How to Road Trip to Paris | Amiens, France | City Centre Walking Tour
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- Опубліковано 5 гру 2022
- While on a road trip to Paris we stopped over Amiens a beautiful city in Northern France... we also discovered the truly magnificent Cathedral Notre Dame D'amiens (Amiens Cathedral) a splendid 13th Century Gothic Cathedral that is also a UNESCO World Heritage site.
It is always fun to find unique gems, cities, or locations while on a road trip and Amiens did not disappoint. Check it out!
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens (French: Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens), or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Amiens. It is situated on a slight ridge overlooking the River Somme in Amiens, the administrative capital of the Picardy region of France, some 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of Paris.
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Wonderful family life making and life changing for the kids,,, soon you'll all be in Italy,,, look forward to what you make of that.. enjoy...
Fantastic trip . I want to visit France so much thanks for sharing I loved it .❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Thank you guys 😊 it looks fantastic and giving us a reason to check out other places
Oh have a great trip. I'm leaving Paris tomorrow to London on the Eurostar. Enjoy Paris xxx
Of course you'll have enjoyed the ambience of Amiens. It was the headquarters for several allied regiments during the Great War, including two of the US ones which arrived in 1918. There are several thousand military graves at war graveyards in and around Amiens which my younger sons and I visited when they were 10 and studying the War at history class. It was very moving for each of us. Next time in France try the trip by ferry to Dieppe from Newhaven. It affords the chance to approach Paris along the Loire Valley and the great chateaux on that route, plus the magnificent cities of Nantes and Orléans. Bon voyage. 🇫🇷🥖🧀🍷
Great history... thanks for sharing.
v interesting tour, many thanks. i had wondered what the chunnel was like. like motor-rail.
You've seen the main things here in Amiens : St leu district and Notre-Dame d'Amiens. Not that it is a small city but city center is quite little compare to 90% of the city which are residential areas. If you come back you can still enjoy the visit of Jules Verne's house and the Picardy Museum. (a small Louvres). But that's pretty much all.
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in france i believe they pronounce it notre darm, like arm with a d in front. well, nearly so.
Means Our Lady.
I toured France a couple of times with my parents when I was young and visited Paris shortly after Princess Diana’s death. It’s a beautiful country with stunning architecture. Thanks, Mac.
Another awesome video 👍🏻. Don't fall in love with france too much as on Saturday at 7:00pm they will be our arch enemies lol. As you adopted Brits your family is hopefully with us. Waterloo part 2 😂. On a serious note I've learnt something as I thought you just drive through the channel tunnel 😳🤫. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Glad to hear you had a good time, nice to hear you came to Lincoln Christmas market
How did you know I made it to the Lincoln Christmas market... lol. Two more France videos then Lincoln Christmas Market.
Paris is beautiful. I love some of the old apartment buildings - they're so full of history!
If you can, i suggest parking outside of Paris and using trains and subways to get in and around Paris.
I enjoyed this! The Catholic Church builds its churches and cathedrals like no other ❤ Notre Dame in Paris is stunning. Once the repairs are done it will be wonderful to visit.
It is on our list... thanks for the recommendation.
Also Sacre Coeur in Montmartre. Views as hold as from Eiffel Tower and you can pick k out the church from t h e Tower.
If you get chance go to Chartres cathedral. It's gorgeous and not far from Paris
i'm wondering, could you expand into some short interviews with the locals maybe ?
I will try to add that in... thanks for the suggestion.
You must have a tall car, they put you in with the coaches. If you're in a less-tall car they put you in the car-only part of the train, which is double decked with much lower ceilings. That's even more claustrophobic!
Eurotunnel is pretty impressive, huge trains, a huge, long tunnel.
If you want the full-on French claustrophobia experience (round it off after the Eurotunnel), take a drive along the tunnel section of the A86 forming the south-west quarter of the motorways around Paris, between the D913 and the N12. That's a double deck road in a single tunnel bore, and the ceilings feel lower than they do on the Eurotunnel train! Costs something like €5 toll, but it's definitely the fast/quiet route round Paris.
Thanks for the suggestions I will try to make it happen. 👍🏾
Thanks for your great video, I all way go by Eurotunnel it is so easy and quick. Next time try out Rouen and check out the Cherbourg peninsula, where in 1944 ww2 D day landings took place.
South if France, coast is beautiful.
Lots of French cities and towns seem to call their cathedrals Notre Dame I have found on my travels as I assumed after my first visit to Paris 32 years ago that the one in Paris was the Notre Dame not one of many the first I came across was in Rheims Champagne country. I have visited Amiens a number of times to eat while visiting the battlefields. French cities and towns get a bit boring especially when you have seen everything that you want to visit or look at or seeing the same buildings for the 20th or more time, I found this out this year when I went to look round Albert in the heart of The Somme battlefields.
Joan of arc statue. Emanuel Macron was born there.if you get the time then visit the Normandy battle fields. It’s a must for school trips
That's a lovely city. I saw in a tv show how the Cathedral was massively protected by sandbags and all sorts of other things during the First World War,as it was in range of the big guns. I'm hoping to visit Rouen next spring then go on to Paris by train. If my circumstances allow.
Le Mont St. Michel, Normandy - it's hundreds of miles from where you'll be in Paris - so maybe an idea for another trip?
It is at the top of my summer travel list...
@@MacandBlair Enjoy! It's a fabulous island! The steps in the abbey - so worn since building began in 966! Incredible living history.
I’m pretty sure that the countryside near the beginning (at 1:40) was still in England, not France.
Lovely video with a fine appreciation of Amiens. Don’t be afraid to learn a few French names and expressions.
Nope... it was on the other side of the channel. 🙂
How did you readjust to driving on the right-hand side of the road again?
It was pretty easy after a couple hours...
Amiens a lovely city. Did you go near the river at all? There is a statue in the river of a man. The locals have dressed him in a.nice shirt which periodically gets changed !!!
We saw the man in the river statue... that was really unique.
Outside tante Jeanne I think so that's how I remember it.😊👍
I hope you have a plan for what to do with your car coz the Paris Council is hostile to cars + there's no room to park anyway!
Mostly we left the car at the hotel and took public transit amd taxis.
Looking forward to your next video 💛
You were doing so well. And then you went to France. Did you get stopped for non-speeding 30 minutes from the ferry, threatened with imprisonment by les flics, have only cash and hallmarked jewellery accepted for the non-fine because credit cards weren’t acceptable outside a police station and not given any paperwork? (I had a house there for a while. Only the local English teacher spoke to us. We asked the village to stop shooting songbirds on our land. Suddenly, nobody understood what we were saying. Tradition or no, we now owned the land and declined access for shooting. Next day, we were nearly garrotted by an electrical wire strung across the front door with dozens of songbirds attached to it hanging by their feet. It made me think we really shouldn’t have bothered saving them during WW2 … and WW1.
Oh, I nearly forgot. It’s the only place I’ve answered my front door to be held up at gun point. After showing them we had no real jewellery - that now being in the possession of the authorities - they left. Thank goodness for GCSE French! … and being able to stay calm. They did leave with a few cans of Pepsi.)
Central Paris is beautiful. But travel a few miles along the ring road and it’s hard to imagine it’s the same country.
How do you all get so much time off work and school. Even for U.K. you seem to get a lot of holidays.
It is all about timing...
Go to France and ate Italian?
Did you try any french food?
We had to eat what was available in the mid-afternoon... all other kitchens were closed. You don't like Italian food?
@@MacandBlair fair enough. Just interested in seeing some french cuisine while you were over there
Be careful of driving in Paris it's a bit crazy...
Have you tried the A86 tunnel yet on the SW side of Paris? Convenient (for a car driver), expensive, very weird to drive through I thought, somewhat hypnotic!
@@abarratt8869 is that the long tunnel? I've been through it once but only being driven by someone else 😁👍
@@HY... yes it's pretty long, and it's like the builders stole all the lights from all the other tunnels to put in this one: it's quite brightly lit, and all the others are in pitch darkness! Very low ceiling too, thanks to the double deck design in a single tunnel bore, and no lorries
@@abarratt8869 scary stuff !
I'm Glad that you enjoyed Paris, I have family there and I liked the site seeing but I found that the French are Rude, Racist and lack No decorum, so I don't go there anymore.
I hate gothic - looks very spooky
It does look spooky....👻