just a bit of trivia but the Sans Culottes were actually the common people who took part in the French Revolution -they did wear their underwear just not the fancy pants they upper classes did. (I guess that's where the term fancy pants comes from???) The upper classes wore knee breeches or culottes and the lower classes long pants hence "les sans culottes". I only know that because I studied it in year 12. I absolutely love your channel. Thank you.
Hi Tim. What a shame ( for us😉) that we missed you filming, doing the very same walk last week too. We wondered what what was behind those big black and gold gates, now we know 😁. We also made our way to Mont Alban following your footsteps of last week. Just as you said , the views were absolutely incredible. Wonderful to be back in Villefranche , if only for a few days, to enjoy the sunshine and the clarity of of light. Back in the grey of the UK now, bracing ourselves for winter☹️ . Can wait for another visit before to long. Many thanks for all the info.
It is several years since I last did the coastal walk and now my health prevents me dealing with all the steps. It is such a pleasure to see all my old haunts through your eyes. Though I must admit to missing many of the sites/sights that you have not included. Despite this your walks are excellent and deserve a much wider audience.
@@MeandMonAmi I am a French citizen but born in the States. I plan on living in France for a year in a few years from now. Already making files!! Lol! Saving anything that sounds interesting and fun like this video. Thx again.
You're at it again! beautiful presentation and clarity of interesting information,South of France is so beguiling, I used to live in Spain and just love the Mediterranean made a huge mistake coming back to U.K and hope to escape one day after dare I say Covid HAS abated,Thank-you for bringing my beloved Med back to me .
Thank you for the links. I like to use them to Google where you've taken us so I can learn more about each location. The video footage is spectacular.Thank you for giving us historical and cultural context.This is a fantastic video a real blessing!!!!!!!!! Love from Vermont
Wonderful video! My two younger brothers and I are looking to make a trip to Nice this August. We were debating about doing a hike through Eze or to do this hike, VILLEFRANCHE to ST JEAN CAP FERRAT. What would your recommend? Or would it be something different entirely? Is it easy to get around on the bus system as a tourist? Thank you for your time.
@@maryforbesphotography1596 no there isn’t one. The passage doesn’t really have much to say about it and it’s a stiff hike if you go up (easier to come down!) There’s a video on Eze. Buses from Nice or from Eze sur mer train station. It can get very busy later in day
Isn't it funny how bits of poetry can stick in your long term memory half a century or more after you committed them to memory? Coleridge was my favourite poet as a lad, and I still remember stanzas from his works (Kubla Khan, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner). So when you said "like a painted ship upon a painted ocean", I immediately recalled one of the preceding stanzas, but was unable to remember the lines in the couple of following stanzas leading up to the famous painted ship quote: The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew. The furrow followed free: We were the first, That ever burst Into that silent sea. Beautiful, isn't it?
if The Rime then only from S.M.Coleridge: Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross. Well, and these bunch, I know about it from them ruclips.net/video/ulfnJ0E34fU/видео.html
Hey Tim - love your interesting and informative vlogs and enjoying the coastal walk series. Unless France pull the plug on Brit tourists (and who could blame them given UK covid numbers), hope to visit in December. Tempted to follow in your footsteps while there. Looking forward to next week's instalment.
The swastika symbol, 卐 (right-facing or clockwise) or 卍 (left-facing, counterclockwise, or sauwastika), is an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The Swastika, a Sanskrit word meaning ‘conducive to well-being’, is drawn in two ways: left-facing or right-facing. The right-facing version of the symbol is what is commonly known as ‘Swastika’ whereas the left-facing version is called the ‘Sauwastika’. Both versions are widely respected especially by Buddhists, Hindus and Jains as an important religious symbol. Most likely the villa represents the symbol for it’s true meaning. Great walk Tim and it looks like a great workout. How long did it take in total.
Thanks Raoul. Interesting.. there’s a book coming about nellcote it will be interesting to see their take on it. It took me about five hours but I was messing about with cameras. I would say do the bit to VF then have lunch and think about the second half!
Wonderful to see your video …as it’s now 2023 November. I ve memories of part of your walk. Loved my life in south of France all those years.. what a gift❤️.
Bonjour from New Zealand. I was compelled to send a wee message. Just stumbled across your site, looking up all things Villefranche, as we are thinking of staying there next year. I have watched quite a few of your delightful posts, really love how you intertwine researched history of the area, with what's happening in your part of the Riveria with a fun, personable delivery. Have to say, surpasses a lot of other travel posts as some can be a bit vapid and all about them! Keep posting. Warmest Wishes to you both. Sarah Paulin.🌞
Very interesting thank you. I know the area well. Thanks for the effort to put the historical information in too. Might visit again soon. I might take that Carrefour chariot/trolley back for the €1. 🙂 Merci, mon ami!🇬🇧👍
Found your vlogs today by "accident". I cannot see why you don't have more subscribers! Really entertaining and leaves me wanting to holiday on the French Riviera. I have subscribed and will watch going forward.
Tim this walk is amazing and very informative. Do you have any link to a map of this walk. I am dreaming of the day in 2023 when I will swim in your special place :). Thanks
"What do you do when you desperately want to travel but stuck with office work? Grab your phone and watch this guy walk and talk in France.." Very satisfying video to watch. 👍
Dear Tim, Thank you for your magnificent video, a sublime feast for the senses that takes me back to the place on the planet I love the most. I had been visiting yearly until the pandemic stole four years. Now, having discovered your magical channel, I feel that I am almost there! I just booked my ticket for September and can't wait to take it back. There is a little sun-warmed picnic bench waiting for me at the end of Plage de Mariniere's crescent of sand--I'm sure you know exactly where. From there I will head up the path to the left and walk the most jaw-dropping route in the world, a stupefied smile plastered on my face, gratefully inhaling every long-awaited moment as if it were my last. So finally, here is my ask: do you mind sharing the location of that most perfect turquoise swimming spot designed by the God of Cap Ferrat where you swam every day during lockdown? My last trip, I promised myself, I would finally swim the secret spots on Cap Ferrat -- I always happened upon them by happy accident, dazzled, unprepared, no towel, such a waste. I swore I would do it right the next time I came and research well in advance (your video, to wit). If you'd rather not share, I completely understand and will sign off by saying if one day you see a diminutive sixty-two-year-old lady with a towel round her waist and stupid smile on her face, that's probably me. I am going back to your video and dreaming of my return. Thank you Tim from Suzi in Montreal
@@MeandMonAmi I've never walked in that direction. Now you've given me a mission! Worse things in life! Thank you Tim and please keep filming! All the very best, Suzi
Hi Tim, Another great VLOG. My wife and I did this walk for the first time in 2017 but from VFSM to Nice and it nearly killed me. She did it again this past September with my daughter. I took the train.... met them in Cours Saleya. Even though we come to VFSM every year since 2009 your VLOGs bring out information that we are completly unaware of and we thank your for that. All the best and we look forward to the next episode!
Fabulous! I was re-living the walk with you as I did it last week (as far as VF). Really look forward to walking the next section when back in December. Thanks as always for the bits of history/stories along the way. Seagulls 😣! You brighten up Sunday nights that's for sure. Merci.
Another great video! When did you film this? I ask because I'm coming to Nice for a week on Nov 9, and I wonder what clothes to bring. It'll be my first time to the area.
just a bit of trivia but the Sans Culottes were actually the common people who took part in the French Revolution -they did wear their underwear just not the fancy pants they upper classes did. (I guess that's where the term fancy pants comes from???) The upper classes wore knee breeches or culottes and the lower classes long pants hence "les sans culottes". I only know that because I studied it in year 12. I absolutely love your channel. Thank you.
What a fab fact! Thanks!
Hi Tim. What a shame ( for us😉) that we missed you filming, doing the very same walk last week too. We wondered what what was behind those big black and gold gates, now we know 😁. We also made our way to Mont Alban following your footsteps of last week. Just as you said , the views were absolutely incredible. Wonderful to be back in Villefranche , if only for a few days, to enjoy the sunshine and the clarity of of light. Back in the grey of the UK now, bracing ourselves for winter☹️ . Can wait for another visit before to long. Many thanks for all the info.
It is several years since I last did the coastal walk and now my health prevents me dealing with all the steps. It is such a pleasure to see all my old haunts through your eyes. Though I must admit to missing many of the sites/sights that you have not included. Despite this your walks are excellent and deserve a much wider audience.
Thanks DP. And thanks for your Cousteau!
I am now just discovering you!! This is amazing. I’m subscribing. Wishing you health and happiness! Thank you!
@@MarieNoelle64 Thanks Marie!
@@MeandMonAmi I am a French citizen but born in the States. I plan on living in France for a year in a few years from now. Already making files!! Lol! Saving anything that sounds interesting and fun like this video. Thx again.
We love these video with walk,is the best idea if you want to visit places
Thanks and indeed !
You're at it again! beautiful presentation and clarity of interesting information,South of France is so beguiling, I used to live in Spain and just love the Mediterranean made a huge mistake coming back to U.K and hope to escape one day after dare I say Covid HAS abated,Thank-you for bringing my beloved Med back to me .
Thanks so much Sarah. Hope the Med will kiss you again soon!
@@MeandMonAmi Now that is a beautiful thing to say..Thank-you.
Thank you for the links. I like to use them to Google where you've taken us so I can learn more about each location. The video footage is spectacular.Thank you for giving us historical and cultural context.This is a fantastic video a real blessing!!!!!!!!! Love from Vermont
ruclips.net/video/B5JbXRDOP60/видео.html that’s the American propaganda movie he talks about regarding Mere Germaine
Thanks Paul. It’s a lovely little film
Wonderful video! My two younger brothers and I are looking to make a trip to Nice this August. We were debating about doing a hike through Eze or to do this hike, VILLEFRANCHE to ST JEAN CAP FERRAT. What would your recommend? Or would it be something different entirely? Is it easy to get around on the bus system as a tourist? Thank you for your time.
Both very different. Do you mean nietztes passage in Eze? There are another 9 walks in this series
@@MeandMonAmi Yes correct! We may do both. I cannot find your video on the nietztes passage in Eze. Did you create one? Thank you again!!
@@maryforbesphotography1596 no there isn’t one. The passage doesn’t really have much to say about it and it’s a stiff hike if you go up (easier to come down!) There’s a video on Eze. Buses from Nice or from Eze sur mer train station. It can get very busy later in day
Well we thought that was OUR secret swimming spot 😂.
I’ll keep schtum!
Isn't it funny how bits of poetry can stick in your long term memory half a century or more after you committed them to memory? Coleridge was my favourite poet as a lad, and I still remember stanzas from his works (Kubla Khan, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner). So when you said "like a painted ship upon a painted ocean", I immediately recalled one of the preceding stanzas, but was unable to remember the lines in the couple of following stanzas leading up to the famous painted ship quote:
The fair breeze blew,
The white foam flew.
The furrow followed free:
We were the first,
That ever burst
Into that silent sea.
Beautiful, isn't it?
Yup poems stick. Maybe we learn them at the right time too!
We love these weekly episodes - a Sunday highlight for us. Thanks Tim!
Thanks David. Please spread the word if you can.
🙋♂️
I need to go back and do all these. Does bus100 help? 🤪🤪
Certainly takes you to the start points of the last two walks. Check out the mao coordinates in the description below the vids,
Charming, amusing and enlightening.
Thanks
if The Rime then only from S.M.Coleridge:
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung
With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross.
Well, and these bunch, I know about it from them
ruclips.net/video/ulfnJ0E34fU/видео.html
Indeed! Great clip!
Hey Tim - love your interesting and informative vlogs and enjoying the coastal walk series. Unless France pull the plug on Brit tourists (and who could blame them given UK covid numbers), hope to visit in December. Tempted to follow in your footsteps while there. Looking forward to next week's instalment.
Thanks. Hope you make it!
Super walk. Legs hurting just watching👍
The swastika symbol, 卐 (right-facing or clockwise) or 卍 (left-facing, counterclockwise, or sauwastika), is an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The Swastika, a Sanskrit word meaning ‘conducive to well-being’, is drawn in two ways: left-facing or right-facing. The right-facing version of the symbol is what is commonly known as ‘Swastika’ whereas the left-facing version is called the ‘Sauwastika’. Both versions are widely respected especially by Buddhists, Hindus and Jains as an important religious symbol.
Most likely the villa represents the symbol for it’s true meaning.
Great walk Tim and it looks like a great workout. How long did it take in total.
Thanks Raoul. Interesting.. there’s a book coming about nellcote it will be interesting to see their take on it. It took me about five hours but I was messing about with cameras. I would say do the bit to VF then have lunch and think about the second half!
Can say, we fell in love with Cap Ferrat on 1st visit,,back for three summer stays.,,our first love of our French travels,,just hit with us, and!
Glad you enjoyed!
Really enjoying your videos! Curious approx. how many kilometres this walk was?
Thanks!
Gosh about 5?
Great video but your Stones link doesn't work
Wonderful to see your video …as it’s now 2023 November. I ve memories
of part of your walk. Loved my life in south of France all those years..
what a gift❤️.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Bonjour from New Zealand.
I was compelled to send a wee message.
Just stumbled across your site, looking up all things Villefranche, as we are thinking of staying there next year. I have watched quite a few of your delightful posts, really love how you intertwine researched history of the area, with what's happening in your part of the Riveria with a fun, personable delivery.
Have to say, surpasses a lot of other travel posts as some can be a bit vapid and all about them!
Keep posting.
Warmest Wishes to you both.
Sarah Paulin.🌞
Thanks Very much Sarah!
Very interesting thank you. I know the area well. Thanks for the effort to put the historical information in too.
Might visit again soon. I might take that Carrefour chariot/trolley back for the €1. 🙂
Merci, mon ami!🇬🇧👍
Thanks! It’s probably still there;
Found your vlogs today by "accident". I cannot see why you don't have more subscribers! Really entertaining and leaves me wanting to holiday on the French Riviera. I have subscribed and will watch going forward.
Thanks very much. Hope you continue to enjoy
Tim this walk is amazing and very informative. Do you have any link to a map of this walk. I am dreaming of the day in 2023 when I will swim in your special place :). Thanks
I think I put the map co-ordinates in the description below the video
Such a treat viewing the Riviera w yourself and Mr. Boo, and Halloween of course. Thx!
Thanks Bruce
"What do you do when you desperately want to travel but stuck with office work? Grab your phone and watch this guy walk and talk in France.." Very satisfying video to watch. 👍
Thanks. Glad you are enjoying!
Great work
Thanks
Can't wait to try some of these walks when I return to Nice next Summer. Counting the days. Thanks so much Tim and Mr Bo
Thanks Gillian. Hope you enjoy!
Thank you. This was fun and informative. I love your dry humour.
Thanks Barry.
Dear Tim, Thank you for your magnificent video, a sublime feast for the senses that takes me back to the place on the planet I love the most. I had been visiting yearly until the pandemic stole four years. Now, having discovered your magical channel, I feel that I am almost there! I just booked my ticket for September and can't wait to take it back. There is a little sun-warmed picnic bench waiting for me at the end of Plage de Mariniere's crescent of sand--I'm sure you know exactly where. From there I will head up the path to the left and walk the most jaw-dropping route in the world, a stupefied smile plastered on my face, gratefully inhaling every long-awaited moment as if it were my last. So finally, here is my ask: do you mind sharing the location of that most perfect turquoise swimming spot designed by the God of Cap Ferrat where you swam every day during lockdown? My last trip, I promised myself, I would finally swim the secret spots on Cap Ferrat -- I always happened upon them by happy accident, dazzled, unprepared, no towel, such a waste. I swore I would do it right the next time I came and research well in advance (your video, to wit). If you'd rather not share, I completely understand and will sign off by saying if one day you see a diminutive sixty-two-year-old lady with a towel round her waist and stupid smile on her face, that's probably me. I am going back to your video and dreaming of my return. Thank you Tim from Suzi in Montreal
Thanks Suzi. Our secret spot was on the opposite side to cap ferrat on the path between the darse of villefranche and the cap de Nice.
@@MeandMonAmi I've never walked in that direction. Now you've given me a mission! Worse things in life! Thank you Tim and please keep filming! All the very best, Suzi
I'm so happy this is a 2 part video!! There has been so much to see and learn!!! Love from Vermont
Thanks Rebekah. Love to Vermont!
Thank you for your new video! That was a great walk, Tim.
Thanks L. Please share with friends if you can.
What a fantastic walk ! Wow some of those villas ! Ah well I can dream lol. Thanks Tim !
Thanks Andy. The walks are free though and lovely and no security needed!
Loved this one Tim. Thanks for doing these
Thanks Catherine. And thanks for letting me know.
😀 Waiting for Mala plage 😊😊😊
On the way!
Hi Tim,
Another great VLOG. My wife and I did this walk for the first time in 2017 but from VFSM to Nice and it nearly killed me. She did it again this past September with my daughter. I took the train.... met them in Cours Saleya. Even though we come to VFSM every year since 2009 your VLOGs bring out information that we are completly unaware of and we thank your for that.
All the best and we look forward to the next episode!
Thanks Bob. Really glad you are enjoying.
Fabulous! I was re-living the walk with you as I did it last week (as far as VF). Really look forward to walking the next section when back in December. Thanks as always for the bits of history/stories along the way. Seagulls 😣! You brighten up Sunday nights that's for sure. Merci.
The Birds! See you in Dec!
Another great job keep it up. 👍
Thanks Brutus!
Fantastic Tim 🤘
Really looking forward to your next video.
Regards Brian
Thanks Brian!
Wonderful. Well done Tim
Thanks Fred!
Oh the water is so inviting pants or no pants. It clear with some blue and looks like I could jump in and relax. Thanks guys.
Thanks Pat
Gorgeous video, thank you Tim. You are SUCH a wonderful guide. 🙏🏼
Thanks Zelda. So glad you are enjoying..
Love this one!
Thanks Henk
Brilliant, you are such a great ambassador for the area.
In fact the mayor should put you on the payroll!
I await the cheque!
Thanks Lynnette
Another great video! When did you film this? I ask because I'm coming to Nice for a week on Nov 9, and I wonder what clothes to bring. It'll be my first time to the area.
Thanks James. This week! But it can change a bit in November… certainly need a sporty pullover for evenings!;
@@MeandMonAmi Thanks, Tim!
Wonderful as always thank you 🙏🏻😊
Thanks Fran and thanks for taking the time to say so.
Nice vlog again look forward to the others
Thanks Gary
😇😇😇 Fantastic , never been there 🙂🙂🙂
Thanks Geir! Add it to the list..