World Showcase Finale – France, UK & Canada at EPCOT - The Great British Mickey Waffle

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Welcome to the Great British Mickey Waffle for August 2025.
August means sunshine, barbecues, beach parties and
drinking wine. Feeling fine here in the UK but
thunderstorms, insane humidity and of course Halloween in
Orlando. We are super excited to have you
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it? I've used up all my words
already. Yeah, I know.
Make it so complicated to say. I know it's.
It's like a tongue twister, isn't?
It Sunshine State. State.
I can't think of one that the one that's better to say
easiest. Yeah, so I'm sure you're fed up

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with the sound of my voice, and you'll be glad that this is the
last month I'm hosting for a while.
But it seems sensible to round up our tour of epic Epic, the
Epic Epcot World Showcase with me today.
Donning their national costumes for our fine Other three
countries are Ben and Becca, Simon and John.
All right. I just, I just think you're on

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this bit now where you've done that much hosting that you're
now hoping it's going to be 2027by the time you have to you have
to actually lead a show ever again.
I think that's that's basically it.
Without a doubt. I think at least at least early
2026 if not mid 2026. We'll start doing like a random

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generator, but we'll take Claire's name out so everyone
else gets. Yeah, yeah, I'll come away that
week. I am.
To be fair though, I am slightlydisappointed with you all that
you haven't made the effort and put on like, national costume.
I was expecting, you know, Grenadier.
Scottish. A stripy T-shirt with some
onions and a better. I've gone for long.

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Country. You've gone for grace.
And that is not in World Showcase.
I mean, that's a whole lot of help.
Which is the market you know? I've gone for the Luke coffin.
So I've been made as well with the my phone.
Polo. Shirts, that's.
Official. Target reference that one.

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But we all understood it, so it's fine.
So we have just got three countries left.
And last month we concluded withsome delicious snacks in
Morocco. So it's time to move on.
And we're going to get into it straight away because I'm sure
we'll have some conversation at the end actually about other
things. So it is Alain Vie en France.

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It is time to go to France. Let's head on that way down the
World Showcase Promenade. The first thing that you come to
when you move out of Morocco past the bathrooms, is that sort
of Dead Space on the left hand side that they use I.
Thought you were about the martini stand.
No, no, that's, that's slightly further down.

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You're going to get past the bell, meet and greet to get to
the martini. Yes, there we go.
But there's that. There's that space on the left
hand side that certainly in foodand wine has always got the
Brazilian booth in it. Not the beef fault that does
Brazil we've. Done.
That we. Started on that last one with

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that comment last but I can't. I can't.
Have that the Brazilians on. The road want to make a comment
about Brazilians. That's that's not going to be,
that's not going to be good. It's the cheese bread stand, as
my child calls it. Where's the cheese bread?
Which is slightly better than the other option, but yeah,
there's nothing there. It's just like this sort of

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garden area, a couple of benches.
There's not even any charging points or anything.
No, I don't even. Think I've been down now.
Yeah, you just. It was just empty space, yeah.
Yeah. But you on the other opposite
side of that, there is the on the water side, there is the
Belle meet and greet. And that is the only place you
can meet her in her blue and white costume, in her village

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dress I think it is called. That explains why there's a
massive line. Of middle age.
Oh, did I say that out loud? I believe it was one of Lloyd's
favorite meet and greet. He used to talk about meeting
Belle there. So Belle and The Little Mermaid
in the Magic Kingdom were two ofhis favourites.

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Obviously just because the boys are winning.
But so there was obviously the the France pavilion has changed
over the last few years. So I'm trying to remember how
long ago it was that they did the big expansion round back
where Ratatouille area is. Is it like pre COVID, like 1920?
It was during COVID. It was like 2020-2021 was it?

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Yeah, that had started it. I remember if they were in 2019
and they started it, it was justwhere they were because that was
also the same time they were building guardians at the same
time. 2121 was ratatouille, 22 was Guardians, 23 was true.
Gosh, I thought I didn't realiseRatatouille was that, I thought
it was. I thought pre COVID. 21 was

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Guardians No 22. No, the Guardians was like 2223.
Strong was 23. I can't believe this is only
like 5 years. 4-5 years. Gianas was the only thing that
opened last year. But that's the thing.
So that that extension to the pavilion that was into that Dead
Space behind it actually has made it probably one of the
biggest pavilions in World Tradecase.

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And it's got a huge selection ofshops and dining and one
attraction. Depending on the time of day.
The show that should never be discussed.
The ordeal so. I see this is does this show you

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is show an attraction? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, show is an attraction.
Yeah, definitely. It's just, well, you have two
half. Two half.
Shows is that one attraction. Yeah.
It's. Just like identity crisis.
I must admit that that expansionarea, it's kind of

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revolutionized the whole French pavilion in itself.
Because actually, whereas beforeyou would basically as you came
in the opposite direction from the UK, you were looking at the
Eiffel Tower and it looked, it looked kind of quite
quintessentially OK. This might be what France looks
like. The bit they've added into it,
yes, they stole the entire ride from desertland Paris.

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But it, it, the whole deal is now completely Parisian.
And it, you know, the use of theuse of colour, the use of the
steel work that they've they've used in the actual ride itself.
It looks beautiful. I mean, it's actually, I think
it now does justice to that, that whole pavilion.
Yeah. It works really well, It really

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does. I think it's a lovely area
around the back. I just wish they'd yeah, I
almost wish you'd made it bigger.
It just doesn't feel because yousort of go around there, this is
the queue and that and then there's the the creperie and
then they traditionally. Smell toilets.
They did the female almost perfectly.
They did. They got the toilet spot on for

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France. Yeah, but I think, you know,
when you look at that whole pavilion, it does have that, as
you say, John, it has that Parisian feel with the.
I love that fountain that everyone sort of sits around the
edge of and you know, you've goton like the posters on the, the
site, these big bollards around the, the pavilion where you've
got these art Deco posters that you, you do get around.

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You know, if you were to think what's quintessentially 1920s
Paris, it's exactly what you would expect to see.
And I think, you know, the street decoration that's there
and the, the overall feel with the background loop music is, is
really, it's really great. Actually, I think if if you were
to compare it to some of the other things, when you walk in,
you do immediately get that sense of being somewhere else.

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It's not like this is a pavilionsomewhere in ECOT.
This is like, I feel like I'm apart from the temperature.
Obviously it's a little different.
I don't know if you go during the heat wave, it can feel quite
similar. Yeah, and you've got you've got
that scale replica, as you said,Jonathan of the Blackpool Tower
at the back which or the Eiffel Tower.

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I think it's meant to be, but it's about as they ties to the
Blackpool Tower. It looks scarily like it.
What about what do what do you think about the the layout and
the like the pathways through the pavilion?
Do you think that they add to the interest or is it just
irritating that you have to try and avoid people as they walk
through narrow streets? I like it, but I think my the
original sort of layout was where you went to like the

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patisserie. It feel feels really weird and
disjointed that the other side is doesn't feel as connected.
It's just like tucked around theback and it feels like, oh,
everyone's going that way. The only way I've really thought
about it is like when you walk through the shop to get through
to the other side, but. I just went walking around from
that front part of the new back pit is kind of seamless in that

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it feels like it's always been there in a way the the deco and
the theming of it. They always they've done a
pretty good job keeping it the same.
Yeah, I do. I agree with you, though, at the
same time as I feel like it's they've done such a good job and
make streamlining, it does also at the same time feel like a bit

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of an afterthought that you haveto go around the back.
I wish there was more options toget to that area.
It's almost like that back area is the Main Street and then the
part where the patisserie and The thing is of the back streets
of Paris. Yeah.
Do you know, I kind of get that.I think it's just because we
knew that area was before, Yeah,though it's like we just knew
that before. And then obviously since it's

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been updated and they've added this new section, it's just fun
of a lot of people, like you said.
Go ahead. Yeah, and it does, it does feel
a bit of a funnelling point. You know, there's, there's a lot
of thorough, it's a bit of a thoroughfare, there's lots of
people. But I would say that there is an
area just to the as you're walking up towards that rear

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square where the fountain is andthe Ratatouille attraction on
the right hand side when you're sort of facing out across the
water looking at where the friendship boats dock.
And if if you get the timing right and I managed to do,
someone recommended it to me andI, I waited for about 20 minutes
just as the sun was setting because you get amazing sunset

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behind the sky liner and you canget some beautiful photos of the
sky liner and a friendship boat with the yacht and the beach
club in the background and the lighthouse.
You can get some in Crescent Lake.
And there's some, it's a really stunning place to take photos
just on that right hand side. So.
Oh, absolutely. And catch us all hanging out
there now at sunset. I know, I know, but the photos

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that I took are really are really special.
Actually, I love them and and you can get a good little bit of
video, although you do get the the noise from the sky because
obviously that's just after the taking off.
So you get the Ding Dings. The skyline is as they're going
past repeatedly. The bit where it says have you
learned another? What languages did you learn
today can. I also add as well, Claire,

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because actually, I, I have a little thing about this.
And because of the way it's beendesigned, we may find that
there's some people who would maybe plan to go and ride
Ratatouille who can't find it. And they just don't see how they
can be a whole ride system and, and right building in behind

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what is visually there. And, you know, I, I, I think one
of the things that we, we spoke about when we, we said we were
going to explore each of these pavilions is actually to try and
encourage, encourage people to go into these pavilions, but to
go and explore. And I think this is, this is 1
particular part that if you are just circumnavigating World

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Showcase, you'll miss it and you'll miss, you'll miss that
detail and you'll miss that opportunity to go and ride what
actually is a very good ride. And and again, it's just one of
them things that you're you're kind of explore.
So yeah, let's, let's talk, let's talk about Rastui, let's
talk about Remy's adventures. And then what?
What do we think of? I think I think it's great.

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No, I love it. I think I think it's slightly
perfect tradition into Walt Disney World.
I love the fact that Paris is actually Disneyland Paris is
actually given something into Epcot that is is very French
themed etcetera. But it it fits, yeah, but it

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fits. It's a great, it's a great fit
within the park. And again, it just has that
little, it has that little sort of Disney nuance about bringing
an IP in but not milking it to death as they have done so in
other places. I hasten to, but I just think
it, yeah, I love it. I think it's a great, it's a

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great ride and it'll certainly be on the list for this summer.
I think the only frustration is that they've, Disney have had
that habit over the past a few sort of five to 10 years where
they've got an attraction in onepark and it's successful, so
they'll bring it to another parkand just put it in.
And I feel sometimes what they've done is they've put the
attraction in, they've copied itexactly and just going to we'll

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make the rest fit. And that's how I feel that has
happened. They they've taken like the same
size show, building the same everything, found a space.
And that's a big difference, though in Epcot it's 3D and in
Paris it's not. If they change this, there's
still 3. D in Paris.
I mean, I was there last week. It wasn't in three.

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D got photos of me in the queue with Paris.
Yeah, it used to be 3. D Glasses on.
Did you miss the glass? No, no, it was not the 3D.
No one had any glasses and in fact I actually turned to my
friend and went. I haven't got any 3D glasses.
And she's like, that's really. Yeah, we watched.
It definitely was. It's been a while since it's
been, it's Paris. But yeah, every time we've been,
it's been fun. Yeah.

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I, I wish it. And we we we wish it wasn't.
Well, maybe I just got really lucky.
The 3D wasn't working right and I ended up riding it.
There was there were no glass premier way.
It was great. It didn't make me feel sick.
Yeah. That's it's one of the few 3D
rides that does make me feel a bit queasy.

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There are some. Differences in There are a
couple of differences in the queue line in Orlando.
There's a scene, a slightly different scene on the way to
the rooftop bit in the Q where gusto is like floating above and
I'm really going on. There is a section before that
which is different to the Paris Q line.

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Q line in Orlando is longer isn't?
It it is longer and it's got more things in it.
The one in Paris is kind of likea corridor.
I just looked it up a line and it's been made to a 2D
experience in 2024 and it's it'sno longer 3D.
They broke the 3D in Paris, I wonder.
When they made so many, so many evil, it was like the feedback

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forms you get at the end of the day.
And it's like, what would you change?
That's a lot of the 3D, yes. Yeah.
But it is a trackless attraction, which I like.
Yeah, yeah. It's not as smooth as it once
was, but it is. It is one of the only trackless
attractions in. Is it the only, or is it one of
the only trackless attractions in Orlando?
It's used to be. It's one of them because.

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When rising. Assistances making a mayonnaise
is travellers. Yeah, but the only one in.
It you know to go out this. Occasion, but it's, it's so
cool. I think it was, yeah.
It's, it's a, it's a really a, agreat way to experience a ride.
And you do get slightly different experiences depending
on the order, the mash that you're travelling in or the rat

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actually. Do you think it has to rewrite
ability or is it like one a trip?
I love it. I think it's always the queue.
The queue for me can be really unpredictable.
I find that you can go there at certain times and there's no
queue and then other times it's like it's queuing all the way
and they've got people out with the signs saying end of end of

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line starts. Here and they've gone in the UK.
All the way around the corner, Ithink.
I have to say I I don't rememberthe last time I did Rush TV in
Orlando in the, in the last, I'dsay in the last 6 trips that
I've done in the last couple of years I think.
Oh wow. Might have done it once.
You see for me in the. 1st I did.

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I think it was 2023 was the lasttime we did it.
Yeah, student here last year. It's a must do if the queue
isn't too long for me. I think if it's a 20 minute or
long, well, longer than 20 minutes, I'm probably out.
But if it's 20 minutes, I'll give it a ride.
We were there for the extended evening hours and so we'd we'd
send fireworks, but then we turned to go towards France and

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then we saw the queue and what we're not doing.
So we went out to Guardians instead for a much shorter
queue. Well.
It wasn't a short queue, but it was definitely a better ride.
Yes yeah, some some things you don't mind waiting a long time
for. It's not one I would wait a long
time for, but it's it's a nice addition.
I think it was a good a good addition to the to the whole
French pavilion. It's one of my favourite

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pavilions to be honest. I feel like it's quite
authentic, so I agree, I don't mind it.
I still sort of feel that the exterior space in Disneyland
Paris just where the ride is. I think that for me, just
visually has a slight edge on that.
Space it's. A bit, yeah.
It just feels a bit more visually like wider and more

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expansive. But I think they've done a good
job. But.
I think that's what I meant whenI said it was disappointing they
didn't make it bigger. Actually, they could have
extended that whole square to look a bit more like the one in
Descent and Paris, with a bit more space around the fountain.
And you know, it does feel a little bit cramped back there.
Weirdly, when they opened that attraction, there was a bit of

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uproar from certainly my experience from our American
friends and certainly some of myAmerican friends.
American friends were very frustrated by the fact that they
had just lifted it directly fromDisneyland Paris.
And half the writers in English and half.
The writers. In French.
So it was that weird, that weirdsort of frond glade that
happened in Disneyland Paris. When you get the first line of

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the story in English, the secondline in French, and it sort of
bounces backwards and forwards and as long as you speak one or
the other, you get the gist of the story.
You've seen the film, you've probably just to what's going.
On. It's not, it's not too complex,
but there was definite grumbles about the fact it was in French
because it's not a language thatis necessarily regularly learnt

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in the US and and so well. Did they moan?
I didn't even Did they moan whenlife motor action stunt show.
Had that opening a bit in FrenchI bet.
Nobody. Learned about that, yeah.
This is it. I mean, it was just, it was just
an interesting phenomenon for mebecause I didn't expect anyone
to really care because I was so used to having ridden it in
Disneyland Paris. It didn't even occur to me.

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You don't hear it. You just get on with it.
And and so, yeah, there was definite chunter, shall we say,
about that. So while we're back there, who's
been to the Creperie? And John, you can do the joke
now. It's been done the past too
long. So yeah, go, yeah, go for a
little crap in there. Epcot is no longer.

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It's no longer amusing, Yeah. That was enough.
I think was on episode was. It that was it that long?
Yeah. It's got staying power, but.
Yeah. Have you, Did you know you've
been as well? Yeah, we've been.
I've been a couple of times. What do you think?
It's all it's OK. It never looks very appetizing

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when I see photos. The food wasn't bad and it can
be reasonably priced. So they do like a set menu,
which is like a salad or a soup,I think a savoury crepe and then
a sweet crepe and drink. Now, if you go with that's a lot
of food you can't eat all that. I'll tell you now, I've tried

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defeated. But if you go with a friend and
you split all of that, it's actually a very a pretty cheap,
pretty cheap dinner. And you have a nice sit down,
someone brings you your food. You don't have to stand or try
and find a bench to eat or a table or a trash can.
It's not bad. It's not it's not wonderful.

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It's not going to change any lives, but it's not bad.
Yeah, I would do. I would go again.
OK. That's a that's a reasonable
recommendation. It doesn't.
I don't think you'll hit the Instagram kind of viral food
level I. Don't think it just looks like
brown and grey and black if you like.
Beige if you like crepes, you'llenjoy it I think is the answer.

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If you don't like it then it's not really for you.
It's. Probably not for you, yeah.
Who doesn't enjoy having a crepe?
Well, here, OK. I've learned to do it several
times and never really felt thatit was something that would be
something I would enjoy. So I've not.
I've not even made the effort togo and investigate to be honest

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with you. But I've had the reason I asked
that who'd who'd been and what you thought.
I've heard real varying reports from some people say it was
amazing, other people say it's fine, other people say it was a
bit cold, the food wasn't great.So I guess everyone's got their
own preferences and much like many restaurants, and apart from

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the top few where everyone says they're amazing, there's always
going to be a bit of a difference of opinion.
But if you were in the middle ofa hot day in Epcot and you
wanted to share a lunch with somebody, you could go and do
that and it would be it would hit the hit the mark.
And from memory, I'm pretty surethey add Orangina as an offering
as a drink, so I was quite happy.
Because you don't. Shake the bottle, wake the
drink. Exactly.

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So it was worth worth it for me for that.
That makes it truly fresh to have orange Gina.
It really does it does like a holiday dream.
It was it was nice. So and then back there you've
got a photo op in the corner hidden down by the entrance to
to the Ratatouille attraction. Is that the motorbike with a

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sidecar that is there a side core or is it just a motorbike
actually, isn't it? It's like I'm thinking about how
good there's a motorbike around the corner which has got
everyone has a photo taken. One or is it 2?
I get it mixed up with Paris because Paris has got 2.
I think one that's just one, yeah.
Wasn't enough for. Actually, the photo on my lock

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screen on my phone, I'm just looking at it, is Morgan and
Millie sitting on that motorbike.
So as I remember, it's not a sidecar, it's actually just a
motorbike at a jaunty angle. But it's quite cool, quite a
cool pit. What else is around there?
You've got the fountain with allthe little rats holding the
champagne bottles that. They've often got a nice little

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photo pass there as well with some.
Oh, do they ever. Seen Oh I've definitely done
some dodgy poses there. They get you to stare at
something on the on the floor like a piece of cheese and look
shocked and it's meant to be Remy running with a piece of
cheese like. Magic.

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All good. Angles, you know, just.
From down like here and getting you like, it's all your best
angles. Brilliant.
Yeah. Does that cover the back of the
pavilion? I mean, obviously one of the
cool things to do is to take a ride on the skyline and you can
see the size of the shade building if you haven't, if you
haven't done that. If you haven't seen the.
Background itself is it is. It is such a great thing to

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actually be able to do and to see because it gives you, it
just gives you a different perspective of what you're
actually looking at within the park.
And actually just from a design point of view, how they've
managed to basically shoehorn this ride vehicle ride building
in behind what was the original French Pavilion.

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And you're thinking that's that was that's actually a very
clever way of actually expanding.
Yeah, it definitely is. And I think if you were, if
you're at all interested in the backstage stuff, do you do take
a little trip on the sky liner over to Hollywood Studios
because they'll or we can Caribbean each and just have a
look and see what what's around the back of those echo areas.

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You can see an awful lot and carpark and the executive car
parking. But yeah, so if we move back to
the back to front, back to the front of the pavilion and the
what I'd say the older section, we've got a number of
restaurants and a huge, actuallyquite a lot of shops.

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There's a lot of food and merchandise options in the front
of the pavilion and then the 1/2attraction.
In inverted commas. Slash Good night sports.
It's a show. It's.
It's a show that you need to cancel.

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So restaurant wise, we've got yeah, Chef de France, I'll let.
You know, in a couple of. Weeks and also if you, if you do
get into chef de France, if you're actually sitting in the
the like the Conservatory area, which is basically on the left
hand side as you're walking in the pavilion, you actually get
the great view of of people watching than the entire

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duration of your meal. It's, it's one of those real
nice places to just sit and enjoy people walking past you
and, you know, some of them maybe enjoying the park, maybe
some of them not quite so, so much as well.
It's one and they, yeah. And they just don't know that
you're watching them. It's one of those places that
you kind of, you kind of blend in.

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But yeah, I, I like Chef de France.
I've never tried Michelle Paul purely from the fact that it's
deadly expensive. Yeah, but Super Paul seems
astronomically expensive. And I know in previous and
previous shows we've talked about things like Tekimitai and
yeah, Monsieur Paul seems to be almost bordering Victorian

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Alberts. Cost.
I just think it's bad then. It's a difficult thing to
justify when you're looking at other restaurants when you're
looking through my dizzy experience app looking like OK,
what restaurants are on the eater and then I'm just sticks
out being like expensive, but also inside the park, Victorian
Alberts, you're outside. Yeah, yeah.
It's too hard to go to spend 300.

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Yeah, $300 a head to sit next tothe the sweaty person in their
cut off shorts and vest top. There is a.
Dress code, I think. Yeah, but.
But at Parker Tyre, they can't turn you away in Parker Tyre
when you're in the park. It used to be similar for when
we get to Canada, but they they obviously they change that quite

(28:04):
a lot. So I just, yeah, there's
something about Mr. Paul. I'm not going anywhere that's
$200 a dinner. I I I'm not going to get enough
enjoyment out of my food for $400 each.
Yeah, constantly going it's. $200.
Yeah, I need to have it would. Ruin it for me, I'm too fast.
Here is the buffet. It's probably one of the meals

(28:25):
when it turns up and it's on theplate and you're like, is that
it? Is that it?
Is that it? To try and find.
Donald's on the way back to the villa.
That's that's yeah, it's not a lot.
I don't know. For me, there's a lot of courses
on there. I know it sounds like a lot of

(28:46):
money but there are quite a few courses but. 10 courses, isn't
it? Is it 10 I?
Don't know if there is. Yeah, there'll be like a
thimble. Yeah, soup in there.
It's still 195. Dollars plus mushroom.
I know it's one of those is fish.
But this is yeah, the fish cock,the ticket price on top to pay
to get in there. Yeah, and if you want the wine

(29:08):
pairings, then it's a whole nother level.
That's the ending in competitionwith what was it, the new
special Birth Lounge Metal fireworks viewing for 100 and
$980. So a. 180 or 980?
No 180 because if 190 I think itwas 180.
Yeah. And then again, that's obviously
plus tax. So it's going to tip you over

(29:28):
the 200 and you want 210 two $120.00 by the time you pay tax.
I think we'd definitely pick. I mean, we haven't been to Chefs
de France for a while since theystopped.
What was the the the best crepe that they had, which was the
tartifle de savoir? Yeah, but they couldn't have a
crepe there around the corner. But it was.
But they don't. They haven't.

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The tartifle doesn't really count as crepe.
Well, it's a. It's a.
Crepe filled with yeah, smoked ham, onions, potatoes.
And then melted Reblichon cheeseon which was the stinkiest.
I know I used to make him. Sit out the other end of the
table when he was. Do you know the only other place
I've had that brilliantly was atKing Ludwig's Castle in
Disneyland Paris in Disney Village.

(30:11):
Wow, they used. To be there, I've got a feeling
that's. I don't know, but they used to,
they used to do tarty flat and it was amazing.
It did stink, though. Yeah.
But yeah, Chef de France got a hot date there in a couple of
weeks. Yeah.
We're going to do a team, team like and we'll let you know how
we go. I'm looking forward to French on
your soup in the. Middle top of my list, Claire.

(30:32):
I've got a menu Regina and White.
Bread so. Nothing else.
It'll be good. If they still have the baguette
with the butter, we'll start then.
Salted proper butter, Yes, some of this whipped.
Rubbish. European style.
Yeah, yeah. Lando Lake, OK, so we've we've
covered those two restaurants. If you go further back you get

(30:54):
to latte on the glass, so ice cream parlour on the left hand
side. Very good ice cream.
I have a confession. I I have not been in there since
it used to be the bakery becauseevery time I go past, there's
always such a long line for the ice cream.
I always go Nah, I don't want itthat much.

(31:16):
And you know, they've branched out to not just ice cream.
Well, they do. They do.
The bed. They do the ice cream beignet
that I'm told is amazing is. That the brioche.
The brioche. One the croc.
Is it the croc? Oh, the.
Sorry, yeah, the brioche thing. Sorry.
Not beignet brioche. That's what I meant.
I like the action that went withthat Robin Little little squishy

(31:37):
fingers for people who are listening.
That's how I. Imagine it.
Is it little squishy finger? I'm not even going there.
They also do an ice cream martini which is to try that.
So you're going to chef to France, where you're going,
You're going. To go and get ice cream.
I'm glad we're staying in the pool talk.
Not for Claire. But there is definitely, there

(31:59):
is definitely always a queue. Yeah.
And I've heard that the ice cream that's.
Done. Well worth it.
Yeah. Clothes cream itself as a.
One of these days I'll queue up and.
Do a nice sorbet as well wrong. Which?
Is again, if you want something a little bit different so you
get ice proper full fat ice cream or you can get sorbet as
well. And I'm waiting for the next

(32:22):
place, Claire, because actually this is the and you keep walking
back and people. You get into.
People that won't know which to how you quit service actually
looks. Yeah.
It's one of those things that don't tell anyone always, yeah.
Feel like the seat is out already the queue.
Yeah, queue is how safe. It's.
Two sides. Seating's a bit of an issue

(32:44):
though. I can get, I can get round.
I get round that. It.
Actually is the bargainers placein the in probably the whole of
World Showcase and. I agree, the boulangerie
patisserie at the back Nazel is incredible value and you can get
some amazing like a whole baguette for $3.

(33:06):
Even if, even if, even if you start.
On your day before. And you're wanting maybe a
coffee and a croissant just to, you know, just to be really
ranch as you start your day. It's only it's only $3 for a for
a croissant. And again, just value for money.
It's absolutely brilliant. It's not expensive, yeah.
And they're huge and they're fresh.

(33:27):
It used to be the place we wouldalways go, especially when we're
on a quick service dining plan, because before the new version
of the dining plan, you could just do three snack credits of a
meal. The way we didn't make it work
quite well, yeah. And I know we talked about it as
one of our top when we did our live show about the top 10
restaurants in Walt Disney Worldof all time.
It was in there as a quick service because there is so much

(33:50):
choice and the pastries are amazing.
They do a cheese plate if you want a cheese plate.
If you want baguette, they do hot.
Food. I get some that you like.
Home, isn't it, Claire? Right, it certainly is.
Do you know what? It's a game changer.
And I just, I think that people don't realise and.
And the dessert. The desserts are absolutely
incredible as well. Yeah, yeah, desserts are

(34:13):
amazing. Decent coffee, hot chocolate
made it like just liquid chocolate.
It's one dessert breakfast that you.
Have yeah, there in Disney you can do what you want.
Yeah, calories don't exist in Disney, I don't think even when
they put them on the menus. But yeah, I think it it's a
really and it is open early. So if you're in Epcot and maybe
coming into International Gateway and you haven't had

(34:34):
breakfast, you can squeeze back there and grab some breakfast.
The only problem is you don't know where to stop.
It's like. There's so many things you want
to eat and you think. A croissant won't be.
Enough. I'd better get a croissant and
then that and then. Yeah, but that loads good.
As well, I better get 4 things. Yeah, the macarons, they do a
little box of macarons which areamazing as well.

(34:55):
I've had to find things bad willbe.
The whole family. So if you've got people with you
who only eat certain things, that there is the depth of menu
that everyone will find something that will actually
please them a little. It'll keep the family quiet for
a good number of hours. I think that's what we've found.

(35:18):
Definitely. So if we come back out of that
area and come back down towards the fountain, there is some
shops on the left hand side. There are some shops on the left
hand side that have a variety ofthings.
So that I think if if I'm right,the first one is the Levan de

(35:41):
France, which is the the wine. The one that's got sort of it's
got little gifts. It's got some of the ratatouille
and there isn't just have Paris merch in there sometimes as
well. Yeah, it's got.
Called aprons and so it's got the Ratatouille cookbook and
various some very French lookingstuff in it that you'd find on a

(36:04):
French market in the South yes very patterned yes it is but
then as you walk through that shop on the left hand side where
the where the cash register is there is also the.
One we're talking. Now we're talking a bit like in
Italy, a bit like in Italy, there is a, an, a shop that

(36:27):
sells you a glass of wine. And I have it on good authority
that the Chablis and the champagne are very good in
there, apparently. Don't.
Yeah, I'm. I'm Yeah.
I know for a fact the champagne is very good in there because
that is one of the places that we will always we'll send It
used to send the kids off to getan ice cream if we went for a

(36:48):
glass of champagne. Just like.
There you go. Yeah, you can get there's about
four different champagne, four or five different Champagnes
from what we would call Bollinger or Tattinger
friendship Shadow as we say it like that and Vertiko is there
definitely. I've had that many times from
there. It's not cheap, but it is, it is

(37:08):
decent. But yeah, the Chablis is the
wine that I always choose in there and it's very, very good.
So comes with a plastic gloves unfortunately.
But you know, we deal with that because we're a Depco.
Yeah. And then further down into
towards the the front of the theatre, I think we'll come back
to in a minute. There are some more shops.
So there's the souvenir de France, which has got the, I

(37:33):
think it's got a variety of makeup going front fragrances.
There's a little bit, there's one which has got like handbags
and Dior and high end stuff thatI walk through and I feel like.
I'd be judged like every single cast.
Member that's working. Yes, I know the one.
Do you know what I mean, Bec? I mean the one you.

(37:54):
Mean because I've stopped in my bag and then.
Walked out because it's just give you that.
Yeah, I walk out thinking. Oh, no, no, no.
This is not. You can't.
You can't afford, you can't. You can't afford to shop it.
These things are not for you. That's why I look at them as
your pool. But it it's quite a nice little

(38:17):
area to walk around and there's lots of cosmetics and and
fragrances you can you can test out if you, it's quite a pungent
shop though, I tend to find. Yes.
And as you walk through them, there's like a little archway in
the middle and you can walk through the back.
And then there's a little courtyard with a couple of
tables and like heavy metal Bistro tables and chairs.
And you can take a seat round there with your Chablis and sit

(38:38):
and survey what's going on. It's quite nice.
It's in the shade. Very nice, didn't know that was
there. Learning something it backs it
backs almost onto the walkway round to the back of the
pavilion. So it's just if you were to walk
towards Remy, it's just on the left hand side on the other side
of like the head sheep it so. But it's a nice little area and

(38:59):
let's do it. Let's talk.
About Oh, he died. He has seen it, yes.
I've seen it I've. Seen it?
It takes me back to my childhood, seeing Frank.
You never. Sorry, did you say you've never
seen it? No.
We tried to but JC but they we had it planned but everything

(39:20):
but that night of Epico and theyhave one of those evenings where
they did a corporate event. They closed everything about
6:00 they go. So it's like, no.
Excuse. No, you haven't done it.
What? Was I feeling we're going to be
Yeah in a future, right? So there we have our plan for
the evening, Chef de France and impressions to France.

(39:41):
We have seen the other one, yes.What's the beauty of the B
single? Yes.
See, I haven't done that. We were trying to get to see him
round the front of both of them.That sounds like.
Oh. Man one off the other.
Yeah. Impressions to Francis, just
it's so the. Closest I've got to listen to on
D Park radio and go what? Is that that's the question.

(40:02):
You cannot, you cannot compare the soundtrack and what you
watch. The soundtrack is incredible.
It's absolutely beautiful. You've got Santa, you've got
Delhi, you've got Debussy. It's a it's an incredible
soundtrack. Even the bit where you get the
the Cypress and it is in my brain I see these 1970s cyclists

(40:23):
and very short shorts going up ahill.
But the soundtrack for impressions to France is just
exquisite. That is nothing like the film
which is based in like 1971. And you know, it is a thing that
I, I kind of, I need them to update it, but I don't know if I

(40:43):
want them to because it's so. It in a way it reminds me a
little bit, you know, of those safety films that they produced
in the 70s, you know, and it's just like it's got totally
robotic acts. It is like that and it's just.
That the escalator. Yeah, no the.

(41:03):
Kid with a kite. And the the farm safety one is
is 1. That'll stay with me forever.
Yeah, yeah, I've. I'm trying to I'm trying to find
that people know exactly what you're talking about.
So find it on YouTube. Dare a few children?
My highlight of it is, though, that they're at the market and
everything's sold in francs and they've had their euro since

(41:25):
2002. Yeah, that's still 30 years
later than anyone in that film. And it's the the man in the
market. And he all you see is his hand
in the cigarette is burning awayat the ash on the cigarettes,
about four inches long. And it's like you're just
waiting for it. To be a warning people it.
Is such a big yeah that you've actually.

(41:48):
It does remind me of holidays inFrance when I was a kid and all
the things that you see in termsof, you know, the Brett on
dancers and their costume with their lace hats and then, you
know, the Riviera with the girlslying out on the the boats and
stuff. It's so stereotypical, but it is
true. That's exactly what France was
like in the 70s and early 80s for that.

(42:09):
And I don't think unless you ever experienced that, unless
you've been to France and seen, seen that, I don't think you
would realise quite why it's so funny.
And I do sit there and laugh allthe way through, yeah.
Drink before we go, you'll watchit.
We'll go for dinner and then we'll go.
OK. So the other bits that are in

(42:32):
France that we haven't talked about are as Robin alluded to
earlier, the Levan de Chef de France, which is opposite Chef
de France, which is the also occasionally named the Grey
Goose Slushy Stand or the grandma, the A slash stand,
which is a must do anytime anyone is in the French.
Absolutely. It's the law.

(42:52):
Which which do you prefer do? You go, I think.
I think I don't mind either, actually.
I think I I tend to go for the the orange one I think is the
one I would normally go for, butI'd go for either.
I tend to go for the Citroen on the lemon.
I'm a traditionalist but they don't last very long so.
You've got to drink them quick in that way in the heat,

(43:14):
otherwise you're just not. Drinking melt very.
Quickly. Yeah.
Oh, do you actually, I'm lookingat the menu.
I must have the lemon one ratherthan the orange because the the
orange one's got rum in and maybe it's you that usually has
the orange. Must be that way.
I think I might must be the one that has the lemon.
Does anyone remember the the artist that used to sit by the
wall just along from there? They had like the silhouette

(43:37):
artists that do like they're cutting in the paper and they
had some like they had the caricature artist that you get
very, I think they've still got some of those in Magic Kingdom
next door to the Christmas shop,but I kind of missed them
because that was so much fun. That was like a, we had a
silhouette of Millie done when she was probably about four that
I've still got something like. It was very cool, very talented,
and it's kind of sad they're notthere anymore.

(43:59):
Yeah, I agree. And there is another meet and
greet, isn't there? There's Aurora occasionally
meet, meet and greets meets and greets under there sort of
canopy on the right hand side ofthe the fountain just as you're
heading out towards Ratatouille area.
If if Aurora is a favorite, I don't know anywhere else you can

(44:20):
meet her actually in her pink. Dress she used She used to be at
mirror at the Halloween party and Christmas party.
Yeah, but generally, but generally I don't think I don't
even if any of the dinners like she tends not to be in Akashus
or I thought she. Was in Akashus.
Cinderella's royal table? No, she's not.
OK, didn't she's not very popular character.

(44:41):
Unfortunate because she's sleeping all the time.
To be. Fair.
She's old. Yeah, she.
I know I've said this before, and I apologise to any cast
members who might be friends with Aurora.
She tends to look like a drag, drag act.
There is something because she has to.
Yeah, the makeup and because shehas to be super tall.
Yeah. I think, I think Aurora's are

(45:02):
like 5-7 to 59. That's really tall for a
Princess. Yeah.
So yeah, it's not not necessarily one of my favourite
meet and greets. Only matter the Christmas party,
yeah? Anyway, do we, are we done with
France, do you feel? Like we're done with France.
Should we? Head over the bridge or over the

(45:22):
channel as we are. About to do.
Because it's actually meant to represent the channel into the
UK. So it is the UK pavilion, the
United Kingdom. It is not England as lots of
people call it. It's not Great Britain because
as we all know, they're two different things.
So John and I, we both had the opportunity to do a a really

(45:46):
long walk through the UK pavilion with our friends Matt
and Crystal at Married to a Disney Addict last summer and
I'm trying to think when they released that show John it.
Was it took? Us quite a long time to recall
we were there. Oh right, but we will we'll put

(46:10):
a link to it in the in the waffle his arms.
So if anyone wants to go back and listen to our lengthy
walkthrough from back to front of the entire I think it was in
two parts in the end, wasn't it?It was like 3 hours long.
We had a really good time doing that.
But I think, you know, we'll tryand do a a bridged version of it
today for the last show. I think it's well though,

(46:30):
Claire. I think about before we begin
coming into the UK, I think. It's pertinent to actually point
out the fact that the podcasts that we were very kindly
listening to a number of years ago, they had an April Fool show
segment one time where they actually had the fact that one

(46:51):
of the shops that that that was at the Rigtons Tea shop was
being turned into a little Tesco.
Now, unbeknown to me at the time.
Now Josh, who spent last summer out there, if you've missed any
of the junior waffle shows, he'snow of an age where he probably
went hearing this story back. I would might be embarrassed,

(47:13):
but it was one of the funniest moments we've ever had when and
we were on holiday and when he turned around he said, but I
thought that was a Tesco. And this is, you know, this is
the difference between the 1st of April and we were like mid
August. And he's like, I thought they'd
put a Tesco in there and like, and we looked at him and he was
just like, Oh my word, you actually believed that.

(47:34):
And it was absolutely creased uscompletely.
So I made the point again, getting in touch with Jaffa.
It's just to tell him that the April Fool actually worked, but
it took us until we saw it in real life to actually realise
how good it was. Do you think that's going to be
Disney's next step through IPS? It's going to be like, what

(47:55):
partnerships? Can we do?
We can't. Get like local supermarkets,
yeah? That's it.
The Rosenbrien. Just.
Keep the names, thankfully. Yeah, and you can put the
toilets somewhere in. Yeah, there we go.
Stop start offering cheap breakfasts.
Seven £7 breakfasts. Right, they'd make a mint.

(48:18):
They I can't believe actually, you know what the Rose and Crown
dining room. They ate for breakfast and did a
full English. They'd make hardly cash.
They're missing an opportunity. They.
Really are. It'd be full of Brits though.
That would be the. Problem it would.
Not have an issue source and decent bacon though that might
be the problem. Yeah.
Oh yeah, and I've always wondered why it's not an Irish
pub as well, because there's an Irish pub everywhere you go and

(48:40):
I know it's great. The UK, so Ireland, Republic of
Ireland isn't in that but. No violence, students.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
I think if you had down international drive though, I'm
sure there's. There and Bradwell Rd. on there,
but this is Springs as. Well, I'm sure there are, which
is. Perfect.
Yes, of course, yes. So the background music starts

(49:01):
on the bridge as you walk over the, the, the channel.
And it is one of my favorite things about the UK pavilion.
And it's a, it's a really cool mix of things like the, the
Grenadier Guards, British Grenadiers, Greensleeves.
You also get a bit of a Gilbert Sullivan HMS Pinafore Overture
comes in and at which point I start singing dancing.

(49:21):
So if anyone sees me in the UK pavilion humming along, usually
with Morgan doing exactly the same.
I love the background loop in the UK pavilion.
And as you come down that slope,you've got the tea gardens on
the left hand side. And it's not a garden where you
can have tea to share, it's where they grow the flowers that
flavour tea. So I think there's some bergamot
growing there. There's certainly Jasmine and

(49:43):
various different flowers that flavour tea.
That's amazing. It does.
There's loads of butterflies around there as well as.
Yeah, it's very pretty. I do think they are missing a
trip there that they don't have a tea stand to sell.
Different teas of all. Those different flavours and
then they can just have the direct tea bags that are

(50:05):
influenced by what is in the tea.
Sean. That'd be a great idea.
Twinings could. Or a tea room and have little
tea you can let go and sit down and have tea.
Yeah, tea and tea. Well, now they've got now
they've got rid of the Tea Ring in the Grand Floridian.
Is it going to come back, do youthink?
No, it's going to be a bar. Is it the back of?

(50:26):
Yeah, it's going to be a bar at the back.
Of did I know? Maybe I knew that already.
Yeah, I. Thought the bar was actually in
the middle of the grand buddy inthere.
In completely the wrong place. Don't get me started on that
one. That's a whole.
That's a whole different show, Itell you, because.
That's a whole other show. Yes.
What's in the wrong place at Disney World?
Oh, that would be a great show. Yeah, that'd be a great show.

(50:47):
But yeah, you go past in that back area, you can go down
through the tea gardens out to the back, which takes you to
like little hedge maze. And it is hedge maze.
I use the term hedge, Yeah, because it it's it's like a
waist right maze. It's like a.
They're not even waist tight, they're sort of knee height.

(51:08):
Depends how big you are, but they are.
It's just a little hedge maze, but it gives you the idea of
what happens in, you know, statehomes and things we have over
here. And then the bandstand.
And I remember us having a very long conversation with Matt and
Crystal about what is a bandstand because it was a
concept that they obviously havenever experienced and we're

(51:30):
trying to explain, You know, lots of villages, particularly
on the sea front, will have a bandstand central to village
fairs and the like. The live music plays it's it's
really funny because actually. That whole conversation with
Mike Crystal, it, it, the, the whole bit that I had to confess
to was as a teenager, the town we lived in, in Scotland had a

(51:55):
bandstand and it was a meeting point.
But basically every underage drinker in the, the town and we,
and, and like there was like 3 secondary schools and in the
town and it was a, it was a, a meeting point result.
I mean, it was just like, it's amost amazing thing that just
that you think about. I don't think a band had played

(52:16):
there for years, like, you know,but it kept us dry on a Friday
night when the, you know, when you were out and your parents
couldn't contact you because younever had a mobile phone and
stuff like that. It was.
Those were the days. I'm sure they're used most
routinely by the the the bands playing at Christmas, like the
brass bands at Christmas attend to use them more than the OR the

(52:40):
local underage kids. But that takes you down into
that back area, which is RegencyStreet, I believe.
That that big area where there should have been a very often
ride that just went seamlessly into the space behind it.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
It'd be territory Lane. Yeah, it.

(53:00):
Would have been amazing. It would have been perfect.
It would have been a really goodterritory lane.
Yeah, we, we had a conversation about, you know, I know Becca,
you've previously said they should totally do Muppets
Christmas Carol back there. They should have someone reading
it on the bandstand, you know, like they have the bands.
You could have someone reading Christmas Carol out there at
Christmas in the, the festival holidays.

(53:22):
Definitely roasted chestnuts, you know, drinks just.
Singing the songs from the film.Indeed, do you know what's
really funny here? It's a missed.
Doctor with all the. And then we talked.
About in the course of doing thethis, you know, these podcasts,
we've actually marvelled in the the imagineering of each of
them. And then we get to the UK well,

(53:43):
and we want to reimagineer it orwe want to change it.
I mean, I mean. Point out more of the stuff
that's missing. Because it's how how little the
UK we feel it is. It is, it's a difficult thing,
but it isn't. It's one of those.
I think it's cleaner. Well, I think it's got quite a
good reputation, a good representation of the UK and
obviously there are different, there are different eras of

(54:04):
things as you walk around. So Regency at the back,
obviously it is a bit Bridgeton,a little bit Pride and
Prejudice. If you're pre Bridgeton and it
you know right by the, the facade of the properties is, is
truly beautiful. If you go right to the very
back, you might find Pooh Bear meeting and greeting which.
Is the other thing as well. We, we had spoke, we spoke to a

(54:25):
cast member last year and she was explaining it.
And this is how much detail is actually in the these places.
But they actually put together atimeline between each of the
stores and how not just with theflooring, but with the windows
as well. You're actually going into
different eras of British history and, and you would miss

(54:46):
it. You wouldn't no, but you would
miss it completely. It is so apparent once you know,
and you're like, right. And it was just, it was one of
the real moments at which I'm, I'm, I'm probably as bad as
anyone. Oh, it's you capable.
You might have a walk through. We'll have a look at the shop
and then we'll go to the pub andjust typical, typical Saturday,

(55:07):
you know, down when you go shopping.
So I've been forced to go that little bit slower with Matt and
Crystal. We actually, we actually cracked
so much of the detail that is within each of those shops,
particularly on the left hand side because I, I really, I
don't frequent them. For me there's a load of British

(55:27):
TAT for sale in them, but the details.
Amazing. You're right though, because if
you go in at the if you go in the back, which is the Lords, I
think it's called Lords and Lords and Ladies, which is the,
the bit in the Regency Square. And we were laughing because
like, oh, they sell Yardley fragrance.
And I was like, Oh, that makes me think of my grandma.

(55:48):
You know, Yardley is like talcumpowder, an old woman's smell,
but they're selling it there like it's this amazing thing.
I'm just like, no, no, no, no, that's like forget me not and
and lavender drawer sheets and they sell that cashmere scarves
and there's even Downton Abbey merchandise in there.
They've got like tape bags and famous things.

(56:09):
I'm sure that's probably with a new, the new series or a new
film coming out, that's probablygoing to increase as well.
But in there, was it in that shop that there's the expensive
Shander Edge on the the cast member Tom, It's about that
crystal chandelier in there thatmakes it probably the most
expensive shop. In the whole, the next bit on
was a bit of shortbread and and teddy bears and and basically

(56:32):
all them things. That's right.
Yeah, yeah. Grenadier Guards, Mickey's and
things like that. So yeah, that moves into the tea
caddy, which is a so the the thatched reef building is, is
meant to look like the, the cottage that was meant to be
Anne Hathaway's cottage. Anne Hathaway obviously was the
wife of William Shakespeare and had a connection to Henry the

(56:54):
Eighth somehow, but no one really talks about it.
And so that's the one that sellsthe ridiculously priced quality
St. And.
Lots of stereotypical Grenadier Guards, you know, plush and
teapots. And I'm not sure why anyone

(57:15):
would buy a teapot in Epcot. What are you going to do with
it? Carry around all day.
Clearly, Yeah, how many people are going to hit with it?
It's going to be one piece. By the time you get.
Along hang on both American hotels don't have don't have a
kettle. There's no kettle here so I
might need to go to Walmart. Well, I don't want to speak I'll

(57:36):
of the American population, but when you realise that some of
them microwave the Walser to make tea, you realise that
there's some there's some level of learning required there.
Maybe this one that needs to addDNS card.
That's what needs to do that needs the middle of the
educational. Yeah, yeah, people would
absolutely go mad for that. Yeah, I think.

(57:57):
We're not at one point inside. It I think that would be great
for for all of this I'm. There I.
Just do. Pop up, pop up.
Tea stands and see see what the border.
None of this cold sweetened. Rubbish.
Drop a British tea. Take a box of Yeah, box of
Yorkshire tea with. You Well, that's the thing, I

(58:19):
don't think that it matters in America because they drink
Twinings and as we all know, Twinings is not a pile of.
Is the rubbish. It's when is the worst?
When is the every? The the the twinings every day
is so weak. Yeah, you need.
You need a. Lot of tea that I like is the
strong strong the. Yellow label the yellow packet.

(58:42):
No, I like the ones that they call the seventeen O 6 blend
which is the extra strong blend.The build, but it still doesn't
make a builder's brew. You still got to squeeze the
life out of it. You know, I always and that's
what makes me laugh is they theycould sell and obviously
sponsored by Twilings and they sell lots of different kinds of
tea in there that no one would ever buy other than a tourist.

(59:04):
I just twin this tea is genuinely fairly appalling and
it's not something I don't know if anyone.
If anyone's working for Twining.I can't imagine why you would
just. Yeah, get in, do get, do get in
touch with us and we'll gladly be corrected on that, that if
you, if you want to send it, send us some freebies like.
That I mean, I just some three samples.

(59:27):
To be fair, Simon does. You do now know someone that
buys Twinings. You know Simon because he buys
the Super Strong. Only I.
Only ever. Buy Is that what you drink?
Genuinely drink that all the time.
No, I I tend to be on whatever is a strong blend of tea.
So if it's like Assam or one of those type like the seventeen O
6, I'll buy that. But it's.
Buy the Yorkshire tea strong ones.

(59:49):
I have done like I bought the the gold ones of Yorkshire tea
as well, but I tend to buy whatever I think is looking like
the strongest tea that that you can find there.
But I won't I won't touch the like regular English breakfast
ones because I I think that's that's one of the weaker, the
weaker teas. It has to be strong tea.

(01:00:11):
If I'm having twinings and I tend to go down the Darjeeling
sail on route. That was a bit you'd.
Be all excited. Yeah, a bit lighter.
I like me. It's to be Yorkshire tea if.
It's anything you'll drink. 2 bags Yorkshire tea Squeeze the
life out Decent decent slush of milk is simple is it you know.

(01:00:34):
I do it by the pot. I'm more of a a four person pot
for me will be more than adequate.
How suitable is this conversation from the UK?
And this is Yeah. Do you know what tea matters?
Yeah. Exactly.
Could this be any more British, this conversation?
We're just trying to develop. And should rain yet?
So we're we're trying to work onconvincing findings that they

(01:00:56):
should sponsor at least Great Britain at least one or two
upcoming shows. Do you not remember?
I think it was during the firing.
Yeah, firing guard. We do a tea tour.
But they should do it. They should offer it all year
round or offer some sort of tea tasting ceremony or.
Tea tutorial of how to make. And how yes to include that?
Yeah, and maybe ask the great British Mickey Waffle.

(01:01:18):
Team to be ground ambassadors. Take it to the.
Next level and truly represent tea in the US.
There we go. Who do you?
So yeah, that's the tea caddy. And actually it's a really cool
building when you look inside because there's a massive, it
feels it goes right back into the 5th about the the 14th
century and there's a massive Ingle look fireplace and lots of

(01:01:41):
wood panelling around that building that you totally missed
because of all the stuff that's in there.
If you actually take a look, it's a beautiful and the
ceilings come lower as you go through the building.
So at the back of the Regency, it's really high ceiling with a
chandelier. By the time you get through to
the front of the building, it's a low ceiling, dark wood and
very traditional thatched cottage.
And we had a conversation about thatching and the fact it does

(01:02:01):
still happen in the UK and it isa, you know, a dying craft art
to Thatcher cottage. So, and interestingly, because
it's Anne Hathaway's cottage, when you go out of the front
door and you look straight across to the the building which
has got the the sportsman's shopin it.
Outside of that there is Shakespeare's garden.
So Anne Cap always cottage looksher husband's garden.

(01:02:22):
Lucky it's. Not the other way around.
So the the Sportsman's Shop, which is the facade of that is
modelled on Hampton Court Palace.
So when you look at the front ofit, it looks characteristic like
Hampton Court and that has a whole load of sporting goods
inside it. So it sells things like golf

(01:02:43):
things from Saint Andrews with the Pen Halligan sense.
I don't know why Pen Halligan isin there, but it's obviously
decided, much like Yardley, to be a particularly British smell.
And then it also has some reallycool Rose and Crown merch.
So it's got like rugby shirts and and sports shirts from which
have got Rose and Crown brand branding on them, which I think
are quite fun. And it has got a few bits and

(01:03:06):
pieces like Beetles, Monty Python T-shirts.
I think there's one that says it's a shrubbery.
There's loads of, there's loads of little.
A green one. Nice little things that are are
within that. I think they even have Mars
bars, you know, silly money as well.
Like you know that you would never, you would never pay that.
One. Yeah, I remember.
The weirdest thing we found was a Milky bar.

(01:03:28):
One of those, not a lot of it. You'd get in that waitress for
like a pound for like $6. Yeah, and they've got crisps and
various things like that in there around the back of there,
which, you know, there's some, some interesting bits of UK
heritage. There's the crown and Crest,
which is the bit where you can get your family Crest printed up
for you or you're look at your family tree type thing.

(01:03:51):
And I'll just say the one of the, the, the cool things at
least are eggs is when people goin there.
If you have a look at the family, their crests that are on
the mantelpiece, the cast members change them periodically
and it's often to do with what'sgoing on in the world.
So when Bridgeton came out, it was massive and they'd actually
put all the Bridgeton family crests up on the mantelpiece.

(01:04:11):
So they swap them out for whatever's going on.
So they'll it's worth checking what they are.
It's really good. It's also.
There's also a little. The.
Cast members occasionally try and do in there as well, isn't
there? Oh yeah.
Which is good because that's the, Yeah, coming, coming from
the UK, you would expect to win,you know, it just, again, just
that little moment where the compacted part of you just sort

(01:04:34):
of checks out. Yeah.
Because they're all very easy British questions if you come
from the UK. So always worth, always worth a
go. Yeah.
Yeah. And then the shop at the very
back, which is the toy soldier, which has got the Pooh meet and
greet at the very back of it, that's got things like Winnie
the Pooh, Mary Poppins, Peter. Pan.

(01:04:56):
Peter Pan yeah, and then it's got the Kidcop stop at the very
back as well. So there's a lot of shopping in
the UK, loads of stores and not a huge array of food options.
There is the Yorkshire County fish shop.
What do we think of the fish andchips there?
Never sure that happened. Yes.

(01:05:17):
Can I just check Rebecca, have you, have you been to Epcot?
Have you been to have? You.
Been to Epcot. Don't go to Epcot in America to
buy fish and chips. It's really.
Difficult. Have you been to World Showcase?
Is that somewhere you've experienced?
Yes. That UK perspective, it's
difficult. It's like I don't really want
sort of like fish and chips on ahot day.
Well. There definitely comes a time

(01:05:38):
you. Would do at home.
You'd go to the beach and get fish and chips.
Yeah, there comes a time in Florida as well would.
You eat fish. Sick of eating the fries because
the fries come with everything. Fries are not good and although
the the fish and chips there is not quite like having fish and
chips from your local fish and chip shop, No, it's not bad and
the chips are chunky and they are actually quite nice.

(01:06:01):
Actually I had. The chips, they provide vinegar,
they provide vinegar. Vinegar.
Vinegar. Salt.
Yeah, I think the fish is. Rather in colour.
Had it, isn't it? Yeah.
For use. I was told by someone that
worked there that it was catfish.
No, it's definitely not catfish.Catfish taste of gravel.
It's got a very characteristic taste.

(01:06:23):
It's horrible. I had no idea she I had catfish
and chips stand and told me that's what it was but.
Doesn't taste and she had she's a really specific she have
invited. Me to our trip this month.
Catfish taste chips when? We went when we were there in
Maxine. I don't.
Know, I think. But we had chips.
The only thing I remember eatingin the UK pavilion was was it

(01:06:46):
around a jubilee where they served trifle?
Which wasn't. We were cool American.
Well, British trifle it was. It was.
It was terrible, it was not. Trifle it.
Wasn't like Rachel and Phoebe's trifle.
It wasn't as bad as as that sounded.
Beef. So teared for peas and onions.
It wasn't great. It was like something crushed

(01:07:06):
together. It's it was like $7.00 and it's.
Very good. I remember that, yeah, I didn't
have it, but I remember seeing it.
What's what is there to ever hate about Trifle?
Trifle bad Just. Not soggy.
Soggy. It's not a win.
It was. Cream.
Good. Cold custard Good.

(01:07:29):
No. Yeah, that's the only bit I like
the Jelly and the cold custard. I just eat all.
I'll eat the whole trifle without any puppies.
Yeah, He just goes back to childhood trifle.
It's one of those. He's a definite like from my
childhood families making it around Christmas time.
It was always a yeah. That was always my job was to

(01:07:51):
make the trifle. I've just got visions of people
listening to this now and the next time you stop off at Tesco
or Sainsbury's and they'll be straight down that trifle aisle,
trifle. Oh, we haven't, we haven't.
Is this the? Second time as well.
That's why this show. Yeah, maybe they do more
sponsorship. Please Asda and.
Morrison Other supermarkets are available.

(01:08:12):
Oh yeah, I think we should starttalking about Waitrose.
Yeah, let's talk about. Waitrose, parts of Spencer's
food call. Yeah, but of course there is
obviously the Rose and Crown andthere's a dining hall part of
the Rose and Crown and there is the pub part of the Rose and
Crown. So, Ben and Becca, have you been
to the Rose and Crown? Shut up.

(01:08:36):
No. Are you joking me?
Also, the most we've got to is walking by and I'm.
Sorry, I don't mention. This a few times before.
We have been sure before on the show, but no, we've never been
to the Rosen crowd. How many times have you been to
Walt Disney World? Yeah, but why do you ever use
this tiny? Dirty.

(01:08:59):
It's one of the key bits. Nah, I'm not.
Nah, I've not been in either. Don't worry, we've not been in
our 15. Been in the pub?
And you've never been. In this might be our 16th.
I don't think I'm. Gonna have to have proper
counter if you. If you're a regular listener and
you're driving. We've never eaten and you know.
I have eaten it. We might be pre gaming our.

(01:09:19):
Own I feel like we need an extrashow.
We need an additional show whereit's like in the.
Southern we haven't done. More Disney Welsh.
If someone's if someone's driving and listening to
listening. To something.
We do apologise, you know it's taken to this.
My dad's been to the rising Crown, OK, I I don't see the
appeal. I don't see the appeal at all.

(01:09:40):
I can go to a pub back home. Why am I going to do that when
I'm in America? Because they do a decent drink
as opposed to do. You know there's a Margarita
stand around the corner of Mexico, right?
Yeah, they don't always want a Margarita.
And you know it's. Not a regular day?
Great. Ball where the.
Bridge. Yeah, yeah, sometimes what you
want is a pint of Strong. Yeah, I'll never want that.

(01:10:03):
Player. I'll never want that.
It's one of the, yeah, I mean, like.
Simon, I've missed this 16 times.
We we've had a drink, but not from the Rose and Crown.
No, we've had a drink from the. The stand outside the.
Stand when they did the Yeah. Stand.
Outside, which is a freedom wine, not one of the festivals.
And the they? Didn't assume I could be a
stand. Outside, yeah, like Simon said
before about if you'd been in the States for probably more

(01:10:25):
than a week and you're sick to death of Disney fries, If you've
been drinking American beer for more than a week, you are very
much glad of a quick trip into the the Rosencram.
Even if you even if you drink something that you wouldn't
normally do a really nice pint of Bass.
I would never ever go to a pub in the UK and buy a Bass hand

(01:10:47):
pulled out but it's really nice over. 5 bats anyway.
Is that is that because the there aren't any pubs that serve
bats in the UK anymore? Bats and harp.
See, this is the reason to make sure that anyone listening or
watching is subscribe to all of our social media because you
never know when we're going to step into the Rose and Crown in
August. Get a pint of.

(01:11:10):
Don't start. On that, but yeah, so the
raising Crown, the dining room actually, if you're looking for
somewhere to sit and eat and watch the fireworks, have an
amazing. View food's pretty good as well,
Claire, to be honest. Yeah, we we did for my.
I've not eaten. Any my my birthday, my 50th in

(01:11:30):
2019. We went there and the the Scotch
egg was superb, most of the highlight.
Excellent, excellent. I have eaten in there.
I ate there. And again, it was because my
friend was working in there to get a discount.
So we went in to eat and it was all right.
I don't think we got any discount on top of, I think we

(01:11:51):
just used the annual part. I might have had the tables in
Wonderland card at that point. Actually, I think we we had
1020% off. But yeah, it was, it was fine.
I went with American people. So they were, again, as a
British person, I don't see the point in going and eating an
American version of a British vet food.
Yeah. So, yeah, yeah.

(01:12:12):
And then around the UK pavilion,there is a few cool things like
there's the phone booths, 3 phone booths, like how many
people can be squishing the phone booth.
That's a nice teenage day. Their favorite teenage game from
the UK, the refurbished toilets,they're very nice.
And I think, you know, there arelots of places around the lagoon

(01:12:36):
edge to watch. Fire and even the bridge between
the UK and. France is a.
Really good place to just hang out and actually get a decent
view of the fireworks. The one thing as well, I think,
I think we learned this last year, Claire, was when you get
to the cross, it's it's like thetown cross in the centre of the
roadway opposite the Rose and Crown.

(01:12:58):
If you look at it carefully, it's actually a sundial and we
hadn't been totally aware of that until we actually went and,
and just sussed it out rather than walking past it and just
thinking, Oh well, there you go.It's like the town cross, but
it's actually, it's actually a sundial.
And again, one of them things that loads of people just

(01:13:19):
missed. Yeah, I missed.
I'm sorry. There is a Alice in Wonderland
meet. And Mary Poppins is
occasionally. And Mary Poppins.
Often. Oh, I've never met Mary.
Yeah, Oh yeah, Mary meets Brand mind.
Yes. Yeah, around the back.
Again, it's not an easy one. To the back for the.
To plan for, because it seems tobe one of them ad hoc ones.
Alice is a little bit more prominent next to the Anne

(01:13:43):
Hathaway cottage. Yeah, but.
Tea caddy, Yeah. Yeah, I think you could find the
times on the app, on the app andit gives you gives you the times
to meet Mary as well. Yeah, we even met Mary Poppins.
Actually, she was just outside the Rose and Gran.
Oh, really? Yeah.
She gives. Sometimes she moves there if the
sun is in the wrong place and. It's too hot.

(01:14:06):
You're suggesting that Mary Poppins be to the Rosie crowd
before you. That's it.
The that would be a great, that would be a great attraction.
Afternoon session with Mary. A little bit of a shout out as
well, because actually there wasa lovely lady who used to play

(01:14:27):
piano in the Rose and Crown. Yeah.
And she was just, absolutely. She was, again, just one of
those characters that just brought together that whole sort
of old British pub mentality. And yeah, no longer is she.
She's no longer playing piano. Take a quest to play nobody.

(01:14:47):
No, she does play in the lobby of the Grand Floridian now and
again. So OK, we're nearly there.
Let's get a quick transatlantic flight to Canada or in our
family is we would call it Canadian.
I don't know why. It's just one of those things.
I mean, the Canada Pavilions hada recent update with a new area
that has opened, which I do havesome photos of that I would put

(01:15:10):
in the daughter's arms. But as you come into the
pavilion, you've got a big stageand left hand side that's had a
number of different things on itand in it over the years.
Currently I don't think anything's in it sadly, but
there was an off kilter for a long time which were amazing and
then there was the IT was it. Was the wood cutter thing,

(01:15:30):
wasn't it? It was just like I.
Don't mean that. What was that?
That's still the wood. I don't know what on earth that
was all about. Yeah, bizarre.
Chopping wood to music. Yeah, yeah.
So, but as you walk through there, there's then the the
photo op on the left hand side, which got like the totem poles

(01:15:52):
and then the the, but the masks where I think there's like 5
different holes in the board andpeople stick their faces in like
the the two car masks for the various things.
It's quite cool. I think everyone's done that at
some point. If you haven't next time.
And then if you go up the stairson the left hand side there you
get to a couple of shirts. They get a couple of shops.
You've got the training points post and the Northwest

(01:16:14):
Mercantile. I do quite like those shops.
They've got some cool stuff in them.
Have you been in there? Yes, Rebecca.
Yes, have been in there, broughtsome merchandise from in there
as well. Did you did you buy the Beaver
No and the Beaver plush? We didn't buy the plush.
No, we've got a Husky plush. I'm not going to say they have

(01:16:42):
some cool clothing though. I think Morgan bought AT shirt
last time we were in there and they had like cool.
Like if you think of what was that TV show due South, which is
like all the Canadian, I mean, that's going back, that's going.
Back along. I'm slightly disappointed they
don't have like a Mountie costume for people to try on or

(01:17:02):
even a Mountie photo op that youjust stick your face in that
little seaside was that would becool, Rocky and Bullwinkle
style. I know that's at the park.
And then that new area that has opened at the top of those
steps, which is the the new DVC selling area which has been
opened in the building that is built that has been there all

(01:17:25):
the time. It looks like Chateau Laurier in
Ottawa, which is the the, the hotel with like the green roof
in Ottawa. But within that is now the
downstairs bit where you walk inis now the DVC lounge area where
they use it to talk to potentialDVC buyers.

(01:17:45):
And they have a bar area, they have drinks, they have snacks
and very cool round there. Like there's also a high
skirting all the way around. There's a little train that
travels around the outside of the building constantly.
I've got a little picture and a video.
Of that that I will share that. Robin took when we were in
there. It's interesting that they've

(01:18:05):
put ADVC someplace that you can purchase in a park because it
used to be like, oh, you you'd go to the stand and they would
chunk in the back of the van, take you to a resort and tell
you to buy it. It does.
I think they're probably gettingreally good footfall there
because, you know, give it 40 minutes, they're done and dusted
and then move on. And.

(01:18:26):
Yeah, yeah. And the upstairs, yeah, in
there, that's, it's a nice environment.
And you go upstairs in the lift and you come out and it's the,
it's a mock up of the inside of the Polly Tower, The new, the
Polly new rooms. Yeah.
So it's a one bedroom that got mocked up in there.

(01:18:47):
And it's, it's really lovely, actually.
It's a nice environment. I still didn't buy DVC, but I
want you know, I was very happy to listen to her and get my
$100.00 gift card. Yes.
Just same people. So that's up there.
There's also some new because they put that bit in size,

(01:19:07):
they've actually put some new restrooms at the top as well.
So there is a restroom sort of all access restroom.
So if there are people who have mobility needs and like there is
a nice restroom up there, however you have to go upstairs
to get to it. That seems like an oxymoron.

(01:19:28):
Yeah, someone didn't think it's really.
It's like someone's designed it and gone, oh, we don't know
where it's going, but this is the design for it.
And like, someone hasn't gone like this must be on the ground
floor. I don't remember there being any
slope to get up to it that you could wheel a wheelchair or Dr.
AECP or anything. And then there are some steps
down at the back that will take you round to the back by the

(01:19:49):
waterfalls. So that would that would bring
you down by the by the waterfalls, which are beautiful
photo op if. They're turned on.
I'm sure there's a switch of my backstage to turn some on and
off that leads into the sort of the like the underground area,
which is where they have the theshow, which is now Canada Far

(01:20:11):
and wide Circle 360 film narrated by Catherine O'Hara
and. Eugene Levy, isn't that.
Yes, that's it. I mean, I miss some I miss
Martin Short, Let's Face It, andoh, Canada, but it's still an
amazing film and I think have. To say haven't seen it.

(01:20:33):
Have you seen it back background?
I think we would. It was playing, it was playing.
Last time we went into that areait was the apple cider thing for
Hidden Wine Festival. It is still playing in the
background. You should make the effort to go
and watch it. It is beautiful and every time I
stand there, I feel like I need to go and visit Canada and

(01:20:54):
explore all of Canada, which is I mean it should be top
sponsored by the Canadian Tourist Board really, and then
obviously it's got Best Song. Any attraction in Walters in
certainly net cop, which is O Canada.
You need to learn all the words in French and English.
Thank you very much and seeing the harmonies lively.

(01:21:14):
I've I've got I've got to say, Iactually feel that the Canada.
Anyone who comes. Is one that is truly represented
of actually a Canadian holiday. Now this is, I'm going back
what, 2006 we had a summer wherewe did go to Canada and like
from the totem poles that are within Vancouver and is it, I

(01:21:37):
think it's Victoria Park or something and it'd be very
similar to that. But then we went to Vancouver
Island and then had the absolutejoy of going to the Butch Art
Garden and being able to see howthey've managed to replicate
that garden within the Canada Pavilion.
And it brings back memories about that trick as well.
And I just feel that that is what each of these pavilions

(01:22:02):
throughout Epcot have done quitejust incredibly well in just one
Make it like you said, Clive, making you want to go and
explore a little bit more of theculture.
But that new film that's that's within the yeah, just takes it
that little step further into the parts.

(01:22:22):
You know, Canada is the most massive country you would ever
wish. Yeah, it's it's just like you.
You can't get your head. Around it.
Canadians will drive for days togo from one side to the other.
And and and they've only just gotten like a short on the map.
It only looks if you've gone like a short distance.

(01:22:42):
Yeah, yeah. That's one of the provinces.
Is really not very far back fromVancouver, Ireland.
Now Vancouver Island isn't in Vancouver.
I'll, I'll tell you now, it's a ferry journey away and it's a
good few hours on a, on a ferry.But that was one highlight
probably of my entire life of, of seeing the world.

(01:23:02):
But when we got back to Vancouver, we then got in a car
and we travelled 4 hours to British Columbia and we went to
a place near and the, my, my mind's gone.
A place where my wife has a family.
I'll put it that way. It's close to burn.
And, and it's, it's just absolutely incredible.

(01:23:24):
But you, you, you've, you've gone nowhere on the map.
So for all your 4 hours of driving.
Yeah, it didn't, you know. Yeah.
In the, in the UK, you'd look atthat and you'd be like, oh,
you'd be halfway and Glasgow andthings like that.
Yeah. And it's just like it was
nowhere. It's, it's, it's so expansive.

(01:23:44):
It's really hard to, to reconcile how massive Canada is.
And when you, I mean, I watch that film and I'm just like, it
goes from Vancouver Island rightover to, you know, Halifax and,
and Prince Edward Island on the,on the East Coast and then
everything in between with Montreal and Ottawa.
It's so diverse. And I absolutely love watching

(01:24:05):
that film. I think it's like 12 or 13
minutes long and it's totally worth every one of those
minutes. I love it.
And in terms of food in the Canada per Villain, you've got
Le Celier, which is a fairly small table service restaurant.
Signature. And by small you mean you eat.

(01:24:25):
It's a. Surprisingly small place in
there. You're expecting this big, nice,
big plush restaurant, and it's just like, oh, it's like.
Yeah, yeah. I mean the name kind of gives it
away that you're you are in the cellar of the the building.
But it's, it's a very small restaurant and it used to be

(01:24:46):
like years ago, like so difficult to get an ADR.
It's not so hard anymore. But the food is excellent and
the service, we've had some outstanding service in that
restaurant is somewhere that I always have sort of on the back
of the plan and like, can we fitin?
Can we get there? And it often drops off just
because it's not cheap. And then if you're on the dining

(01:25:07):
plan, it's 2 credits. And it's a good use of 2
credits, but you've got to be prepared to A, be hot and B, sit
very close to some people you might not know.
Yeah, but the food's good. It's.
A different It's a difficult choice then.
Yeah, food's and then they they have the Maple popcorn stand,
Becca, if you had the Maple popcorn.
No, I I've smelled the Maple popcorn.

(01:25:28):
Embarrassment to the show tonight.
I I kind of feel that there's something about you looking.
Like. All of these cut shapes well
now. This is a bingo.
Now what can we do in? August.
You just. Need to.
There's Sammy all over again. No, we've had chicken Nuggets.
Don't worry. No, we've.
Actually been into the pavilionsand looked round the plate and

(01:25:50):
then replaced this. No, but the we've had this
conversation many times and Becca, I think it was, it was it
last month when Ben wasn't with us and you're like, no, we've
never been into the back of the Mexican, the Morocco for the No,
we've not gone back there. No, definitely haven't done
that. Very long time not right, right,
right to the back and so. There is something about the
fact that you know. Our memories are terrible.

(01:26:13):
I need to look through our photomemories and see where we've
been. Yeah.
I'm slightly suspicious that your GV Mickey waffle
credentials might be at risk here.
That's all right. Claire, you can't post it that
way. All good.
All good. You've done so well with this.
You, Claire. I'm exhausted by this, but let's

(01:26:36):
finish off Canada. I mean, I think Canada Pavilion
is beautiful and some of those gardens you get amazing photos.
Often you'll find some wild ducks floating around in there
anyway. But it is a, it is a lovely,
lovely pavilion, but it isn't very big.
So, you know, by the time you'vemade your way to the back and
past the waterfalls and got a bit of spray and then go and
watch Canada far and wide, you've kind of done all there is

(01:26:58):
there. But it is definitely worth a
walk around, even just for a moment of, you know, calm.
There are a couple of benches down by the Victoria Gardens.
You can just have a, have a little seat and a thought.
I like it. It's nice for that, definitely.
There's not many benches around Disney anymore and it's nice.
It's a nice area that's quiet. And they changed the flowers out

(01:27:20):
seasonally as well. They always look stunning.
It's a gorgeous area. So there we are.
We've made it the correct way round.
World Showcase to the end. We're still standing.
We are not even one drinking, let alone 11.
And Ben and Becca have a whole list of things to do, going back

(01:27:47):
to our review of them all. Now, having talked about all
eleven pavilions, where would your favorite pavilion be, you
think? Yeah, just.
Asking me to choose favorite child.
Well, you know I'm going to do that.
I still think. Japan, Yeah, if you.
Could go to any pavilion right now.
Right here, right now. To quote Fat Boy Slim, where

(01:28:08):
would you go? Japan Koi pond.
Just. Sit.
Relax. Sitting in it.
No, but sit next to just just enjoy the atmosphere.
I don't get a foreign out of Epcot, but no, just that area.
Just just to take in just a bit of a bit of moment big time.
Going to say Mexico. Do you like Mexico billion?

(01:28:30):
As far away from me as possible,clearly.
You both margaritas. Yeah.
And let's start to carry a caballero.
It's a cute ride and it's the air conditioned.
I I don't think I can choose I Ilove Japan and Mexico would have
been my next option. I think after that it would

(01:28:51):
probably be France because I do like the France area.
I like just hanging out in that area.
Simon. I want to pick America as mine
when born when there's if he's eat to the beat concerts are on
or voices of liberty that that pavilion always.
And it's not the good toilets after.

(01:29:12):
All good toilets. That's about coming there and
actually festival food at the American Pavilion.
I was. I always enjoy that that's on
offer, but it's always the concerts on the ammo, the
Amphitheatre and the Voice of Liberty is.
Choice of liberty in America forme is the one that just isn't
beyond compare. And I think it's I, it's same as

(01:29:33):
you, Simon, you, it becomes a standout part of the whole of
World Showcase. It's in the, it's in the right
part of World Showcase because you actually need to make the
effort to get there. But yeah, it's just it.
And for me, just go and see voices a little bit and then
just chilling out. Yeah, we'll always just plan.
We'll plan that time. So which, which Voices of

(01:29:55):
Liberty show are we going to getto?
And we'll, we'll make sure we'rearrive plenty of time for that,
that one show. And then we'll probably watch
the next one afterwards, and maybe the one after.
That you can't help it though. I think that's one of the
beauties of it. And I think that for me is one
thing to, again, if you don't make the effort to go and

(01:30:16):
explore these pavilions, then you'd miss it and you would
never, you would never know thatit was actually there.
And I think that for me is it's one of the great and the most
special finds that you ever havegoing around that car.
Claire, what about you? Yeah.
Yeah, now I was the same with you guys.
I was with Voices of Liberty in the USA without a question.

(01:30:36):
That would be my going to if someone said to me you can only
go and do one thing in all of Epcot in far above living with
the land, Guardians of the Galaxy, take me to America.
I want to watch Voices of Liberty and listen to them.
So yeah, I think that would be, that would be where where my
heart is without a doubt though.Yeah.
But do you know what Welsh Ocasehas too much time for that

(01:30:57):
thing, which I have never. Seen even in 15 trips.
So you know, there is. It's the gift that keeps giving.
Hold on a minute, but Sammy's onthe boat.
Here we go. We will happily take on the
Akai. Over, Sammy.

(01:31:18):
Well, you might have to pass. Things off the list.
I think it just goes to show, doesn't it, that there's so much
to see and do in all of Walt Disney World and people say,
well, why do you keep going back?
Surely you've seen it and done it all now.
No, you have heard this so. Like Epcot?
Why do you need 4 days in Epcot?That's why.
There you go, all the. Months.

(01:31:38):
Against the margaritas stand, and then I stand there for six
hours, get drunk and then leave.And you go sit down in the
concert halfway. Yeah, there we go.
I need a kebab. I just can't get one of those.
That's the other. UK Pavilion.
That's what they said. Kebab house and spoons.

(01:32:00):
We could revolutionize that UK pavilion would make it far more
profitable. Fights outside on a Friday
evening. Right.
Go the whole hug. Pitch and do the locktails,
yeah. We can do the.
Work we should. They should turn it over to us,
just for a little while. We see what see it.
We'll see how much money we could make.
I think it's been really cool totalk about them all and to think

(01:32:22):
about all the little details that often do get overlooked and
let us know in the chat, in the feedback, in the Kuwafa's arms,
what you think. I mean, obviously we've now
completed our little tour. I'm not suggesting we do this
for every park, but you know, it's been fun to do a little bit
of a deep dive in Simon style of, of what we would be talking

(01:32:42):
about. So thank you.
There is obviously the conversation to have around if
you were going to add another country, what would it be and
where would it be? Definitely.
I think we can keep that for a future discussion, the future
podcast or a Wednesday live show.
But. Brazil.
Yeah. Well, we already have talked

(01:33:03):
about Brazil. Yeah, Brazil.
Whatever happened to it? You started by talking about
Greece, so let's let's put that a post it note on that one to
stick a pin in it. And we will have that
conversation in the future because after all these years, I
don't think we've actually had that discussion.

(01:33:24):
So it'd be cool to to do that and maybe we can poll in no
offers, see what other people think, engage with that.
Thank you so much. I know that I've.
Hosted. You're quite proud of that,
Claire, because this was the idea.
But a massive, a massive. Thank you to you, because
actually you've. Done so much to.

(01:33:44):
Research and putting new shows together and actually without
doing that, you know, we certainly wouldn't have had the
depth of conversation that we'vemanaged to do over the past four
months. So a massive thank you to you.
And it's, but it's been, it's been really good fun And, and
actually, one of the things I'm,I'm looking forward to this
month is actually listening to the shows whilst I'm in each of

(01:34:09):
those pavilions. Because until you actually take
the time to actually understand why certain things are where
they are and why the original design was there, you kind of
just take it for granted in a way.
And I think if, if anything elseover these, you know, these past
four shows we've hopefully managed to get people to do is

(01:34:30):
actually just look at that little extra detail and that
little extra recognition that somany things are there for a
reason. But because of, because of the
lives that we lead and everyone's immediate, we don't
look at the history and we don'tlook at the actual, the reason
why it was popular in the 1st place.
And I think that that for me is something that, you know, I'll

(01:34:54):
certainly look at quite in a different way again, just to see
if there's anything we've missed.
I was trying to round up how long the shows where I think the
first one was like 2 hours and the second one was like we
hadn't three at like an hour anda half maybe.
So you're going to need a fair old day in Epcot to go through
it all. So I'm I'm looking for it if
anyone is in Epcot in August andsees Job with his headphones in

(01:35:18):
pavilions not. Till night I don't.
You're in his four by. She's used to.
She used. To it.
She'll be in the raising ground.Also, and I think this is also a
pertinent time to say, I know weset it on the Wednesday show as
well. There's so many of us being in
Orlando over the summer. And if you're a regular viewer
or listener to the show and if you see us in the any of the

(01:35:39):
parts, please do to say hello because actually it's such an
amazing feeling. You know, it happened to us last
year, but we don't know who you are.
But if you know who we are, thenplease just don't be embarrassed
to say hello. We won't buy it, I promise.

(01:36:04):
There were so many answers to that that.
Time to say goodbye then, I think.
Leave it there. But genuinely guys, it's been
amazing the last few months to talk about this stuff.
Next month, who knows, it'll be something different for
September. We'll have lots of stories of
our trips and we look forward toseeing you all on the other side

(01:36:29):
of me and Robin and Simon. You're obviously not going to
Orlando, but we'll see you on the other side of our trips.
And I'm looking forward to the rain that is there in Orlando at
the moment being gone by the time we get there because it is
unbelievably torrential. Rain.
It's raining now to get out the way before.
That's what I said. I said that someone just this

(01:36:50):
morning said, excellent, thank you very much for that video of
the rain. Please let it be done and dusted
in the next couple of weeks and then we will have it nice and
dry. So that's my hope.
But I like your thinking. In this crust.
Has to be. Optimistic yeah yeah but thank
you everyone we will be back with you in a few weeks time

(01:37:13):
we've got a show out on the 15thof August and then back in the
the 1st of September so thank you very much and there's you
know we'll see you soon we'll. See you real soon.
Now my wheels in motion and my windows open with the wind
blowing in my head, I'm driving down the highway.

(01:37:36):
Gonna do this my way. I can feel it in the.
Air, here I go.

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