowed down that road that's unfortunate how are we going to get to the hospital look at these buildings though okay that's stressful I'm just going down this Main Road um seeing if anything jumps out at me what that would be I don't know oh they got a cafe Nero wow how Posh this looks nice look at the size of it the Merlin beaut
iful where are we though dominoes oh my God you everything you could ever ask for morning Side Medical Practice okay we really got to figure out what morning side is so make this big Royal infirmary that potentially could be the hospital that we are looking for the other hospitals don't come up that far out and we've got these two morning side Roofing and morning side joinery but it's in boxton or buckstone so I don't I don't understand I'm a little bit confused I'll be completely honest oh my G
od waitress and partners morning side we I think this is the road that we morning side people on Twitch are literally never going to believe that this happened okay where did where did we begin there's so many shops Costa I'm pretty sure we saw Costa um maybe not that far up we we were at the kids it was um a nursery wasn't it or maybe we're going the wrong way maybe we need to come down this way morning side South morning Morningside Primary School okay hold on let's go back to the beginning we
want a Sainsbury's local and we want the mornings side children's nursery um I feel like sainsbury would come up right okay I've gotten lost where did it say morning side are we just kind of in this region I never actually figured out what road this is oh there's some really nice let's just have a peak going this way um we go this way Carlile Peebles I don't know geography you think that's going to help me out okay there's like a big intersection here um that's kind of like a weird shape I feel
like I saw that I was following this road for quite a while and then this situation do we think that's it oh my my God morning Side Road oh my God morning Side Road y'all morning Side Road I feel like we were so close but not quite shout if you see anything morning side Place Morningside Park you guys are probably screaming at the screen me too Morningside the actual Morningside Park this looks like it kind of like is is a hospital and we did see signs for the morning Side Drive morning side no
mercy side oh God I was so excited okay Morningside Drive why can't we find Morningside Road why is it got to edra why you got to be like this my camera's going to die before I have a chance to find you I'm I I feel like I'm so close um but I just can't quite get there these houses are gorgeous here's the thing I love I live in Ken if you're found this video you never seen before what's up I live in Kent I love Kent but I don't have um any family here necessarily other than my partner's family
so I'm kind of like open to morning morning Side Station where I'm kind of open to potentially living anywhere right like the UK is such a big beautiful place um I'm not necessarily Morningside Grove Morningside moggies what is that so anytime we go someplace um recently we went to cheltonham um and I was like oh my God this place is gorgeous could I live here anytime we play this game I'm like o could I live here the Merlin we saw the Merlin what side of the street that was on the left side was
n't it I think we started down here and I'm just getting getting confused we also saw Cafe Nero so um this is taking me forever I'm trying to find the um kids Nursery but maybe like it's not there anymore I don't know if we go back to the start one more time I'm going to look for the Sainsbury's local or neapolitan pizza and then we got to call it a day oh what hold on I'm going to get this so there's a little Junction here right I think this is the little I think we are right here oh my God the
y're never going to believe me I swear to God I haven't Googled I haven't cheated there's nobody here with me I'm buzzing am I a genius okay I feel like I've been recording forever I'm not even sure my battery on this camera is probably going to die um I'm going to have to edit a bunch of like me just staring at the screen out so I'm not actually certain how long this video has been but at the very least we got to do another one right I can't believe how well I've been doing okay this looks way
more difficult because guess what we're in the middle of nowhere love it what does this say arborfield and Newland Parish Council okay it's a Parish Reading Road wokingham burough does that mean things to people because it doesn't mean much to me okay so remember that woke wokingham bur that's pointless can we get to a a business a main road lots of homes we this is this one's going to be tough hold up I just what are these welcome to AR arborfield Village okay we're in a village that sucks for
us because Villages are very difficult now I think we're going to have to go by this reading okay whereabouts is that now when I went to ch cheltonham right here this stop on the train kind of close was reading down here okay not terrible we're kind of getting somewhere the a327 I'm really bad with some people when they play they go by highways and they go by Road names and stuff like um the M4 those kind of don't really mean anything to me because um I am hopeless now we're not in readings ther
e's no point in necessarily looking around but we're kind of close via the M4 whoops okay so here's the M4 so we're in a village it's kind of green um Fair what does that say farbor does that ring a bell for anybody M4 lovely look at all these names I've never seen before oh oh my God oh my God okay this is really exciting now um the 327 no stop going small the 327 so it's so we're we're so close now I Saw the Sign welcome to reading okay rewind let's go back to the the beginning put this down s
orry I yelled at you go away we are on Reading Road and this stop moving around godamn this sign says arborfield church I am buzzing people are never going to believe that I was able to do this I might be speaking too soon okay Reading Road This Is Us beautiful Reading Road and then and it turns off into other things so we're on this road and it says the church do we see a church anywhere no okay that's fine we'll just continue we also have uh what was it Church Road or something oh oh my god I
think I'm G to literally pass out okay so this is Church Road isn't it Church Lane oh my God okay hold up so we start at the Junction of Church Lane and Reading Road the whole okay rewind the reason I wanted to do this video someone in the community mentioned it who plays geoguesser with me God bless you and I thought it would be really funny because I am not good at this game like I said when I play with the community they carry me right because I have no idea where I am so I thought this video
would be really funny because I'm going to be hopeless and I'm not going to get of them and the the fact that we does so well is just obscene all right I hope this has been recording all right I feel like we've been here for a long time now typically these games come in rounds of five but I think five might be like a little bit too long so let's do one more because I am flying high right now and we'll see how it goes fingers crossed so far we've got Wales we've got Scotland we've got England wh
ere do we think this is all right Papa John's coming soon really excited for them we are at a big old roundabout you love to see it do we have any signage oh I love a brown sign okay Trafford General Hospital dalm Hugh Library d Davey Hume Millennium Nature Reserve okay so these look important but they don't mean anything to me just yet I feel like I've seen that word before but don't ask me where let's continue on towards the places of interest perhaps Primrose surgery love to see it well back
up a little bit let's have a look at the sign oh where'd it go no hope you guys aren't motion sick okay oh Liverpool I do know what that means but how far away is it hey is Trafford you guys got a Trafford Hospital okay nothing's jumping out at me so Liverpool leads wait isn't is that a different Liverpool cuz isn't leads like over here are there multiple huh okay now I'm getting a a little bit nervous because I've done so well let's just let's go back to this main roundabout we're not going to
have a panic echles M60 M60 does that ring a bell for any now I'm not really sure are we supposed to be here or we supposed to be here cross that bridge when we get there I'll tell you what it looks like a beautiful clear day when the Google van was down this way okay I feel like I should know what this is and it I it does ring a bell but not very loudly I thought that was Manchester the I thought Trafford was Manchester okay Old trafford's Trafford Hall okay we are in the general vicinity so um
we're not there we're not there we didn't start there um the M60 sorry where about is that you don't mind me asking does anyone know where that is M60 coming through this way okay let's go to the Trafford old the Trafford Center if that's okay um because I'm a little bit confused and I'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed because I know this is going to be really obvious to basically everybody okay Trafford Park echles Liverpool Lees we're going to the left okay which makes sense right Liverpool
leads is over this way generally speaking Old Trafford that's where we we just were so what's the Trafford Center is it an Old Trafford or someplace else Trafford Center okay here we are this is fun dumpling ton that's a fun name okay all right there's so many roads it's so confusing we are at a round AIT we are at B 5214 5214 I just saw okay could we be coming down from this way is that how that works McDonald's I feel like I did just see a McDonald's we're probably not that close though oh my
God oh my God I just messed up the map okay so the Trafford Center is above let's go back back home and we're on the outside CU this takes us to traford General Hospital oh my God zoom in hun Trafford General Hospital we are so close my guys we could hey that oh we were right here I'm going to go for it you guys I can't believe it well this has been um quite an experience I really didn't think it was going to play out like this but here we are if you would like to be a part of the live stream Co
mmunity please come over to Twitch every Wednesday and Sunday night sometimes playing geoguesser sometimes just causing a bit of chaos but I'd love to see you there if you like to watch more content which would be totally awesome want to check out this one American versus British breakfast but as always thank you guys so much for watching and until next time bye

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@AdventuresAndNaps

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@toni-kaku

"I didnt know Scotland had a pizza hut" ๐Ÿ˜‚

@wolfie854

Funny you went along the road in Wales looking for a main road, not realising you were already on the main road. 'Main' roads in Wales can be really small.

@djpj9174

I'm watching a recorded video and I'm talking to the screen saying back...no there.....left! ....... I've officially lost the plot.

@helenroberts1107

I was born in Trafford General Hospital. It was the very first NHS hospital in the UK

@PeleRana-pp6zc

I immediately recognised the Manchester route. I take part of that route to work everyday and go past that roundabout which is in Urmston in Manchester. The Trafford centre is a huge shopping centre like a mall. Well done Alanna, youโ€™re actually quite good at this.

@twelvesmylimit800

There are SO many castles in Wales!

@paulrobson7887

I was indeed screaming at my screen. I live in Arborfield and you went right past my house!!

@stuarts1219

Nice work Alanna! I recognised the Arborfield location as it's near where we used to live. FYI Farnborough is the location of a major international airshow every year. So, no more excuses when playing Geoguesser on Twitch now! ๐Ÿ˜„

@musicgarryj

This video was so much more fun than I thought it was going to be! It's really cute how pleased with yourself you were :) I particularly liked the Manchester section because that's my neck of the woods. Dumplington is even more fun than it sounds.... ......it's actually next to a massive sewage works! Some town planner obviously had a great sense of humour! lol Please do more of this totally addictive UK Geoguessr content soon!

@cashtimevideo1501

Wow! That was fun!๐Ÿ˜‚. You're better at it than you thought Alanna!! I've never played GeoGuesser, but I love puzzle-solving, so it's time I started! โค

@RalphBellairs

Well done, Alanna! I got the last one quite quickly, but being born and bred in Manchester probably gave me a slight advantage!๐Ÿ˜„

@MarkARhodie

Morning Side is a posh part of Edinburgh, they have some big houses there and also a mental hospital, I think it was an old building.

@michaelstamper5604

As soon as I heard "Eccles" I started hearing The Goon Show in my head lol.

@bobblebardsley

Getting to anywhere in Manchester, or to any other city FROM Manchester, is an absolute nightmare, so I think you did exceptionally well to pinpoint that location so well. (Case in point, Liverpool and Leeds signposted in the same direction when they're literally opposite sides of the city...) Even I would have struggled with that at first glance and I've lived here since 2001.

@Zaephrax

A top tip for streets/roads named after places in the UK (like Reading Road, London Road, Edinburgh Road, Oxford Road, etc...) is that road heads toward the place its named after. Its from ye olden times where it made giving directions easier. <city> Road is the road that heads to <city> (but doesn't always mean you are nearby, for example Edinburgh has a London Road (that does lead to London eventually, but you'll be on it for the most part of a day before arriving)). Other tell-tale names are: beacon street is a coastal road that used to have a beacon on it, high street or main street goes through the centre of the village/town/borough, kirk road/parish road usually has a church on it. (Street, Road, Avenue, Way, etc... can be interchangeable, there's a difference between them and when they're used but not significant enough to actually help you in Geoguessr)

@matthewnightingale4585

Looks like a fun game. I've been following you for some years (my daughter is about your age and had moved from the UK to Toronto). This video reminds me just how engaging you are and how much fun it is to watch your stuff xx.

@vickybrombley7476

i weirdly enjoyed that !๐Ÿ˜ฎsurprisingly fun to hear you say Wokingham ๐Ÿ˜‚ my old hometown , thanks for the giggles ๐Ÿ‘Œโค

@scuttle8588

Never watched a video of yours before but love the energy!

@SteveMikre44

Alanna, A really fun episode! If you don't travel for work or perhaps school I imagine many individuals would find this Google Maps Challenge difficult...๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐Ÿค”