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horsepower one horsepower is a lot of fun 100 horsepower will drive you round a tour of France we're going to be stopping off at the versil the chantilli equin establishments making our way towards Bordeaux past a couple of stag hunts a Canter along the beach not far from Dune deila a little village in the foothills of the Pyrenees we're heading off to MEA but we're only using that as a vintage sports card staging post while we investigate the pow area bernes Source from cooking between Wellington's victory at watero and the Second World War the British used to love the PO area so much so that they set up their own Golf Course Racetrack and Hunt hunting on Horseback like the kings of Versa Stables of Versa really worth seeing and chanelli makes quite a spectacle for a horse race on the flat power proper steeple chase course like cheltam and the cotwolds that's in England where we've set off from there's the three main disciplines there just the same it's dressage which I always find a little bit cruel to put a horse through that level of control but I understand it's not I think we just have to choose that PR those May HD horses they might be good for racing on the flat but cross country or point to point or steeple chase you wouldn't want that tendency quite so much not in its roal form not fox hunting so much in France though stack hunting which do get in Deon and Scotland we'll be popping in on Kasson and then heading across the langad Wong Coast across the bushon to Paka provon and Alps Co to a real Festival of horsepower thousand horsepower to every Formula 1 car 100 horsepower to your average passenger car one horsepower to every horse oh heavy Dre CH Pony that pulls a wagon full of beer it's got to be more than one horsepower compared to the pit Pony that the Grandad took charge of great Grandad but there's an ever increasing amount of horsepower in the world um an Ever decreasing number of horses we just don't need them anymore after the first world war and if Stags and foxes aren't a farmed resource we won't need them anymore so there won't be any there's the pre-ir world war thing of hunting things out of existence Like the Wolf that's now been introduced species and only government approved colors kill like those idiot big game Hunters that just come and shoot and stalk why not create ritual pump and Circumstance and try and keep it as Humane as possible ceremony gives respect to the animal and the blood lust of the hunt needs feeding through the farmed resource supply of foxes and Stags in France this is the grand chass the vener is a rather involved term shast course how would he do if Lewis Hamilton had to do three disciplines throw in a bit of off-roading for him and perhaps has to be in the same vehicle I've never really quite understood how horse riding is a female dominated sport I think it's partly given the Assurance of control that you can control that big beast between your legs don't worry about men they're hopeless but men are hopeless they don't like to get involved with horse riding I've had it quoted to me don't like to ride anything that's bigger than me in the certain departments if you see what I mean so many men are scared of horses so Monaco of course for the Grand Prix and that's the Grand Prix Formula 1 grand prix Grand prix's also come from horse racing along the coast to can which still has a Sundy Beach and then on to nce which is like Stony like Brighton we'll then have to head north Hood bound Leon pop in see what mer Bell in the three valleys is like in summertime I've chosen shallows and champagne and Troys as convenient stops on the way back to Cal so at one horsepower cross country show jumping and dressage what would be the thousand horsepower equivalent this is a bit more like a fantasy football league than every any sort of reality that's ever going to happen and who would be the best driver no this is so academic because Formula 1 is more like point to point or horse racing on a track Like You Bet on Formula One is like racing consortiums so let's stretch it a little bit which driver of all time would be best if it was a combo of the race not a steil Chase race because there are no sleeping policeman speed bumps in Formula 1 the Formula 1 race is like an enhanced th000 horsepower of a one horsepower racing on the flat rallying might be a little bit like cross country both of those appeal to be the most but what would be the Motorsport equivalent of tress I can't say evil can evil cuz no one knows what that is I'm tempted to say like BMX or skateboarding but no it's not Motors it's not even one horsepower is a human power compared to a horsepower got to look that up Lewis Hamilton and Max for staffen do give good Donuts that's not freebies when you do the pit walk it's burning rubber on the track God that gets up your nostrils Kimmy reenan without doubt the best driver of all time he could even do movie stunts he could be the stunt man in the car he could do it better than them but he's doesn't need to doesn't he dress that's got to be the same as movie car stunts oh I do hope that auto translate works well for this cuz this is going to be another one video and the whole channel gets demoted that was movie car stunts movie cast stts which in anywhere else in America that speaks English would be film castt I'm disappearing off down a rabbit hole here the Duke of Wellington Brin nose that claims to be the promoter of the last stronghold of Britain in France in the B region in France establishing the first golf course on the continent and fox hunting and horse racing a grand tour era and 1930s perhaps 1920s 1930s era expa Community since Wellington times still muddy is still Wellington times I suppose but the club has had three increasingly less surious clubhouses though the first two were truly representative of the sport of Ging nowadays everyone in the club is French they wouldn't necessarily identify as Anglo files which isn't remotely influenced by Jimmy s l Suk dle is currently in a rather rundown Mana house I suppose you'd say in as Irish damp corner of a foreign feed old as you'll find rightly as many would say because the Irish produce some of the best affordable hunt horses and race horses for a couple of hundred years they were a big part of of the scene I am only focusing on L Grand chass there is the PE chass where you're chasing rabbits and little things like foxes that aren't really worthy of horseback riding I think it's a license it might be a club membership I'm not too sure about £300 a year compared to £3,000 a year for hunting Stags on Horseback and still the clubhouse a bit run down but in CWS anyway it's all centered around these days stately homes used to host a hunt just as a matter of Pride and identity but it tends to be mainly pubs since the sabur Hefty finds in France for hunt sabur less so if you have to real pray rather than stick to the drag there are still some purists that go in with what I'll describe as a oyster knife but a much in l no knife turned into a spear imagine that that's what you go into the exhausted stag with the head of the hunt and straight into the heart put out its Agony then you cut off bits give it to the dogs they have their time cut off the Hooves give it to the ladies and the children gosh the pride of receiving a chopped off deers Stags my hoof but just as the Petit chass on foot it's all done on a budget even the presentation is they don't even plat the MS of the horses they don't put the not nail varnish they don't put the vegetable oil on the Hooves to make it all shiny the turnout isn't the equipage of the cotal and North cot Old Hunt which is all I can comment on have I been on one I'm good on jumping 3 foot six fences which would be fairly low on a show jumping standard but perfectly adequate to join a hunt yes I would need a experienced horse blind hedge is quite a different thing to red and white poles I confess but it's the money the annual membership so I used to work sort of 171 18 in a Country Pub serve good food and good real ale and see an additional blog and the horse riding set that used to come all the way out 2 hours from London they used to have beautiful such Cottages in various Villages or just get away from their City Trader husband on a Sunday morning my architectural Prospect University of the time Lifted Me Above the status of the stable girls which wasn't insignificant quite a class Crossing career but I was considered more of a potential Toy Boy than a prospect for the daughters or Sons but they liked me I got to go to a hunt ball I watched and I think followed is the phaser a fair few hunts that go from different locations all the time yeah about £3,000 a year for the grand sh about 300 for the petite chass little things like boxes and rabbits wild boar for that matter are hunted on foot with dogs idiots with guns there's about 500,000 foxes a year killed hunting's highly regulated in France you get a little bracelet that shows your allowance of what little things you're allowed to kill and get fined if you kill too much even if it's two different people in the same pack so to speak there's been scandals about people getting shot on hunts as well children you don't get a bracelet for that but that bat there's no real liturgy to it the equipage of it it can't be elaborated into culture there is an additional aspect to the V that this can be translated almost like going on the pool going on the hunt for a woman but in tone it's more like going out on the hunt for where the ladies of the night are hanging out if it's used in that way Lio and Bordeaux there have been scandals as far back as elanar of aquatan and Henry II of England the basis of that British claim in Bordeaux on there's 30,000 of us 11 50 to 1450 this is back when artists were able to do little more than caricatures and tapestry was the high art we're on a two We Tour of France this is as the end goal of the game of catching up with leis Hamilton yes pilgrimage is a grandiose phrase it is a slow process just the same traveling around France for two weeks but could be described as celebrity stalking really I suppose or perhaps we could align ourselves with Paparazzi it's not much different now in a pro sports car if you can get into it you're low slung you are sat on the floor and it's hard sprung suspension you know about every mile that you're traveling not saying the roads bad in France at all certainly the page that's their business we did want to take the B- roads the back roads andly speaking though there were exceptions I was pretty much limited to about 4 hours of traveler at a time now at 90 M hour that's a fair distance straight off the ferry you're fresh and enthusiastic and you think you looking at the Pentagon I'd love to say hang a left into the lair but that would throw you all ready you'd be off to belgic and Germany in one go through the night you get most of the way to Bordeaux and you there for breakfast pretty de now I don't want to harp on about the britishness of Paul because it's all those exaggerated after dinner stories written almost a century later I'm sure there were French calori hanging out in tarar didn't really want to accept watero but the variations on the story of the British and French caloy up for a battle but then decided to indulge in the sport of kings and go off on a stag hunt instead you can find on Wikipedia and it's nice to think of it as some sort of surrender like meeting but it's as fake as that first world war thing of the British and the Germans playing football in no man's land just impossible because of the craters there wasn't a flat bit of land anywhere to kick a ball but by 1915 not 1815 that Century the anglicizing was pretty much over with by the shouting but back to Bordeaux which has been a French Capital during the first world war and the second world war when they've had to move out of Paris temporarily oh 2012 a more recent Scandal um a matths teacher I shouldn't laugh and a 15-year-old girl from Britain um escaped on the day that he was supposed to be sacked and was found in bordeau the French police couldn't help there's no crime being done perfectly legal if they're at it like rabbits in FS If the parents didn't want to press for a kidnapping charge but elanar of aquatan um she married a French one of the Louis one of the French Louis she got the pope to send him off to Jerusalem and she followed but her Knight in China arm died she was married for 14 years and had daughters then a month or two later she married the English king of 18 years old who she had Sons with 30 and 18 for your judgment does it make a difference if it's male on female or female on male Henry was King Steven of England's son you ever heard of King Steven I haven't but you will have heard of one of her Sons Richard the lionard but it was the Bordeaux limo area that she had most success in trying to put her son on the throne by deposing her husband regicide because they're ordained by God rather than just homicide nonsense but there's always going to be scandals around wine 10 ch Chinese chatau owners have been investigated prosecuted by French police for tax evasion and fraud and tampering but the problem of Spanish wine getting into French wine bottles is much more widespread um a bit like wool there's the problem that wine costs more to produce than you can sell it for even more and more French people are drinking beer I don't I can't I can't understand it either like all farmers in France you might think that landowners or the vineyard owners are they much more like gentlemen aren't they there's a militant Wing French wine is being adulterated for profit o la la voila there were cavemen 20,000 years ago and Kelts then Romans in b d along the water to him giving way to sugar and slaves but the 1700s were bordo's Golden Age architect Victor Louie brought the enlightenment era the girondins were the wrong side of the French Revolution the montagnards generally having the upper hand but after the Duke of Wellington had inspired Abba Lou nephew the Duke of Bordeaux was trying to become king beg pardon since 2007 Bordeaux has been a UNESCO world heritage site France so easy to fall in love with every scrumptious little cute morsel of it even the remble that is p but if you decide to live there it can be a demanding High maintenance relationship the gossip can be hard work the municipal that form the control of the interactions of who are brought up through school to be good citizens and de now Bordeaux is a pilgrimage in itself for many of us worth its weight in Claret this is perhaps one of the first instances that you get the sense of exp Patriots certainly if you're in the wine and Hospitality business this would be a bit of a mecca for you in training terms same as you might think central London restaurants might be and cultivating your French language skills would help you with your wealthy Russian private clients may be looking to go into that yacht charter business or just work your way up and through somia ISM that elitist accompaniment to elitist food there are many small Parcels of Vineyard come up for sale and there's many an expat that's wanted the lifestyle choice of a Vineyard the social cache of it all you can meet the Sons and Daughters of these people that are the face of a business in Bordeaux now Bordeaux is on a river Ester a bit like the Mery I'm going to say a bit like Liverpool is on the Mery it's not really by the seaside as such but there is not a Million Miles Away and there's also L Rell in where apparently half of Paris disappears off to every summer we're on the west coast of France the gond River on a map almost seems like it's been wind swept away from perpendicular to the Atlantic winds June deil is like a huge expans like a city but just of sand they few campsites and trees behind it there's an enthusiastic fraternity of kite Surfers but really it's so windy so much of the time the majority of Dune deila and the extended zone is good for nothing paragliders I pass over that Coastal soaring there are slightly hippie aspects of Bordeaux the city it's got a feel to it a little bit like Bristol perhaps but without Edge privilege and money yes but working not the idleness and vacant of theer lell appendage there's good reason why there's so many British in Bordeaux and really the luir as well and the do further south real British enclaves within the Pentagon and traditionally Britany I understand to the north but don't know anything about it is coral as far as I'm concerned for centuries Bordeaux and the laa were L hours in the days of nights and shining armor the industry and currency were largely established by us the British claran Brandy for centuries having more use as a legal tender than gold coins or any sort of early promisory note coins could be clipped yes there was a lot of cooperation towards the holy land during the Crusades but the British and the French squabbled Kingdom by Kingdom for centuries over the luir and Bordeaux region far in land and then beaten back until just the island of Bordeaux was all lasted on the mainland of France until all the those base Estates that gave rise to all those dramatic Forts and castles Shadow turrets Moes local marriages and allegiances changed centuries of slow change until we were beaten back with battles but still a sphere of influence historically there were two ways you could avoid the barbery pilots and the Spanish main the Fortified Hilltop City of carasol guarded one along the base of the Pyrenees just like Genoa school children in Britain relish reading how the Mongol Empire helped extend their territory by flinging plague victims dead bodies on catapults into the walls of the city I often have to point out that there were three main plagues EIC plagues one about 500 ad another one in medieval times there one mainly in China and India in 1880 we should sophisticated means of transmission and catapults over [Music] walls send them on out automatically Bordeaux wine Villages don't miss them so you get different flavor to the r or the bgo Burgundy wine regions do three in burgundy of course djon and if you're in the southern R um you could do much worse than a and proval but you might want to go for AV your try and fit in UNESCO Point PTO guard but really that's more relaxing thing and you have to do give it a day not have a day but that's still a long drive off yet the whole the south west coast of the gulf on the bottom edge of the Pentagon of France muscles and oyster it's long low muddy TI B region perfect for the [Music] sh miles miles and miles of [Music] Drive bed Terraces are posts in [Music] mwh which is the nudest beach sort [Music] of commoditized by swingers drive on by and what's given freely art will eat [Music] itself ailable opportunity when it's ask silly questions that go against it Timber framed town with wooden [Music] Bean the time Square on the ground floor that protect people from the [Music] elements in days gone by from the rain was where we stayed before this long Coastal blast sweetest time lovely restaurants and a nice hippie vibe to some of the street musicians it feels homely and so much that it's void of the mercenary touristy aspect that carason has you will eventually reach bu Ron the mouth of the river ran where since Greek times the Traders the gallions have gone up the river ran a little bit taken a muddy slipway across to the river Lair which then takes you to the Atlantic and the Cornish tin mines would have been a value then the slipway where big boats were towed by horses and mules is now a bit of a sort of industrial Cor and the same parts of the ran the lair aren't quite so navigable but what by what we see as reasonable means of Transport you don't want to go down a river for days on end in a caracal de carrying it over we and Rapids the equivalent of a man with a van in those bygone days where what you could carry was a major investment and your profit was largely determined whether you would risk carrying it near or far to increase your investment recoup Leon you do I know you do go on holiday for a week or two and you don't want to leave but if you're honest there's more than that you consider whether you could live there or not you give it head space probably if you weren't working if you were retired what you see is the height of the Season though everything closes when the schools go back there is a long long School holiday there are a lot of public holidays but it's almost as short and brief a season as Greece but that really just means that you've got all that to yourselves sure it doesn't have quite the same buzz when it's just Northern Europeans you might even see business opportunities which might be deceptive the French are quite particular in their ways you might do a fantasy property hunt and realize there's a bargain to be had but there might be some practical hurdles in that process but that's not the half of it you got to learn another language fluently in your Anglo-Saxon world you make friends partly by being flash buying friends in France is very transparent doesn't really come off there has to be some really quite significant push factors back home as well as just a pull factor of that bargain a bit like the analogy of the Vintage vx220 sports car getting you into that club if only at entry level you will find that you become part of really quite an elitist xack Community but the frequency of those interactions might be a little more than seasonal perap not satisfying enough if you're looking to be integrated into an xack Community you really probably want to be looking at the Spanish classes in France your children will be accepted as locals much more than in Italy where it would take generations and where old money isn't really so clean of conscience there's no getting away from it there's a certain Gena most class to France that the junas the dictatorships of Spain and Italy just don't bring but there is often little patience for that class beyond the Mish of Parry in large part because so much of France is that rural conservative with a small sea met in front of the rain shadow a number of sunlight hours per year really to most of us that's the most important [Music] thing foothills of the Pines almost Spain offers a high number of sunshine hour hours per year and often High rainfalls straight off the Atlantic I went for where that rain falls as snow in the Eastern Alps south of Geneva seavo not traditionally France traditionally [Music] Italy can you see France in a two week vacation is one of the questions which we ask ourselves here many Americans think they can see the whole of Europe in a two week vacation they can't get a flavor of get to know two very different things if you're excluding Paris and the eeld of France which is all that France is in way yes you can get around the country and start to feel like you're getting to know it it's varied history and Landscape climate people and Customs give it a very different air in very different areas all over not so long ago were city states we're off to to Monaco one of those last city states theoretically outside of France it's on the bulous protrusion of provance that has its own special microclimate slightly extended away from the Alps not in a rain shadow it has more than its fair share of sunshine hours per year or is that just sales patter to accentuate it tax Haven status what is The Enclave of Monaco and Monte Caro like and perhaps to some more importantly what is the Monaco Formula 1 like to [Applause] experience
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