A Brit asked people how to give her American boyfriend the ‘true UK experience’ – 17 funniest and most on-point responses

John Plunkett. Updated April 19th, 2024

10.

‘Damn, no time for the Bude tunnel.

‘He needs to experience a rail replacement bus.’
SubjectiveAssertive

11.

‘Blow him behind a Wetherspoons, have a row with a stranger, get a kebab, throw up, piss directly over a street drain, fall asleep on a bus in a K hole. Wake up in Middlesbrough.’
Smart_Run8818

12.

‘One evening needs to be on the sofa watching telly, ideally panel quizes, maybe Taskmaster, while eating proper chippy fish & chips dinner, curry sauce or gravy on the chips depending on region.

‘Also, coffee is forbidden for at least the first week, it’s tea instead.’
FuzzyDuck81

13.

‘Spoons at opening for breakfast, greggs for lunch after wandering around seeing random ‘old’ buildings, pub grub for dinner and onto Revs for cocktails!’
GiantGingerGobshite

14.

‘Take him to a flat roof pub.’
itsfeckingfreezing

15.

‘Get the train to Scotland, (choose a day when the train drivers are on strike again.)

‘Stop off in York and take a day to tour round.’
Far-Possible8891

16.

‘Asda at 7pm on a Monday when they bring the trolley of reduced shite out on to the shop floor.’
CorkBeerOnly

17.

‘Here’s what I would do on one of the days to give someone one type of true UK experience:

‘If you’re in London, hit a museum in the morning. Something like the London Transport museum. Bit of culture, init.

‘Daytime drinking – Get to Spoons for 12, do lunch and get on the beers. Bonus points if you get them drinking cask ale. They won’t be used to how warm it is.

‘Go to a local football match – Either a lower league game (League one for League two) or non-league.

‘Get back on the beers

‘Top it all off with a big kebab.’
Breakwaterbot

But if you insist on being serious about it …

‘I also have an American other half, but mine lives here in Blighty with me. I will definitely ask him what he thinks when he gets home from work, haha! (No idea if I’ll get sensible or sarcastic suggestions!)

‘Some serious-ish suggestions from me:

‘When my in-laws came over from the States we did a bit of a grand tour with London, Yorkshire, Cambridge, Stratford-upon-Avon, and some of the south east coast etc. They were all pretty obsessed with all the old stuff (especially castles – Warwick Castle fulfilled their castle fantasies best perhaps, as it’s so intact, even if parts aren’t that old). FIL loved all the characterful old pubs, MIL was really into all the old churches, and SIL was pumped to get to go to the Harry Potter Studios in Watford.

‘Food wise I had a checklist: fish ‘n’ chips, roast dinner, full English, haggis, curry night (Indian restaurants are much harder to find over there), afternoon tea at a cute tearoom, etc. When sightseeing all day, I brought along some homemade packed lunches a couple of times with British stuff like ploughman’s pickles, coronation chicken, pork pies, sausage rolls, decent cheddar cheese, prawn cocktail crisps etc.

‘Another thing they really appreciated because most US cities don’t have it (except metropolis’s like NYC, LA, Chicago etc), is public transport. They really enjoyed the Tube, double decker buses, and trains between cities. We alsl threw in a steam train ride for fun which they were really into.

‘Whether you’re taking the train up from London to Scotland, or driving, definitely do at least a 24 hour stop in York. It’s got all the boxes checked for most Norther American visitors: medieval stuff, a big old cathedral, the Viking thing (Yorvic), Harry Potter related stuff, a selection of pubs, takeaway roast dinners (!), train museum, decent fish n chips, a cute tearoom (Betty’s) etc. It’s also really close to Whitby, which is one of my favourite seaside towns in the U.K.’
scythianqueen

So now you know.

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