My Heart Breaks in Dijon France - Van Life in Europe
it is another cold and rainy day here in th and you can see it but we'll show you from the Drone up on the top of that hill right there behind those trees there some castle ruins and we were going to take a walk up through these Vineyards on these Hills get a view over the town but guys it's just cold and rainy so we're getting on the road we have what we think is a cool destination and we've got a change of plans big changes a front let's get on the road good morning everyone well today we are coming to you from djan France now Dijon is famous for you guessed it mustard but it's also the capital city of burgundy and I'm not talking about Ron Burgundy I'm talking about about Burgundy wine so we are still in the western portion of France where they have all the Vineyards but this city is also a UNESCO world heritage site and so this place is full of beautiful history and I'm excited to be able to show it to you today and hopefully we'll get to go on a little bit of a tour of a mustard Factory learn how that stuff is made and kind of the backdrop for that but I got a bit of bad news I got to share with you last night snow was not feeling too well kind of had a rough night and anyway she's going to sleep in so you're stuck with me today so I'm going to try to entertain you but we have some fun activities planned today and I'll give you an update on the weather real quick it's cold by about 32° and it's foggy overcast maybe the sun will come out today we're hoping so but anyway let's go enjoy this beautiful [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] city so you can see the van back there paid parking lot it was $4 for well they don't charge it after hours so it's basically $4 for all day and then overnight there's no fee so this is our second day here we got in there last night we had a short drive about a 3-hour drive from thwn th th where we were in our last video but anyway you can kind of see that it's a little foggy and overcast but we are going to do what is considered an an owl tour now the owl I guess is the mascot or what have you of Dijon and they have all these little spots marked with an owl that take you to sort of the key points of the city we have some little information so you're definitely going to get some H history today so let's get on over to the first spot welcome to the first spot on the owl tour I haven't seen the owl but this is the DAR Park and this polar bear sculpture right here what I've read is from some famed sculpture guy so that's that and there's really nobody in the park today but it is a nice park and it looks like they have a big Fountain over there and a couple statues and lots of Green Space there's some pigeons and uh it's a nice park welcome to stop number one all right the fountain's not going but you can look at the mineral deposits behind it where the waterers drip down throughout the years and then here at the park in the upper level looks like there's even more space and a bigger kind of Monument up here Henry Darcy day John there you go that's why they call it Darcy Park all right the second spot is visible from this Garden this big Park it's the hotel de la clache anyway it's famous establishment in dijan since the 15th century then this is the actual Palace inaugurated in 1884 anyway way it's a famous hotel guys look at the cool Bell Tower up top all right stop number three is the port of Gom Gom it's a big Ark guys it reminds me the arc to Triumph in Paris but on a smaller scale but this was established I believe in the 18th century and anyway it's sort of the gateway to the shopping district here in djon and and this shopping district is pretty amazing it's got all the fancy stores and it is a beautiful walking street it's mostly I believe pedestrian and really this is called the believe the street of Liberty or libertad but in any event it is a gorgeous walking street with lots of shopping and this is the Gateway on to stop number four so stop out number four has taken me to Granger Square now there you can see the post office I guess for Dijon and even though the windows and the signs down below are very modern you can see it's pretty cool architecture especially up top there's a cool Tower there's some cool riding up there and a cool rooster and there's a big ball here with all sorts of clocks and I think we can see here right now it looks like it's almost 6:00 a.m. in Memphis which means it's about 1:00 here about to give you a panoramic of this little square there's supposed to be another fancy building here I'll have to look for it cuz I don't see it right now maybe that's it and I can definitely see down at the end it is uh the notredam cathedral but it is foggy and hard to see so maybe we'll get a better look when we get up close let's hope so we'll go down here to the end of this Square follow these ows a bit more and see if we can find some more of these fancy buildings they're talking about it looks like they also have a big Library here I thought the word for library was bibliotech but in any event there is a fancy building right there on the Corner looks pretty cool and really all around this city has beautiful fancy buildings so what am I talking about and it looks like there's another Gallery Lafayette over there but let's check out and see where stop number five is keep this tour moving so really the first four spots were super close together and it's pretty cool because you have these little owl triangles on the sidewalk so you can just kind of follow them and that's kind of fun but this fifth stock is taking us to a covered market now it's only opened a few days a week Unfortunately today is one of them I love a colorful market and it is about lunchtime so I'm hungry so let's go check this thing out and voila we have arrived at the market but it does not look to be open oh maybe it is it is open but it looks like a lot of the Stalls are closed or closing so maybe I got here too late it looks like I did unfortunately oh I'm sorry guys we'll walk through anyway here you can see it's a covered market and it looks like they're starting to cover all their stuff up they got some fruits and vegges oh I'm so sad I should have gotten here earlier here's a booth that's opened up here and it looks like there's one open over there let's go see what we can check out ah Cheez the French cheese is so absolutely delicious guys but we're going to have to walk through the Section it is cold in here and yeah and they have cleaned up and closed all the booth turning off all the lights it is closed super sorry guys we missed our opportunity there it looks like it was mostly um a food market I didn't really see any trinkets or anything like that but then again um I got here late and I missed it so let's move on to the next spot or let's find a place to grab something warm to eat and drink I have a confession to make I got a little bit lost on the way to my next stop and to be honest with you I was kind of disappointed in the whole Market thing and thought I'd find a nice baguette and a hot soup or something there and I just been looking for that in a little nice little French restaurant or something and to be honest with you I haven't found that I see all kinds of different restaurants but anyway I'm about to give in and just get something to eat cuz I'm hungry and I'm almost to the next spot so if I end up getting something that's not French you guys got to promise not to yell at me so one of the things a lot of the places the restaurants have these little whiteboard menus out in front of them chalkboards if you will and I think Le anrs are like appetizers those plots are sort of the platters and then you got desserts and you can see right there they've got three featured items but I don't see soup on the menu board and then they also have the plot dour which is kind of their plate of the day which is supposed to be you know the most inexpensive dish that's € 12 and it looks like it's I I'm not even sure fruits of the sea and so in any event this is kind of what I've been Crossing all looks like nice and delicious food but a bit more than I'm wanting to do is I'm wanting to move through this tour really just want a nice piece of French bagette and some soup so I'm going to keep looking and I'm almost I've almost made it back to the next spot all right here we go there it is soup deure all right let's go get a [Music] soup it turns out the soup of the day is celery and Chestnut soup now I've never had that but I'm going to try it anyway and also I'm going to get some escaro because well we're in France and I love escargo and of course that comes with a [Music] baguette what is this this is like puffed rice with chocolate yes it's a cocoa pops cocoa pops yes chocolate with can I get it t with sugar thank you so much nice to meet you have a wonderful day thank you you [Music] too all right now that was a delicious lunch thank you very much Sonia for the delicious food and the hospitality really enjoyed the conversation learning about Dijon and talking about the world but we popped out and right here into the big square and it's late in December they still haven't taken down the Christmas tree yet but we got to go find our other site and get back on course number number six is the place of franois rude franois rude and so this is a little square right here and it features a couple of famous artists from the burgundy region and so I'm sure one of them made the SC sculpture up there and you can see the grapes at his feet and so this is the burgundy region so I'm sure it's symbolic of that and you can see again some of these beautiful old old historic buildings around here and then this was I believe a building that was demolished and then later rebuilt so you can see it's a contrast from all the stone buildings around in that it's kind of one of those more Timber homes or Timber buildings all right guys let's move on to number seven I see an owl right here looks like we're headed this way as we approach here I think we're looking for three buildings and so one is a hotel the hotel abua and it was a it was from the 13th century and then the Meson malard and it looks like it was constructed in 1560 and then the hotel shamban and it looks like it was constructed in 1490 so we'll head up here and I think this is also kind of the square where we're going to see notredam yep so this is up approaching notredam as well so number eight is this beautiful Gothic notredam Cathedral and it is stunning on both the inside and out absolutely amazing at number nine is the owl you know I'm on the owl tour guys and the owl is sad and if you see it it's kind of worn and the reason it's worn is because everybody well they touch it and they make a wish and the story is if you make a wish and you touch the owl your wish will come true so I'll share with you my wish on my way to number 10 my sister recently has gotten really really ill it's been kind of a sudden thing she's in the hospital and she's really sick so I'm just really really really wishing for her good health and speedy recovery and or comfort in her life right now it's a tough and trying time and so I definitely wish her peace to her and my mom and the rest of my family so please Grant My Wish get well and right around the corner is number 10 Mason Miller uh so this was a filming backrop now this was a merchant Place built in 1483 all right and then right next door we have number 11 La hotel de Vogue and this was a 17th century townhouse it's just kind of another old building I guess it was a Hotel of significance stop number 14 I'm come or I'm sorry yeah stop number 14 and this is the Museum of bow Arts Muse B bow Arts now I'm hoping it's opening and I'm hoping it's free cuz I'm cold and for me to be honest with you it's a lot easier to look at stuff than to learn about stuff and tell you about it so let's go look at some stuff and see if we can't get warmed up to the museum let's go check this out this is clearly some kind of big important battle between the French and somebody else look at that can you imagine the horses crossing the river all the smoke swords gunfights wow [Music] so we just came out of sort of a conference room with all sorts of giant art paintings from I don't know what era but this room right here the fabrics and the the decorations and trim on the wall is fascinating and it's definitely a different style of painting it's kind of one thing to see see these buildings here when you kind of see some pictures in here it looks like you kind of on the bottom have a a stone Mason there and you kind of just see a building out in the open there whereas now they're all surrounded by the whole entire city and all the other buildings it's pretty intense I tour through the museum just really as a reminder of kind of how overwhelmed I am with France and let me explain there are so there is so much history here there are so many things to see and you know you start learning about these kings and queens and foms and you know you're dating back to 800s a thousands 1500s Wars territories changing hands all these beautiful structures being constructed constructed in these pieces of art that signify it all and to be honest with you you it just overwhelming I I my brain can't comprehend all this stuff but I do enjoy looking at and staring at and contemplating what happened trying to imagine what era this different type of stuff took place in what was going on in their minds at the time you know as they built these giant churches and as other people are coming in so there's a fight for spirituality there's a fight for territories they're just so much guys and uh it's beautiful and I'm enjoying it but it's it's overwhelming and it's really kind of hard to describe because I don't really understand it completely I hope you understand what I'm saying and just kind of enjoy seeing what I'm seeing because it is it is very very interesting as I told you while I was in the museum I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with all this and to be honest with you even though this little hour owl tour has a nice little route to take you to all these historic buildings it's 22 different spots and there's so many cool things between I'm going to end it right here I believe this is number 15 16 and 17 we're looking at looks like churches libraries hotels palaces old important buildings I'm going to let your imagination take over as I as I video these last few churches just know that Dijon is an amazing place I think they call it the city of a thousand St peoples there's tons of big kind of Gothic churches or old style churches big huge ornate Palace buildings and government buildings and all types of things there's wonderful shopping here there's tons of great food choices and uh it's really a place that I would like to spend more time in and learn more about I think on the return uh to France after we have to get out of the shinsen maybe we'll come back here but I am chopping at the bit for this mustard tour and so we're going to have to go to another city to see that there is a museum here but where they actually make it is in another city and so we're going to go see that morning guys I did not want to leave Dijon or I should say the burgundy region without showing you mustard this is where mustard was born and from however the best museum is outside of Dijon in a town called bone now I'm going to go over there and check it out and see I would love to show you this little town I think it is beautiful but we're moving on we have some special people we're going to meet up with kind of on the other side of France so we have a big adventure to get to and also I should say that snow is not feeling well still so it's been a few days so to be honest with you I'm going to run over there check this place out maybe I can get in and do a quick tour maybe not we'll see but this is a mustard Factory and I'm excited cuz I love mustard so let's go check this place out all right unfortunately I was unable to get in on the tour but the store itself is absolutely fascinating and they have all sorts of mustards I was not able to do the tour but I think I got something well second place let's call it that so here you can see they have this big sampling table with all the different kinds of mustards anyway I'm going to try a few of these I'll show you what they look like and I'll let you know what I think right this one's some sort of wine and if you can see it right here it's kind of pink so we'll take a little taste of this so I can definitely taste the berry in there almost like a currant berry or a raspberry not a taste you can expect to you normally get in mustard but it's really good all right this is definitely a honey mustard right here all right you can see the honey mustard now I can tell you so far all these mustards have definitely had a lot of bite very spicy M I can tell you the mustards really cut through and very very strong and meaning for me delicious I love them I shouldn't eat breakfast this morning all right let's not try all these let's try a couple more guys so this is a prental one it looks like has some kind of mix of peppers we're going to try that one this has got some kind of Japanese fruit so let's try these all right we just get a little dab a little dabble Doo definitely more like a you can definitely taste a peppers like maybe a cayenne pepper or red bell pepper but still in the background the pepper subtle and the and and the mustard really just cuts through the vinegar and the mustard absolutely delicious let's get into this next one this one with the Japanese fruit show you the Japanese fruit mustard cheers that one burned a little bit but in the backdrop is a little bit of citrus just a little bit but I'm telling you these mustards just almost like kind of horseradish I mean the the mustard really cuts through I I I told snow I wasn't going to spend a lot of money on mustard but I might have to retrack that statement this is good stuff you can definitely the mustard cuts through so the the flavors they add to it are very subtle and give it a difference except when you get into like the honey mustards and some of the red mustards or sweet mustards the berry mustards that really cuts through and the sweetness really cuts through and kind of calms down the SP spicy mustard flavor but I like the spice and I like the kit so I'm going to get a little uh sample pack for our friends that we're going to meet here very soon and I'm going to pick out a couple for the van so anyway very cool now this company does more than makes mustard they also make pickles and this right here is a big pickle Sorter and it's really cool because as they dump the pickles in if you can see this big giant t Tumbl the tumbler just turns around like maybe like a dryer vent or something like that and the slots as it goes down get bigger so basically the smaller pickles small fall through the first bin and then as they go down the bigger pickles work their way down till they eventually can come out the slot and then the oversized pickles get kicked out at the end now I was told that they don't make the pickles here anymore that they're made at their Factory in the south of France by their recipe this facility is small and they had to make a decision on what they were going to do so this facility here focuses on the mustard but they have all sorts of things different kinds of Honeys and as I said the pickles and the mustards and a couple other artisanal items but really A fascinating place and a place I would love to have been able to do the tour have we had more time and if snow was feeling and better it's something actually as we past through fance we may come back and do and see this town and see this region because it's just fascinating so even though I didn't take a tour I learned a lot about mustard the mustard grows and seeds and the mustard that they use here all comes from seeds mustard seeds that were grown here in the province of burgundy and there's three different kinds there's black there's Brown and there's more more like a blonde seed and they have different flavors which each of them some of them are stronger than others they use primarily black and brown seeds here and uh it's just a really really cool place and the people were super super nice but I'm going to head back to the van I think we're going to get on the road we're going to another region of France so we have some driving to do and uh as I told you earlier we're going to meet up with some special special people I think this is some kind of mustard press right here look at that but this is where we're going to wind the video guys down down guys so thank you so much for joining along and uh we'll see you on the next one cheers if you like this video be sure to subscribe to our Channel and hit that notification Bell so you guys know when we 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2024-01-06 10:57
