It's a little bit tight, hold your breath!
we're coming through!!
So we have just been coming down a road it is a bridge
with a height barrier on it,
because we've been diverted
and there's a height barrier which is taller than taller than Trudy!
So we need to find another route!!
We are Marianne and Chris, and we have been traveling since May 2018
after six months of preparing ourselves and our 15 year old camper van called Trudy,
We set off on the 4th of January 2020, to attempt to drive her and ourselves all
the way around the world.
And in this episode we continue our journey south
arriving near the city of Lyon, where we meet up with some old friends,
who show us their local area.
He's not gonna make it through there?
There's another van that just went under the barrier but it's a little bit close!
And it doesn't have anything on the roof
So we need to try and find another way across the river
so Google Maps
What will be funny is if we've got to go back through that deviation!!
we've got to go back past the lorry! We're back at the lorry again!!
It's not good!! Professional driver!!
it's greenlight! go go go! Mount the pavement baby!!
the car has to mount the pavement
Beautiful! beautiful! Good job!! that's not so bad
So the alternative route is closed as well,
We've come about two miles down the river
Okay! I'm giving directions!! Okay so we've come out of the town
for a couple of miles,
and we've managed to turn right which is taking us back
towards the river in the town,
where there is a second bridge.
we're not supposed to be getting lost in France!
It is Mongolia that is supposed to be hard!!
Okay - There should be into the bridge around the corner if there's a height barrier on it ..
then we have a problem!!
Oh it's a bigger bridge!
We're over the bridge!!
We continued driving south east towards the City of Lyon,
taking in all the beautiful French countryside along the way
making time to stop off and admire
some of the local villages en route
and on the way, we were treated to the most beautiful unusual sky,
a rainbow effect, unlike anything we had ever seen before
it wasn't the normal curved rainbow that you normally see,
it was an area of rainbow colours, as we continued driving
you could see the changing landscapes,
from flat farmlands, to more mountainous areas ..
So we've arrived near Vera's house and we're actually stopping to get a SIM Card.
Because one of the beauties of posting on social media and YouTube is
you need data and our SIM card from the UK, soon runs out, so we're going to go
and try and find, there should be a 'free sim' card machine
free as in the SIM card company, the mobile company is called FREE.
So we're gonna go and see, there should be a machine in this shop
and then we'll try and figure it out and we'll let you know how we get on!
Perfect!
Okay so there is a FREE machine in here,
so now we just need to figure out how it works!!
Luckily Marianne speaks French!
I think if you don't speak French it may be slightly complicated,
I think you have to have a French residential address as well - l am using my sisters ! Thank you very much Aly!
It has got to be that one ??
oh that would be brilliant thank you !!
Is that a hundred gigabytes? Yeah !
That's the one! yeah ! Do you want to do a month or continuous ....
Errrm . it will work in the whole of Europe! Yeah ...
Choose the telephone number ... Anyone ....
Tick the box - accept the terms and conditions! and you cancel it online, I think when you've finished - okay
so then you pay with your card,
This seems too easy!!
Merci Monsieur! Merci - thank you!
there you go yay you got it !!
Okay, so that worked, we are armed with a
100 GB, a month SIM card,
and we've done it monthly,
so it will continue to go because I think it's valid for the whole of Europe,
and then you just go online on the free website
to cancel the SIM card when we leave Greece,
so we should be good! so that's amazing.
So we've got to make sure we keep the receipt safe!
Right ... so now on to Vera's !!
We've just pulled over, because Marianne wants to go and say hello to a couple of lovely horses.
Bonjour !!!!
It's Vera !! We love Vera !!
How are you ? Very good and you ?
So we have jumped in the car with Vera, Steve and their son Ruben,
and we are off to a nearby town,
which is a medieval town, that they want to show us
and you may remember, some of you were watching our videos last year, when
we arrived in Lyon that Vera took us on a guided tour of the city,
so we're not going to go into Lyon again this time,
We're gonna go check out some new places is that right what's the name of the the village?
it's called 'Perouges'
Yes, exactly - There you go, you are amazing!!
and I got to sit in the front because I've got long legs!!
So we parked up and we're just going into the town of Perouges, and we've got
the big coat,s on it's still a little bit chilly we're heading south but the
weather hasn't warmed up yet in fact the wind today, we're not far from the Alps
you can feel is a little bit cold.
So actually what we've just arrived in the
medieval village and actually one of the first houses we've got to
It welcomes everybody in and says that there is a sharing box,
so if you've got something that you want to recycle you don't need anymore,
you can put it in here, and then take it and swap it or somebody can use whatever!
so what a lovely nice community idea!
Hey, so here in Perouges, they've actually been given an award
and it's 'one of the most beautiful villages of France' so let's go and check it out!
There are absolutely beautiful views you can see behind us that go on as far as the eye can see!
And it's a really pretty town.
We have just came across the most amazing shop so old and authentic
and when you walked in the smell of all the essential oils
they made like these little handmade soaps and things,
really beautiful, honestly this smells delicious !! I could almost eat it !!
It is like Lemon cake! oh yeah Wow!
And Marianne, couldn't resist buying a soap!!
but Vera very naughtily paid for it, as a present!! very naughty Vera !!
But thank you very much!!
and the soap because it's natural, you can do your body and your hair in it,
there's no plastic and we're gonna be using it in the van, as we drive around the World
and it smells all lemony and zesty, good job!!
so we've just had a look around the wonderful 15th century church and
actually as we stood in the middle of this village, if you just look around
there is just the most amazing cobbled streets and old buildings
and it's just so worth coming around it it's just so beautiful.
It's funny actually, walking around this old village makes you feel like
you're in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings
or one of the really old sets, maybe games of Thrones one of the really old sort of fantasy movies.
What is interesting is, Vera just pointed out the shop / merchants their shutters on their windows rather than closing this way for
security, they actually open this way so they could put their produce out on
there and sell it, and it would be protected from the rain or in this case bird Pooh !!
Yeah what a fascinating system, you know you wouldn't think about it but there is a beautiful example.
So we're just we've just found a little window, in a little shop, it is called
Gallettes des Perogues, and it's like a little shop that makes this local delicacy,
and it looks like a pizza but apparently it's got like a cream and lemon and sugar on it
So I'm going to buy a piece and see what it looks like
so it's given in this lovely piece of greaseproof paper and it does indeed
look like a slice of pizza!
I can't really smell anything!
sweet or savoury? It's sweet, but it's tastes like sweet cheesy stuff,
it's very nice, it tastes like cheese, but it is sweet !
The reason she is shouting at the dog, is she's put the crumbs out for the birds
and the dogs just nicked them !! Hilarious!
Try it, you try! I want you to try it,
I say it's a bit it's a little bit sticky,
Cheesy isn't it? Sweet, cheesy bread! It is Sweet!!
It is lovely !!
So it is a patisserie cream with lemon and citrus juice with sugar on it!
sort of creates like a cream cheesy patisserie cream! delicious
it's really delicious! really lovely
and just when you think you've seen it all
There is an English VW!
That was a really nice village to walk around
so if you do come to Lyon, I would recommend coming here
it's only about 30 minutes drive away
and yeah definitely worth a visit and I'm sure it gets very busy in the summer
yeah good call to come at this time of the year.
Join us on the next episode, as we head into the mountains and discover some beautiful lakes
and Steve just said they actually bought us the soap, because we live in a van and we smell!! LOL