It's interesting that Tyler thinks card readers are advanced technology when most people in the UK think of them as clunky and out of date.

From what I gather (I've never been to America so I could be wrong)  In the US, it seems it's quite normal for a waiter to take your credit card away to process your bill at the counter.  Here in the UK, the waiter will have a portable card reader with them so they can process the transaction right in front of you.  Anyone that wants to take your card out of your direct sight will immediately be suspected of cloning the card behind your back.  

Here in the UK it's normal to have your eyes on your card , at all times, if it's not in your pocket.

I think the root of travel insurance is when you come from a country where you get healthcare for 'free', you are very aware that if you travel to a country where that doesnt apply, you need to have something in place instead.

We have travel insurance in Canada and I'm surprised that people in the US have no clue.

I get travel insurance before visiting the US because the cost for medical treatment there is astronomical

To many of us in the UK, gardening is a passion.   We have front gardens and back gardens, or just window boxes or patio tubs to fill each Spring.   The Garden Centre doesn't just offer plants for sale, but advice about the plants themselves - where they would best be planted - in full sun or partial shade etc.,  how long they flower and so on - but they also sell everything you need for them, like compost, nutrients, tools, garden furniture, large pots and sometimes garden sheds.   We like to go there - well I do - and saunter around the outside displays and sections with a trolley (cart) and, if with friends or family sit down after we have loaded the car and have a cup of coffee/tea and a cake, or if its near lunchtime, a meal.   Usually the Garden Centres are just outside the town and a very pleasant place to be.

British eggs used to be mostly white because brown egg layers laid fewer eggs.  I worked, in the 60s, on a chicken breeding farm.  They were breeding "Code 20" hens, an official breeding programme to create more prolific brown egg layers.  You can still get white or blue-green eggs from special breeds in supermarkets.

As a Brit I’ve travelled around the entire world twice, been to Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore and Hong Kong as well as most European countries and the USA. Of course you need travel insurance in case you have an accident or get sick, or lose your cases, it’s a necessary safety precaution.

Travel insurance as a Brit was very important for me too, my mum got pancreatitis in the states, and thankfully it only cost us £100 for the insurance rather than the $30,500 it would’ve cost.

Imagine going to America with no Travel Insurance and getting sick or having an accident. Blimey!  You would probably have to sell your home!!  😳

As a Canadian who has always travelled with travel insurance, I am so grateful I was well covered when I caught a skin infection that sent me to hospital intensive care for10 days.  Not only was I completely covered for an ambulance, my care, my procedures, my room, my drugs, but also additional plane flights, hotels, etc..  Until I got home and was able to use our own Canadian universal healthcare. We are not into paying out of pocket and going bankrupt, so we all get travel insurance.

I knew an American nurse who took her mother on holiday to Thailand. Were she fell ill. The nurse totally freaked out, because she knew that it could cost thousands and thousands of dollars to medivac her home to the US without travel insurance. Her mother did recover, and was apparently oblivious of all the drama she caused. Then there is also the cost of repatriating a body, if somebody dies abroad without travel insurance.

I love garden centers, the atmosphere, the smells, the cakes, the tea, the genteelness of it all, the knowledgeable staff, there isn't a more pleasant place on earth.

I spent about £20 for a family insurance policy when I went to the states it covered Theft, flight and hotel cancellation personal injury and 100% of medical costs, My son needed to stay overnight in the hospital and my wife and son had to fly back a day later than the rest of us,which meant for £20 I saved myself about £8000, in medical costs and alternative transportation.

It's not just the UK that is leagues ahead, most of European countries are 😊
The travel insurances you found are crazy expensive btw, for international travel I pay about 8 to 15 euro's per week, depending on the extras (like loss of money/jewelry etc) aside the basic coverage. Healthcare abroad and repatriation is also included most of the time.

Many people in the UK make a visit to a Garden Centre a day out. Some of them are enormous, with a vast display of plants to wander about among. They include all sorts of garden equipment, furniture, sheds, statues & ornaments etc. They often have special displays at Christmas, with lights & Santa's Grottoes etc. They include outdoor clothing, furniture & anything you can think of connected to gardening. They will also give advice on what & how to grew stuff, % all things plant related. Gardening is a big thing for much of the UK population, whether they have a tiny patio or acres of land.

Note that the British don't call what's behind our houses our "yard", unless it's a rough area of hard standing. Otherwise it's a "garden" , and many Brits are fanatic gardeners!
The first proper description of our island is by Tacitus about 100 AD. He says that the weather's pretty miserable, but the land is very fertile? That's still about right

In 97 I travelled to US, Florida with the family, we got travel insurance and while over there we were hit by a rolling death machine (we call a lorry) anyway he fell asleep and we ended up in hospital, the insurance paid for all our stay in that hospital, covered all the bills, paid for our flights and compensation. As a family of 5 EVERYTHING was covered, we were flown home on a chartered flight as my wife had to remain on her back, with medical a medical team. I think it cost around $4,000,000 in just medical fees and flights. Yeah, so I never go anywhere without it, and that its quite cheep for cover.~Trooper

Here in the UK, roundabouts are literally EVERYWHERE!! They are brilliant at keeping the traffic flowing smoothly!

I have 26-year-old nephew, Sydney died in India, while travelling, it was awful, but luckily he had taken out extra insurance for his body to be flown back.

Whenever I travel outside of Canada I get travel insurance.  It covers medical expenses if I get sick, and the costs of having a relative come and be near me until I can go home.  Also, in case I should die, the cost of sending my body home is covered.  If I'm travelling by plane and the plane crashes, my surviving family members get money to make up for losing me.  Stuff like that.  There's probably more, but I can't remember it all