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It is called called the Bayeux tapestry because that's where it is , and that is the original
It's nice to see that you're interested in the history and castles of France, but have you heard of the Cathar castles, which are located in the south-west of France?
Their location is just mind-blowing, they are called the "Citadels of Vertigo".
The best known are Montségur, Quéribus, Peyrepertuse, Lastours, Aguilar, Puilaurens, Carcassone... there are many more! I myself live in a small village (Dourgne) where there was one, but it was unfortunately destroyed in 1212 by Simon de Montfort and his troops, during the "Albigensian Crusade" (La Croidade des Albigeois).
I've searched on UA-cam and haven't seen any reaction to it yet. I think you'd like it! I'll say no more and let you do your research on this exciting part of French history, and hope for a react from you about these castles and the history of the Cathars.
Normandy’s coast line is nearly 400 miles. It’s more than one beach!
In general snails taste like garlic butter, but yes, general shell fish.
This so much about snails, to me they don't really have any taste, just the thing you put on them.
Frog legs kind of taste like chicken and snails are usually prepared with parsley and garlic butter… so they taste like parlsey and garlic butter 🙂
Come back to France, your passion and curiosity make you the tourist we want here
Alsace also is beautiful.
Thanks for all the nice things you said about France.
The difference between "au revoir" and "adieu" is like between "goodbye" and "farewell" I'd say.
Also you're right the german-french border is pretty magical with villages such as Eguisheim and the wine road, or the Romantic road on the German side. I'm from the south of France but I must say it's a wonder also.
Good day.
In the South-West of France, where I am from, "Adieu" also means "Hi !".
We use it to say "hello", with emphases.
pronounced "Adiou"/ "adioo".
The Bayeux tapestry is the original. It can be seen at the Bayeux Tapestry Museum very close to the cathedral. My maternal grand-grandmother died in 1938 at the hospital just between the cathedral and the museum.
Votre amour de la France fait chaud au coeur
Merci
At Clos Luce you enter the house via a gallery into the bedroom where Leonardo Da Vinci died.
From the exit of the exhibition of his machines to the rear of the building you can see the chapel the Chateau at Amboise where Da Vinci is buried. We're from the UK, we used to visit France 3-4 times a year.
Love from France 🇫🇷 Please come visit us when you want ! Les Invalides with Napoleon's tomb, Mont St Michel and Versailles are waiting for you 🍷🥖🧀🏰
The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by the French women in the 1070’ and only one exists it depicts the Battle of Hastings which actually is not in Hastings Uk 🇬🇧 but nearby in the Town of Battle where you can explore the Battle of site Bayeux is a town in Normandy France 🇫🇷
there are a few copies. one in England made in the nineteenth century.
they say that the original, which you can see in Bayeux, was actually made in England. but they provide no proof of any kind to support that assertion. and it would be doubtful a piece of work glorifying william the conqueror had been made by the conquered people. and also it does not explain why it is found in France to this day.
Frogs tastes like chicken and snails don't really have a taste; they are more a vehicle for the sometimes fantastic sauces they make for them.
j'aime que vous préfériez la France a tout autre pays! venez visiter encore il y a beaucoup de lieux qui ne sont pas mentionnés dans les vidéos mais qui sont très beaux aussi.
Oui c'est vrai, tant de jolies régions dans notre beau pays ❤❤
I live in Guernsey and can see Normandy from my bedroom window. Most of my ancestors are from there, traced back to the 800's. BUT the other half of my family live on the Riviera, y'know, Cannes, St.Tropez, Antibes and Monaco. My cousins still live in Antibes, where I had a flat, but I worked in Monaco. I commuted to work on my Moto Guzzi 1000cc bike every day to the yacht.
Good grief, this is not holidays! This is a marathon. I'm exhausted just thinking of it. Returning to work after that will seem like holidays...
On your first anecdote, this could also be that, even if he didn't recognize where you came from, he knew you'd had more chances to understand directions in english because more people speak it
For the Bayeux Tapestry the original is in Bayeux, it's very long and it wraps around the walls of the museum dedicated to it. It tells more than the battle of Hasting, rather it tells the whole story of the Normand conquest of que british isles. As a kid who grew up in Normandie near Rouen, I think we all went at least once on a field trip to Bayeux to see it. I remember buying a small lead Normand Knight with my lunch money for the trip, like a toy soldier. I cherished that thing proudly, having an very old Normand family name, as a kid it felt like a tribute.
hi McJibbin, in the first minutes of the video it is not Versailles but the Tuileries garden, located near the Louvre museum. For the snails : they don't really have any particular taste but a texture, what gives the flavor is the garlic and parsley butter that is put with it. The tapestry presented in Bayeux (Normandy) is indeed the original. when he spoke of the Loire Valley it was indeed the bust of Leonardo da Vinci that was presented, because he ended his days there at the Château du Clos Lucé. I love your videos!
In the most common recipe (parsley and garlic butter), the snails have a particular garlic butter taste.
In the south we have spicier recipes. Snail taste what you put in it, it's more about their chewing testure we like them.
Any food cooked with garlic tastes garlicky to me. Masks natural taste.
4:13 The particularity of Mona Lisa is the impression that she follows you with her gaze, no matter where in the room you are. If you look at her eyes, it's like she's alive, that's the genius of Leonardo da Vinci.
Mona Lisa is famous because it was robbed in 1911 and was found only in 1913. Da Vinci loved it but he painted more beautiful things...
Here's for you, Connor, a glimpse of the South of France: "French Riviera: Uniquely Chic" - Rick Steves' Europe, and
"Provence: Legendary Light, Wind, and Wine" - Rick Steves' Europe
The French Riviera is nice but packed with tourists in the Summer. The little villages in the hills there are so pretty too. Make sure you have a car and drive on the corniches between the towns of Nice and Menton. You have the choice between 3 different levels on the coastline . Strasbourg, Colmar in Alsace (east of France are so beautiful. The French Alps : Annecy and the small villages around.. About the Loire Valley : the valley of the kings..that’s where I live.. Tours is the biggest town there and is beautiful. But you may want to experience smaller towns like Vendôme, historical and quiet and travel around from there. Anyway, so many places to go to !! In general, when you are in France , it is great to taste regional foods and beverages and not stick to wanting to taste the stereotyped foods like snails or frog legs. And it is also great to stay in Maisons d’hôtes instead of hotels. People welcome you to their homes and will provide home made breakfast for example ( homemade jams and pastry for example). Those are sometimes cheaper than hotel rooms.
Thank you for your reaction and hopefully you can travel soon !
I'm a French, but must say I love Italy, Greece too, we share a lot, kind of parents.
And you are welcome.
Escargots taste like grass kind of, its not an intense flavour so their pretty good. I eat them just with a lot of salt and straight out of the oven, catalan style. And some sauce to dip them.
Snails taste mostly the sauce you cook them in. usually a garlic sauce.
Regarding the Louvre, it is absolutely huge, it contains so much art of so many periods, If you want to see it all amd enjoy it, it is probably a week visiting. so choose what you want to see before you go. I recommend to check before, choose the period you want to see and go targeted for that branch of the museum.
The versailles castle is absolutely magnificent, and teh gardens are stunning. I can only recommend.
if you are in the Loire valley, you can easily stop by Bordeaux or La Rochelle or even go towards the center of france and have a look at Orleans or Clermont ferrand and it Cathedral and stop by Dijon and Beaune on the way back to Paris, it is shorter than going down to Provence.
Or in your case, you can skip Normandy and Loire and go straight down to Bordeaux with the TGV and take a car and go over Toulouse and Join Marseille and hop back on a TGV towards Paris after 10 days. or maybe to Rennes with TGV, rent a car and go to the mont saint michel and then pass by Saint Malo to check out the city of the Corsaires, really beautifull too.
You MUST eat at least once, these French classic dishes: Cassoulet,
Canard a l'Orange, Moules Mariniere, Bouillabaisse, Quiche Lorraine and Boeuf Bourguignon... Yum! Yum! 😋
Bouillabaisse is just an excuse to not put undersized fish back.
And in Caen, eat tripes à la mode de Caen
Coq au vin, choucroute, blanquette de veau and so many other typical french dishes (i’m french and italian btw)
Blanquette de veau et coq au vin …
La carbonade, le poisson au beurre blanc, la tartiflette ... Tellement bon !
I have parents who died in Verdun (First World War) not in Normandy, but I went there. All French people had to go there, to remember that young Americans came to die here to free us.
We know that the primary goal of the USA was not to liberate France but to arrive in Berlin before the Russians. But no matter, these boys are dead and deserve our memory.
Connor, if you can come to France, for a short time, do your memory duty in Normandy, with a detour to Mont St Michel, and go to the French Riviera. It's a wonderful place (I live there) to go.
You should also go to the Pays Basque on the Atlantic Ocean coast
Took me a while to understand he was talking about Rouen because he completely destroyed the prononciation of that city :p
We respect Normandy’s beaches because we know the weight of History well. 🇫🇷🤝🏻🇺🇸
As faras I remember, Froggs taste like chicken.
and Snails are as chewy as octopuss, and they taste butter and garlic !!! :D
"Adieu" means "see you" and can be tranlated "To God".
frog legs taste a little bit like chicken, the major taste, also for "escargot" is garlic and parsley. Yes there's things to see in every quarter of Paris and in every region of France. For Normandy, you have others american cemetarys, like in St James. I thinks the tapistry in Bayeux is the original. To visit Europe, you have to take your time. I know it's difficult for americans. But instead of visiting numerous countries, stay 2 weeks in each country, every year. Yes it was Da Vinci. Le Clos Lucé in Amboise is the place where he died. And yes 2 castles a day is good to visit inside and outside, except for Chambord which is so big the it need a day by itself.
Hi!
As a Belgian, the only comment I can make is "What? You think French fries were good in France?" Nobody understand why you call them that way, they generally don't even know how to cook them properly. 😆 Sans vouloir vous vexer, chers voisins!
But yeah, beautiful country. In the South I recommend Marseilles and Toulouse. Wonderful cities.
I'm french, 38,the taste of the snails is the sauce
I eat snails 2 times in my life
To be honest, im french and if you want to taste the best french fries you need to go to..belgium or north of France, close to the belgium border😊
OMG! The Eiffel thingy! I had to get off the elevator. Just couldn't do it. The really pack you in there, like push. I am claustrofobic and there was no chance at all for me to manage not even one level of elevators. Sad really, but I have to say it is nice to just stay below and marvel at the construction.
Edit: Have to add that Napoleon's tomb is a very interesting place to go. It is also situated just next to several interesting museums in Hôtel des Invalides. Highly recommend!
Tower, not thingy
@@dannjp75 Thank you! I didn't realize it was a tower when I was standing under it! 😂😂😂
I was, with "thingy", of course referring to the whole situation with the elevators.
- Snails have barely any taste at all, they are chewy, everything is about the parsley butter that is used to stuff the shell. That's when you spot a frenchman from someone else, eating the snail is not the interesting part, it's using your bread to wipe the butter off of the plate that actually makes that dish.
- The bayeux tapestry is in France in a tapestry museum in Normandy, which has lots of other magnificent pieces, the Bayeux tapestry was probably made in england and gifted to the ruling Normand king in the 11th century.
- The best thing you can do in France is try to take a couple of days away from the tourist hot spots, and the Loire Valley is one of the best places to do that, you can just follow the river with your car and jump from one castle to the next, because one thing he didn't mention is how many of them there are, and a most of them have very scenic parcs or are just simply beautiful castles, understand those were the various kings, queens and princes castles and everyone wanted something slightly different from the neighbor.
- If you're more into medieval scenery you should focus on another river down south west, near Bordeaux, which is the Dordogne river, it has some of the most amazing medieval castles and towns. It's where most of the foie gras is produced, so the food is also something very special there. And if you're in that area, absolutely do not skip a visit to the monumental Lascaux Cave with its prehistoric paintings, it is mind blowing. It has one of the oldest "star map" (a few dots) dating back 16k years but the painting alone are really insane. Yes the original cave is closed and you can only visit replicas but the work they did to create them is incredible. There's tons of other prehistoric sites to visit as well.
It's by far my favorite region in France.
Cheers
Even as far as paintings go, I liked the impressionist Musee d'Orsay much more than the Louvre
Frog basically taste like chicken. Snails taste like the butter/garlic you put in it.
Here a video in english with all the Loire castles from the sky with brief commentary about their history, very very cool !
=> ua-cam.com/video/EDfWLui5Xhg/v-deo.html ("France From Above HD - High Definition Views of the Chateaux de la Loire")
it's the place with the most castles in the world! !
Talking of Normandy, Connor, you might find this interesting: "The forgotten heroes of D-Day: New documentary highlights role of Black US soldiers • FRANCE 24" (on YT)
Don't forget Alsace and its tarte flambée dear friends.
Le français dans Les commentaires 🇲🇫👋
I made snails cooked in butter and garlic. It tastes like mushrooms and forrest. I hate mushrooms. :(
Napoleon’s tomb is at the Invalides
Le Couësnon, par sa folie, a mis le Mont en Normandie 😢
frog legs taste is between fish and chicken. and when you think about it it's logical for and amphibian! and snails tast good there is a "earthy" taste, but the one on the pict in this video the butter/garlic will be the dominant flavors. snails taste is not a problem for most people the problem is the chewy texture, (which i think is ridiculous, who care of the texture in a dish?? only taste matter!))
Frogs taste greasy chickenish. Snails taste like garlicky whelks, meaty and chewy. I like them both. Be aware, some of the red meat you order in a restaurant is delicious horsemeat. Don't let me put you off anything. As they say "when in Rome, do as the Romans do"
Snails taste nothing like whelks.
What is quite confusing in France is that approximately every 50 km the landscape, the gastronomy, the architecture and the rest completely changes.
Guaranteed change of scenery.
This mainly comes from the Celtic heritage and these hundreds of different and even hostile tribes which populated what was called the Gauls.
Hi, Connor, I think you should like this: "The adventures of the Belem, the historic French sailing ship bringing the Olympic flame to France" - FRANCE 24 English
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So snails are quite special, and not everyone can like them. I don't like the texture but the sauce....A delight... The frog legs are very good, the texture and the taste, I think most people can like them. It's not confusing other than knowing it's frog.
There are many American military cemeteries from the Second World War in France, and they are perfectly maintained.
I would recommend to any tourist to rent a car and drive around France, as the travel is part of the experience.
Great idea util you decide to drive in Paris or Marseille. Depends on your adrenaline addiction.
@@kataclysmad1065Very bad idea to drive inside Paris or Marseille, prefer public transports, but Paris an Marseille are just small parts of France, sorry for my poor english 😑
Adieu, aurevoir
Yeah, au revoir is like saying goodbye as in 'see you again'. Adieu 'to god' basically means you'll not see or expect to not see the person again. It has, at the very least, indications of a lasting if not a permanent goodbye.
Look BRETAGNE: Au rythme des lumières (4k drone&timelapses)
Don't take stones or other natural materials from British beaches! It carries a hefty fine if caught. Only take away what you brought with you.
Frog legs taste like chicken. Unfortunately, most come from India nowadays. Snails don't have a strong taste, we like the garlic butter they're cooked with :)
You were asking in the other video how far back you would have to go for the locals to notice you as different physically. I think not very far back because nowadays we spend most of our time inside, compared to backthen. You would look quite pale and not un good shape. Before going to the far away past, you should spend some time on a boat for your skin to be darkened by the sun and hardened by the elements, anf grow some muscles and lose weight. You would look strange to people living twi hundred years ago already.
Versailles, prefer times of the year in Winter, outside the most touristic times, and don't forget to go there in the morning at the opening. Also, try to select circuits that are not the main touristic ones, they are usually more interesting. But it is somewhat overrated. I prefer Vaux Le Vicompte (more difficult to access but still possible) or Champs sur Marne, a very small little 18th Century palace accessible via RER A and a bus, it's very cute, very stylish and Presidents use to welcome foreign Heads of State there at some point.
LOL I prefer Stonehenge to Mona Lisa any day, despite the crowd but sure, the crowd lowers the experience quite a bit. Louvre has nice paintings on the SECOND floor that NOBODY goes to see so you'll have those rooms for yourself most of the time.
Eiffel Tower is very expansive and cramped, prefer reserving your ticket in advance to get past the queues. Alternative, go to Montparnasse Tower (if the top platform is still opened that is, I think they were gonna close it), because you still have a great view and you don't see that monolithic monstrosity from there...
Napoleon's tomb is in the Invalids, and you have a great army museum there as well.
Rule of thumb to have less crowds, prefer Winters and also, mornings before 11 AM.
You also should check out WW1 sites in the East. Granted, US troops participated there much less but they are still very interesting, if not horrifying to visit. Douaumont and Vaux forts in particular. The second still shows how much its earth and concrete coating was pummeled by constant artillery barrages. The first shows very gloomy corridors. Neighbouring sites shows where the tranches were, Verdun Citadel has a visit you can make to show you the life in those tranches. There are of course military cemetaries, Douaumont ossuary and a Canadian memorial site not far.
Hastings happened in England but William the Conqueror came from Normandy, as a vassal to the King of France.
Mont St Michel is on the other side of Normandy near the border with Britanny (both regions fought for long on who owned it until very recently when it was decided that the Mount is in Normandy).
In the Loire Valley, there is a château near Chambord called Cheverny, it's the inspiration for Marlinspike castle in Tintin comics. There is a Tintin museum there as well ! Cheverny is not really big but it's nice. Prefer mornings outside of the touristic season, it can be quite crowded.
Bayeux this is the original tapestry 😊
Snails are overrated. You like it or not. What your palate experience the most is butter, salt and garlic. Seafood like whelks are more worth your money.
Frog legs are quite good. It's quite hard to describe, it's some kind of soft meat with very light taste. Very mild. Some would say a little like chicken, but I'd say it's more of a neutral taste that easily let seasoning seep in very deeply. So it's often precooked to prevent overbearing tastes.
There are 2 key points. Depending on the restaurant, frog legs are either mildly cooked or perfectly cook. The worse experience would be for you to enjoy your meat well cooked and get mildly cooked frog legs. It can be a bit sickening.
The Eastern France you speak of is an equivalent of US county known as Alsace. The specific place should be the Black Forest. The reason you find it mysterious and maybe magical is because it's that kind of forest if not that forest specifically, that appears in popular tales like Hansel and Gretl, Red Riding Hood and so on. It's a very beautiful forest. And to be honest, you can get that feeling in most German and Austrian forests. French forests are, for the most part, tended to to lessen risk of wildfire and diseases. So you won't really feel being in the wild.
Do you have maybe far away family here ? 🇫🇷
Cool men 👍
Les cuisses de grenouilles, c'est un truc pour touristes ! En plus, elles viennent de Chine et ces pauvres bêtes sont tuées d'une façon cruelle. Je suis française et je n'en mangerai jamais ! Les escargots, j'en ai mangé une fois, c'est comme mâcher du chewing-gum et ça n'a pas de goût, ce qui est bon, c'est le beurre avec l'ail et le persil avec lequel ils sont préparés. Donc, ça n'a pas vraiment d'intérêt gastronomique. Il y a des spécialités tellement meilleures dans chaque région. Personnellement, je crois que ce que j'aime le plus manger en France, ce sont nos fromages, nos pains et nos pâtisseries. Et les frites aussi bien sûr .
Entièrement d'accord !
Again, I "love" it when Americans call romantic European cities and sites "disneyesque" or "Harry Potteresque", whilst those sites have existed for thousands of years before Walt or J.K. Rowling were born!
As far as I know, Walt Disney was born in western france and moved to US in his childhood so the whole "castles" and "princesses" and lore in the cartoons are infused with some of this heritage. After all, many U.S born citizens are only one or two generations away from U.K, France, Italy, Germany, Spain etc.
@@kataclysmad1065 that's not true, Walt Disney was born in Chicago. BUT he's related to France because his ancestors were French from Isigny in Normandy. Their name went from "d'Isigny " (literally means from Isigny) to Disney as time went by.
@@kataclysmad1065 Walt Disney est né à Chicago le 5 décembre 1901, c'est le quatrième fils d'Elias Disney, d'origine irlandaise, et de Flora Call.
While this was prisons or fortresses = death site
@@mlomarechal6877 Thanks for correcting. He spent time in France for the red cross and start of WWI where he apparently started drawing. But was indeed born in U.S
You cant miss western part of France! Britanny, Pyrénées , Pays Basque...that's French favorites! It seems americans only know Paris,Normandy and Riviera. Well , you miss lots of best places in France.
As a french myself, avoid Paris. If you really want to discover the country, avoid Paris. Of course there's interesting things here but it's so well known that you won't be surprise or won't learn anything. Same for the french riviera. The whole South-West would be a great choice as well as Lyon if you are here for the gastronomy but also into history and beautiful monuments and landscapes.
Sans la sauce au beurre et ail, les escargots n'auraient aucun goût. Pour moi, il y a bien d'autres spécialités françaises à manger avant les escargots.
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That's your problem, you Americans, you think that France is Paris, but that's very far from being the case, and if you visit France a little, you will find the most surprising places in the world, myself, being French, I am amazed by simply changing region
Now I'm going to tell you something that may sound funny to you, but you Americans (USA) not only have an accent, your voices also resonate differently, it's as if you had autotune incorporated into your voice that amplifies and distorts it in a very peculiar way. No matter what language you try to speak, you sound like "empire" hahaha.
Paris n'est pas une ville immense. Environ 9x12 km.
Nice teeth 😊
Can you react to the new video from historia civilis (from the congress of vienna series) about the years following 1815 (1815 to 1824)?
That Wolters video is so lame! Just good enough for the dumb tourists who want "to do" thousands of years of Art and History in 3 days!!!
Just pick ONE OR TWO topics of interest for your trip and come back next year for some other ones but don't cram about everything that you won't enjoy, appreciate ... or remember!
As I've done before, here are the references to the awesome Rick Steves' Europe documentaries on:
"Normandy: War-Torn Yet Full of Life"
"Provence: Legendary Light, Wind, and Wine"
"Mont-Saint-Michel | The French Village That Sits Right In The Ocean" - DW Euromaxx
Especially for you, Connor: "Secrets of Les Invalides: Home to war veterans and Napoleon" -
FRANCE 24 English
10:38 the contemporary "art" here is so out of place.
It's not "adu" but "adieu" which means goodbye like adios in Spanish.
I live in Rouen. if you come back to France. I could be your tour guide. =)
adieu doesn’t mean goodbye, it’s definitive. it’s like “farewell”
OMG, if you are trying to be a guide for people, at least make the effort to pronounce the places correctly. Any tourists who want to visit the Normandy beaches should absolutely not ask for Cane (it doesn't exist) or Cannes (down south) or Rennes (in Brittany) or Rhône (a river also in the south). The beaches are near Caen pronounced Kaaahn or Rouen pronounced as it is written in two parts (Roo Aahng). Amboise is pronounced Am Boizzz. I've actually often watched Wolter before, but this really makes me wonder about how accurate any of the stuff he says is. Any restaurant that has frogs' legs on the menu is almost certainly a tourist place only
He has some great video, but he talks so fast that you have no idea what he’s actually saying.
If you like France that much you should move there could look to you bye
Always find this chap deeply resistible - it might be that he is a plump middle aged American with a man bun or it could be his condescending smug manner. On this occasion, he started by demonstrating his knowledge of French by using the wrong preposition when saying ‘Welcome to Paris’ (à not en when referring to a town or city’). In fact as a self-proclaimed Francophile, he managed to mispronounce virtually every place he mentioned. Trying to do France in 10 days sounds like the Griswalds in National Lampoon’s European Vacation.
Well, at least he tried to speak French. And what matters is communication, not perfection!
Car seat will be because he's used of English speaking I don't like snails and I don't like frogs legs
The thing is you are charged to enter anything there. Nothing is free. So make sure you have thousands of dollars in disposable income in your pocket.
Euros, not dollars. And you don’t need thousands. Have you ever actually been?
Some castles are still free to visit, but guess what? They're in ruins...