Explore Saint Nazaire, France on the Coast - 4k Virtual Treadmill Tour and City Walk
Mar 18, 2025
We have made it to France. Our first stop is in Saint Nazaire. A quiet, charming little sea-side town of about 80K at the mouth of the Loire Valley. In addition to its history as a port, and perhaps because of it, St Nazaire has some exciting stories which I try to summarize in this walk.
It's a wonderfully peaceful, sunny day in the middle of a week of rain. I hope you enjoy this virtual walk through Saint Nazaire in Pays de Loire. Keep on Steppin' -H
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hello Walkers and welcome back to City walks in this case we have moved on to
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France uh this is our I guess second day here we are in s
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Nazir which is at the mouth of the laah river as I've mentioned in my other
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videos uh we're going to be riding my son and I are going to be riding bikes along the Lao and Z Veo 6 bike routes
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along the way I'm going to be filming some City walks hopefully a lot of City walks uh and maybe even doing a couple
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live casts uh live streaming haven't really I'm not good at that uh because I
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haven't figured it out quite yet but uh let me flip you around
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here my name is Henry I will be your proxy Walker today your virtual travel guide your co- Discoverer uh I call
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myself that because more than a travel guide which you expect to have some expertise more of a discover we walk
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around we find cool things and I point them out to you or things that I think are cool I'm going to flip you around
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again 1 two three other way uh I'm going to talk just a second
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here as I flip you around this is the holiday and express where we're actually
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staying uh I'm not sponsored or anything I just wanted to point out a couple
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things I like to stay in the holiday in expresses um and other there are other
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hotels here the breakfast because they have a great breakfast uh the first one we really stayed in was in London and
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we're just wowed by the free breakfast unlike American breakfast hotels or not
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everything isn't sugar uh sugar fied and
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prepackaged in plastic and microwave it's actual food and I'll try and post
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some stuff in YouTube shorts or wherever showing it it's it's not luxurious by
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any means just simple real food and it's wonderful anyway uh we also did one in U
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Serbia another great breakfast and here great breakfast so anyway shout out to them again I'm not sponsored or anything
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I just like them uh this is the office of Tourism uh they are very helpful in
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there they do know English and I'm going to talk about this giant massive structure as well in just a second uh I
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also want to point out the bike infrastructure here absolutely
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fantastic um if you go to my traveling filmmaker
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Instagram um it's quite windy today um then you'll see some stuff we had like
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an 8 hour wait in the train station uh when we got to Paris and got
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bored got tired anyway and uh decided Well let's just ride around the the
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corner to go to this Garden surely we can handle riding around the corner in
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Paris traffic well we did run around the corner and we didn't see the garden so
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we just kept going and rode down to the eiel tower across the sen past lotel the
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zenes and back it was fantastic never felt in danger or anything loved the
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biking there uh this structure is the Bas sus Marine
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um and I'm going to I've shown it to you so I'm going to move on now but I'm going to talk about it uh so this
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city which i' never really heard about has some really cool history um it's been a village or a
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settlement here in a port in the area for thousands of years uh ruled very
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small for a long time in the Middle Ages and then picked up steam uh as ships got bigger and they
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couldn't make their way all the way up to knots um this however
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is a submarine base of the Cs Marine during World War II um and that's very
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important for this story uh they had other bases and other
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obviously um conquered areas in world of the Nazis
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um but this particular one was is a port that had where they put this
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submarine base it's just this brutalist uh concrete
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Behemoth but I'm going to go around the corner here and show you the part of the port area so it's a massive Port here
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and Upstream ways also they build cruise ships and have been ship builders for a
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long time um and it was a port where the only other
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Port where big main battleships could be repaired look at the structure size of this thing
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uh and they were doing observations and
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they were seeing the submarines coming and out of here and of course the submarines were were the uots were
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really uh impactful on in the early stages of the war because they were
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strangling the British Islands um from supplies and
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so they decided the Brits decided to take one of the old out
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ofd uh Len Le I think it was a len Le frig I think an American frig excuse me
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and they don't let me forget to tell you the time and tempt here uh sorry this is
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how it goes I jabber on and then I get easily distracted um it is 59 degrees
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Fahrenheit 15 Dees C 5: p.m. beautiful beautiful evening seems like late
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afternoon anyway Soh I'm forgetting the name of the ship
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but that's not really what matters what matters is that it was called operation Chariot uh and we'll go in here real
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quick to see what it's like and it was a Commando raid uh
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I don't understand what this sunken ship is I don't know if it's a display or if
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it's a actual boat that sank looks like an actual boat that sank this is a bunch
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of museums in this area so you can walk around inside for free anyway operation
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Chariot like 5 or 600 British Commandos they took this boat and uh I think right over where
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that cement is on the other side of it there's another entrance to this big inland area which is kind of a lock they
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pump water in here to raise the levels for big ships um I think it's actually further down is
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where it is anyway it's called the Normandy dock they ran this thing in there these Commandos stream off uh they
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had other boats in the area that were supposed to take them away they had a bombing Ray to distract the
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Germans and uh you can see some of the cruise ships that are being built here
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um where was I oh yeah and so those get shot up search lights are going off uh
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machine guns and mortars and all kinds of explosions are going off it's just
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chaos the um the
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Commandos have three different teams that go out and do the attacks and Destroy
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stuff and then their their boats their escape boats are all for the most part sunk and
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destroyed so they as they can fight their way outside of town most of them
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run out of ammunition and are exhausted so they hide in town where they're eventually captured I think 200 of them
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all made it out and back to safety I'm not sure how that worked and then at
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Dawn I think it's 3 and 1/2 tons of explosives that they loaded into that uh
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US ship exploded and um really took out the
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ability to work on those big ships so in effect
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didn't really have that big of an effect on the
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Atlantic operations from my understanding but wow wow what a
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dramatic story and tale uh and I did I did not do it
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justice but you know we give it an attempt I think we' got Winds of about 14 or 15 mph so it may be a little uh
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wind noisy here I'll do my best to protect the
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microphone so I think I can't remember there's I don't
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really know the geography that well again I'm a co-discoverer
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uh and I'm going to show you some stuff here here's a I'll swing around there's a um a better wider aspect or view of
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the uh boss suus Marine submarine base and we'll keep spinning
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here so hopefully we'll get a better view but you can barely make out the
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bridge over the mouth of laah here and
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we were supposed to have to you have to get across the laah from here to start
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our bike route the official bike route we could do it other ways but that's how
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we want to do it uh you can legally ride across it but
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apparently the bike Lane's unprotected and 20 in wide and there's giant trucks and buses going
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across so later in the year there's a special they called a what is it a a NE
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Metro nevet or something it's like a little uh van commuter van with a trailer for bikes and they go back and
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forth all summer and it's free that starts in July it's May uh I didn't
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mention that it's early May and so that wasn't an option I had read
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that you could hire a taxi with that'll take up to four people and four bikes
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and there was a price which I was like I'm in €25 or €2 or something like that
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well worth it um so I ask at the desk the very nice
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front desk people and they call and apparently they're not doing that anymore there may be one one car that
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will do it this summer but the taxi companies aren't doing that anymore go to the tourist
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they send me to the tourist office because there is a bus with which cost €260 a person as we
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cross this sweet little draw bridge um and but you have to make and they
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have a trailer that you can put your bikes on but you can you have to make a
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reservation a day in advance and you can only make a reservation by
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calling on the phone no website no physical place to make the reservation
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that we could find find so luckily the people at the tourist information desk
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made uh the call for us and was able to get us a reservation the SIM card we use we are
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using sorry um does not have a phone number I
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chose that specifically some of them you can get a phone number but they're a little pricier
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um anyway the tourist information office saved or bacon there the final option would be
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well the second to last option would be to ride North no ride West sorry on the
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north side of the river 20 or 30 km skip the beginning of the route and
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there's a free apparently supposedly there's a free ferry that you can cross up there
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uh but we wanted to we kind of want to do the the whole route not that big a deal but a little bit and then there's
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this uh at the beginning in this sea serpent uh structure that we want to see
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anyway there's this cool walking through walk through series of installations that have British or English French and
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German description of the raid that I was talking about
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um pretty interesting stuff and then there there there's also
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a Wikipedia entry about it love these sort of Old City so a
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little bit more history about this place uh particularly about World War II
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well World War I let's start there um they selected s Nair because of
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its Port facilities as the entry point for us doughbys that were coming over to
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fight in World War one uh and the article I read said it led to a look
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at these cool murals as well led to a bit of a uh awkward international relations
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thing because the US Army apparently uh was very sensitive
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about keeping their troops free
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of uh what do you call those now STI uh and there was a there were
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legalized brothel here and the Army banned
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them the politicians wanted the Army to let their troops frequent
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them and there was a proposal at some point to have the Navy and army uh run
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them and that was shot down immediately um anyway I thought that was a little
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amusing story here's another one of these instructions this is station
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number two not instructions the uh displays we were through here
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earlier and um these guys were a bunch of guys were out here playing
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Paton which is like botchy that was fun to see they all out
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here hanging out socializing and up here is a memorial to
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operation Chariot the folks that died there there
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an old Jetty here I'm going to give you another view of this
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bridge and you can see it's a long long bridge but mainly the real issue is that
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it's narrow or there's there's not that separate Lane for bikes so again the the final option is
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you can ride across it and people do it but if you I don't know if you can
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tell in the video but there's a lot of big Vans and trucks on that thing and
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they're going pretty fast so not ideal for
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me we are going to continue around that's what we're
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going to do through the so this is kind of the old section World War II history
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some more of that that so two things one because of the port facilities and
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the ubet pens uh they bombed the heck out of this place and it was much smaller back
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then um we go through a little neighborhood and then we'll loop around and I
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think maybe not uh we should end up in
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a a little area where we can cross back over that Canal further
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down um oh bombing yeah so particularly with the uots they couldn't really hit
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it with traditional bombs so they did a incendiary bombs but they didn't want to
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kill a bunch of innocent people towns people so they dropped a bunch of
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leaflets three days before SE over several days uh letting the citizens
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know vast majority of the people were able to get out and then they bombed it
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and so they destroyed a huge section of the old town uh and I think part of them would
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has become newer Town um luckily missed a cathedral
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and that was that so this whole area doesn't really have a lot of old architecture and that sort of thing
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out here I love these B these sort of umbrella Pines I don't know exactly what
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kind they are they're similar to the one ones they have in Rome but not the same I don't think trying to protect the
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microphone from the
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wind luckily tomorrow when we're on our bike ride which we have a 40 mile ride
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to start off with up to nons um the wind should be at our back
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may have to wait up here looks like they're raising the drawbridge or opening the lock or whatever they
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do this is the usin the elevat I don't usin is
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Factory uh but I don't know what elevat
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means it's kind of a cool so it this was pre bombing I'm going to tell you
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another little factoid here about World War II in a second I think it must have been used to raise and lower the water
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level but I not entirely whoa sorry about that slipped off the curb there
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we're all right um I don't really know so the
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other thing is so we are south of Normandy we're in Britany and
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uh so during in 1944 with the Allied
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Invasion the I think it was I forget what the term was but several areas were ordered
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to hold at all cost by the German command and the Allies decided Well that's to the
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South they can't really do anything so we'll just ignore them not
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really just ignore them but um they uh didn't invade it or didn't
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assault it so this little Bridge here is
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closed looks like we're going to get a boat coming through here we go take a
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look little Serendipity get some action here um anyway so they didn't even
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surrender until 5 days or 3 days after the uh official German surrender
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[Music] we got two boats coming
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through all right so Our intention is to cross over and we'll go along the
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seafront here there's a a beach
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uh and um there's some cool public art some restaurants and stuff so patience
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patience if it gets too long of a wait we'll just cut and uh re restart in a
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few
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minutes thing's going pretty quick for a boat that size in such a small area
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I I have to apologize been forgetting to call out the street names mainly because I don't see
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them this looks like
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Rue Rue Hipp hippolite Durant I have no idea if I'm saying that
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correctly
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so this is a lock system you can see that bridge we crossed over earlier where the van is uh there's some locks
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in there I showed you those earlier I think they have to pause in here and then fill up the water before
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these boats can go in and out we'll see what these guys are doing
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here both seem to be headed in so maybe they'll close this lock Yep they're
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closing the lock here
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uh and then this bridge will rotate out and we'll be able to cross on
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foot um so as exciting as that might seem I'm not going to stand here for the
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next 10 minutes making you guys watch it so I'm going to cut and we will start again from crossing the bridge
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hopefully hopefully they won't have to do the whole thing but we got nice view of the um usin elev
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I have to beg your forgiveness for all pronunciation mistakes I do not speak
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French very well and I'm trying to learn but it's a slow process all right so I
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will try to start from right
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here okay and we are
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back this is a car bridge but they do have the these pedestrian sides and this sweet
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grading that is always a little sketchy when you're walk across it and look down
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and see the water but
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um I love the plant life here two things I no the plants just very much a coastal
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style plant oh my gosh it's windy and the buildings which just seem like a
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Channel or I guess Bay of bis style homes and buildings um we are not
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on the English Channel or the lon as the French call it we are on the Bay of bis or biscan I think uh which is South as I
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mentioned looks zip up there looks Breezy and
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Sandy coming up here this kind of cool they've got a couple little several
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restaurants right here uh at the end of the beach um a nice little Park Shady Park
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with these Pines these are I call them umbrella Pines I think that's what they might be called uh we're going to make a left
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here I'll show you go into the park and make a left out onto the uh The Jetty a little
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bit and then we're going to continue the pl is to continue around to the end of the beach and then duck into
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town here oh guess I got to watch my angle there is
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a um this is a glassery or a ice cream
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parlor and then there's a bar restaurant over there some
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tables you can see a cafe up there in the sun another Cafe over here to the
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right
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I'm not going to go all the way out on the jetty cuz it's windy and
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uh I mean it's just a jetty I mean it's cool you know jetes are cool and all
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but okay but I do want to show you this artwork and I want to talk about it just briefly I don't know a whole lot but I
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do want to share what I do know as we look out over the Beach if
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anybody knows what these little fences are for uh my son and I were debating that
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earlier we weren't really sure I suspect it's to stop sand from blowing down the beach and onto the steps and
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streets but I'm not entirely
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sure okay well we'll just go over here in the grass actually tide has gone out a bit since
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we were here earlier um okay so it's called
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laed La pulover pul uh again my pronunciation I'm doing the best I can
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uh you can see the kids on that one uh lulo and then beyond that is L
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system digestive so the digestive system is like guts and stuff and it's uh an
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installation of Modern Art and apparently between here and non is a whole series of public art
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installations uh and that's the extent of it so I I haven't written down that yet but I will try to report back I'm
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looking forward to seeing what we can see as we make our way along the
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Estuary we were out walking before noon and it was so quiet all through
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town barely anybody out and it was was a little chilly but it wasn't that bad um
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it wasn't that much cooler than it is now and I have no idea why I don't know
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if it's a French SCH Day schedule type thing if
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it's a holiday we saw a fair number of kids out playing so they weren't in
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school so I suspect it may be a holiday of some sort it is 5:00 p.m. 5:
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so people may be out getting their uh what do you call that
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pulation pagio Italy um and get some exercise before
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dinner so we're going to walk along the beach I'll show you this um sweet sweet playground there's another playground
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that's also very nice in town that I'm not sure if we'll see or not I think we will if I can find it
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again um uh I find that the buildings in this
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section are more visually interesting than the
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buildings further in and I'll let you so I don't really
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want to focus on any kids here oh I'm in in the bike lane so there again the
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right side here is bike lane I'll try and show show you some
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uh some icons love all the bike infrastructure
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like this uh front loaded ebike there is super
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cool um and look at this awesome playground it's kind of like made out of
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almost driftwood style and ropes and stuff like that so
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super fun this town has apparently has uh 80,000 people I suspect it's quite a
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tourist destination in the summer and possibly this holiday if it
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is a holiday so much for being a guide
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excuse more looking for the iconography oh yeah
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here we go so just little things painted on the uh pavement here there's some people
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walking that's your pedestrian Zone and then you've got a
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biset icon and that's obviously the bicycle path so one thing to keep in
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mind they they have separate paths for a reason and that reason is to separate
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people and bicycles uh with the expectation
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that um oh my gosh this must be an ice cream parlor cuz it smells
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delicious oh no it's churo stand
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ch- um smells delicious and the pedestrians stay on
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their side supposedly and bicyclist stay on their
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side and that way bicyclist can go faster and pedestrians can feel
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safer love the seagrass
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here it's just got a beauty to it for some reason um it's not particularly dramatic
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but I like it maybe it's all that it says I also love the these treelined
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paths and um Park
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areas it's not wild or anything but it's be it's I don't know the landscape
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architecture is fun for me uh okay so I should be calling out these streets
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better this is we're Boulevard President Wilson is the one along the uh seafront
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and rude a traed or traed is that one that goes back
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there uh they have signs up here that say no dogs and no horses but it's only
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in the summer so you'll see quite a few dogs out there now having a grand old
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time there's a couple re I wanted to show you the beach and the seagrass and all that and this these trees but I
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really like these buildings too they excuse me they are of an older style
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I'm not going to guess at what it is but it's it's a bit of a mix there'll
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be the modern or mid-century modern apartment building every now and then
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but then you get and maybe a modern one but then you get these neat old SE front it's fun to
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imagine what it must have been like in you know 200 years ago in the 17th
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18th 19th centuries when this place was starting to burgeon is that a word
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burgeon um I also want to comment no I don't I'm going to keep
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that to myself I think here's a modern one or neomodern I don't I don't know I
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should know lots of uh pay per mile type bik bikes I
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think they are sort of uh Bike Share type stuff which are I believe are
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ebikes one of the reasons this uh area is makes for a good part Port is it's
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got a rocky Headland which means that it's not going to erode and shift over time theah did silt up at one point this
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is the sorry PL def Franklin Roosevelt not sure what street that
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is maybe that's plasta Franklin Roosevelt I'm in the bike lane I need to
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get out of it I'm going to be a good citizen not citizen visitor
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tourist we're going headed up to that statue up there I didn't mention when
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which I I meant to we passed a memorial to the French War dead
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um always a somber thing to
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consider this is going to be a long walk I think I think pick up my
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Pace this little park over here on the right is called I believe it's the
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jardan of plants and which is jarden Garden of
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plants um which I would think would imply a lot of
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plants but it's mostly cement or tarmac
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so maybe there's another space back there that I'm not seeing
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[Music]
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across the way is s braen I'm saying this wrong s braen
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Leen it reads in English like St brevin's l l
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pins um and that's where our route starts
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just love all the bikes people using the
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bikes and other what do they call it micro Mobility devices this is Avenue de
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Havana over to the
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right these oh wouldn't it except for the traffic be extremely
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Pleasant to be in one of those love to see
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inside all right
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all right so I just want to talk about you see a French flag and an American flag here and this is a monument to
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American Soldier it's called Soldier on an eagle the American soldiers of World War I I'll film this you can read it if
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you pause um but also there's a little sign here
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that says the um it was destroyed in World War II in 19 December
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1941 by the Nazis um and was rebuilt in the 80s so I'm
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going to swing around and we're going to go back this way if I can find in the
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right
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Street fact I'm going to cross
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over love that people stop for pedestrians
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here and we'll duck in oh my gosh the flowers I wish you guys could smell the
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flowers okay this will do what what we want
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and we are
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on Avenue de la Haven look at these
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flowers and I got to tell you they smell
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delightful it's a little Sparrow there's some uh looks like some lilac growing
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over there Crossing Avenue to
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satander Santander Santander Sande
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oh cool stuff down there that's the one of the biggest
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challenges of this uh running this channel is picking the
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route in big cities with lots of documentation and famous landmarks that's pretty easy you know Paris you
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walk Eiffel Tower to notam or vice versa which I've done um
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but a place here you find cool little things you see little hints of something
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down the road and you're tempted to just keep going um but of course then you run out
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of time energy battery that sort of thing think we're doing okay on
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battery so you make compromises we're going to make a right
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on Avenue DEA Cruise take a look to the left
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here we heading over to the right
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this is where you get into the little details of things like you know accents around buildings
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and doors and that sort of thing which are fun but what's the trash system like
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here you know little things that aren't necessarily obvious but if you live here
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you just know and if you don't you got to figure out like how to get the
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bus that cool Garden
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on sweet van
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oh these flowers are just the perfume of them is just amazing
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I also like to stop by and see the real estate prices uh for houses and that sort of
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thing and especially for a Beach town they seem fairly reasonable they're still hundreds of thousands of Euros
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which I think is around 1.07 right now to the dollar
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um but compared to we live where we live in Montana it's seem so rational and
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reasonable I guess if we lived some place less expensive it would
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not I was talking about uh I forget we're on RAD to poret
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and off to the right goes Ru Areno
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n uh you know traffic
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signs what do the various traffic signs mean exactly basic
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rules there's I see a lot of this where it's a one-way street but bikes can go
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in either direction so there's a bike lane going in the other direction which makes take takes streets or takes
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bikes off the main streets a little bit cuz they can cut through here
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um and allow and uh but you don't because they don't need to go two ways
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right you don't have to block them off from not going the right
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way I mean certain things are obvious 30 km mph 30 km an hour Zone uh
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pedestrian CR Crossing that sort of thing we're coming up on Avenue de la Republic this is the
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cathedral in town and there's some kind of spooky but really cool murals as well
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one's on that far side and then we're going
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to turn around and see the other one you see it's sort of kind of I don't know if it's vines or
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circulatory system or what but there's like corporeal forms and then shadow
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underneath that of people sort of pagan sort of I don't know something else it's
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really beautiful but also a little
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ominous David Deano 2019 pretty cool
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David oh I think we're going to see the other uh playground I was talking about look
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at all these trees love it
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oh yeah we're also going to see lotel de laville which is their City Hall I think
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that's what they call the sea Hall just a I mean it's a fairly non-descript government building but kind of pretty
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still I saw a painting that made it look like the or original building was either
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closer to the sea or visible from the sea and uh big steps but I now that I think
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about it that seems un unlikely given what houses were
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there we'll see what the final tally on this walk is I may break it up into two
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walks and just publish them both at the same time I don't know we'll
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see if I do that let me know your thoughts on whether you prefer it or not
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or either way I guess let me know your thoughts I'm going to come out here and to the head of this Fountain before I
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whisk you around and uh show you the
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palace lovely part here
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France is amazing love it cool place Europe is amazing lots of cool stuff
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going on but uh I will say one thing that I definitely prefer
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about the United States is the proliferation of public restrooms they're kind of hard to find
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here so here's the got to back up wind's blowing the Mist off of there
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[Music] oopsies that's pretty huh Hotel
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DeVille okay and I guess I'm going to yeah cross here this is Avenue to
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Republic another Street something else
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entirely here we go [Music]
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SRA here's see dedicated bike lane how awesome is that well obviously people drive on it
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so it's I guess it's bicycle I know oo
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Patisserie yes please
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this
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place I've heard a lot of other languages here I think it's got a connection to Spain I've heard a lot of
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people speaking Spanish for some reason I don't know if that's a economic or a
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cultural thing um but I heard it and I that sounded like
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Italian back
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there pardon my
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sniffles rud dear
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here I'm just going to spin you around here real quick give you an idea that's the post
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office over there um and some cool old buildings actually
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I just wanted somebody was coming up behind me and I wanted to let him pass so
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that is why they have a bike lane I guess she's just parking right
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there so for
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these are kind of neat uh recycling bins and trash and then those go down into
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pits in the cement they come by they lift them up and empty them into a truck
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this is the other cool playground pedestrian
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Zone cross over I'm not going to focus on this too much cuz the kids
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playing but a couple of sea monster type things tubes netting wood looks like I
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love it oh that smells
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another delicious fried place
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[Music]
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[Music] how awesome is that I mean I'm sure the
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designing and building of that is super expensive but what a cool place to
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play theable interesting design okay guys I think that is going
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to wrap this up uh thank you for joining me sorry for any wind noise and any other
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unpleasantries I guess um oh yeah and the break oh look at that mural sorry
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sometimes you just got to show people stuff like those others but blue and
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there's a bird shape in there all right cool with that thanks a
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lot I'm not sure probably non will be our next walk uh until then keep on stepping
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