This twigged my memory for one of these property shows I was watching a few years ago. One of the couples were a pair of middle-aged gay Americans who were looking to buy a house in a small village over here, I suppose they wanted to walk around in tweed and drink tea in their country garden. It has its appeal I guess.
Anyway they were looking around the village and when they walked past the church one of them exclaimed "Wow, this building is like 300 years older than my country!", the whole aspect of relativity completely lost on the guy, as if notable history began in 1783