Hey friend,
We've been in Cornwall a couple of days now, our first time this far southwest in the UK. Cornwall is the toe of England, the part that pokes out into the Atlantic until the country runs out of land. There's actually a place here called Land's End because the land ends there.
All of that is real, but what we're actually noticing right now is the noise at our campground. Every few minutes there's a deep, loud boom that makes you stop talking mid-sentence. The first time we heard one, we looked at each other and ran through every American option at once: movie crew, reenactment, military exercise, quarry, something we should probably worry about. Turns out it's just the farmer next door, who has some kind of propane thing in his field that fires off every few minutes to scare the birds off the seed he just planted. We laugh every single time.
This is our last week in the UK and the truth is we're going to be sad to leave. This whole trip has been a whirlwind. England, Scotland, Wales, the narrowboat week, the pubs, the people, and now this Celtic corner of the country with a farmer's cannon going off somewhere in the background. We saw a lot. We missed a lot. We're already talking about what to do when we come back.
A few days from now we take the truck through the Channel Tunnel for the first time and start working our way through the EU. After that we fly home, head up to Ottawa to shoot a new video, and then go to TravelCon. It's a lot of moving parts.
What's the strangest sound you've ever gotten used to somewhere you've stayed?
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A few things we bookmarked this week:
βNew American Airlines rules on portable chargers Two max on board, must stay visible next to you, and you can't use them mid-flight. Easy to overlook until a flight attendant points at your bag.
βA German tourist sued his tour operator over pool-lounger towel wars and won He woke up at 6 a.m. every morning trying to claim a lounger at his Greek resort and couldn't, because everyone else's towels got there first. The court gave him about $1,160 back. Anyone who has stayed at a European resort already knows exactly what this looks like.
βSwitzerland is officially the best country in 2026 That's per the new U.S. News rankings. The top 10 is entirely European. The US dropped to 18, which is the kind of stat you can drop at dinner and watch the room react.
βMunich's famous river surf wave is back The Eisbach wave in the middle of the Englischer Garten had been gone for over 180 days after a fatal accident and a riverbed cleaning that flattened it. It returned on its own a few weeks back, and the city just officially declared it open for surfing again. Yes, surfing in a landlocked German city.
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