Bagpuss
Legend
I think it's fair to say that Americans and UK residents want different things from their beaches.
I mean you folks want sand... and we are happy to make do with rocks (well large pebbles).
I think it's fair to say that Americans and UK residents want different things from their beaches.
South coast sucks. Come to Blackpool, we haz sand.I mean you folks want sand... and we are happy to make do with rocks (well large pebbles).
The way it is all a mish-mash of various time periods (including imaginary ones) also seems "foreign" to me. Not-vikings interacting with not-Romans, whilst Arthurian knights in platemail are part of a feudal system that we are told exists but never really see. Meanwhile everybody is literate and there is renaissance-level technology everywhere.Nothing massively "stands out", it's subtle. The wide open country, the decentralised government, the romanisation of fairly grim periods of history, no one raising an eyebrow when people walk around carrying weapons, the square jawed heroes who are actually heroic, rather than disguised villains, etc. It's basically Howard vs Tolkien.
Of course, if you get into the art, the trees and wildlife stand out. Don't get many moose or wolverines in the UK, and the forests are green and grey rather than red and gold.
What stands out as American?
Read the OP again.Armour vs. Armor.
PS if anyone’s interested, the small castles are Leybourne, Allington, Sutton Valence and Thurnham. The large ones are Tonbridge, Rochester and Leeds. All are worth a visit. Oldbury is the Iron Age Hill fort and Coldrum, Kit’s Coty and Chestnuts are the Neolithic sites.
This. One of the things that will stick out when leaving the United States is how much older things are, many of which are still in use.This is a half-formed idea, but in the UK we are generally surrounded by the remnants of medieval times in terms of churches, houses, ruined castles, etc. I suspect this means such a millieu is imaginable to us in a grounded, realistic way whereas to someone in the US it might feel inherently more fantastical?