Name: Talking about visiting places 🏖️🌳✈️ Real Easy English
Uploaded: 2026-03-22T16:30:08.000Z
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Well, Beth, today we are talking about places.

We'll talk about the city and the countryside and.

So, Georgie, if you were going to visit somewhere, for example, where would you prefer to visit?

Are we talking about the UK or going abroad?

If I visit somewhere in the uk, I would usually want to go to the countryside.

That's because I live in a city, I live in London, but I'm from the countryside.

So sometimes I crave going out into a more rural area where I can see more green space, there's more wildlife.

It's almost like you need to escape the busy hustle and bustle of the city.

There are some great cities, but I have visited quite a lot of them.

And after a while, the cities are all similar, whereas the countryside, you can do different activities.

A few years ago I went to Kent and I had never been to Kent before because I'm from the north of England and Kent is in the south.

They had different kinds of buildings and architecture on the farms.

We don't have those same kind of roofs in the farms in the.

I did, but I went to the seaside because Kent also has a bit of coastline.

And, yeah, I really enjoyed visiting Kent.

And the villages are so, like, cute and picturesque.

Do you also visit the countryside in other countries?

to be honest, I would normally go to a city if I go abroad, maybe the capital city or maybe a smaller city.

But one of the reasons for that, I think, is the transport.

It's so much easier to get a train or a bus when you're in a city.

And you'd have to hire a car, I think, to visit a village or something like that.

Usually if you go abroad, you fly to an airport.

And the airports are usually closer to the city.

And if you only have a few days in a place, it's easier to just stay in the city.

It's also, I guess, easier to do lots of activities in the city.

When you visit and try out lots of the local restaurants, everything is closer together.

Well, I'm just thinking if, if you're in the city, you can like, search on your phone for really good restaurants really easily.

I don't speak Italian, it would be really difficult, I think, for me to find a good restaurant because I wouldn't know where to go.

Sometimes it's the locals in the countryside that are able to tell you this.

Let's recap the language we used in this conversation, starting with countryside, land outside of towns and cities where there are not many buildings.

We can also describe this with the adjective rural and hustle and bustle, the busyness and noise that you find in the city.

We had picturesque, which means pretty or beautiful, and

we often use this to describe a place and visits to go somewhere for a short time.

That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.

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