Villa Cheminée: France's Silliest Holiday Home
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2024
- Recently, I discovered what might just be France's silliest holiday home: a small two-story house built on the top of an industrial chimney. So obviously I booked a night there immediately.
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For some it's a house on a chimney. For others it's the house with the biggest wine cellar possible.
Being in France, it makes total sense.
Vive le France!
I like the way you think!
Brilliant!
Since the "cellar" is above ground, isn't it more like a wine warehouse with a loft conversion?
"if one of you likes being surrounded by nature and the other likes industrial power plants" - my bf and I looked at each other and starting cackling, we felt so called out ! He grew up in the countryside and is fascinated by industrial buildings, whereas I grew up in an industrial region and love nature :D
I knew there'd be someone 😀
@@TheTimTravellerwell... knowing your audience it would be way higher of it was a railway junktion on the other side.
@@matsv201 That's Courrour you're talking about
This is awesome but to be honest, considering this is France I would be incredibly surprised if it WAS the silliest house in France
There is one house in Perigueux built on top of a wall. Could make an interesting new series for Tim.
@@Moody_Blues_ I love some good pedantry but I agree that a silly houses series would be amazing. Perhaps silliest holiday home in each country? Visited on the cheapest night of its low season, of course.
@@Moody_Blues_ THANK YOU
And if you find a Silly house in the town of Silly, well that would be.... Silly!
@@robertwilloughby8050...or possibly on the Scilly islands?
If you not have mentioned that this supposed to be a chimney, I would rather have guessed that this is a house on a lighthouse. 🙂
Felt more like that.
*If you had not mentioned
@@francesco245 Don't be an English grammar snob. Some people don't speak English natively. Try and have some common sense and PATIENCE.
@@Plasmastorm73_n5evv I didn't see anything rude about the correction, and every non-native speaker I know prefers being corrected because they do want to speak English correctly. There's nothing wrong with that. If anything you're the one overreacting here and being rude, especially since you're not even the one being corrected here.
@@Plasmastorm73_n5evv
If you can't handle good-hearted pedantry, you're following the wrong channel 😂
A. "I just stole a part of that big chimney over there."
B. "You'll never get away with it."
A. "Don't worry. I hid it in my cellar."
I have seen this! What you didn't mention is that this is just one of many quirky artworks in Nantes and the estuary area, all listed on the voyageanantes website. There's a giant sea-serpent skeleton just offshore at Saint-Brevet-les-Pins, a sailboat flowing over a dam at Le Pellerin, even a house IN the river at Couëron - and many more! A great day-trip from Nantes, or, if you're lucky, from the Villa Cheminée.
You may have just spoiled Tim's next three videos there Glenne.
"Spoiled"? I hope not! I'd be very happy if I "inspired" some instead!@@Shaun.Stephens
I think they should fit one of those seat lifts to the stairs. Not only would it make the house accessible but Tim could do a video about the worlds longest indoor monorail.
😆😆
Indoor sounds a bit dull, what about an outdoor one that spiralled around the outside of the chimney?
My late husband would have loved this, simply because it's bonkers.
If I ever get to France, I shall have to go here, even if I don't stay there. This is indeed very silly, and I'm here for it.
This should gets stacks of likes. It must have felt like a very short visit as time just flue by.
😂
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Imagine when the chimney sweep arrived and he was shown the one below the house...
I see what you did there.
Haha
"Reverse Santa"😂
Love it!
20 points to Santador
This must have inspired some people here in switzerland. They decided the best place to build a house was located on top of a old grain silo.
And in contrast to the Villa Cheminée it has excellent public transportation access, being located right next to the small railway station of the village
in Denmark we have multiple grain silos, concrete silos, and water towers that have been converted into apartments. Not quite the same, but to us it's nothing special
@@thesteelrodent1796 not converted, but built a house on it, like the one here
Well I hope the grain silo is not still in use as a grain silo. Perhaps not _quite_ as dangerous as living on top of say an AvGas tank, but the hazard is still there, and with the only fire escape back down _through_ the combustion hazard, I'd have to decline the offer... 😝
Imagine a house on top of a chimney the same size as the ones next to it? It is bound to sway a lot. This one surely sways too?
Meanwhile, in America, people have bought decommissioned missile bases and turned them into homes.
Not near as much altitude, but...
I liked the fact that the pillows are red-white striped like the chimneys.
Well nobody likes it when you're just trying to get some sleep and you've got aircraft flying your head.
@@francisboyle1739 It is not stopping the mosquitos. 🤣
There’s a challenge now for you Tim… stay in the silliest house in each country! 😜
Or at least FIND the silliest house in each country.
I am all for this idea, it would make a great series.
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍
They won’t let him in the White House.
@@paveladamek3502 But they'll let him into Congress, and that's _two_ silly houses in the same building. I don't think anyone lives there, though.
I'll point out for fun that this legislature joke probably works in almost any country.
Entertaining and informative yet again. A 'reverse Santa'! I'm going to be laughing at that all day.
Yeah, just do a reverse Santa and go up in that chimney 😅
Where did the chimney come from? Was it left-over casted sections from the power plant? Was it a bespoke chimney?? Did they genuinely make a huge, empty concrete cylinder just so they could plop a house down on it and rent it out for a surprisingly reasonable amount of money?
most likely the first thing. Or it could have bean uses as a part of a training facility for the plant. where you could safely learn how to climb a chimney and what not. but then after a reorganisation it not been needed anymore.
I think it was built along with the house as part of the art installation.
If you look at Google Earth historical imagery you can see place was a patch of grass. So yeah, they built it for the house
They show a photo in the video where you see the half-finished chimney during construction. It was built for the house.
@@Happymali10 Exactly, apparently the whole thing was built as one giant piece of art.
Lovely! My wife and I would love to stay there. I would like to watch the seashore, and she likes the industrial stuff. (I bet you didn't see that coming!)
Hahaha "if one of you like nature, and the other likes industrial power plants"
Reminds me a little bit of the House in the Clouds in Thorpeness, Suffolk.
That is a nice tower you had there.
this has been the best three minutes of my Sunday.
Wow; really?
You really need to get a life if the best time in your day is related to a random RUclips video!
@@francesco245 The Tim Traveller is anything but random.
I was in Cordemais yesterday for a hike (I live in nantes) and I never heard of that house 😊
I live 4 km from la Villa Cheminée but on the opposite side of la Loire, making the journey by car 64 km.
We had something distantly similar here in Northeastern Pennsylvania until it closed. A log cabin built atop a new (a few years ago) sport vehicle store.
I can't figure out why this fun and most interesting channel doesn't have 4X as many subscribers!
Because it has the number of subscriber it has.
It can't have 1,316,000 subscribers and 329,000 at the same time.
It's called logic.
(Give it a try, one day!)
@@aiglonducal314 I think I figured out the reason. It is all of this bloody pedantry in the comment section!
@@malteb.9585Honestly for me, Tim's comment section is generally one of the most interesting to read and I somehow feel you wouldn't have the amount of pedantry and at times clever jokes and nice anecdotes if he had more subscribers (or at least it wouldn't be as visible) :)
Indeed!
Very well said!
God those people saying "why hasn't this channel got more subscribers?" are idiotic!
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@@aiglonducal314
Great bizarre holiday home 👍🏻 Just a shame this episode is so short 🤕
There’s an old water tower not far from where my mum lives that has been converted into an interesting residence which I think may be an Airbnb. I’ve never checked as my mum has a spare bedroom I can stay in. Granted, they converted the space and didn’t simply plant a house on top but it has nice views of the Yorkshire countryside and a prison.
That'd be the renovated old Flockton Water Tower, West Yorkshire, which is indeed bookable on Airbnb (if I link to it YT deletes my comment) and has views over HMP & YOI New Hall, if you care to look in that direction.
@@pmberry yup, that’s the one.
Most other RUclipsrs would be in suspicion of promoting the house for money, but you, Tim, are one of the few where I actually believe that you don't :)
Tim's got scruples, if they needed his advertising he'd be a lot more enthusiastic about how great it is and even more self-deprecating about his influence.
The silliest... in France? Oh boy, Tim is in for another tallest hill-type quest!
... "So obviously!" Ha, ha, ha, ha...... Thanks for sharing this.
Bonne annee!
Could be a perfect getaway spot for a weekend of birding on the estuary
Given that Tim has *already* shown us an underground village that you can cycle through, I kinda doubt this is the silliest house in France.
I mean, there's not even a dolmen in the garden. Or a little-used railway station.
Lovely video! It really reminds me of the "1 zimmer hotel" in Niebüll. its an old railway water tower next to the station (duh), that has been converted to a one room hotel overlooking the railway station. interestingly that's also that mainland station for the Sylt car train, a train to the island of sylt, that only has a railway connecting it to the mainland.
So nice to see you around. Not far from here, in Nantes, there's another original little dwelling available for rent. In Nantes, Micr'home is a kind of modern shack, wedged between two buildings.
After all the background music Kraftwerk covers I can't believe there wasn't one at 2:29 :D
Short but another of your great videos. Thank you!
I remember when it was all just chimneys, then some bright spark started building houses all over them... 😁
So happy to see a video about Cordemais ❤
Weekends/Fridays are essentially booked out for the year already and there are less than 50 total nights available from the 15th Jan to the end of August (end of season).
How very fun and whimsical!
Thx Tim for keep making these videos to satisfy me needs! Love you!
thank you for your great videos
Wundervoll... Merci pour la partager, Tim !
It's superb!
I hope that it is well insulated!
Brilliant, Tim! You certainly know how to find them.
It looked bloody cold and windy. Happy New Year Tim.
that looks cool! nice idea.
What a brilliant video.
Great topic as usual. Yet, wish this one was longer. Surprised you did not take a walk along the shore or film the wind howling at night. With 83K views so far, I am sure you have assured the owner(s) the place will be booked solid for the next 10 years. 👍
What a relief! This guy finally discovered cars as a means of transport...
I love it when you speak French. 😘
It's a perfect place for birds observations. That's why you see binoculars in the house entrance at 1:37 .
Happy New year to you too.
"Reversed Santa" :))))))
I missed you! Happy New Year!
Awesome! It reminds me a house that we have here in Buenos Aires that it´s on the top of a building.
I am sure France has a lot of other silly houses, but this is a very nice one.
Oh yes ! 20 Km, down by the river, there is "La Maison dans la Loire" (I let you google, easy to find). This two houses and many others attractions are parts of an ongoing art exposition called "Estuaires".
Thank you for your videos. A few years ago we stayed in a dockside crane in Harlingen, Holland. There is also an old lighthouse you can stay in as well.
thank you for the video
You cracked me at the reverse santa!
Reverse Santa!!! 😆 Love it!
Thank you.
We have something a little bit similar in Montreal at 45 meter high on a disuse malting plant but it's an art project and not for rent.A little pink house complete with Christmas lights in the winter.
Ready for the sea level rise!
Such fun 🙂
It looks like the house on a roundabout in Tilburg, the Netherlands, though that one is not inhabited 😁
It is an artwork though :)
Not just a house but a rotating house (or rather an orbiting house). It is very silly.
Reminds me of the Hyatt Huntington Beach in Southern California. A lovely hotel right on the beach. But if you're a freelance audio visual technician staying there while working on a weeklong conference, they'll put you in the east-facing rooms with a nice view of the local powerplant and trailer park beside it.
Goodness, that is brilliant! We will have to book a night... after we figure out how to cross that really big pond called the Atlantic.
Sooooo cool 😎👍
I want a house that size! That looks so nice! I'd trade in my much bigger apartment for that!
Thats the sort of quirky place I like. I'd definitely book it if it fitted in with my holiday plans.
There's a real estate lady in the Western US who turned a fire lookout tower into a house. It's awesome, especially the views you get from the top.
Splendide
"Reverse Santa" that's a FIRST, ins't it? lmao! And the view on the Powerplant is Beautiful! (As someone who is living in the industrial heart of germany, we tend to get nervous when there isn't a concrete wall or old steal beams to see...)
"Villa Cheminee." The bilingual pun is killing me over here.
that's cool
Surprise surprise there's a few quirky holiday lets including four converted cranes in various dutch ports and one in Bristol on the harbourside near the SS. Great Britain. Of course there's any number of old lighthouses and you can even slum it in a renovated folly or even castle if you have the wherewithal.
Seek and ye shall find!
Hey just wanted to let you know that I was randomly unsubscribed from your channel. Just subbed again. Keep up the good work
I love this look of this! I love power stations two, Now I've just to persuade my girlfriend that we should book a night there!
My new Tom Scott 😬
Almost a Magritte painting. You just needed to wear a bowler hat
Quick word about your theme music: that shit is banging, brother.
Like to see a burglar try and steal items from this house! They be breathless by the time they get to the top lol Nice video Tim
In that case they would more likely just steal the steel it self.
Unless they're...you know...IN SHAPE.
A burglar would want to be slow and quiet climbing those metal stairs anyhow. A smart burglar would have a partner on the ground and a plan to lower the loot safely over the side.
@@johnladuke6475 that chimney is more valuable than anything with in the small house. Just take the steel for scrap iron.
@@sirBrouwer I'm not saying you're wrong, but it would take one heck of a burglary team to cart that away at all, let alone without getting caught. Might be a better return on investment to grab the usual valuables and move on to a less crazy house.
Tim never fails to bring a great story. Who got the second chocolate?
hi Tim! i really like your videos and your destinations. It would be nice if I could visit them myself, but it is difficult to navigate through your videos when you are in another place. I think it would be a fantastic idea if you kept a map where all your video locations can be found. That's a bit of a lot of work, isn't it?
Great introduction for your 2024 videos. Although it does have a bit of a feel to it like: "Well, this is a house on a chimney. What more can I say?"
Fun fact, the Dutch word "tjeeminee" is an expression of odd astonishment befitting a house on a chimney. It's similar to "oh geez".
Reverse Santa? Now that's a good one! 😅
To be a real piece of art, the tree needs to be on top of the house!
A chimmey on a house on a chimney, interesting!
I don't know of a sillier holiday home but there is a shoe repair shop in the base of the Wodonga Water Tower. That's quite silly.
As soon as you said “Japanese”, it made perfect sense.
Given you were actually giving holiday information, I’m disappointed the phrase “per person based on four sharing” didn’t appear in the end recap. It would have fit the music perfectly.
And that's half board for one week with Lunn Poly flying from Manchester Ringway in June.
Looks like they had some binoculars hanging just inside the front door for watching birds or plumes from the cooling towers.
That you didn't add a piano rendition "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from _Mary Poppins_ seems quite the oversight here.
Of course, the house was developed by a Japanese artist who would go out of their way to build a small little house then put it on top of a chimney
Yep that's as random as it gets... gutted I didn't visit when I was in the region last summer.
I'd love to see you visit the underground church at Aubeterre.
I did my first "reverse Santa" one magical night in a Moroccan basement.
Looks nice - at least it doesn't look like there''ll be any trouble from neighbours!
1:39 - "Through the Keyhole" theme
2:48 - "Wish you were here?" theme
I would hope you make a trip to the states one day. We have interesting things too! Like there's "The Rock In The House", "The House On The Rock", a restaurant that serves you via model train, and that's just a handful of things I can think of in Wisconsin.
House on the rock is completely insane, and rock in the house is literally just a boulder that fell in someone’s house.
@@brunhildevalkyrie And we already know which one Tim would pick for a video, right?
Tim's already done a restaurant where you're served by model train.
@@kevinm3586 Yes, but then he asked about other restaurants that use model trains....