MOTORHOME FIRST! GIANT ELEPHANT! Nantes Day Out – Mechanical Elephant

After their day of chores, Pete and Shel head to Nantes and check-in at Camping Nantes for a city break and a hot shower. First off, is a trip to Les Machines de I’Les to see the mechanical elephant at the Galery of the Machines. Nantes has an excellent tram service with trams runinng from outside the campsite to the centre of the city so it’s an easy journey. come with us as we ride on the elephant
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Hi guys hi guys that’s where we are oh where are we keep watching the video and you will find Out and the next round of 300 M and the roundabout take the second exit and that’s it the second exit is the camp is the entrance to the camping site okay so nice I can’t actually help you there 240 M I should keep my eyes on 220 210 190 nice

Park 60 50 40 30 20 10 100 m right okay there’s your roundabout yeah so you come not off the first one you go around and it’s a little one is it on tray is it there hold it look on tray I see it that’s that’s where you need there

Daring all right in there I see here we are [Applause] welcome we go not camping station camping car park I don’t know what we’re in I think we’re on the campsite from the money I’ve paid hold it you going to come across the front yeah why do people do that because the

Bloody got a death with have you got my phone darling it’s on sorry on no problem pull up here and dve in and see we got yeah toilets mini go camping I have to St you stay there come get me if you need yeah check us in yeah leave the c in

There that someone behind us and there’s a little bug walking across our wind screen it’s like some sort of a shield bug me not quite sure the Air’s separate next door there was an English couple in there that are two in France didn’t even know what an air

Was no no I said to them it’s on the air you probably get in the air next door what’s an air they said so I told them to get parked for night and to keep their card cuz it’s camping car it’s the camping car company right we have to go

Turn right here M that’s the code 931 918 right and we’re in in placement 93 93 where are we which is here we have to go along here right then turn left up that one opposite the San right all right opposite the WC yeah this is their first night their first

Stop they’re not booked anywhere they don’t know where they’re going that’s a bit dodgy is it right so he’s got I’ve got to get out and do that for I’ll do if you want yeah there’s an air next door oh here’s a number here what tell me what to do cuz I can’t

See go forward go for hold it hold it and you’re very near that by the way am I but you’re not going to I read it to you yeah what BCIT said the rest of the time you open for lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday sat

The rest of the time so if you want lunch on Wednesday or Tuesday we’ be right oh okay you see is it school L this week as well I think okay so keep your ey for WC on your side yeah you turn left there might be where that car

Is I’m not sure where the ass end of that car sticking out somewhere there okay here I think it’s this one coming up looks like the red tree that’s where your thingy is by the way show uh yeah but your waist oh right okay was is I

Think it’s down this one here the black waste is at that end and the gray waist is at that end right okay sounds like she could talk English yeah her English is very good and her name was Cindy okay Cindy right okay that here by I said the

English people said they said are you English I said yeah why oh cuz they saw Devon on the van oh I say I said oh it’s an auto sleeper they name a lot of their Vans off the counties yeah so they said oh we used to do I I said about an air

And they I don’t know what an air is well we’re looking for 93 and uh hang on don’t so I said it’s a place B I haven’t seen any numbers yet no don’t know oh yeah 83 m 9091 92 oh look that’s a dinky little one this is

Ours is it yeah this is ours yeah yeah there’s water on the pitch but it’s mild to M and if you go in the office and give them some money they’ll give you the adapter and they’ll give you your money back take you back or you just

Nick it keep it yeah if you want it I don’t know how much you have to keep more than the adapter’s worth more light course of course well we’ve all right you have so we’ve arrived guys just reversing in on our pitch on our pitch

We’re going to have a settle down have a nice cup of coffee do you want me to get over a bit cuz I said getting outside no you’re all right there can’t you home yeah okay have a nice cup of coffee and then we’ll have a look around us so and

Take you with us see in a windy wild yeah so you’re done really well today yeah look we got here yeah big site look it is is it lots of different accommodations yeah we’re on like the campsite so we’ve got hot showers and stuff I can have a shower can I we can

Play mini golf for free you get free access to the big swimming pool across the road as well but You’ got to wear badgy Smugglers I ain’t got any you don’t want to wear them no I don’t like my bits being bulged out everywhere I

Said in the UK men wear shorts she said everywhere but it’s the regulations of FRS oh there you go I said yeah she said but know what ni your husband doesn’t want to wear them I no we don’t I wonder why that is though they’re always the

Saving I think you’re going to sort of dangle things out hygiene reasons hi don’t ask me I don’t know but you do have to wear Budgy SM glues in in France to go men do for swimming women can wear a swimsuit one piece two piece they’re quite happy

About it and women’s swimsuits you can wear the ones with the legs in you know like the ne micro ones that you wear you can wear those with the leggies in it’s all strange stuff isn’t it right you want a coffee I’d love a coffee I’m going to make your coffee then cuz

You’ve been so good today have I yes it’s been a right chores day today has it yeah but I’m sitting there showing people this it’s really has been a chores day hasn’t it yes it is see you later guys make Sherry a c Cofe we’re having beans on toast for to

Cuz she deserves one do I yes for working hard working hard oh thank you my darling the man I was talking to is the English couple that I met in reception last night oh right there on the air next door ah he’s saying he’s going to book didn’t

He he said he wanted to have a look around in case they came back this way yeah they went to the bar across the road last night apparently oh what was it Lively Lively Lively now we’re looking for the rubbish AR we yeah The Pedestrian access

And the rubbish is in the same place and apparently The Pedestrian the The Pedestrian place looks like it’s closer to the Tramway right so so you’re s with the tram you know yeah we’re going to pay at the tram stop all the tram stops apparently have

Um payment points on for card and cash that H that’s good that is very good isn’t it yeah got to get two when you saying something about it being free sometime yeah it’s free at the weekends if you’re a pass holder you can get some

Sort of pass I don’t know if you’re a resident and it’s free at the weekends oh good so that’s good isn’t it yeah not for us though oh it’s free for everybody at the weekends is it yeah but we’ve come in the week mid week so but yeah

It’s free for everybody at the weekend very good I suppose they ain’t got commuters in the weekend no no so they got some spare capacity yeah it’s good isn’t it yeah let’s let’s find the rubbish it’s a big so isn’t it it’s massive yeah here’s another one of these

Arrangements circular ones done to look like Chalet like our shatow yeah it’s good H yeah I suppose this is their parking is it when they’re in there yeah very nice look at all these shallows I know there’s hundreds of them look it’s a holiday park as well as being a touring site

It’s got a lot of facility has it’s got playground swimming pool yes uh golf Crazy Golf what else is it oh I don’t know there’s an amam and you get free entry to the municipal swimming pool yeah uh and something else the ice win I

Think I don’t know if you get free into the ice win but you there’s access to the ice win involved somehow I don’t know how the bar restaurants over there all right camping parking bar restaurant mini golf toilets they got toilets here yeah you want to go no that’s right you

Sure yeah should be all right shouldn’t I don’t know not get run over what’s that got to do with it Dash into the L okay I don’t know where the rubbish is well that’s The Pedestrian access yeah I would say wouldn’t you is that the rubbish there

In the graving could be yes it is yep that’s a rubbish we’ve got um there’s a park behind our van where we parked up yeah and you don’t even know this road here do you when you’re when they were in the air they said they see the TRS going by last

Night yeah yeah oh look there’s a swimming pool oh yeah that’s close enough is it yeah you got to wear budgies smuggers Peter if you want to go in the French swimming po n don’t F see that n I’d rather go naked we’re outside the site yeah and

That’s where the tram stop is up there can you see tram we just missed one yeah we have we yeah I think they’re about every 6 minutes though all it’s the tra stop Peter H we have to get a ticket oh okay all right we on the tra yeah we’re

On the TRS now oh you know on the tra yeah it’s good is it yeah this is good is it h this is good I like this you like this too yeah it’s uh 6:40 to get on the right a day ticket like 24 hours on and off as

Many times as you like how far we going uh about half an hour they it said I think all right so you got a red one yeah that’s one we’re on now is it line two and then you get off and get on the green one yeah

Okay we got here we did you made it busy is it yeah it is not too busy though I bet it’s more busy in the summer you know in a sort of holiday time yeah seeing the elephant already we in the distance in the distance yeah looks

Very interesting it it does lots of people I can’t get me oh there that’s better there are you’re always like this I know well I can’t help it that’s what happens when you’re 5 foot it’s always mocking me always mocking me look okay I’ll do it like

This and you can bend over there look I’ll get your chin look as that that’s a great building isn’t it isn’t it this was the old dockyard something yeah yeah the site is the old dockyard site what do you think of this spider look at it great isn’t it it’s

Amazing is it yeah it’s uh it’s got some real good stuff in here really the mechanics are amazing aren’t they and it’s not too crowded is it not in a minute no we’ got to go back to watch the spider now Yeah oh they’re getting up in that thing yeah the Heron what’s that that’s uh chameleon yeah [Applause] Miss It’s pretty cool isn’t it yeah only what makes it go yeah and then they go up and down that’s pretty cool is it it is you like those butterflies you pedal the bike yes and then the butterflies go up and down it’s quite good isn’t it bit small for me

Yeah hey you’re working the butterflies oh that’s brilliant Peter do you like that I know I’m supposed to do butterfly bike see this one these are the original ones they made oh the original machines and then they got better and better but these are the original ones that one

Looks really Savage yeah doesn’t it yeah put your finger in it it’s good is it yeah you enjoying this yeah yeah it’s good in it what’s in there gold knife I don’t know what it is these are all um carnivorous yeah carnivorous plants yeah all these look yeah picture plants great a they

They’re all coniferous slippery and they get on there and they just slide down into the they can’t get out no gruesome the mechanics on that are pretty amazing they they are fantastic aren’t they that is a stonka that’s a ston and we’re going to get up there

Ride on that later we’re going on it later yeah we book to ride we did be lovely won’t it yeah should we get some coffee now please please coffee wait I’m starving are you hungry it’s all that excitement I know little kid M be good be good must do at night I Think that’s massive look at it and it’s got baskets on it you can go in it yeah that’s pretty amazing Che is it yeah can’t find it that’s where all the water’s come from look at the puddles look here’s your ride are we going to get wet do you

Think I don’t know you got your waterproof son yeah it’s um held off all right now it so yeah do you think it could kill someone huh do you think it could kill someone uh got in the right wrong place I suppose it could he got under one of the

Feet there he is yeah are we ready are we excited we’re going on there yeah there’s a thing for you wow wow wow we’re going for a ride you excited yeah I am did you enjoy your lunch I did it was nice waser bad was it vegetarian lasagna

Panacotta coffee 3580 for the two of us it was that weren’t bad in a sort of touristy place was it it was very tasty as well it weren’t rubbish was it no it was good it was really nice yeah now we’re ready for our elephant ride we are

I’ve never been on an elephant before Oh but not one as big as that no that’s massive is it yeah oh he’s opening the gate okay better get going better get going you see the elephant blinking it’s a blinking elephant that’s a silly joke actually that’s a rubbish joke he just squirted

Us with that trunk didn’t he we got got bit wet that other BL look he’s got a tower he’s had to get a tower to dry himself off he’s soaking that’s a bit unfair isn’t it yeah it’s funny though it no it was I don’t think see in here

Yeah oh that’s a long way up isn’t it there you it is oh we’re high up yeah look you see mechanisms D there’s steps here be careful yeah there what does Peter do be careful Peter there steps there he took a dive over the end dived off the end of the

Elephant yeah dived off the elephant’s sauce was it yeah are you okay nearly yeah just good maybe a bit awake woke you up a bit Yeah cuz you had that after your lunch we’re on the big elephant we are I’m not sure we make camera up here or just go up the

Steps why this is where people like to be I think yeah I suppose we’ll go down a level if you want to uh I’ll see how it goes okay so how have you enjoyed yourself today so far it’s been a bit overwhelming really it isn’t it all the

People in the city yeah used to iten we no and we came on the tram and one of the trams was really crowded wasn’t it you couldn’t move like being on the Underground it was hea not being on London in London and all the people bustling around yeah and in central non

There were um a few Beggars and people coming asking you for money weren’t there yeah not many but a couple not many no and they weren’t one in a wheelchair yeah there weren’t money with menaces were they they were just saying excuse me can we have some money one was

Money was give me some money I’ll run you over with no she did not but she did show after us quite a lot didn’t she she was very persistent um yeah you know it looks like it’s going to pull down it does that’s why I want to go in I don’t want

To get wet no I got wet from the bloody elephant I don’t know how many people they take on one walk do you oh know it’s could be about 50 a it oh easily there that many year now almost I would say it’s pretty cool yeah I I don’t know

That the elephant ride would be very exciting but how can you come and not go on the elephant that’s true are you ready for you right Now yeah it’s raining now is it it is it’s raining outside but if you’re in here in this area inside the elephant you can see the mechanics you’re shorter than NE there I you’re on the step you can see the elephant’s head here quite good yeah yeah you can reach around the

Corner look these ears look oh yeah so you can see quite good from here I like it in here though yeah look you can see Down’s feet you can Down’s legs [Applause] [Applause] yeah now tell me you didn’t really want to come on this I can’t hear you g there

Well is it good though yeah it’s great is it it’s brilliant isn’t it are you glad you came on it now quite fun fantastic is it yeah I love it this is our guide and elephant driver thank you very much you’re welcome thank you so much

It’s not just amazing Machinery is it no made it beautifully isn’t that the workmanship on it is just beautiful they just not just something knocked together is it no the detail on what you can see in here is just really lovely it’s so I if they use an old boat building technique it’s

Really it looks like it I was looking at the carvings on the steals yeah and then all the woodwork it is it is like boat building quality is it yeah it’s lovely it is very Jewels ver is it P feeding me sorry yeah thank You yeah go sorry I was going to say to people keep getting in the way of your camera they do you’re not supposed to take pictures no I no but you are anyway no I’m not taking a video it says no video either yeah but I’m taking

Pictures you can’t do pictures or video interdict but you’re doing it anyway yeah cuz I’m not it there cuz you can’t speak French no you don’t know what inter means no no okay idiot no it’s very Jews is it very Jews the makeup of

This it is the way is you could see it in a Jules like a Disney film about Jules ver wouldn’t you yeah yeah cuz it’s like all the Victorian yeah yeah is a bit Victorian isn’t Itor yeah time I know all the W work it’s not modern materials no it’s Victorian materials

You know Ro iron work yeah Woods stuff that victorians would have had to make such things which is what makes it a bit Jew F doesn’t it right that era it’s worth coming on oh go you just to experience just to watch the inside of the

Machinery great we’re up in the roof now we are aren’t we yes we’re right at a Tippy toppy but standing over the elephant’s head yes fantastic I just hope you don’t burp no I’m glad we’re not at the back end then hey hello that’s like being on a Hower

Yes it is isn’t it but not a wobbly no cuz they’re really are I’ve been on one they they go from s oh yes you had when you were a child yeah I was going to say when did you go to India but we went to

India but we didn’t go on an elephant did we no we didn’t where did you go on an elephant actually we never saw any elephants did they no no yes we did yes in the street all right we saw cows and no we saw elephants in the street and

Camels yeah yeah I can’t even remember going on it but I know I did in Regents Park 2 yeah yeah when you was little I must have been really little cuz oh that must when was that in the 19th century yes to in 1912 that’s the 20th century oh okay 186

Raw was Victoria still on the phone yes yeah he’s massive is he yeah it is look all the camping up there yeah we was up there we were Peter I just notic something the elephant’s got a Willie oh yeah oh you think he has a pee

Maybe it’s a m elephant he must do a wee we bit worried about that oh yeah yeah I bet he does I bet he does as well probably PE pees all over the place you know what men are like yeah I hope he

Don’t do a poo I think it would be a big one if he did would it be massive massive and I wouldn’t be empty in that pooper I tell you you’re huffing and puffing my darling I know up them stairs he W you out it has done lot of walking today don’t we

We have I’ve done 5 and a half thousand steps I was going to say in the small space we’re in 5 and a half thousand steps is a lot it is actually it’s not if you’ve gone out for a walk or done stuff all day but for walking around in

This tiny space and up down the elephant’s legs uh it’s quite a lot I didn’t CL up down the elephant’s legs thank you very much all right then yeah it’s uh i’ not seen the fence down like before and they’re all old bits and pieces is they they’re not All Uniform

No they’re brilliant yeah they know really yeah I not that looks nice nice doesn’t it old palets yeah got long eyelashes is he very long eyelashes they look really bristly don’t they they do what are the ears made of they look like leather they do don’t they they

Look like leather yeah are they leather or are they metal I think they are are yeah no nothing I’m just drawing your attention squirting people what’s he doing squirting him c as long as he don’t squirt me can’t get up here good he’s having a rest now yeah tried all

These bits out so should we go and get a coffee yes please did you enjoy that I thought that was really brilliant yeah I loved it I did and we still can ride around on the tra for another 16 hours hope you enjoyed the video if you did

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