Justine Shapiro

Short History of England

England: A Country With A LONG History!

&quot;Little area, big influence,&quot; is the way our host, Justine Shapiro, describes England in the opening of this 52-minute historic tour, which is just half of the DVD. The other half is similar-length tour of just London.

Justine&apos;s trip begins at Hastings, where the famous battle of old days is reenacted each year, and we see some of that. We also go inside a neat lighthouse, very old penny arcade, and a spectacular Fantasy Pavilion. In going up to London, she advises to try to out-of-way places where you won&apos;t get mobbed with tourists. We visit a &quot;pie and mash&quot; eatery in the East End, made famous by Jack The Ripper, for one.

The boat rides are a great way to see the countryside around the area. Traveling further north, she takes us on a special double-decker bus complete with showers, beds and whatever....enough for eight people. That&apos;s where we go through Yorkshire and the famous Moors, where Emily Bronte was inspired to write, &quot;Wuthering Heights.&quot; Next stop is Whitby, an eerie place where Bram Stoker wrote &quot;Dracula.&quot; Then it&apos;s on to a place that might be unfamiliar to a lot of us North Americans: Hadrian&apos;s wall built by the Romans in 2 A.D. as a kind of border between the &quot;civilized world&quot; (England) and the &quot;barbaric&quot; (Scotland). I&apos;ll bet the Scots don&apos;t think much of that. The wall stretches for 73 miles.

We are then on a steam train. The Brits love them and their looks, and I agree with them. They are beautiful trains. Shapiro takes it to Liverpool where she then takes the &quot;Magical Mystery Tour&quot; to celebrate The Beatles. 

The final leg is in the West Country and the magnificent Longleat. This is another place where one really feels the history of this country, our host remarks, summing it up with &quot;The past feels present here.&quot;

I checked out the next segment - the one covering the city of London - for 40 minutes until the host, a young Australian, Jonathan Atherton, got too offensive and obnoxious, getting drunk &quot;in our church sanctuary and getting crucified, ha, ha, ha!!&quot; as he hoists another beer. Imagine insulting another religion like that and putting it on TV and in a DVD, but insulting Christianity and the Cross....well, that&apos;s okay. I won&apos;t watch anything more hosted by this ignorant moron nor will even report on what he said in here prior to his drunk scene, expect to say about 10 minutes before that, he did meet some fellow Aussies and they all got drunk, too. Nice lot, those mates, eh? Let&apos;s hope they don&apos;t represent the average citizen in their country.

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"Little area, big influence," is the way our host, Justine Shapiro, describes England in the opening of this 52-minute historic tour, which is just half of the DVD. The other half is similar-length tour of just London.

Justine's trip begins at Hastings, where the famous battle of old days is reenacted each year, and we see some of that. We also go inside a neat lighthouse, very old penny arcade, and a spectacular Fantasy Pavilion. In going up to London, she advises to try to out-of-way places where you won't get mobbed with tourists. We visit a "pie and mash" eatery in the East End, made famous by Jack The Ripper, for one.

The boat rides are a great way to see the countryside around the area. Traveling further north, she takes us on a special double-decker bus complete with showers, beds and whatever....enough for eight people. That's where we go through Yorkshire and the famous Moors, where Emily Bronte was inspired to write, "Wuthering Heights." Next stop is Whitby, an eerie place where Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula." Then it's on to a place that might be unfamiliar to a lot of us North Americans: Hadrian's wall built by the Romans in 2 A.D. as a kind of border between the "civilized world" (England) and the "barbaric" (Scotland). I'll bet the Scots don't think much of that. The wall stretches for 73 miles.

We are then on a steam train. The Brits love them and their looks, and I agree with them. They are beautiful trains. Shapiro takes it to Liverpool where she then takes the "Magical Mystery Tour" to celebrate The Beatles. 

The final leg is in the West Country and the magnificent Longleat. This is another place where one really feels the history of this country, our host remarks, summing it up with "The past feels present here."

I checked out the next segment - the one covering the city of London - for 40 minutes until the host, a young Australian, Jonathan Atherton, got too offensive and obnoxious, getting drunk "in our church sanctuary and getting crucified, ha, ha, ha!!" as he hoists another beer. Imagine insulting another religion like that and putting it on TV and in a DVD, but insulting Christianity and the Cross....well, that's okay. I won't watch anything more hosted by this ignorant moron nor will even report on what he said in here prior to his drunk scene, expect to say about 10 minutes before that, he did meet some fellow Aussies and they all got drunk, too. Nice lot, those mates, eh? Let's hope they don't represent the average citizen in their country.

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