Hello everyone. My name is Brogan and I am from Bournemouth here in the U.K.
Today, I am a guest vlogger for EF. I’m literally just outside the EF language school campus.
It’s a super convenient location as it’s just a short distance to the town centre of Bournemouth here.
And Westbourne is a really lovely little location, which I’m going to take you to first.
So, without further ado, let me show you around the best of Bournemouth
and some of my favourite places. I’ve lived here my whole life, so let’s go!
I wanted to start here in Westbourne because they have some really gorgeous shops -
independent little boutique shops in the precinct here.
The Westbourne Arcade is a Grade II Listed structure with Gothic style windows
and a cathedral-like entrance, built in 1884 by architect Henry Joy.
Just across the road here we have a really great fish and chips shop called Chez Fred,
so if you want some of the best fish and chips, this is the place to come in Westbourne.
There’s also a really wonderful little tea boutique here called Dots Teas.
They sell loads of lovely cakes.
The buildings here in Westbourne are really lovely.
There are loads of great little shops, restaurants and cafés here.
I’m now down in the centre of Bournemouth and this is our BH2 area, which has got brand new restaurants.
We’ve got a state-of-the-art cinema, one of the first "iSENSE" Odeon cinemas here,
which is the highest quality sound that you can get in a cinema, so that’s really cool.
You’ve got a great selection of restaurants down here.
It’s right next to Bournemouth Gardens and a short walk to Bournemouth Beach and town centre shops,
so you’ve got everything all on your doorstep in one section here.
Before we go down to the town centre, I’m actually going to take you to the Hilton Hotel.
This has a great restaurant called Spoons and Forks, but they also have the Level8ight Sky Bar.
I’m going to go up there, grab a drink, and show you how fabulous the views are from the top.
Okay, one thing to know is that they open at 3 o’clock, so I’m going to take you back there later today.
Walking down the hill here, this is our town square.
If you like sourdough pizza, Franco Manca does great pizza.
You’ve got Primark on the left with River Island and H&M.
You can go down this side as well, so there are lots of shops.
I love our high street and town centre.
Now I’m ready to show you down into Bournemouth Gardens.
This is literally the most perfect place to come and have an ice cream or a picnic.
You can walk down through these gardens.
Something that’s also worth noting is that in the winter, they literally change this into a winter wonderland garden
where they have an ice rink and little market stores where you can get loads of lovely "christmassy" treats and food.
But in the summer, it’s perfect.
There are a lot of people who come down here, as you can see, to read a book. I love it.
Here’s a nice map to show you.
That’s our BH2, and that’s the square where we were just looking at the shops.
There are more shops all the way up here, as you can see,
so some great places to go for food and shopping. Then we’ve been walking through the gardens here.
We’re here, and as you can see, it’s just a little walk further to the beach, which is where we’re heading.
To my right, they have a mini-golf course. It’s a great way to hang out with a bunch of friends.
To they left they have a bandstand and they sometimes have music.
Here they have highlights throughout the rest of the year and at the moment.
Bournemouth Friday fireworks. This is one to know if you’re around in the summer months.
We have fireworks every Friday that go up from the pier, which I’m going to show you, and they’re wonderful.
From about 9 – 10 o’clock at night, come and see the fireworks. They’re fab.
There are loads of lovely things down in Poole Quay. They do fireworks as well.
Poole is not far from here.
We’re going to go down there at some point in this vlog, so I’ll show you that.
Yeah, I love it!
More beautiful gardens. This is just such a lovely place to come down to.
And they also have Bournemouth Pavilion here, which is a fantastic location to see shows and theatre.
We do also have the Bournemouth International Centre,
which is across the hill over on that side, but now we’re going to go down to the beach.
Look at this! It’s so pretty!
I’m going to show you our beautiful, award-winning Blue Flag Beach.
We have golden sand and miles and miles of beach.
We’re going to lunch at Aruba, but before we do, we have an oceanarium just down there.
We’ve got our observation wheel as well.
And here we are. Here is our beautiful beach. Over in the distance is the Isle of Wight.
We have a zip line here that runs from the end of Bournemouth Pier onto the sand.
If you want really good fish and chips, there’s a Harry Ramsden’s there,
which does amazing lunches. Just don’t let the seagulls steal any of your chips.
To walk onto the pier, there is an admission fee if you come in the summer months.
In the winter, it’s always open. Time for lunch!
Lunch with a view. You can sit inside or outside. Here’s my menu.
I’m going to get a nice cold drink and something to eat and watch the world go by.
I’ve got some olives, some battered vegetables, and then some nachos as well.
And here’s my view, so I cannot complain!
We’re now at the top of town.
They have a great pizza place called The Stable right here.
This is a really lovely place to go. You can sit out in the gardens through there.
I really love it here. In fact, I’ll just try and show you a little bit. It’s super nice.
So here we have the church, and I’m going to take you through The Arcade to the left over here.
This is a lovely building to walk through in the centre of the town.
Here’s another great restaurant recommendation. It’s called Cosy Club and it goes right up there,
so you can go right up to the top.
They have a garden on the top and they have a great menu in there.
It’s great for brunch. This is actually one of my favourite spots. I come here quite regularly.
And they do movie nights. How cool is that?
I’m now at the Level8IGHT Sky Bar again, so we’re going to get a drink.
This is a really great place to come and admire the views.
You can see our gardens down there and the sea, the Isle of Wight just there.
I don’t know if you can see the wheel that we went and saw earlier.
Everything is really accessible and within walking distance.
That’s the town where the shops were earlier. And up there … such beautiful buildings!
I love this view. It’s really lovely at night as well,
so you must come here at night because it’s all lit up and beautiful.
It’s now the next day and today I’m going to take you to an area called Poole,
which is the next town over from Bournemouth.
It’s just a short bus drive away and very accessible via public transport.
Poole is very famous for Sandbanks Beach.
There are beautiful houses and a beautiful beach down there, so I’m going to show you that,
and Poole Quay, the high street and the shops. That area is really nice as well,
so I’m going to show you what you can expect in Poole. I love it there. It’s so nice.
I’ve come down to Poole Quay first.
We’re going to go right and I’m going to show you the Quay,
but left takes you to the Lower High Street where there’s a shopping centre and a museum as well.
We’re going to go right first and I’ll show you that. On the corner here, we have some really lovely shops.
They have the largest selection of Poole Pottery in the world here, which is worth coming and having a little look at.
There’s a little restaurant called Deli on the Quay down here
and they make the best blondies, white chocolate brownies. They’re so good!
It’s a lovely place to walk along. Look at all the boats.
These are really beautiful boats to look at. Look at that one!
They actually have a Sunseeker shipyard over there where they make superyachts just like that.
This is a nice walk up and down here. You can get your lunch on the Quay.
Here is the Brownsea Island ferry boat.
I’m actually going to drive down close to that port and show it to you later,
but you can get the ferries from here. There’s one here and one here.
They can take you to lots of different places. I’m going to show you the board,
so if you really want a day out, you can go see Old Harry Rocks and the Jurassic Coast.
It’s beautiful. This is just to give you an idea of something else
you could do if you wanted a bit more of a journey or day out on a boat.
There are lots of lovely little pubs and shops here, but mostly it’s great for coming to get a pub lunch.
Just a short walk from the quay, that’s the way to the Old Town where the shops were,
but just down this road here, I wanted to take you to something a little bit special.
This is 29 High Street and this is actually the very first, original Lush shop.
They still actually make some of the products. Some of the founders are still up there.
Now we’re down at Poole Harbour. As you can see, this is absolutely beautiful.
This is the best place if you want to try any water sports.
They have the Water Sports Academy. You can hire paddle boats.
You can go windsurfing or sailing. This is easily accessible via bus as well.
You can come down here. This is Poole Harbour. This is lovely.
I’m going to go a little bit further down and show you Sandbanks Beach as well because it’s super famous and rightly so.
Just like Bournemouth Beach, Sandbanks is an award-winning beach.
It’s Blue Flag, meaning it has one of the highest standards of beaches.
Here we are down on Sandbanks Beach.
You’re not going to be able to see very well on camera from here, but over there is Old Harry Rocks.
That’s the Jurassic Coastline, another beautiful place to come.
It’s a bit of a further journey down.
You can actually get down there by an open-top bus that goes all the way down there.
So, that’s Bournemouth Pier where we were yesterday.
That’s Sandbanks where we are today
and, as you can see, there are loads of other great little beach spots that you can go to.
But next we’re going to go a little bit further down and I’m going to show you what this is.
They have a chain ferry, which gets you across to the other side of the land,
and they also have Brownsea Island which is home to very rare red squirrels.
You see them in all the advertising because they’re so lovely to go and spot.
I wanted to show you the ferry port down here as well.
Brownsea Island is a National Trust Heritage Site and this is the information you need.
There are our squirrels. This is the boat that you can take to that side.
That’s Brownsea Island over there, which is definitely worth a visit.
There’s lots of history over there, so it’s worth researching that.
That pretty much wraps up a sneak peak of the best of Bournemouth and some of my favourite places.
So, if you are coming, let me know what you are looking forward to visiting or where in the comments below.
Make sure you subscribe to the EF YouTube channel and, if you want to see a little bit more, come over to my channel.
I’m Brogan Tate and I’ll hopefully see you very soon. Thanks for watching. Bye!