From tranquil bliss to the scars of war - VANLIFE FRANCE
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Join us, Carol & Ken, on our latest adventure in France in our little red Nissan NV200 campervan. In this video we have a relaxing start to the day in a tranquil park up before heading to the hidden V1 launching site at Val Ygot. Later we enjoy a delicious meal in the van while trying to avoid the threatening thunderstorm.
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This episode was filmed 10th June 2023.
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Love your vlogs. Such a warm lovely couple. We need more people like you in this world ❤
Awww. Too kind ❤️
My Father was stationed in England during WWII in the Army Air Corps (Now the Air Force). He told stories of the bombs and how you only worried once they went quiet, because you knew they were coming down. He left England and was sent to France for the Normandy Invasion. I took him back to visit where he was stationed, and to France to trace where he was. So many people thanked him. It was definitely worth the trip and good for him to have a better memory of both England and France.
You must be very proud. It’s good that you got to know what your Father did in the war as so many would never talk about it.
Thanks for the lovely video. Hope that you both have a wonderful time.
Thanks ❤️
Wonderful episode and very informative too, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching 🙂
Hari OM
That "pilaf" did indeed look tasty... and again I appreciated your historical ramble...all the more poignant when one considers that the madness of man continues.. YAM xx
Yes, seems like mankind never learns.
Looks like a fabulous place.
It is like you say strangely eerie on those abandoned places. It's seems so wrong that such a place is now so peaceful 🤔🐕🚙
Very poignant to walk around and reflect so we are glad these places are still so accessible.
I’m from California but I so love France. 🇫🇷
Poor old knees ken l hope they improved for you take care both of you 😊
Thanks Tina 🙂
There's something about being in the Camper when you get a good down pour. Yes the French pastries and cakes are wonderful 😂 👍🐸
I do enjoy your commentaries about your adventures and food :-)
Glad you enjoy the videos 👍🙂
Very moving and emotive video - the music was appropriate. Very much enjoyed the history and watching you cook…you’ve given us a few great menus, thank you. B & N in Somerset x
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
I liked You’re video and information on the v2 rocket site
Thanks for watching 🙂
Watching as per on a quiet Sunday morning with a cuppa tea 🍵 👌 enjoying the nice n easy mode of you 2 !!!f far too many folks rushing around like headless chickens in life got to be there..got to go there ...bloody hell if life ain't frantic enough,! Bugger em i ssy & follow your style 😊 those cakes 😉 😜 😎 😋 👌 hope all well with ya both 🤔👍
Morning David. When I was working I never had time to relax. I promised myself when it was over I would only do what I wanted to do and I have stuck to that ever since. 😁👍
@@LifeistooshortCK when I retired I said I would keep life as simple as possible & I've stuck with that & you know it's made life sooo much easier.
Wonderful. I now have a converted NV200 outside my front door and can’t wait to go on my first trip. It could be a big one. Thank you so much for your incredible inspiration.
How exciting. Have a wonderful time. Safe travels 🙂
Great video, great history thanks for sharing 😊
Such a lovely place,hard to imagine so much horror being created there.
Hope the knees are better ❤
I love the history in France. It NEEDS to be remembered. Mary
It does need to be remembered but sadly we don’t seem to be capable of learning from the past anymore.
@@LifeistooshortCK I agree totally.
Really enjoyed that !! nice to see the sun considering the weather we are having right now , Scotland is getting hammered . Well done both good luck 👍👍👍🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦🦢
Thanks for watching. Stay warm and dry in Bonnie Scotland 🏴 🙂
Another fab video both, poignant listening to the history & how things could have been so very different & yet like you say, so peaceful now. The cakes looked delish, a bit more factor 50 on your knees next time I think 😊 Em & Gary 🎄
Thanks for watching guys 🙂
I've got one of those coolers... It works better with freezing cold water ❤
Thanks for the tip 👍
Some beautiful stops for the nights. Some great looking meals.
Thanks Larry ❤️
Great episode I love learning ww2 history 😊
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Thank you. That was so interesting about the WW2 site. We travel through France to get to Northern Spain, but there are so many interesting places like this we seem to be missing out on.
We love exploring France. So easy and relaxing in a campervan 🙂
Great video, as usual. I am sitting her freezing (in the Uk), watching your video, where you are baking. perhaps put a date up, when this video was shot?
The dates are always quoted in the video description. This was in June 2023 🙂
I experience a funny range of emotion-- so happy when I see your new video posted and so disappointed when it ends. Ahhh, but what a delight while watching; beautiful footage, yummy food, heart wrenching war memorials, relaxing chill axing. Love visiting with you both. From Washington wintering in Arizona...Can't do the cold anymore.
Thanks for watching and your lovely comment. Don’t blame you choosing Arizona for some winter sun ☀️ 🙂
Another great video and. I couldn’t help but enjoy the peace and serenity that is so far from a time not so peaceful. God grant us the wisdom not to repeat the past, just saying. Thanks for a beautiful video bringing the past to life.
Thanks for watching 🙂
Good video thanks lee
Cheers Lee 🙂
Well done footage of that WW2 site. A pity for the so many lives lost and destruction caused by those rocket bombs. Great to see and hear the rain on the camper. Certainly one of my favorite sounds to fall asleep to with an app playing a 10 hour sound file for rain on a car. Safe travels to you and "Bunny!"
Cheers. Yes love the sound of rain on the roof. Some people find it frightening, especially if they have ever been flooded out. My dad had a caravan wrecked by high winds once. He couldn’t stand the wind after that. 👍
We were also in France during the heat this year, but we were there for 3 months and on our way back up north when we stopped at Val Ygot. By that time it was autumn and the floods arrived with Storm Debi. The site was very moving in the wet, grey weather. In fact, the reservoir you mentioned was completely full with rain water! We spent a very peaceful night on the car park with two other vans. I definitely recommend visiting it.
Yes I bet it has a very different feel in the rain. Your were tough over there in that heat. 😁👍
Your videos are so relaxing Ken and Carol. We loved the opening music with the shot of the wheat fields. You’re inspiring us to do a French tour. Those knees looked sore 🥴
Thanks guys. You should definitely try a French tour 🙂👍
Wonderful video. Once again your historical content is my favorite part. I do so enjoy it. I am a major history buff and WWI and WWII hold particular interest for me. I am hopeful that one day I too can travel through Europe in my van and see these sights myself. It’s lovely to see them through your eyes in the meantime! Walk in peace, my friends and keep the videos coming.
Thanks for the lovely comment. Glad you are enjoying the videos 🙂
Loved the poignant visit to the rocket launching base. Nature has a beautiful way of softening such things as time passes. Thought that storm was heading North Carol! 🤣. As for those cakes, they look like they hit the spot 😉
Hello. Hope you are both well and the doggies. We are looking forward to your Outer Hebrides series 😁👍
@@LifeistooshortCK Hello! Graham is editing it as we speak. I have a bit of a cold. Like Ken, I seem to have had rather a lot of infections this year. Ho hum! Take care both x
We have had more colds/flu etc this year than at any other time. Hope you feel better in time for Christmas 👍🎄
@@LifeistooshortCK ❤️So odd. Wonder if it’s something to do with Covid. Hope you are both well for Christmas too!
I think so 👍
History and French pastries, that’s my kind of thing 😋
Glad you enjoyed it
Very interesting video Carol & Ken. Thank you 😊🙋♀️
Absolutely wonderful video as always. Your filming is beautiful, lovely choice of instrumental music, and I love the historical approach to your travels. Thank you, I always look forward to a new video😊
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂👍
Hi, thank you, that was a good bit of information on the site of WW2 👍 lovely open countryside. Think I saw a bit of hale stones there on your window, hopefully didn’t last long. ❤
The hail didn’t come to much and it was lovely and sunny again the next day 🙂
As always, a very nice video. I like that you find places with history and share it with your viewers. Looking forward to next week. Cheers
😮 Lovely video, thank you, tbose éclairs look amazing, I bet they tasted good too,😊 looking forward to you taking us all to Rouen, i went there on a school trip millions of years ago, and loved it. Xxx
Rouen will be in the next episode. Thanks for watching 🙂👍
hello you two, my home town Rotterdam was bombed 14th of may 1940, mum was at the dentist and her good fortune not somewhere else. Over 700 where killed and 80.000 lost their home. Thanks for your history reminder, hope never again.
Agreed. Madness.
Merry Christmas,
Merry Christmas Anthony 👍
Great one, nice to experience the sun when we are in the dead of winter
Nice video! The fan worked for you, then. Good to know! I picked a similar one up this past autumn but had not added water. I grew up with what we called ‘swamp coolers’ which were fairly effective in the High Desert of the Rocky Mountains. They are rubbish in humid regions so did not add any water. I will be traveling back to the desert, though, and have been curious to know how it will do.
I watched the video 3 times to follow everything effectively. Not complaining about your directing and creativity. My stress level is quite high and focus suffered. I came back to it a 3rd time after getting my focus under control, rather than use your video to accomplish that goal. I stopped the video to explore the work of Michel Hollard and enjoyed reading about another player in the Frenc Resistance. Wikipedia talked about his activities during WWII but then dates mentioned as well has the duplicity of one military honor suggests he was active in both wars. I will read more about him in just a few minutes but agree that he played a key role in saving thousands of lives. Fascinating! After hopping out to learn a bit about what you were talking about, the third time was a charm and I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Thank you! Sine this trip is done and security is not an issue, is it fair to guess that you are somewhere around Brittany?
The fan just about worked OK if you were sitting close to it but we won’t bother taking it away again.
We like to read up about the history of places and the people we hear about on our travels too.
We were travelling through Normandy from Dieppe to Rouen. The Val Ygot site is a bit further east off the D915.
I've got a larger version of your "air conditioner" at home. It's an evaporative cooler or swamp cooler and really only useful in arid climates. Luckily, I live in a desert. It is good in the winter, too, to put a bit of moisture in the air if it's too dry. So, still good for that in England. :)
Jon in rural BC, Canada
Thanks Jon 🙂👍
Thank you …I would love to visit there …the buzz bombs must ,I think ,have been the most terrifying ,hearing the sound then silence when it cut out …just not knowing where it would land
Thank you, that was fantastic. I love how much I learn from your videos. I hope you are both keeping well x
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Great episode and it’s nice just to take time out and stop when you feel like it especially in the heat
You can get a grant for those knees as a site of natural importance
Love the military sites and stories - hard to believe
Thanks for producing and sharing
Thanks for watching. Sorry to inflict those knees on you 🙀
Hope you’re well? Was this from last Summer? Or Summer before?
@@Sushi2735 June 2023 🙂
France does a lot to remember both big wars.Caverne du Dragon nr Soissons is well worth a visit if you go back to France,enjoy your new van..
I think we have an episode on that 👍
@@LifeistooshortCK Ok,will have a look,thank you.
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Lovely shot of the field in your opening scene 👍 Thank you for sharing your adventures
Thanks for watching 🙂
Any news on when you will get the new campervan?
@@CampervanTravelsInDora should be before the end of January.
Great vid Carol & Ken 😁
6:00 That is a touch of sunburn, young man, best option lanolin and slightly longer shorts (or short longs) that go below the knee, stopping such problems. It will sting and is also hot, especially at night... sometimes even bed clothes touching the spot can also create some pain. Take care and stay safe, both of you. 💜💜 Kia Ora from New Zealand. Edit: PS: Love the special sugar-free and non-fattening Éclairs, yummmmmmmmm!!!!! Can taste them from here, I shall have a Lindt Chocolate in sympathy.
That’ll teach Ken to get his shorts out! Glad you enjoyed the eclairs ❤️
Another interesting video guys,thank you and nice and relaxing . Have a great weekend .
Thanks. You too 🙂👍
Thank you for this C&K. I’m hoping to build up my driving skills and confidence to make a visit to France. A lady I looked after has just passed away at 102. I’ve promised to visit her brother Tom’s grave in Meharicourt Cemetry, which looks 1 hour away from Val Ygot. His RAF plane was shot down in 1944 and he rests with his crew. Who knows they may have been tasked with bombing the V1 site. My lady often talked about the doodlebugs. She was in the ATS in London and recounted their damage. Xx
Well we hope you get to France. Most people worry about driving over there but in reality after a couple of hours you relax and realise it’s fine. Sad story about Tom. If you visit they will both be looking down. 👍
Thank you very much for your kind words. Tom was 21 years old. Safe travels xx
Of all the towns... Nice seeing you pass through Neufchatel en Bray which we have passed through a couple of times on our routes to Spain and back. There is a nice little park next to the bridge as you enter the town if you are ever there again and need a break!
And those knees... oh my eyes!!
Thanks for the tip. Sorry to inflict those knees on you 🙀
Ohh very good to see what the area in France where the war was fought. I just watched this week a mini series called WWll:From the Front lines it was very good but showed how awful war is but the sweetest of the series was the defeat of Hitler. I love your channel ❤
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Used to listen to the V1s going over in the night
That must have been a frightening experience.
Up to a point, but it told me that I was alive and and the house and family were OK as did the chiming clock in the room below me@@LifeistooshortCK
We're slowly changing up with your videos whilst we're away. We watched this one in Changi airport!, of all places! N&Nx
Glad to help pass the time whilst waiting for your flight 😁👍. Hope it was a smooth one.
@@LifeistooshortCK yup safely home this morning! Waiting for jet lag to kick in! 🤣
Bedankt
Thank you so much for your support. Glad you enjoyed the video ❤️❤️❤️
You two certainly eat well when you are away in your van. I would love to explore the old v1&2 sites, definitely one day but I think Scandinavia is beckoning this year.
Well worth a visit and France is so easy to explore in a campervan. Enjoy your trip to Scandinavia 🙂👍
Val Ygot is so lovely and peaceful. Ken, your knees were really red, I hope it wasn't too bad? Take care🖐
Ken survived! I think it was just the heat. Thanks for watching ❤️
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I didn't really know whereabouts in France the V1s were launched from but in the back of my mind I thought it was a coastal site. So it was interesting to know where they actually were. Well actually it was a V1 that killed my maternal grandmother. As you say, they were aimed at London in general. Unfortunately the one that fell in Alpha Road in Teddington, west of the Capital fell directly on the gas main cover in their front garden. Took a part of the front of the house out and completely obliterated my Grandmother. My mother was a young teenager at the time and she and her three year old brother were in an understair shelter made from what my mother always said were railway sleepers. Kenny got both his legs broken but my mother had not a scratch. My grandfather was in the kitchen brewing a pot of Tea and a large piece of sleeper pierced him through the abdomen fortunately missing anything vital. So I've never really looked into the armaments of the Germans because it was a taboo subject in our family you only knew what you were told, you didn't ask. I know what you mean about quiet though. I have been to several war grave sites in adult life and not even any birdsong. I definitely go along with what you say though if you want to get the real feel you have to get off the "beaten track " a bit. Funny tale that shows how folks didn't talk about the war. When I took my dad's funeral service I recounted how he'd been in the medical corps as he wouldn't take up arms but wouldn't refuse to serve and afterwards my brother spoke to me and said, " that's not right you know. He was in tanks with uncle Mick" . That's what happens when little ones eavesdrop on others conversations. The truth is he drove Tankers between Littlehampton and France after the war to bring back Grape must to VP wines as the basis of British fruit wines and British Sherry. Just your little trip to that old German base brought back things I hadn't thought about for more than a decade and a half. Thanks, it's good to remember where you've come from. ❤ 🐻
Wow that brought back some memories for you. Tough people back then. Londoners just had to accept it. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to listen to them coming over, just listening for the motor to stop. Chilling 👍
@@LifeistooshortCK up in Yorkshire at Eden Camp about 35 years ago they had a simulation of a bombing raid where you walk through a couple of Nissen huts and you heard felt and smelt the bombing raid and although you knew it was a simulation it was definitely a brown trouser experience. I can only imagine the awful dread of that silence before you here the explosion and know it didn't have your number on it. Incidentally although the memories you invoked cause me to drop a tear or two ( I usually save the Camper vlogs for bedtime with a icemug of tea and a biscuit or two ) I slept the sleep of the inocent, as they say. 😬
Well good to know you did. Our videos seem to bring back a lot of memories for people. It’s always interesting to read about them 👍
Hi Ken and Carol. Wife and I continue to enjoy your videos. What navigation app are you using, and what size ipad? Thanks
Cheapest base ipad tethered to my phone. Google maps, pocket earth and a speed app.
Without doubt the best film so far for information regarding WW2 carol&ken never let us down keep up the good work get yourself a coffee on me ❤
Thank you very much Damien. We really appreciate your support ❤️❤️❤️
Which tag do you use for the French Peage please Carol? I do remember you mentioning one before but I can't find the video now sorry 😊
We have not used one in France. You might be thinking of Norway where we registered for toll roads 👍
Your knees looks like cellulitis...keep an eye on your tempture and headaches
All good now, thanks 🙂
Did you noticed that when you drive through some French villages there is absolutely nobody about?
Yes, we often commented on that 😀
Can I ask what is your sat nav system
I have just bought an elgrand its all Japanese
We use the latest but most basic ipad available as our satnav. The basic model is all thats needed as the more powerful ones use too much power when using GPS. Even plugged into a 12v socket it eventually runs down. The basic one doesn’t. We use a variety of apps including Waze, Google maps, pocket earth. I also use a speed app at the same time so what you see are actually 2 apps windowed
Are you ever going to go to morocco
We have no plans. Lots of vanlifers who are on RUclips are going there though.