A weekend in Collioure - France 🇫🇷

[Music] hello so welcome to one of my videos again you might remember me from an Englishman in Kiev Bucharest night life which was sadly taken down by YouTube because it invaded someone's privacy and many other videos thanks for watching those by the way today I'm off to when I'm flying to Toulouse and I'm gonna get a and then I'm going to derive from Toulouse to a family house and then from the family house we're gonna go visit a camera just stop there there's no I'm still recording then I'm gonna go visit a little seaside town on that's in the southwest of France by the Mediterranean near the Spanish border cool cool yeah I've just been gonna be there for two days some might say that's the perfect sort of amount of time to visit cool yeah so I'm gonna take you on that journey to see what coulier's like and let's see if we can have a good time [Music] [Music] [Music] to perform the duties listed on the safety card please ask a flight attendant to receipt you it's a lot of responsibility well switch seats no I'm not sure I'm for that particular job an exit door procedure 30,000 feet the illusion of safety a son arrived late in Toulouse and planning now is to get picked up hopefully and then tomorrow morning I'll make my way to the coast so this is where I stayed for the nights mr. French house here I'm now getting get in the car and head onto Cuvier the weather was hot when I arrived last night it's a bit cooler today so I'm hoping when it's sunny it's the coast it's nice and hot [Music] [Music] [Music] hey salmon in cooler just got to my apartment three-bedroom apartment actually and there's a slight ruse to this usually I'm found traveling and will alone but today I'm actually traveling my sister and two aunts and my mother and father reason being is my mother and father supportive wedding anniversary 40 years can you imagine that being with the same person forty years but unto them that's what I say well done dancing I just parking out the car just over here and gives me a chance to sort of explore oh yeah now this is a place I have been to a few times and there's probably the reason that this place was picked for the 40th wedding anniversary celebrations well hoping to basically show you what [ __ ] airs like so enjoy enjoy this journey Hey so obviously made it clear this is one of the beaches in Korea stony beaches are still very picturesque very beautiful Oh Castle I'll fall behind me enjoying the drink enjoying the water it is incredibly warm here right now and pasty me I have to have my hat on stop myself bang [Music] [Music] so I'm just walking along the castle walls chateau Royale basically this part of France is on the board of the Pyrenees it wasn't actually France until the 17th century when it was taken by the French and basically because it's a strategic points as you can see a great place to have a fort falls over there and it just made sense for the people to have this as strategic points they could sell their ships safely away from the Spanish coast which is Spanish coast more effectively just that way as self and this was sort of one of the first key points before you know in the Mediterranean before you got to Spain and battles were forts here the foreign legions still have a division here you often see them up and down this sort of piers I'll see them today but I'm standing at a lookout for them and I see them I'm gonna record them so let's say I will break you then remake you now the fighter must become a soldier [Music] [Music] [Music] it is King Arthur and these are my knights of the round table whose castle is this can we come up and have a look of course not you are English type sir well what are you then I'm French what do you think I have this outrageous it suddenly got a lot colder down here it's about 32 degrees outside and inside it feels like a sort of kind of cold sir except sir if it was like I'm in the basement but right now I'm probably I probably at least on the first floor are you in the u.s. though that's the second floor in the US but in the UK in Europe for the first floor is the floor above the ground floor Hoover maze is the arches lands out there trying the best to defend that much of you out there but you know hopefully it was never used but I'm sure it was there was a known thought to be here ever since the Romans and just sort of reading on the thing 500 years BC the green navigates is used to frequent the trading post in Korea which became a poor port of Elna the seat of the bishop from the sixth century onwards the name Korea comes from Calaveras or meaning the conch you know the conch actually the conch is the way to say to conch remember Lord of the Flies piggy would suddenly gain power when he had the conch when he didn't have the conch he was the mercy of all of the the rabble of schoolboys anyway let's continue this tour the first mention of his fortified site at Cooley I was in the seventh century because there's a spotlight here see that spotlight lighting up the display of the sort of arches terrible turrets also give you a little bit of a rendition on what sort of sort of the history of this place in the 12th century Gerard the last independent count of the rasa mean they bequeathed his lands to the applause Alphonso the second King of Aragon and the counts of Barcelona and you wonder where the Lord the Rings offer guests the name names from just links to the history books and he finds names like Eragon remind me remind me it wasn't the hobbits the hobbits in Lord of the Rings have injured an arrogant as well I think it did anyway in the 13th century the Chateau royal was annexed to the Kingdom of Mark which included the domain of Montpellier the Gulden's of the Rosaline and the cardigan and a confident of a spur of the Balearic Islands that's that be fair to you and I in the 16th century after a brief occupation by Louis IX and a Spanish Fallsburg starting him Charles Quint again occupied kouya and then in the 17th century as I mention earlier killer was it was the stake in the wars between the Spanish Habsburgs and the French bull burns in 1659 in France panics the Rosaline and Kuya and the castle passed indefinitely or definitively into the French hands also and ever since then since 1642 this has been French [Applause] so just looking in the map with this place I'm standing in and what is now known as the parade ground and yes I'm gonna refer to my plastic notes which I picks up always pick up your nights it was created in the 15th century this playground although some of the buildings clearly behind me inside the inner castle walls are obviously more modern definitely been renovation and as you can see there is still renovation going on just to make this place even more beautiful I'm gonna climb the steps now to see what the view is like sadly there's a Catalan flag up there which is good there's a French flag up there and then there's the European Union flag up there I guess they've injected some money into this place they do have positives they do have some positives about [Music] yeah you could imagine soldiers lined up here ready poised for battle there might be someone pouring hot molten anything off the top the ladders battles took place here this place was over overrun multiple times occasions and you can imagine sword fights taking place just here obviously this wall is a little bit newer than he wasn't a metal railing but this walls here you basically existed since the 13th century and before that there was a fortification vacations before and the Greeks talks about it you know in the 5th century BC as a strategic point amazing to think what has and history sir involved so I mean you know it might not look like a letter old brother but didn't realize civilization Western civilization than we know started blossomed in this world [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is on top of the castle inside looking down it's the under construction sort of still going on well not under construction that sort of renovations you can smell just just the ancientness of the wood yeah timing two minutes and one second sir lads that's not good enough we defy two broadsides to her walk you wanna see a guillotine and piccadilly gonna call that raggedy-ass napoleon your king your children to sing about is mr. Blaine stum a battery [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so that was the Chateau Royale hopefully you saw some of what I saw four euros to get in there was a maritime exact exes exhibition in regards to films set around the sea I took some videos of some of the posters the one I found the most amusing was the French film where the man is leaning up against a wall not dissimilar to this but the wall is shaped like a penis I hopefully you noticed that I think he's obviously intentional would I how would I rate it I would give it probably eight out of ten simply the fact there's four euros in this part of the world that's not that's not a bad price it's displays were limiting you need to be in a speak French everything was in French all of the plaque cards were in French use your google translator point your phone at the wall it will translate for you but it does make it problematic if you give your French it's not scratch whines ok not the best thing [Music] get some air into it oxygenating it opens it up it unlocks the aromas the flavors very important smell again when we drink [Music] one thing that's very noticeable about this place especially if you are a frequent Sara sort of more noisy places of France if you head down to San Tropez or nice or anywhere these places very very busy a lot of people selling tourist tax here other than the sort of quaint little shops there's no tourists Isle is it's beautiful the clients held at frequent this place generally the sort of older the oldest sort of person but a little old ladies and old men with their dogs probably one of my parents liked the place actually I mean they're both in there they're both 64 [Music] so just had a beer on the front as you can see other chairs along the front what I didn't realize was this tiered pricing so basically when you sit closer to the front which is exactly what I did it's a different price those the back or at least that's what I'm told anyway after I've already paid correct me if that's not true but it's five euros for beer not that cheap [Music] the win now I'm just sort of walking around sort of alleyways which involves walking up hills as you can see of artists living here what's surprising this was hard windy at the top of the peak where there's a cross of Jesus basically a series of lots of muscle cobble streets as you can see right behind me beautiful flowers sort of draping from them sides of the buildings shutters painted everywhere it's a very picturesque kind of place one place you can you can certainly get lost in for a few hours if not a weekend like I'm here [Music] okay so the first student of the festivities the Sun is about to set because we're so close to Spanish bordering our this facio de Catalonia they want to split from Spain bed spin [Music] [Music] I'm here hey I'm hearing cure there yeah oh yeah [Laughter] I'm with my little sister program though impressions [Music] your franchise I hope yes you poor people made this equal pay STD Ahmad an osteon kept constant refer to the you shop morning so had a good night last night very good food down by the ports in Korea now I'm up took a while to get up actually I'm now gonna climb up its big hill to go to the Fort Saint Emilion which is that he's a monastery really but a sort of little bit more information as the walk goes on I have my big bottle of water this part of France is very well known for its rosy wine a lot of people think that's white grapes mix with red grapes that's not true I'm not really gonna go expand on the process but if you like Rose a wine Julia rich is right there great place to come for Rose a wine you can buy you go into the little sort of wine shops it's sort of dotted around the center you buy a liter of good rose a wine from about five to seven euros depending on which one you go for and the Alsace were really good still continuing up on this walk you know at the moment I've seen the odds I've seen a couple of tourists on the way back down and I've seen a lot of triathlon runners they were earlier on they were swimming in the ocean now they seem to be running up this hill I think I may have seen the last of them though Almighty God we thank thee the boundless pouch safe to us the most [Music] [Music] so I made it to the top I meant st. L male fortress are we saying that wrong please correct me in the comments below I know every one normally does correct me so this is a fortress and I only needed that much water so it really wasn't a difficult climb it was very a lot shorter than I thought it would be let's go inside that's good to check it out oh just just for your guide just did you want to go inside this fortress it will cost you five euros apparently I got a discount I'm not sure what it would have been price getting the discount but the French girl was very very smiley and she gave me a discount always nice thank you [Music] so what's interesting about the are walls of this castle was bought really they're slanted which basically enables cannons to sort of cannon balls to supposedly bounce off them the sort of slant they were sort of ricocheted off rather than sort of being indented in the walls clever design because this was bombarded for years until it eventually fell to the French and then the parent the Pyrenees Aragon region became France [Music] is a king wandering around beside the fort reminds me of that the patient video do you know my supply set in here just now to say it remind yourselves [Music] I think I am one of three tourists in this whole place which is nice I like you in places are empty you may have noticed that what some warts apparently one of the most common findings around here are bullets and bayonets apparently all over the where you see the vineyards behind there's lots of bullets lots of bayonets because this this fort was under siege for a serious amount of time and obviously you know it's gonna be a lot of dropped bullets but what an incredible place you can imagine this would be not out of place in any Game of Thrones episode incredible views okay I'm gonna try and get to the top now hello [Music] [Music] ah but a modern sofa and a console looks like they were preparing for dinner here maybe this is why the Kings here [Music] parisa you do not want to get hit by that one and you wonder where my sis get their inspiration from it was straightening me sort of empire of Charles Quint literally an empire expanding it was five continents as you can see impressive back and you thought the British were the powerful ones French [ __ ] is powerful in the 16th century so I made it up to the top of the roof and I asked the king I said King where's Tecna he goes my son I'll put some technolon for you so what you hear in the background is the King playing technical I'm literally the only person here I wanted some techno last night couldn't find any I had to come up all the way to the top of the highest castle in the land or certainly around here to find the techno not bad eh it's insanely beautiful though very very beautiful would you live here [Music] [Music] just as I'm leaving all the tourists arrived how did they get up the hill on the train it's amazing how lazy some people are just I mean just walk for God's sake it was a nice walk as well however I guess I guess some people just like being very big is that harsh okay so having walked all the way up to the top of the forts obviously been inside the fort seen a kids party kicking off little kids dressed up as princesses and kings which is quite cute I thought it'd be inappropriate to film that given that I'm a solo bloke so best not film kids when you're when you're a bloke on your own um I then walk down the hill and I now find myself in Portland Ray could be cooked it could be called Ben Dre or vendrá I'm not sure correct me once again in the comments I'm sure you someone's going to slag me off in my pronunciation kind of not as pretty as Coolio which is slightly to the north of where we are right now this is one of the last ports before you get to Spain feels a little bit more industrial there's a there's a church tower I think it's I think it's three o'clock yes three o'clock I gotta go have a wander around maybe have a beer and then I'm gonna walk I think it's about nine kilometres home so I'm gonna walk that a lot of walking today let you know how at the end of the day how many steps I've done see this will trigger a few people one flag I respect the other I do not the one I respect is this one right here the French flag it's a beautiful flag this one the European Union this is triggering right now but I think these corrupt dictatorship that is going to pose havoc for the planets if it doesn't implode soon do not believe the propaganda they push upon you in your schools do you not believe the propaganda they push upon you from the BBC and all the news networks European Union is run by unelected officials dictating rules it is not the free trade area that we had that that they let us believe it would be it is nothing but the next step to one-world government 120 billion euros each year succumbs to corruption in the european union's of member states the figure compares to the bloc's entire annual budgets ec commissioner Cecilia malmström says the extent of the problem is breathtaking we cross live now to our teas Europe correspondent Peter Oliver Oh Peter who comes out badly in the study well everybody comes out of this looking a little bit shifty what we have seen know is the the EU Commission who put forward this report referring to corruption within the European Union as breathtaking now upwards of 120 billion euros a year may have been done in backhanded deals over half of the people in the European Union half of the over half of those who were surveyed have said this they think the corruption within the Union was growing or madam Deputy Speaker the title of this report is a satirist dream closing the gap between anti-corruption law and reality I could fill my 60 seconds talking about the 18 years worth of unaudited accounts or the Brazilians that has squandered on agriculture and foreign aid boondoggles or the till act case where instead of any of the alleged fraudsters being arrested it was the journalist trying to find out about them who found himself banged up by the police I could talk about the six six million pounds spent last year by European commissioners simply on entertainment and luxury gifts and hotels I could talk about the wonderful spectacle of President Van Rompuy and commissioner Ashton flying to the same meeting in Russia from in separate private jets leaving Brussels within four hours of each other instead I'll confined myself to saying this these things happen not because the EU attracts particularly bad people and of course it attracts some bad people man is fallen and like all institutions it contains those who give in to temptation it happens rather because there is no link between taxation representation and expenditure at Brussels level it was Milton Friedman who said there's two kinds of money in the world there's your money and there's my money the trouble is that in the EU it's all your money hence negligence corruption fraud and what and what we see before us today once again I'm not let down on one of my trips I find an old ex what is it about Alex's and every place in the world I go you think we were in eg Egypt do we think that most major cities most major towns all over the world are connected via three masonry Masonic sort of symbolism through the old the opulence if you're a conspiracy theorist you might believe sort of a shadow type presence the reason there's an oblique to be found in almost every single city in the world beautiful I like them I mean in Norway they have obliques as gravestones goodbye when I die I would like an obliques as a gravestone maybe not as big as this but a smaller one will suffice is this a grave or is this something more sinister or am I just being slightly cynical let's find out or maybe you decide I'll be honest there wasn't much important been Dre it was pleasant to have a glass of rose a some tap s but that's all there is now I'm walking back to Cooley yet on the road less Hills this time because the food is up that way it's walking along the sort of coast [Music] [Music] [Music] some five miles or so later I would come back to my original destination which is Coolio which is just down there so I guess another half a mile so I can be back in Korea incredible scenery not too much to really do over than a little bit of sightseeing but it's very very pleasant and the temperature now is 33 degrees going to life thermometer I walk past incredible incredible it's just very very pleasant if you here for a weekend I highly recommend it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right so here we have finding us on fire it's extremely hot five minutes on God just in case it all sort of blows up in this way the timer's going to put it out but it's a sort of celebration of this summer solstice is the best wind is going to cover every noses good times [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so that was my trip to Korea possibly didn't film everything I should have filmed there's some beautiful markets in Korea my camera stopped working so you have to really visit it for yourself just check out the markets obviously I don't want to impose too much in terms of dining the experience film some of the food I hope you appreciate that food was amazing now heading off to the airport thanks for watching have you latest video click Subscribe probably here or here and check out this yacht British yachts that's a big yacht so I will see you in the next video thanks for watching [Music] [Music] you