Strasbourg, France Virtual Walking Scenery - Historic Alsace City with Canals - City Walks 4k 60p

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hello Walkers and welcome back to City walks the channel where I walk you around cities and other areas sometimes
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nature and comment on what I see fine little details
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Etc uh we are today in straussburg
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France I keep wanting to call it straussburg but it's straussburg it's in the alace region of
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France and it is historic it's pretty amazing um we're going to round the
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corner here I'm going to show you the uh Cathedral notredam the
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stbg look at this it's got this red color because it was made from sandstone
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or is made from sandstone from the nearby vage VES
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mountains um today it is uh 21° C 70° Fahrenheit about 230
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p.m. or so and I'm going to take you in here in
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fact I already have you just don't know it yet um but there's a security line
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making sure you remove your cap checking bags that sort of thing uh
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and uh generally just keeping things safe you can see this is a very popular
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tourist area uh very popular tourist City I'm going to explain a little bit more about why we'll see why obviously
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uh but first why don't we go in into this beautiful beautiful cathedral
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and I'll take you over to the entrance and then I'll cut over to what I've already [Music]
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filmed sorry it's hard to not uh cut in front of people's photos on one hand I
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want to be respectful other hand I don't have to wait around all day look at this
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beautiful beautiful carvings you can see the line to get in it varies a lot looks
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like there's some groups here uh when we got here it was like 3 minutes to get in
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look at the detail on all of this it's just
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fantastic all right we'll take you in side and then we'll be right back
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this is notredam to straussburg it's made out of sandstone from the
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local boa range there's a security check to get in
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but it is beautiful I will show you the uh organ
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pipes in a moment at the at the end of this little bit of of the inside tour
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it's pretty
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spectacular apparently from 1650 something to 1874 it was the tallest
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building in Europe for
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looks like they're doing some work renovation work
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really is
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spectacular believe this is a uh astrological clock
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a staircase up there to the side
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really really
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impressive little figures little figures at the top
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look like people are dropping money through the great of all types
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I believe
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there's a little shop off to the left here but and we'll I'll show you more of this
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when we get
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outside when I really want to show you here is this
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organ it's really amazing got a photography you can have
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it off to the left as
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well look how ornate and gilded and beautiful that is then
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the Rosette stain glass as
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well unfortunately I can't show you every little detail but there's certainly are a lot of them and it seems
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to I assume has been restored at some point it is a beautiful cathedral and
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different than a lot of the other ones we've seen
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all right back to the City walk all right just like that through the magic of
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Television uh you've been in to see the cathedral is a little silly but I didn't
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want to make you guys wait in this line or a line uh excuse me thank you to our
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patreon supporters today uh I really appreciate it your support helps make this happen uh and thank you to the
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people that have done onetime donations through PayPal and coffee um love these free
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tours you basically get one in your language and uh there's several other
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people around obviously and then you just tip at the end so they're great they tend to be great uh sort of make my
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way through this one um storg has been around sort has a Roman Camp uh just after
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zero uh I think 12 or 30 ad uh look at this 15th century old hotel you can
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actually stay in that hotel according to google anyway uh it's known as the capital of
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strawsburg has about 300,000 people in the city has a
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university uh and it is absolutely beautiful it's got a heft to it as well
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we walk through colar beautiful fairy tale medieval village um city and this
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is like that but with muscles you know and you get a lot of buildings like this
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just this ornate wood hundreds and hundreds of years old
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and just gorgeous and amazing to
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think that still here so we're going to wind our way
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through the crowds it's also known for it's canals a
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ton of canals uh Strasburg has been it's one of the biggest ports on the Rind uh
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and it has been known as a Crossroads in fact I think that's the derivation of
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its name stbg St is a Germanic word for
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Street there's another one down there I don't know my way around there uh I'm going to flip you around actually
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1 two three my name is Henry I will be your proxy Walker today your virtual travel guide
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and mainly your co-discoverer um I'm not an expert in the history and details of
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strawboard but we're going to see some interesting fun things as this little tourist tram goes by uh that I haven't
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found yet and we'll find them together that's kind of what I do here switching around 1 two
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three [Music] uh when I see a sign street sign or
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something I will try to call it out because I like to give people an idea of where we are in fact we just uh
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Ru defos defusers I believe is what that's
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called surprising number of um cars down here given how narrow all
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the streets are and how pedestrian oriented it is uh cute little Carousel over here on
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the left we're just going to wander around and see
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stuff because I don't think there's a wrong road to take down here I think
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it's referred to as little little France Petite France and I don't know
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why tons of bikes super easy to get around by bike
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lots of bike paths just a bike friendly place I like
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[Music]
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it one of the things I've noticed about here we my son really likes architecture even more than me way more than me and
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uh we've been noticing these steep pitched roof with tons and tons of dormers on them uh it seems we haven't
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seen that before which is it's kind of interesting to notice for him to
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notice I didn't notice it uh all right over to the left is rude de Mar gr and I
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think those are fake flowers but sure are pretty
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[Music] we're on a Monday as
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well if that helps sometimes these cities have on the weekends get a little
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quieter get a little busier and I know that
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oh sorry there's a couple drunk guys that were drunk last night at the square we
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were and they're quite loud and quite
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uh [Music]
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distracting s sort of the chain shop area
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Sephora McDonald
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fresh burritos seems to be a chain over [Music]
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[Music] here let's go down this
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way there's a church
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[Music]
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much smaller this is the plast the to the new
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Temple there's a PN in Paris the new bridge which I always thought a long
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time I got n fused with n for
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nine isn't that silly all right let's go this way
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if you interested in more French cities that we've been filming as we've gone along check out the website um CityWalk
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virtual tours but also traveling filmmaker which is my main non City
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walking account oh look at this
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building I think this is going to be another one of those cities that just goes on and on and on
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with amazing ancient architecture and beautiful buildings and just spectacular
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stuff I'm sort of uh with Bill Bryson the author he written a bunch of things
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um most famously probably a walk in the woods
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um and his favorite way of city of seen a city is just getting out and
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walking uh just exploring and you see so
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much that you might not see on a big tour but
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you know what you also get an honest flavor lity I think you get a little chance at Serendipity
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to remind you uh or to to have opportunities to interact with
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people and this is rud Grand Arad and I believe this is
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uh plast
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keber PL clber I think I'm pronouncing that
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right uh this city was seized by Louis the
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14th in one of the wars of succession either Spanish or Austrian I can't remember look at these buildings um and
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it was Kept For until the Franco Prussian War when the Germans
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took it probably took it back I guess although Germany was in a state at the time um and then it was returned after
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World War I and it I I I come to understand that
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it's very important in the French identity to the point where I think it was General merer I get that name
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correct who was a French free French General in World War to made a promise to return to strawberg and have fly the
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colors from this the cathedral and kept that in
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1945 kept that promise I don't know who Cleber was but
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his first initials were J
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B this building is interesting it's if an it's an fnac which is an Electronics
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chain amazing stores it's got the old classic roof line and and shape but it's
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got a 1980s design vibe to
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it let's go over to the galleries Lafayette just cuz it looks like a cool
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well we won't go inside it's a shopping mall I think but uh we'll go in and see
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well we won't go in we'll go by and [Music]
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see I am easily distracted and eily confused on these walks
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do uh run into make wrong turns and go into blind alley sometimes but that's
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just part of the
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fun Libre cleer which is I believe a bookstore
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[Music]
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[Music] as you can tell by the tracks They have
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a tram system here uh I read the trams over in Basel and it was so easy no not
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bosle sorry where was it best
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it's so easy to figure out and everything takes credit seems like
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everything takes credit cards now so the little ticket machine was pretty obvious easy to follow even in French
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and uh I did the laundry today and the machines are all touch to
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pay traveling has never been easier which is probably why so many
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people are doing it and why there's become a strong reaction against against
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tourism in a lot over tourism in a lot of places look at these love the cargo
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bikes just to clarify I have no idea where I'm going I think I'm generally headed over
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towards the train station all the bikes again
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a little side note uh we're here on a bike riding tour my son and I that we've
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completed we rode all the way across France along laah Valley and then up to Basil uh from around
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NE but we we brought these touring bikes with 2 and 1/2 in wide wheels which are
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pretty wide and too wide for a lot of the infrastructure bike infrastructure
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here so if you're planning a bike tour keep that in mind the standard mountain bike tire
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should be fine remember that
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[Music] time let's make a left
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here get back to the this is Rue F de tenur
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[Music] one thing you're going to want to do in these cities is stay out of the bike lane as much as possible
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love the flowers in the window plant boxes
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[Music] let's go down here uh this
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is I don't know what this is it's pretty though we're going to go
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down here cuz I think there's a canal one of the many that I've been bragging about and
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haven't shown you
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yet tons of cafes and restaurants with outdoor seating absolutely love that
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[Music] I would say the one downside is occasionally you'll have a smoker near
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you which is
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[Music]
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unpleasant got a big tour boat going through a canal over there
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[Music]
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I think that must be a draw bridge that just came down over there bunch of people started walking this loia medieval loia
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there this is great I was noticing earlier that uh or
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thinking earlier um this is similar to colar little different by to it but
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uh it's the scale right you know this would be about the size of a building in colar maybe a little few that are bigger
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but here there are a ton that go up to four five six stories
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[Music]
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[Music] let's go this way we'll go over the
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little
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bridge I think get ice cream get some water right
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that's the patio we were just on imagine this being where you
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live crowded and busy but oh my gosh look at this
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there's another little
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Canal little uh river access
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here ra front so this must be the P fronts area and another
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Canal settle down rboard
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this is and that's R de mul or mule plan
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esag but we're going to go this way it's a little bit tricky a city like this
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because every single street is enticing you to come down and explore every single street is charming and beautiful
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and has something of interest just a block or two away but we're going to pick this street
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and go for it a little
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bit fun playground over
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there this Cobblestone is it'll make your feet strong balancing on
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them or massaged I don't know so we got a
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canal over by those houses got a canal on the other side of this little
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playground we got a canal here and then over here we have another
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canal
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pretty cool and then these towers I'm not sure what these towers are
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for looks like these might be either rental boats or tour boats
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rental boats probably I'm not sure should have the
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confidence to navigate around
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here these Charming Little canalside Homes but also
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restaurants three
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towers my son and I blew through here on our bikes
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yesterday evening yesterday afternoon I guess uh mainly because it was
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raining we didn't really navigate around too
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much uh this I don't know what this is
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oh I know let's do this because we did it's one of those
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turnaround things um we did go by this other we went over this next
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Bridge which was kind of
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cool we are approaching the pl du quer
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Blanc white
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quarter it's interesting that you can get up to the top of that see people walking around up there
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CL
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pass
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frankhouser looks like you can go up but I think we're just going to go
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through some toiletting I suspect that these
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were Market stalls at one point
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some old statues and that sort of thing
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some mechanical works I don't know what those would have been for perhaps there were gates
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to lower or maybe there was a bridge a drawbridge system there's the River or
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the canal down there seems to be another up here
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like they're doing a little construction out there too
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[Music] just that's finish
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and looks like we've gotten out of the old city and into the newer sections some of the newer sections
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let's see if we can feel like there's another place cuz I don't think we we
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actually went through that bridge I thought we next to one similar
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that
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this little statue is interesting curious curious about
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[Music] that for
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check out the current
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here it's pretty powerful I'm a little surprised they haven't turned that into a surfing wave
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like they have in
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Munich English G iif is where it
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is this is key
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Ru ad do sa
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[Music] both well that looks old
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can see a cat to Tower up in the middle left
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that's fun I love little signs that these places are lived
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in somebody oh oh man all right we're going to go this way
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actually because look at that there's a tower couple of towers calling our names
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get through this now this is interesting look the same sort of
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architectural silhouette maybe but a much more uh quote unquote modern
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design building that they they've adhered to that theme throughout the
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city I think that's interesting
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look at this little garden shared Garden
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and here we are all of a sudden we're on an old ancient
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Street let's go this way for a little bit because I want to see what the deal is with this
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place little shops along the way restaurants
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oh look at this whole another old section over there little tram you can see one of the trams coming
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around I want to check out this place
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cigarett is this a newer section of an old church or they've just put plaster
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on the outside here we
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[Music] go all right
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this [Music]
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is big Le cath s Pierre BL that means the old but I'm not
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sure oh how nice is
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this all right I think I could go on and on look at this place over here the Misty Griff
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like I said I can go on and on but I think I'm going to wrap this one up here I think we've got enough for a full walk
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I want to thank you guys for joining me here in storg France what a beautiful city what an amazing place um I hope
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you've enjoyed it I might do another walk here I'm not sure yet uh I got to look at the map and see what else I can
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cover if not we will be in Bayou and in a couple other places and I hope you'll
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join me there uh and until then keep on stepping

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