French Aires & High Fares in Vichy|Millau: Motorhome Roadtrip Europe EP 4

French Aires & High Fares in Vichy|Millau: Motorhome Roadtrip Europe EP 4

So we’re in the air in vishy and uh we slept all right last night didn’t we Gary yeah it was nice and quiet yeah we went for dinner Gary took me out for dinner for Mother’s Day which was lovely wasn’t it was ni it was really romantic

We didn’t take any video or nothing cuz it’s a romantic night so you don’t need to see what’s going on but here’s a picture of us there anyway having a lovely time so it’s all been rainy today hasn’t it oh we’re sick of the rain already we’re going to bomb it down

South we can’t stand it can we let’s get to that Sunshine here on the air and I don’t how many places are on the air darling there’s quite a few isn’t there yeah there there’s I think it said 55 55 goodness me and this is a camping car

Air isn’t it yes it’s um got a play park on it but there’s no facilities is there other than other than obviously your electric your serviceing but there wasn’t a toilet block is there no toilet block nothing nothing else and even the water at the sights is turned off and

The water at the main point there is a trickle so take a look at that ominous Cloud Gary’s got the umbrella so oh you look very British spy like so just a couple of minutes walk from the air you’ll hit this walkway and it’s right beside the river as you’ll see here it

Goes all the way along here to a bridge which will cross you into vishy City Center but just check out how fast this river is Flowing what were you saying there Bob overnight this River has risen because at least 10t closer cuz last night when we walked past it it was gone

It was beyond the end of the walkway way there was it and it’s now halfway up to walkway it is and you’ll see where those trees are there that lining of trees they’re all kind of covered aren’t that’s the that’s the edge of the grass right one thing we did notice last night

Is you can pick up a scooter here and uh Gary was looking it up last night and what did you say B so I was doing my research last night and bird is the company that operates scooters here in vishy yeah um the one main difference though is vishy they’re trying to

Control the scooters on where they’re left okay so there’s only certain areas in the town that you can leave them whereas most times you can leave them anywhere and just cut yourself off and on your app if you don’t leave them in the right place that’s geolocated you

Keep getting charged for them whilst you’ve not even got them oh you’re joking right now 28 cents per minute right but there’s more than that isn’t it there is so there’s a there’s a 1ur unlock charge one unlock right 5 deposit when you first use the app so you’ve got

€6 off your card before You’ even got it 28 cents every for every minute 28 cents a minute Co that’s crazy now we worked at was what did you say it’s was about 17 about € 17 an hour just of use wow without the deposit Etc uh but the the

Clever thing about the app is it tells me that the scooters are here and it tells me that this one has got 20 mil left on it charge and that one’s got 17 mil left on it well they can stay here darling because I mean at that price

You’d be cheaper to buy a new one along the walkway before for the bridge there’s this brilliant mural on a a restaurant called atmosphere atmosphere or something isn’t it but Gary thought these were footballers that Chef on the end there looks like can well here’s the thing footballers these days don’t we look

Like footballers did they bu models or something take a look at this see where this would have been like a little island pretty much Only Yesterday look at that bridge it’s got loads of flags going across now our plan is to head over there and we’re going to go to the

Source I think it’s the source Celestine or something is it SCE to Celestine source to Celestine which is literally just over here and you can get mineral water and I think it’s got long life and virility inside it hasn’t it Gary um let’s find out hey babes I’m making it

Up completely but I thought I was waiting for you to have some sort of reaction hoping it hasn’t got any in it don’t need any of I’m hoping it has you don’t need any we got stabilizers on the van babes honestly he doesn’t need any

Thank you very much and we don’t want to disussed all we know all we know is that there is a very fast flowing river and we’re going over a bridge so it’s quite dangerous work we’re doing they’ve got really weird looking benches here just by the river are you getting are you

Trying it hang on oh that looks so uncomfortable is it comfortable not really well you got a bag on your back though so you can’t really tell it can you the bag probably would we’re just at the start of the bridge and look they’ve got flags including a British flag there which is

Great as we’re walking on the bridge we’ve just realized haven’t we that the flags are of the other famous Spa towns in Europe so this is a very famous far town bishy but they’ve got B and Bon and of course our very own bath which is why

They’ve got a British flag up as well even if you’re not patriotic I I think y see Benny ill in it coming across a bus you through the park you have to walk through the park to get down what he a just come across a

Bustier is a buser it’s a bust a bustier is one of those things you that that they wear on YouTube do that right it’s going to say Les dawon and just like okay so now we got the word police out because since I’ve got the menopause I

Can’t get my words out properly is anybody else like this like in their mid-50s you know what you’re trying to say anyway the bust as opposed to the busty air uh here is of Marie now we believe she must be she’s a doctor so we believe she must be something to do with

These beautiful health spa and the properties to it but it’s a really pretty walk through it’s just starting to rain now um but there is some lovely daffs out already just as you come down through the park you’ll see that it’s right behind us um looks really nice

Doesn’t it yes it is and Gary reckons it’s open so we’ll pop in there and let’s go and get our healing water this is the entrance and as you would imagine it’s just beautiful there is a little notice here Gary’s using this um Google app and you can take a photograph and it

Will just translate what you’re looking at we did it with the menu last night and it was brilliant oh what does it say then okay so it says natural place of emergence of the most famous of waters of vishy really the spring takes its name from a Convent in the 15th century

Religious church built upon the rock okay um which All That Remains is a section of wall the water gushes out of the Rifts of an aragonite wow it’s beautiful honestly and if it was a really nice sunny day wouldn’t this be magic gorgeous that Sun’s streaming through those windows up there

You come up to the little fountains you seem to be able you have to push this don’t you gar you have to push this is a and that’s the spring water taste it what’s it like it’s like sparkling Evian really you I’m going to have some now so I’m

Going to have a little taste I’ve filled up my water bottle now and see what I think do you know what it tastes like like sparkling water you buy in the supermarket in fact it’s a little bit salty but it’s really nice I don’t know do I

Look any younger yet at least 15 years babes you now look 15 years old he’s a Smooth Operator is he this is really nice you should come here if you’re coming to fishy you got to pop in here it’s all free and get your free B water we got the umbrella up now

Starting to rain here in France it is a really wet day and the traffic’s quite heavy yeah glad the motor home is not down here yeah we’re pretty glad we didn’t bring the motor home down we just W you don’t really need to drive down here do you quite close with the air

Bursting for the toilet so I’ve had to resort to one of these watch after juice oh okay so I’m sounding a bit fussy here but I don’t like a dirty toilet but apparently these little to oers you have to wait 2 minutes after someone’s come

Out we’ve just heard it sort of like a load of water so it’s obviously sanitizing it isn’t it sanitizing have every user oh that makes it a lot better I oh I can pee in peace thank gosh okay so I’m just waiting for the for it to

Say it’s not occupied so you’ll notice it says it’s attending now so it’s got a little sign say it’s changeed that it’s in attendance please wait so soon as that’s finished we’ll be able to go in we just got back and it was a really nice walk wasn’t it bab was Lov but

Gary’s just realized we’ve only got 25% water left again now after all that Bloody hassle last week I know so he’s going to but the thing is they’ve got no water operating have they H they’ve they’ve got one tap but it’s uh it’s not very powerful so I’m going to have to go

And I’ve got a 5 L um container I’m just going to have to go do 10 or so trips from the tap and pour it in here to get some water in oh God as if that 2hour walk wasn’t enough so we’re just leaving it’s a

Right or ball Lake actually so what you have to do to exit is you got to remember remember to keep your ticket when you come in this one now this one you had to pay is very different than the usual ones where you tap in it comes

Off your card and uh leave the area now okay we’ve left the area but what you end up having to do is touch the screen you ask for the language of English and then you tell it you’re already a customer and then you enter your ID

Number which is on your ticket as you come in and then you tell it you’re leaving permanently which we are unless you want to leave and then come back again you can do that with that but keep that ticket don’t get rid of it so we’ve left

Fishy and we’re heading south now aren’t we babes we are we’re going on the major roads we believe this is the longest stretch of road that isn’t a toll or it has a little bit of a toll now what’s the area Milow we think Mila has a toll

For the bridge don’t we yes so we’re going to show you the famous milau bridge which is incredible when we get there a couple of hundred kilm to get there and uh we’ll stop for lunch seen a couple of signs haven’t we saying that we need snow chains till the 31st of

March obviously we ain’t got none we’ll get some I don’t think you’re going to be pulled over unless it’s snowing oh Cy well let’s get out of France before this airs talking about not getting them pulled over unless it snows but we’ve actually just seen snow you can just see

The little white tips everywhere at the top Cy we weren’t expecting that were we Gary no we w’t oh my God Gary let’s get out of here here okay we seem to be still climbing but we can’t constantly keep saying this has got to be the top of the mountain surely

Wow this is a bit unexpected actually so I think the key message here is be prepared for uh the unexpected all the time you never know going to stop at a quick Motorway Services air DEET we’re having a quick stop for lunch and I’m just opening one

Of these tins of calet things and it’s got sausages and lentils I did initially sort of say to Gary oh God it’s like a bit of gray old dick which um Gary was mortified at and what did you say I’ve never had a bit of gray old dick I would

Know what to compare that too just said about the toilet so what’s the toilets like at this air Gary so two problems no toilet paper which is bad enough yeah and then the secondly it’s those buy holes in the ground where you you have to stand over and you sort of

Squat just no I said to him did you go then no I bloody didn’t oh not that desperate so if you do need to to go to the toilet at the ears don’t expect anything fancy in other words take a book cuz you ain’t reading so we’ve had our CET which was

An absolute winner it was Gary loves it but guess what he’s got his sunglasses on because the sun is coming out is is coming out yes well so off we go let’s show you that lovely bridge when we get to it to drive out and we’ve noticed

There’s some flowers there I’m like are they real cuz look how pink they are this is sort of snowy here how beautiful is that they can’t be real Gary they are real I can see them wow just little lovely wild flowers growing I mean there’s graffiti on the wall of course

But you know it’s a little tunnel I always think these are amazing feats of engineering I’m not quite sure how long this was Gary I didn’t see I don’t think it mentioned it it might have done GPS simp right now yeah we know it’s not

Long but I tell you what the scenery is absolutely stunning look there’s a waterfall just there asz we’re coming out as well it’s quite reminiscent of sort of uh America America and wow look at that quite a few Road Works going on and actually the traffic on the other side

Of the road is literally the it was a minute ago the other side of these cones it’s still going that way but there wasn’t much warning to say that was going to be the situation was there Gary we’ve noticed that here there’s no um there’s not a lot of

Pre-warning so just just go quite carefully really along here but there’s no you know like in England or or America is really good for having like flashing lights to say something stopped or whatever don’t know it’s just sort of a couple of cones is it we’ve literally

Just come out of the zone for uh snow chains haven’t we yes so so we’re legal again it’s a little s of relief I suppose oh gosh that was a bit hairy actually was it that was some of the those were big Hills they were massive Hills actually we didn’t know that but

We would definitely have snow chains ready next time w we B yeah definitely if we were coming during these months so we’re at this air here which is air De le year on it’s written there anyway goodness me I can’t say it what are you saying you can’t so it’s it’s like

America here oh yeah if you want to pay by cash you’ve got to go in and pay the guy first and tell him what pump you’re on then come out and then fill up okay fair enough well that’s what we’re going to do we’re not sure how many is a liter

Are we no he going to get €40 worth it’s $195 a liter here which is 20 cents more a liter than it was well literally 10 bloody kilometers away which we’ve gone past never mind he’s going to clean the windows as well because if I want to

Film this um bridge for you guys you won’t be able to see out of it we can barely see out that’s it Gary hard at work while I’m lounging around making commentary oh look if he’s ever short of a job I think we found his Niche he’s

Pretty good hello I’m just going to mouth I love you watch this he’s a sweetheart isn’t he traveling conversations go a bit like this it’s like Gary what should we call our new video and uh well it’s one that’s been on before this one but right

Old trouble trying to find a bit of water Gary says what about oh no no oh like what cuz that was W of course but I was like God is going to go like this over most people’s heads including me own Li it Nora but this is what we do sometimes

Cuz at the end of the day some of the things we want to call it it just doesn’t say what it is but it’s sort of like Rhymes or something we think it’s quite funny U but I think we got to have a few more subscribers before we could

Just show our absolute true colors when it comes to just at the moment we’ got to go like say things like driving to France you know oh dear we don’t get though we enjoy it we’re coming up to a pay toll section in about a kilometer um we think

This might be the milau bridge but we’re not sure we this whole road is Free by the Milow Bridge um coming down from vishu we we’ve literally paid what €2 I think didn’t we that was it so far yeah we’ve really hardly paid anything so far

Yeah so this is the road to meow the exit to meow the exit to meow ah yes we’re going to hit the bridge oh here we go here the tolls the toll at Milow and we not sure but you might just have to pay something straight away now

You see where it’s got the tea thing that’s if you’ve got the little pass we haven’t got them oh goshes how much is it it’s either 1090 or 1630 is it really 1090 for car oh Cy you’re scraping that baby you’re too close good God darling that is very very

Close right let’s see 1630 KY with a woo that is dear isn’t it okay so we just use our Revue we don’t know what the alternative is but I’m not being funny it’s going to be up and down literally like the hills in it so it’s not worth it 1630 but

That’s pretty much and about €2 earlier yeah so less than 20 to get us down to the south of France on these toll roads which is in excess of 400 kilometers yeah that’s not too bad actually can’t really complain about that it’s been nice it’s been quite stress three hasn’t

It it has actually we’re coming up to here’s the sign viod duct de mow wow wow this is something else isn’t it Gary gosh look at that I’m a little bit concerned that we might feel as if we’re high up though gosh that’s incredible now if you’ve been watching a

Lot of our American Advent as you know by now what a huge fan I am of bridges I don’t know I’m quite an easy to please person really bridge in a map and I’m Sorted wow here we go we’re just on a run up to it now I don’t know if it’s going to feel quite windy on here Gary I expect it will look at this it’s beautiful now if you did this on a really sunny day you would be so lucky wouldn’t you it’s lovely

Now cool how lucky are we to do this right then oh it’s lovely right I’ll see if I can oh my God 2 and 1/2 km long 2 and 1/2 km long I noticed there’s a it looks like a walkway to the side yeah they’ve very much got those

Barriers up though haven’t they I the barriers on the side there are designed to to disrupt the air flow in the wind oh is that what it ises you don’t get blown left and right well actually it doesn’t feel like you’re being blown does it all I think I was a little

Worried it would feel like that but it doesn’t look at the structures Carrie very very clever what a feet of engineering oh I don’t know if you guys love this as much as me but oh this is brilliant just coming up to the end of it now that’s fantastic I know it was

66600 I was going to say I know it was 66 but to be honest I think it was a bit worth it bab I do definitely so literally they just appear out of nowhere and you’re going downhill look at that it’s quite Dodge is it Gary

It is there was just no warning that that was there there was no warning and then everybody’s fed into one lane so you wouldn’t want to be behind a truck that’s really struggling to slow slow down Co blimy it is quite steep about 53 km from our destination of pezan we’re

Sort of coming down towards sea level we think now gosh it’s a beautiful drive but you’ve kind of got to be on your you got to have you ITT about you haven’t you Bab oh my life it’s a bit roller coaster join us next time for our last Vlog in

France before we hit Sunny ESP if you enjoyed this Vlog don’t forget to give us a nice like maybe leave us a comment we love to hear from you guys and even think about the Holy Grail itself give us a subscribe whatever you do guys have

A fantastic few days we’ll see you next time love you loads take care bye

We’re on a motorhome roadtrip to Spain and heading south through France.

This week we’re in the famous spa town of Vichy where we find a riverside Aire.

We drink from the Source de Celestine and navigate French toilets!

We then head to the south of France via the Millau Viaduct, the world’s highest Bridge!

We’re full time Vanlife travellers and have just started our Europe 2024 Vanlife adventure.

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