What is the relationship between Wales and England? English and Welsh History.

We love Wales and by the end of this video you will too but you’ll also know why the feeling is not always mutual.

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@LaviandOllie

Hello and welcome to the Great British Biking Adventures Coast Series. In this series we are travelling around the coast on our motorcycle, a Honda VFR1200X Crosstourer.

A lot of our viewers are bike enthusiasts but this series will appeal to a wider audience. Why? Because there’s so much more to the Coast series than motorcycles. There’s the challenges, the journey, geography, history and people. You get to travel the entire coast of England and Wales with us, see how we did it, share our ups and downs, experience English culture, the history and hear about the people that made Britain ‘Great’!

What’s also good about the coast series is it doesn’t matter when you start watching, it’s like one of those open top bus tours – you can get on at any point and just keep going until you arrive back where you started.

Who are we? We’re a husband & wife living in an unremarkable coastal town in England. We’ve been married 35 years and were brought together by motorcycles. One day, Esther’s Honda Melody broke down and she brought it to Jarrod’s motorcycle shop – the rest (as they say) is history.

One cold February day, we started riding along the seafront and just kept going. We wanted to record the experience to have something to watch in the future – the YouTube channel was an afterthought. Take a look at those first few episodes to see just how novice we were, cobbling together what little phone footage we had to try to make a story. To make up for our amateur recording and shyness we added information in the editing. This set the tone and style of our videos, we hope you like it. We like to think we’ve improved and hopefully you’ll agree, take a look, compare our earlier videos with the later ones and let us know in the comments.

There’s also the filming and production journey. When we started we knew nothing about filming, video and audio production, editing, YouTube and the like. We’ve learnt loads and spent loads in time and money along the way but it’s been almost as enjoyable as the journey itself. You’ll hopefully appreciate how far we’ve come.

But what’s with all those bible verses we hear you say. We know some of you don’t appreciate this aspect, one or two have told us in the comments! That’s fine – it really is. All are equally welcome here, believers and unbelievers. It would be a pity if you enjoyed everything else but just stopped watching because of the Christian references but we completely accept you’re free to do as you please.

Our faith has prompted us to include a bible verse in our videos and sometimes a Christian perspective on the things we talk about. The channel is not about Christianity but our faith cannot be separated from it. We hope and pray that it will make you think, inquire and even bring you into a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

[Applause] I it’s off the Beaten Track isn’t it it’s fantastic isn’t it yeah it’s a green Lane without being a Green Lane if you like it’s a brilliant one without so many of the potholes hello and welcome back to our Coast Adventure while lavy and Ollie are

Nearing the end of their world record breaking attempt to circumnavigate the world we’re at a similar stage with our circumnavigation of the English and Welsh Coastline we just got the west and south of Wales to go knowing us we’ll probably turn it into another 60 episodes oh can we get around it no

Unfortunately no I got to get off again yeah yeah right Oh it’s still that way because it went that way before so ready you’ve probably notice this is not the coast we left last week’s episode having just arrived at canavan it was the end of the stage between the Scottish border and North Wales it’s now several weeks later and we’re returning

To canavan to resume the coast trip for normal people it takes about 4 and 1/2 hours to get to North Wales from where we live but but instead we set off at 6:00 a.m. to take a Scenic ride from the bottom right to the top left of

Wales I don’t know about Lavi and olle but I’m thinking of submitting Jared’s route to the Guinness book of records as the slowest way to drive the length of Wales it took us over 9 hours I’m only kidding I love his hairbrained ideas and can’t think of

Anything better than being on the back of the bike exploring new places and enjoying in God’s wonderful creation and what a great job you’re made of whales I’m not going to try to describe just how beautiful this country is take a look for yourself as we give you a small

Glimpse bearing in mind this is the typical Welsh Countryside and not just the best bits oh here they come look the dogs are working them Jared don’t rush you could turn the engine off we don’t know how far they going to go you sure we wanted to film this are they going across

Okay thank You A lovely road amazing is it got a lot of this to come we just got hours and hours on it oh another gate Oh yeah there’s pull on the left pull on the left oh hello didn’t see them oh oh yeah sh is it a charet oh he’s got a ring as well we don’t want to be hanging around here too long no which means he’s dangerous right okay here we go we’re

Back in action aren’t we another gate He’s keeping an eye on us isn’t he look at that wow he’s just amazing he he a St isn’t he w bunny rabbits got it all we you had lots of red kites bunny rabbits sheep amazing cattle a dead box that was sad oh good I don’t have to get off with this

One O You’ll be glad to hear that Jared has got himself a proper summer biking jacket at last and he’s very pleased with it the new look seems to have inspired him to get his hair cut and a beard trim as well is’s not only safer but more handsome than

Ever in the last episode we ended a fantastic day at canavan and had a quick ride around the town we’ve decided to stay here tonight before we resume our ride along the coast tomorrow morning join us as we wander around this historic Fortress town canavan is dominated by what is

Possibly the most impressive Castle in Wales if you’ve been paying attention to the recent episodes you’ll know the story in 1283 after centuries of conflict King Edward I completed his conquest of Wales which he secured by a chain of castles and Ward towns some say the castle here at canavan is based on

The walls of Constantinople in what I suspect may have been a cynical attempt to endear or impose himself Edward’s fourth son Edward of canav and later Edward II of England was born at the castle in April 1284 and made Prince of Wales in 1301 also in 1284 Edward granted canavan

A charter a generous gesture or a practic to consolidate power I’ll let you decide despite Edward’s combination of the carrot and stick the Welsh were having none of it in 1400 a Welsh nobleman Owen Glenda had a dispute with a neighboring English Lord that resulted in Glenda claiming the title of Prince

Of Wales and a 15-year-long Revolt began in November 1401 Glend da took control of canaran during the Battle of Tut Hill and the Golden Dragon the flag symbolizing Welsh Independence was flown in 1404 after a series of successful Castle sieges in several Battlefield victories against the English with the

Support of the French Spanish and Scottish Owen gained control of the country and was officially crowned Prince of Wales it lasted for 5 years until February 1409 when English forces captured Owen’s last remaining strongholds of abber iswith and Harlot Castle effectively ending his territorial rule in Wales Glend da

Refused to surrender turned down two offers of a pardon and retreated to the Welsh mountains where he continued to resist the English this continued until Owen died of natural causes in 1415 500 years later the Welsh resistance was as steadfast as ever in 1890 David Lloyd George became the local

MP despite being born in England he was a staunch supporter for more Independence for Wales he established himself as a formidable politician not only on local issues but also on the national and indeed International stage his Acumen and abilities led him to become Prime Minister in 1916 Midway

Through the first world war not surprisingly there is a statue of him in the Town Square however in 1911 David Lloyd George agreed to the British Royal Family’s idea of holding the investure of the Prince of Wales at canavan Castle on the 1st of July 1969 King Charles was

Invested here as Prince of Wales the Welsh defense movement tried to blow up the railway line to stop the Royal train but the perpetrators alwin Jones and George Taylor were killed when their bomb exploded prematurely and the ceremony went ahead the resistance here seems as strong as ever in July 2019

Canavan hosted a rally for Welsh Independence in 1955 canavan was in the running to become the capital of Wales but was heavily defeated in a ballot with 11 votes compared to cardiff’s 136 thanks for getting this far but we can’t leave it there canavan and wales’s history goes back much further and gets even more interesting with a story of power and love some say it’s fiction but there’s plenty of evidence to suggest it’s true I know what you’re talking

About Magnus Maximus and the end of Roman occupation in Britain let’s start by looking at the facts shall we Magnus Maximus was a Roman leader a general and Emperor from a. 385 to 388 he ruled Britain ghoul and Spain he was a Christian and appears to have endeed

Himself to ancient Britains of all tribes and could have unified these Isles had he not returned to Rome to seize the opportunity to become emperor he was initially successful but wasn’t the only one trying to take power and ultimately lost the battle and his life his death in 388 marked the end of

Direct Roman presence in Britain but not before he left a legacy he appointed Cole hen Old King Cole to you and I as ruler of northern England and is the Founding Father of the dynasties of several medieval Welsh Kingdoms Not only was he a great leader he was incredibly romantic he had a dream one night of a lovely Maiden in a wonderful far off land Awakening he sends his men all over the Roman Empire in search of her with much difficulty they find her here in seum the Roman name for canavan

She was the daughter of a Chieftain he travels here and finds everything is exactly as in his dream the m whose name is Ellen accepts and loves him and they get married because Ellen is a virgin Magnus gives her father sovereignty over the island of Britain and orders three

Castles built for his bride that’s when Magnus has to return to Rome with the help of men from Britain led by Ellen’s brother kinan Magnus marches across goul and Italy and recaptures Rome in gratitude to his British allies Magnus rewards them with a portion of ghoul that has has become known as Britany Oh [Applause] Out Got Before we sign off I’d just like to dedicate this episode to my beautiful Fair Maiden co-pilot and cameraman this one’s for you Esther thead Are Got no Cigarettes I thought you were Phot thanks for watching and we hope to see you next time when we’ll be heading south along the wonderful West Wales Coast