You’ve Not Seen France Until | Motorhome Trips, Blois France

You’ve Not Seen France Until | Motorhome Trips, Blois France

Apparently now we’re going to his house for lunch which is very very generous considering you don’t know if we’re ax wiing Maniacs or anything I know is a little bit crazy but yeah well why not yeah although having said that you’re not an xfer Maniac are you sorry good morning good

Morning you’re still eating Al is still having breakfast we’re in a place called BL BL BL sorry on the by the way you thought I butchered names in Spain when I learn how to speak some Spanish proun Spanish FR in French I haven’t got a chance but

We’re parked here we’ got quite a nice place last night to stay cuz we’re right by the L good effort check me out yeah River and this is BL on the L we’ve uh come over to the other side of the river come over the beautiful bridge and first impressions of this place is it looks stunning absolutely gorgeous that’ll be four in a row oh five oh oh God so many tangs it’s a mustang gang it’s a mustang gang which

Way are we going darling yeah yeah which way in here I think we’ll perhaps go that way up around this maybe curvy corner here oh but I really really want to go that way oh up this little sidey there oh yeah this place we’re going to have

To stop on our way back through as well cuz there’s going to be too much for us to see in one day and yeah which way we going to go time scales I don’t we going to have to pick one I’m going to have to

Check the map and see well the shadow is that way yeah the the Spire is either a the big interesting stuff is in this direction I say we go in this direction but there’s also big interesting stuff that way well this is very different to what we’re used to yeah but it’s pretty

Really pretty I like this gorgeous and the one thing I look I’m going to say this a few people have made comments about the lack of people in our videos as in population locals yeah we don’t do this deliberately we’ve just kind of gone off around one of the side streets

And oh we kind of do do it deliberately because the streets that we like are the less popular streets kind of where people live and the older Parts rather than the shopping streets Oh and and look There oh gosh I presume we’re around down here it’s Baron cocktail of St James down there wow H they’re all a moss what’s that all over the Walls whatever it is normally you say a bar or something yeah it’s currently closed gorgeous little Courtyard though it’s stunning isn’t it so I I just turned around and went about this this stunning I don’t what you call it the wooden concrete wall there and has run

Down the road and what did you say haaha straight B out here yeah look at that that’s stunning isn’t it beautiful all the old [Laughter] woodwork so you just turn around and somebody somebody’s put Donkey Kong on the side of their house Princess Peach says help at the top oh I like that I the fact we’ve only literally just got into this it’s a city isn’t it it’s a city well it’s a city

City is and we’re already yeah there’s too much to see it’s going to be isn’t there we’re going to have to stop again on the way home on the way home well the way back to Spain on the way out yeah Monument Historic Hotel sardini oh okay so we’re just wandering down the

Road oh no and and this gentleman soorry what’s your name Flo Flo yeah just goes do you want to come and see a wonderful seller yes we do that would be fabulous is old the build building C yeah yeah in the uh behind the the the town yeah okay okay okay oh let’s

Uh smells nice so this is under the history of town yeah and you can see this is oh sorry wrong way and oh my word in the during 1980 it was a diso yeah yeah wow it was uh this it was lost and then we we make

It cleaner and try to do to do this fabulous there’s a sign on the wall just just a little further that says that the town houses were me built on top of these see all the stones are I it’s incredible it’s fabulous this is look at the ceiling oh that’s amazing Wow glorious oh you see the association you see le le means you know the the vaults yeah the Vols the perfect thank you so much thank you so much have a nice sing out on very much appreciated thank you so much bye that was really lovely yeah cuz you

Just saw us walking by and just went do you want to come and see my sell I think we should have been a little bit worried about that hey what a place thoughful stun location however I think we can go that way or that way and then left so

Whichever okay we do seem to have kind of got into a bit more of a Central Area yeah it’s back onto the kind of main part is it depends whether you want to go back roads or main roads really back roads that way this is going to be another one of those sore

Neck towns is it as in you get a sore neck cuz all we’re constantly doing is looking around everywhere cuz there’s just too much to say it’s also very Grand first off the gentleman invites us to go and see his seller then he’s just pulled up alongside Us in his car and um

Apparently now we’re going to his house for lunch which is very very generous considering you don’t know if we’re ax wiing Maniacs or anything I know the it’s a little bit crazy but yeah oh why not yeah although having said that you’re not an xor in Maniac are you

Sorry I apologize first for my English which is not perfect but I try to do my best oh oh your English is so much better than our friend French yeah to be fair your English is better than my English and I’m English we’re officially apparently in the very last house of how

Do you say the town’s name BL oh sorry the name of the city town here is BL BL BL and this is a really old farmhouse that’s been passed down the generations and they’ve invited us in let’s go and I presume your wife knows we’re coming yes mushroom border mushroom from the

Forest just here perfect maybe I put a little bit too much a Mushroom oh that’s good okay well that was a bit of a surprising turn to the day and a very lovely one yeah guys um thank you so much for your hos way and Beyond to drive us all the way out to your beautiful house and feed us with some

Incredible food including those special Budan blank buan blank white buan sausages which were really lovely pork and milk and herbs that was stunning that’s really made my day what hasn’t made my day though is that now we’ve come back out it’s it’s doing W somewhat moist in

The world yeah so I think what we’re going to do soon as they very kindly then dropped us back down here to Cathedral a cathedral s Lou here which looks absolutely incredible but we’ll have a look in a second we’ll go in first I think and maybe have a look around in there

And keep dry and warm for a sec oh look at the stained glass windows already just got to keep keep the noys down So sorry about the lens by the way I mean it is getting very wet and very rainy at the moment but wow you can still just about make out the camper yeah just over in the the far distance over here there’s our home River because this is a really

Beautiful rose garden yeah that doesn’t look its best well it kind of is cuz you’ve got the help we’ve got all kinds of splashes all over the lens either and my glasses and my face and my hands and everything else I don’t know what to do I

Mean it’s raining it’s making it very difficult to keep the lens clear and very difficult to see where I’m going my eyes are covered in water and but we do have a bit of a a leeway cuz we did actually do yesterday we did a kind of double stint cuz we missed out

One of the locations and came straight here we’re kind of a day ahead so we do potentially have the option to stay here tonight and try again in the morning and try again in the morning cuz this is silly with the the weather but we’ve seen the cathedral

Which is lovely and was there’s the cathedral I can’t really put the lens up there too long or else it gets covered already oh did you see the Jon AR statue I didn’t see the Jone of AR statue just just at the end of the Rose Garden at

This level cool so yeah we we we should have walked a little bit what we going to do now what do you reckon we are now going to walk through the city to the chatau chatau the BL cuz it’s indoors it’s indoors away from the r

Yes and we can keep dry and keep you guys dry yes hopefully the last video I don’t know let’s run so the rain’s not stopping no but this is very pretty it’s lovely actually look your glass is almost as bad as this lens I can’t see

Very much to be fair but there’s no point be drying them because they keep getting wet again yeah it’s very pretty I like this yeah and you can uh see all the way through that’s the bridge we came in over there isn’t it it

Is yeah and on a good day yeah from the top of there you can see all the way down here all the way down this street over the bridge and the road the other side of the bridge is as straight as this is I’m sure it’s Roman But You Can

See For Miles yeah we drove in on some roads yesterday excuse my hood malfunctioning again we drove in on some roads yesterday and they were just dead straight for miles upon miles upon miles then you suddenly took a 45° turn and then hit another dead straight road for

Miles so yeah I think you’re right there Roman influence there yeah come on let’s go find the Chateau cuz your lips are going blue so we’ve made it to the Chateau there also seems to be some kind of Christmas fair thing up here mer yeah a Poss little uh

Like Christmas Market stalls darling H you said you wanted to see another Christmas Market I did but this isn’t quite what I had in mind oh I was thinking more of Amen with its 130 stalls best is gredy I know oh what do you want to do first

Should we go in have a look or do you want to have a look uh just trying to think of a way of getting a bag to put my fabulous tin in yeah to explain the tin if you saw our video from carass carcasson this is a

Fabulous brand of tea and I fell in love with all the tins and today Mary had this particular Lely people that just fed us at lunchtime this this version and gave me the tin to match my beautiful pink one for the tea of love this is uh honey and lavender

By the way if you notice the the plastic bag Alison’s carrying around it’s cuz we actually went in there’s a a cookie shop like a French Cookie Shop and we went in there really to buy something cheap to get you a bag to carry a tea around in

Well I I could have if I could buy a bag yeah and then we got sold because she made us taste them mhm some very overly expensive cookies but were they your Gorge were they they were there yeah were they gorgeous or were they gorgeous they were lovely very

Expensive and now we’ve got some very expensive bags and very expensive cookies we’re going to go into a very expensive house it’s a former Palace my love it’s not just any house it’s been downgraded now to a chatau or Castle but it’s and I’ve just downgraded it to a house yeah and an

Expensive one at that so we’ve come into this Shadow and not cheap €14 a person to get in here um and the ladies coming across to say hello no engl no English no not Spanish meru meru so yeah we we’ve come into the chatau and it cost us 14 but and we’re speaking

All kinds of languages that we confus entertaining for the 28 we paid and though talk about modern yeah tablet we get we get a little tablety thing to guide us around the it tells you stuff yeah so you’re you’re in charge of that I’m in charge of just looking at this incredible

Building I mean this is just stunning look at that I want to go and see that staircase the spiral staircase built on or on or everra it’s like an orve without the duh uh in other words outside of the building according to the medieval tradition however its DEC Decor

Even is characteristic of the Renaissance So this will be that staircase this is the inside of the SC this is the spiral thing this looks really cool really all late as well yeah goes up to the Royal Apartments oh we can’t go any further than this then we got to go into the Royal apartment oh push open oh you T there’s a Latch look at the old piano o that’s a bit special Yeah well this is a bit um fancy at the yeah look at the ceilings yeah is that painted don’t know looks painted doesn’t it on the beams I would say that’s actually tapestry over wood you think look what does your tablet say it is yeah it doesn’t well it might

Do but not to me very short bed yeah we saw that somewhere house didn’t we we saw a bed and I think I remember commenting how tiny it was I think that was the Pope’s bed in the bouris not bouris bour Palace yeah same era but considering that’s a queen’s bed

That’s tiny it’s not what we class as a queen bed these days no so we’ve just worked this out these you scan and what that gives you is on the tablet thing you get this I don’t know if you can see that right but like a what it would look like

A virtual reality view of this area so if I come back a little bit there although I think it’s getting a bit confused cuz it’s looking that way but those are the stairs or there’ been more stairs at that end but the pillars go that way not that way so it’s

Not looking at quite the right Place kind of gallery seating wood galleries all the way around yeah I think that’s really quite clever I like that it’s a shame we couldn’t work it out before yeah I presume everyone’s allowed to sit on there and pretend to be there’s nothing so well everyone the

King do you want to don’t even ask what I would imagine it bearing on mind the rest of the thing I think it’s probably quite damp and I’m I’m damp enough yes that was really pretty very unfortunately now though we’ve come back out still inside the chatau in the

Courtyard bit but we’ve come back out and it’s pedling down with rain again and so looks like we’re going to get wet I don’t know if there’s any more let’s see somebody just wandered out of that door well shall we make a run for it over there then

Quickly okay oh gosh look at that well that’s a set of stairs and oh my word look at that oh you can’t go up there anyway oh you’re joking oh that’s so disappointing shame there aren’t any better lights up there but then it would have damaged the

Paint oh that would have been phenomenal to go out there Wow worth the run though well Trot yeah right I think what we’re going to do though for tonight is head back to the motor home go and get warm go and get warm cuz it’s about to get dark yeah

And we’ll see you guys in the morning and we’ll try and find you some more things to see yeah we’re back the weather’s better we’ve got some blue sky for now the weather forecast actually looks okay come see come yeah but the walk back was quite nice last night it

The the we lost the light completely it went dark and all the lights come on and the bridge was lit up and the ferris wheel and everything else look really pretty you probably noticed we’re back at the stairs that we can actually see because your glasses aren’t caked in

Water and uh yeah it’s actually really pretty it is isn’t it yeah and the problem with this camera I think Alison’s grabbed a couple of pictures the problem with this camera you can’t see things when you’re too far back but if you get back it’s actually like a

Looks just like a straight wall with a mural on doesn’t it yeah I did have to stand in the middle of the road to take a picture which is a bit naughty but there was no traffic coming yeah plan of attack now if if I’m right we’re heading back down this

Way P the chatau back to the Chateau to a church the other side uh do I believe the Basilica no the Basilica is over there a religious building we just called it a religious building the big one with the Twin Towers I see yeah the two pointy things and we’re going to

Head this way off over to the other side of the city where we’re hoping to find and there’s this amazing Church Tower we can see from the motor home and it plays the most in is it that is and it plays the most incredible dingdong Tunes MH does that

Make sense dingdong Tunes you know when a Bells go and sometimes they just ding ding it’s full on play you a tune this one we’ve uh found the two towers this is the church yeah I’m not convinced cuz the two two spikes that I saw were side by side I think this might

Be the the church church not the other Cathedral type thing cuz there’s another I’m not sure I’ll check the map this is just a church just a church just a church this is the Church of St Nicholas quite whyde they is just a church I don’t know because I think it’s fairly

Spectacular in how it’s been built yeah it could de with some love yes I do again quite like the Moss all over the walls so what though I don’t think it’s coming out on camera but there are there lights on lights on is anyone home yeah

Suppose we’ll find that out when we get around the corner and no this would not be the front it’s huge yeah that’s why I said I don’t understand why this is just classed as a church this is massive it’s enormous I mean that’s not the end it goes right

Off around there and look at the size of this compared to little Allison hey I’m 7 foot tall yes you are darling and might be open door open door we can go in think there’s a board of 900 years of history of blois wow that is a front entrance to a church oh

Goodness look at that oh my word oh it’s such a shame that this is here that’s spectacular yeah that’s a bit of a presumbly doing some restoration work I would say so I mean look at the doors the doors are dropping oh towards Center there’s doors you see

Them yeah just in this thing so you can obviously get in this balcony Gallery thing I don’t imagine they’d let us do that but I doubt it but that’s bloody lovely yeah right doors open door open door should we go in yes hello oh pad a door okay is it it

Opens there’s one door there another the door oh gosh that’s an old door oh it is disused oh there’s no pews or anything in it no there’s seating down the bottom oh yes there is I couldn’t see any I I was like what the hell gosh I should imagine the birds can get

In up the top somewhere wow it’s so quiet oh it’s cuz there’s no one else here e oh it’s awesome we can smell that damp yeah you can it smells really what’s the word you use Foy Foy I feel the floor this has been used for a lot of

Years so I’m going to put my neck out here yeah so yesterday we saw the Cathedral M and today obviously we’ve seen this and hopefully we’ll get to The Basilica as well this is in a complete different League little path but we all of a sudden we seem to be going in the wrong direction we’re trying to find this Basilica Tower this huge Tower really tall and we saw it a second ago it’s kind of over there somewhere oh there was a shortcut we

Could have taken some stairs yeah but that’s I’m going to have to look at the map I’m sorry what that well cuz I thought we just had to carry on that road and we obviously don’t yeah I got it wrong well we seem to be going around in circles we’ come

Down a road sorry we come down a road over the top here come through a path down to here yeah you’ve checked them map and it like we had to cuz we got to go over there there’s the Tower actually we were heading there see top of the tower look

Yeah but this just kind of loops around doesn’t it yeah but on the map where that gate is is a path through and up right and it’s clearly not a path through and up so we’re going to have to walk probably around here aren’t we and then back up the

Road yeah to the top to the top and then cut across from there there it is yay I think we’ve actually managed to find it from this angle it does just look like a bit of a oh it’s a very modern concrete very modern building but it’s the bells fingers

Crossed so oh what that we could not have we didn’t do that on Purpose don’t you think that’s such a pleasing tone yeah by the looks of what we can see the inside that Tower is pretty much Hollow it’s empty isn’t it yeah and imagine those bells are echoing all that’s like a giant speaker I’m going to say that’s ugly

That’s modern yeah it is just a big old concrete block and Allison’s Allison’s right she said I’m going to run across the road quickly that the walls they pretty much are they look like they’re just Pebble dashed yeah Pebble Dash W my nan dad’s mom used to have the house

They lived in used to be Pebble dashed all down the side it just reminds me of that although I did think I saw the door open by the way well let’s go and have a look at least fingers cross the insides maybe a hopefully a bit better just

Remember just because it’s not to our taste doesn’t mean it’s ugly okay I the inside was it was okay M the the they had some material coming down which actually gave it something it did look quite pretty with that softened the roof and yeah they got some stained glass windows but which are

Phenomenal it is just inside it’s just concrete and not even particularly well presented concrete it’s not like it’s you know it’s Pol what is it polish concrete you polish concrete we see it like in Spain and make it at least look semi aesthetically pleasing it was just rough as ass

Concrete you know the phrase you can’t polish a tur right with that in mind shall we head down the set of stairs that we saw by the way which should probably been the easier way to get up here yeah and you want to go and find a waffle a

Go go and a drink yeah yes indeed right so I’ve just had a really important thought here what’s that so I’ve just um made derogatory comments about the house of God you have and now I’m going to be walking down a slippery slope oo if he does exist he might get

Revenge on me right here right now this could be the proof or it could just be your wife giving you a little bit of a push love you made it I’m not sure what that says What A Place St considering we never make meant to make a video here we really have to

Be fair this video for me has in everything I wanted from us touring the world in the motor yeah stumbling across amazing new places meeting some incredible people you know who you are yeah I I cannot praise this place enough we will be back Shame about the weather

Yesterday and we will come back when the weather is better yes indeed but for now this is probably going to be our last video from France isn’t it I think so yes yeah what we got to doing there is find you some golf raids which I

Think we’ll have to wait a couple of days Alison’s got plan for us to stop off at a Christmas Market a little bit closer to Cal yes fingers cross oh there must be some find some there but for now we’ll see you next Sunday take care see

You next Sunday care bye bye minute with and I don’t even know stay me Sun TI now open your eyes to F to we

While touring through France in our motorhome we stumbled across the city of Blois on the edge of the Loire Valley and it offers us exactly what we expected from France. Plus a special surprise from a couple of random locals.

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