EPIC DAY on my Motorcycle in the French Alps | Europe Touring Ep. 8
Jesus! See that mountain? as we get higher the peak looks higher and higher so beautiful! What's up you guys! and welcome back to the channel my name is Kristian Hansen and good morning here from Saint Nicholas la Chapelle in France, I'm staying at the hotel Chalet la source and it's a beautiful Saturday morning it's 14 degrees, the sun is coming up now over the mountains it's only 14 degrees outside so it's a bit chilly, today is going to be an interesting day because I am a little bit afraid of the rain because I'm gonna try and show you here on the app Windy i use it looks like it's gonna be raining from around three-four o'clock so I have to pack up fast i have to get going because I really don't want to drive in the rain here so today I'm heading towards the otherwise famous known ski area called Val d'Isère and it's going to be a beautiful day so let's get on the road i'm just going to get some breakfast pack up quick and yeah let's get it going guys! It's gonna be another great day let's go! all right guys that is it, leaving Chalet the source... Bye guys! safe ride yeah! So, I met some other bikers here... really nice guys and they're very interested in the youtube they thought it was super cool so that was nice! so it's 9.20 now I'm heading towards Val d'Isère the ski area and I will be stopping first at
a city called Beaufort that is on the way, it's 48 minutes there 35 kilometers and the skies doesn't look too good guys it's pulling up and it's quite cloudy so I'm probably going to see if I can drive a little bit faster today because the last thing i want to do is to be riding in rain let's get to it Guys, I've just stopped for some gas here I wanted to be on the safe side um... that I was not going to miss gasoline while I'm on the top of the mountains and while I was getting gas this guy pulls up to me Monsieur, Monsieur, do you mind if I film for youtube No problem... look at this beautiful BMW S1000, I'm hoping that one day I can go on a big touring trip and go on a bike like that if you don't mind me asking how much does a BMW like this cost? the complete package that goes for the clothes with the luggage and everything, somewhere around 28.000 Euros,
28.000 Euros guys for a bike like that but it is... Magnifique! Beautiful! Yes! and also, it's brand new? Brand new, yeah... Wow! Amazing! Anyway, it was a pleasure to meet you take care and safe ride yeah I'll look into your channel! fantastic! thank you so much buddy bye bye one day, one day! all right back on the Ducati and let's go! and this guys, is the neighboring city of Saint Nicholas, called Flumet and it was also here that I picked up dinner last night, beautiful little city, I like how everywhere there's these flowers hanging on the side of the houses so today let's try and drive a little bit faster let's go Notre Dame de Bellecombe...
and another little small church, such another cozy city Jesus! see that mountain? as we get higher, the peak just look higher and higher Whoah! Incridible! Well, at the moment I'm driving on the D218b and wow people, they want to drive fast here apparently... We have 30 minutes left to Beaufort and the roads here are so so good the only thing that I do not like is that there are zero guard rails here... So, it would be so easy to go over the sides especially when people are driving as fast as the cars and motorcycles up there but the roads here are perfect for a motorcycle besides the rail you can get into the corners like this you take one corner and you can just feel that ice cold mountain air on your face even though it's probably 15 degrees right now it's kind of chilly so beautiful! oh! Bien venu, Beaufortain... Okay, apparently it was not Beaufort it was Beaufortain... more riders... G'day lads! Less signal...
and even more motorcycles! Wow! you can really see that this is a skiing area because you have all the mountains here in the background and you have the lifts that takes people up and down the mountain on their skis there's everything up here there's small shops, there's cafes, restaurants... hotels, playgrounds you name it... even a tractor! and a lot of bicycle shops you gotta be honestly hardcore to be driving a bicycle up here I don't think I could do it and look at this valley I don't know if you can see here from the GoPro but actually right over there, there are some people flying, doing paragliding imagine being sent out from a top like that and just fly down through the valley... I actually checked how much it would cost to go skydiving close to Montblanc, because you can be dropped from a helicopter and it just looked insane but the price was nothing less than 700 euros without photos without pictures I think the VIP package was something like 1200 euros and I think that's a bit too much I would love to one day but not right now, Whei! and speaking of mont blanc there it is Incredible! Wow, it's beautiful! so according to my gps it looks like i'm heading that way or over those mountains because i know that Montblanc is in the opposite side of the way I'm going it's behind me right now So... Ah! there it says on the sign right there Beaufort and Albertville Fantastic! Let's overtake you and it's saying here that in five kilometers i should be aware of rock slides great let's hope I don't catch a rock to my head today! I have a helmet but if I could drop the 10-kilos rock from 100 meters above me, I don't think my helmet is going to help me...
So, we are leaving Montblanc Au revoir Montblanc... and Bienvenu Beaufort! Hehe... So, guys quick stop here first of all, because it's right next to the Route Des Grandes Alpes and it tells me that I need to turn left now and go towards Beaufort and Areches... it is now almost 11 o'clock and they've actually moved up the forecast saying that's going to be rain already at 12... So, umm in a bit of a hurry, I really don't want to drive in rain let's go! So, this is the city of Beaufort Oh! so beautiful! Oh, this would be a nice place as well to stay for a few days... Oh, I gotta get a
postcard for my family that will have to be in Val-d'Isère, i sent them a postcard from when i was in uh at the Mariah Hill monastery in Germany there's something special about receiving a physical postcard it's so and now today it's so old school right but I think it's think it's kind of nice instead of just sending a messenger text it's not the same... Wow! check out this view! Jesus, Christmas! wow, I'm high up now guys because I can feel it is cold... the thing that does look a little bit weird on my map is that it says soon it will be all blue which means there's water maybe there's massive lake i guess we'll find out in a second i can feel the pressure in my ear again because of the altitude literally driving on mountain tops here... in good speed! Yeehaw! All right guys, we're getting close to the the blue thing that kind of looked like water uh car parked cars here so I'm thinking it's gotta be something special in this area wow okay, I might have to stop here, whoa jeez! it's a damn! What??! Wow! okay guys i'm gonna get the drone in the air here because this is... B-E-A-UTIFUL! And maybe, it's time for lunchtime I think it would be a good place for lunchtime... Let's do it! Les Chalet de Roselend, hotel & restaurant will that be okay...
this place is... Whoa haha! Guys! This is insane! So, guys I'm here at Lac de Roseland i did not I did not expect to see this place at all i haven't even googled it or checked this in advance it came as a complete surprise to me and it's so beautiful actually, right over here on my right side, there's a big dam and that's where there's all this water from so I'm guessing when it's raining the water is coming down to the mountains coming into this and then it goes down to the dam So, uh... Wow! it's so beautiful! and it's right next to Les Chalet de Roselend here is a hotel and restaurant so since it's past lunch time already i think i'm gonna go ahead and get some lunch because the view is great and because i'm hell hungry it should be raining soon i really hope it doesn't but let's see, so I might just have to eat quick and then yeah continue the trip So, guys I was gonna do an Instagram live here at my lunch stop for today because it is so beautiful but since this is a natural park the internet is so bad actually I don't have any internet fortunately, the waitress here was sweet enough to tell me that the weather it could look like still that's going to be rain even though there's sunshine now... Now, I'm going to get it some food i ordered their specialty which is a authentic something with potatoes cheese and ham and it was supposed to be really good so i'm going to try that and see if it's good i think it is finished with lunch the weather is still holding up uh so i have to get going now it was a really really good 22 and a half euros for the specialty and a diet coke and one day I have to come back and try this hotel it's such a beautiful location and the staff here are so nice I just spoke to a couple from Russia that actually lives in the Netherlands and they have traveled from the Netherlands to here and very nice guys we had a small chat and they are also traveling the area here so many nice people in this area i don't know what it is i think it has to be the view the atmosphere here it just brings out the best in people, let's hit the road! all right guys it's time to hit the road what a fantastic little lunch stop i had here in the beautiful national park here at Lac de Roselend right now the signal here in the national park is so bad so i can't even see on the gps which way to go so i have to go with the flow... Ah, that rhymes! and yeah just see if I can make my way to Val de S'aire today and I can see behind me I have a beautiful Porsche 911 Targa so let's see if I can be riding with him in the background because that's gonna look pretty good for my video thank you mr and the porsche look at this road guy what the schnitzel we're in France what de spaget! Wow! and there's the dam i was talking about before right down there, Oh, sharp corner... and waterfall this is like a playground for adults, if you have a motorcycle Again! No words! so guys a whole other issue I didn't even expect this but the forecast is now saying the rain should be here in less than an hour and not just rain also thunder so that could be a serious problem I kind of feel like i'm in one of those action movies you know where there's a narrator that says...
"One man... one job! to escape the French Alps before the rain & thunder hits he's racing with hundreds of kilometers down the small narrow mountain roads can he make it before the thunder arises? let's find out in today's episode of touring Europe with Kristian Hansen! Yeehaw! Oh! this is a lot of fun guys! I feel like I'm 10 years again! oh and we are out of the small mountain passes again, 44 minutes... Yeeha! clear to see, that I'm getting close to Val Thorens, Val-d'Isère, because... Look at the mountains up there...
that is just yea yeay high! and right over here guys, we can actually just see the Tignes dam that is holding back the Lac du Chevril, the big lake here uh close to Val-d'Isère really beautiful we should be able to get a closer look right in a second wow that entire city over there it looks like it's just built on a cliff, hope that clip is stable and Tigness it says and Val-d'Isère So, I have to go straight but you know what would be kind of cool? if I could go over the Tignes Dam i think i'm gonna try and see if i can do that first i don't know if i actually can but it would look hell cool if i could oh i think i can for real look at the dam wow it's massive that's a long way down i'm gonna try and get as close to the rail as i can and i'm officially guys driving on the Tignes Damn, damn it's the Tignes Dam! I can stand up a little bit... Wow! isn't this cool? so check it out guys here's the dam the Tignes Dam, it's 180 meters high and it's here in 1800 meters altitude So, beautiful! okay guys i just quickly did an instagram live here at the dam and took some shots but while i did that it's just been pulling up so fast look how dark it is and behind me it's even worse so now i have to get to Val-d'Isère fast! come on... Move it! are you kidding me? because actually, the forecast didn't promise just a little bit of rain but a lot of rain and I don't want to be all wet today wow look at that beautiful green gray mountain and then a snow-covered mountain in the background with the view of a dam as well of course... okay, nine minutes left six kilometers can you overtake in a tunnel? I'm not sure if it's allowed should I try it? I will try it actually i actually do not think it's allowed but now i really just want to get there fast so guys today i'm trying something i normally don't do i'm trying to wing it Wow! Nice Ducati man! check out this group they are driving on some massive three-wheeled motorcycles so cool Can-am i've never heard about those... so yeah what I was saying is I'm trying to wing it today because i found out that the hotel i stayed at last night normally it's only 35 euros for a night but Agoda they charged me 68 euros and the lady just told me it's cheaper when you book directly to the hotels okay there's a hotel in there should i try and go and ask i'll try and go and ask all right guys things didn't go exactly according to plan like i told you i was gonna try and wing it today go to a place and see if they had a better price that i could find on booking.com
or Agoda but i forgot one very important thing and that is i'm in Val-d'Isère which is normally a very expensive ski area and i thought well it's more cheaper in the summer and it probably is but it's still not cheap so i first went to one hotel and there it was 120 some euros for a night then i found another place drove there and it started raining online it said that it was only going to be like 80 something euros for the night with breakfast and when i finally parked the bike i got inside it was closed down because someone had Covid then i had to try to find another place and i found this place victoria lodge here in the middle of Val-d'Isère city and it is still not cheap it's 94 euros for the night so it's one of my most expensive states so far it's over 100 dollars it's with breakfast but um yeah it started to rain and i'm super tired it's four o'clock now and like like i said earlier it's good that i was going fast because it is raining now all over this area so i'm going to stay here for the night i'm just quickly going to show you the hotel and the room and then i'm going to start to work some more yeah so let's do it so what is great about this place though is i can park my motorcycle inside for the night that's really really nice all the other places i found online they were anything between 100 euros to 400 euros just for one night so it's actually a really good price and for only 94 euros with breakfast and hello and yeah very nice staff here as well and my room is on the first floor i think i'm getting quite a lot of quality for the money though you will see when you see my room so this is it a nice big bed i can already see just by looking at it that it's going to be comfortable and yeah i'm in the middle of just unpacking my things it's all over i have a little tv not that i'm gonna use it and a very nice bathroom as well that is where i'm gonna be washing my clothes in a bit get a shower and super smart in this hotel they have this with heat in it so once i've washed my clothes you can easily dry and yeah guys i think that will be it for today so i just wanted to quickly say thank you so much for watching today's episode i really hope you enjoyed it if you want to support the channel even more then you can sign up as members i would truly appreciate it if you don't want to that's okay as well stay tuned because tomorrow i'll be continuing down south on the Routes Des Grand Alpes and i'm expecting even more beautiful pictures beautiful scenery and i think we're gonna have a good day so i will see you tomorrow guys thank you for watching and until tomorrow hey guys you are not gonna believe what i just found here on the top let me just show you a youtube sticker
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