31:55 Non par contre quelques dizaines de mètres plus loin un terroriste islamiste a tué une petite centaine de personnes (de mémoire, 89 morts et des centaines de blessés sur "la promenade des anglais") avec un camion pendant nôtre fête nationale… (Il n'y a pas si "longtemps")
About the Michelin's guide it's a fun story. At first it was a marketing move : when you bought a michelin's tire you would receive a guide about mechanics and doctors. It was in 1900 and especially for cyclist because there was only 2400 car drivers at that time in all of France. Then hotels and later good restaurants where to go on your journey were added . It was such a success that they did a proper guide available at sell with a star rating system. Today it still exist and when you see one or several stars on a restaurant, it's Michelin's guide stars.
And yeah it's a French compagny, fouded by two brothers. Michelin it's they first name, and they are the inventors of the tire
At 29:07, it's not stinky nor plagued by mosquitoes because this is not a pond but a river. The only thing is that the river was unlarged to be more prettier. I never been there during the summer, but I went several times and there was no problem with stinkyness or mosquitoes.
About why there is not more people on the French Riviera, you have to keep in mind that France is way up North than you may have though, so there is real winter, and even if it's rather mild in the south, for most people it is good for swimming only 4 to 5 month in the year, especially for those who live there.
For example at Nice the average temperature during winter is arround 10°C (50 F) and the water is arround 15°C (59 F). And it is also way more rainy in autumn and winter than any other places in the US.
To realize how North is France, the Southern tip of Corsica is a little bit North of New York, and if all of continental France is North of Detroit, so even if the Mediterranean and the oceanic currants make it way more hot than Canada, there is still a winter.
In France at least most currently built houses have structural walls in concrete and internal walls built out of panel of plaster (plasterboard). There are more and more wooden houses, and some iron frame ones but I think that internal walls are always out of plasterboard.
So the houses built the old way are generally old, even if some of them could have been renovated. I never heard of a half timber house beeing built recently, and new stones ones in the old way may exists but I don't have example. Keep in mind that's my perception, and I don(t know all the new houses being built.
At 58:58 you say that if villages are built on top of hills is for fortification purposes, but this is not the only goal of building up hills. It was also a way to avoid mosquitoes that infest the valleys and the malaria that came along with them. And it also a way to avoid fast floods that are frequent in the south of France, arround the Mediterranean
When you add the fact they had a way of farming that allow to farm a lot of things on steep hillsides, that means that building on the top of the hill isn't to far from they field, and they keep the best lands for cereals free (the valley in the plain), building this way has a lot of advantages.
But in the rest of France, villages tend to be along the valleys, generally at the limit of the flood plain, or in the middle of the fields
Nothing about the north of France… It's a common mistake of US videos… Picardie has 6 gothic cathedrals and thousands of châteaux, Arras in Pas-de-Calais is a beautiful city with its 2 places with arches, Lille and her half-french / half-flamish architecture is stunning too …
Does this lady have something against Burgundy, Franche Comté and the heart of France ? Luckily, not everyone has the spirit. Despite that, nice video.
36:31 Technically Monaco is a principality but there is a minister appointed from France in the government and without heir's it would automatically go under French sovereignty . You can say it's France's tax heaven 😂
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thank you for this walk. Coucou d'Alsace
I hope Trump Tower never becomes iconic lol
Neat! 😎
Amazing how much geographic variety there is in France!
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31:55
Non par contre quelques dizaines de mètres plus loin un terroriste islamiste a tué une petite centaine de personnes (de mémoire, 89 morts et des centaines de blessés sur "la promenade des anglais") avec un camion pendant nôtre fête nationale… (Il n'y a pas si "longtemps")
About the Michelin's guide it's a fun story. At first it was a marketing move : when you bought a michelin's tire you would receive a guide about mechanics and doctors. It was in 1900 and especially for cyclist because there was only 2400 car drivers at that time in all of France. Then hotels and later good restaurants where to go on your journey were added . It was such a success that they did a proper guide available at sell with a star rating system. Today it still exist and when you see one or several stars on a restaurant, it's Michelin's guide stars.
And yeah it's a French compagny, fouded by two brothers. Michelin it's they first name, and they are the inventors of the tire
At 29:07, it's not stinky nor plagued by mosquitoes because this is not a pond but a river. The only thing is that the river was unlarged to be more prettier. I never been there during the summer, but I went several times and there was no problem with stinkyness or mosquitoes.
About why there is not more people on the French Riviera, you have to keep in mind that France is way up North than you may have though, so there is real winter, and even if it's rather mild in the south, for most people it is good for swimming only 4 to 5 month in the year, especially for those who live there.
For example at Nice the average temperature during winter is arround 10°C (50 F) and the water is arround 15°C (59 F). And it is also way more rainy in autumn and winter than any other places in the US.
To realize how North is France, the Southern tip of Corsica is a little bit North of New York, and if all of continental France is North of Detroit, so even if the Mediterranean and the oceanic currants make it way more hot than Canada, there is still a winter.
In France at least most currently built houses have structural walls in concrete and internal walls built out of panel of plaster (plasterboard). There are more and more wooden houses, and some iron frame ones but I think that internal walls are always out of plasterboard.
So the houses built the old way are generally old, even if some of them could have been renovated. I never heard of a half timber house beeing built recently, and new stones ones in the old way may exists but I don't have example. Keep in mind that's my perception, and I don(t know all the new houses being built.
At 58:58 you say that if villages are built on top of hills is for fortification purposes, but this is not the only goal of building up hills. It was also a way to avoid mosquitoes that infest the valleys and the malaria that came along with them. And it also a way to avoid fast floods that are frequent in the south of France, arround the Mediterranean
When you add the fact they had a way of farming that allow to farm a lot of things on steep hillsides, that means that building on the top of the hill isn't to far from they field, and they keep the best lands for cereals free (the valley in the plain), building this way has a lot of advantages.
But in the rest of France, villages tend to be along the valleys, generally at the limit of the flood plain, or in the middle of the fields
Nothing about the north of France… It's a common mistake of US videos… Picardie has 6 gothic cathedrals and thousands of châteaux, Arras in Pas-de-Calais is a beautiful city with its 2 places with arches, Lille and her half-french / half-flamish architecture is stunning too …
Does this lady have something against Burgundy, Franche Comté and the heart of France ? Luckily, not everyone has the spirit. Despite that, nice video.
For génériques cartoons 🇨🇵🍻🇨🇦
36:31 Technically Monaco is a principality but there is a minister appointed from France in the government and without heir's it would automatically go under French sovereignty . You can say it's France's tax heaven 😂