DON’T TAKE YOUR MOTORHOME TO MARSEILLE IN THE SUMMER! (Vanlife – Marseille)

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We knew it would be busy in the summer, but we didn’t think it would be madness! Crazy, dangerous driving, rammed beaches and pretty grubby too! While Bee and the boys take a train and the metro to the beach, Daz spends his ENTIRE DAY searching every store for Camping Gaz, but still to no avail! He’s even made to feel like a criminal when carrying his empty one around the stores. Finally, when heading to a nearby town of Ciotat, they finally pick up the gas, only to find when they are in their on-street overnight parking, the cannister they were sold turns out to be empty! Things can only get better, right?

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are they going to believe us if we go back and say this is empty also found car is treated like a thief the mar train has been cancelled look at all the rubbish on the track feels as rough as rough could be driving around Mars I have to be honest it’s my kind of hell don’t know want I feel emotional on that think it’s just been one of those hard days if you can’t beat them join them hi I’m Daz and she’s be and we’re on a 12we road trip around France with our boys and our Greyhound Sammy join us as we explore the history Beauty and fun we can squeeze in while getting to grips with the challenges of working and home educating on the road as a family in France living a life less ordinary as we escape in the [Music] Moto last night in my enthusiasm for getting to Mars just so that we can appreciate it for a couple of hours before we go on to the colong and cassis um I booked train tickets and then looking at how far my train station was to the beach this morning I realized the train station Mars doesn’t actually exist there’s about three train stations in marsill which I should have probably checked and I just had to buy an extra few uh stops of Journey to and fro to get us a little bit further into marsill I’m now thinking as soon as we get off the train we’re going to have to get I think I can see a tram line and that tram line takes us fairly close to one of these beaches if I survived today I’ll be very pleased back again and I’ve barely moved except I have moved we’ve got ourselves ready brushed our teeth put our shoes on and then I look at my phone it says that the maré train has been cancelled you just can’t write this stuff can you in fact it’s just our return Journey that’s canceled our outbound is okay but get it back I will work it out it’s fine I don’t think you will work I will work out I’m great at working things out that’s the first leg of the journey done we’ve made it onto the train and we’ve got all the way into the Terminus in Mars now we’ve got to get the metro to the beach well be’s now off onto the train and I thought I’ll go and get some gas so I was doing a few little visual checks around the van back window is open got that one I’m not going anywhere for the next 10 minutes it seems number three been bag is required up [Music] there well I hate to say it but they don’t keep their trains in very good state do they look at all the rubbish on the track they seems to be less care of cleanliness in the train station for sure we decided we didn’t want to take our motor home into marsay just because of the amount of negative stuff that you can read on par T night it could be that we’re just being wusses but it feels like a major city and it feels like a grubby City and I’ve just seen the queue for the toilets so I won’t be queuing for those now I will always be thankful for London water cuz it’s a nice train station we have trees but we have a very grabby floor Ed Ed edart so after the horror of the filth of this train station um we’re now in search of va tickets for the Metro so we’re heading down to M1 and M2 which are the two lines that you can take two Metro uh lines I’m hoping the tickets are down here so we’re now in the queue to get our tickets for the Metro on the Metro System in marsill children are payable from ages six up so I had to pay for all the children it’s 180 per Journey or you can get a group of four for under 5 and then you have to take that journey in an hour well I mean a place called castorama where they online seem to suggest they had the gas bottles but to be honest I won’t be coming back here in a hurry not only is it € 6 more expensive than CPU also felt like I was treated like a thief so I’ve been uh questioned by a guy who didn’t speak any English but just spoke loads of French to me about what I was doing with the bottle in the gas aisle and then at the teals I tried to explain to the lady because they often have the teals Shut or there’s a gate of some kind just to say this is my bottle I came in with it it’s empty again she took it off me checked the weight looked at the red sco like I would even though these things stay on I would just rip them off because it confuses people uh and then stood at the tool for about 5 minutes with a big explanation for the cashier to say just to show you I’m not a thief I walked in with this your security guard saw me it’s empty but you don’t have any stock so I’m leaving is that okay I mean I like the diligence compared to sort of the shopping experience I get at Asda where people can have their full dinner in the aisles and no one seems to mind but um I don’t F feeling like a thief anyway back to more serious stuff where am I going to get gas from so the next one H Metro the next Metro is in 6 minutes and the one after that is in 303 minutes well we did the Metro we made it now we’ve got to try and find our way to the beach yeah we got a half an hour walk straight down this road feels as rough as rough could [Music] be people are driving like maniacs we just crossed a Crossing with a green light on and a motorcyclist just drove in front of us it’s not a nice busy we haven’t reached the nice beautiful bit every single tree every single tree has a little sort of Circle of mud or stones and decoration around every single one has at least one or two dog plops just left there I know it will break down I know it will disappear eventually I’m sure that’s the argument the French have that it will eventually break down why are we putting it into bags but we know it’s hazardous to heal It’s just sad to see all the dog poo everywhere we can see in the distance and blue oh okay Suddenly It’s all starting to look a bit [Music] beautiful we’ve made it and it’s busy it’s crazy it’s hot and we just walked down a pathway that just stunk of urine this place is massive already on to my third member of staff that I’ve asked for directions and then I tend to just nod when I don’t really understand what to say I get the last bit is it on the right or on the left but I’ve now got a picture off my phone so I’m going to go and find another member of staff and show them that well six member of staffs later I found it well the section I imagine it’d be in if it was here next so I’m running out of options here I’m just going to drive further and further away from the town tourists going around buying up all the gas sold out again that’s Casino well I’m now in the catalon village and it’s huge it’s like as big as a massive Tesco out Town store it’s even got a gym I think there’s some rock Climer going on well found it they’re all tiny bottles well no sign of big bowls of gas anywhere there are lots of trousers now I’ve survived in shorts for 2 months and I could buy some trousers in here right now no kids around we or dog except I now see the last few weeks as a challenge to see if I can get through it without buying any trous PR [Music] t [Music] if you can’t beat them join them no Another One Bites the Dust good buddies a brand new spanking bottle of this if the last one last N9 days this is going to last about four or five okay last shop before I give up it’s going to be one of the bricko shops around the corner and then I’ll go and pick up be the boys from the beach and try going somewhere way out of town now let’s see if I can get out of here without being called a thief police on Horseback ah it’s probably a good idea this place is probably going to get quite interesting at night time I’m loving those mountains though well in desperation for a toilet and something to eat we’re grabbing chips in here well that’s it I sort of give up at the moment that’s massive brick codo who sounded very positive when I asked about where it was the first person she asked on the shop floor said they haven’t got it or don’t know it driving around marsill I have to be honest it’s my kind of Hell uh so Sammy and I rather hot are going to go and pick up be and the boys somewhere down the seafront which again I think sounds like an absolute nightmare there’s all sorts of high barriers 20 million roads crossing over each other million people all kinds of traffic feed everywhere tower blocks nothing like the countryside so I want to go and grab bee as I said to you just now I hate this let’s get out of here so the beauty is we’re not we’re not bound to be here we can go where we want so I think that’s Mar done Stampy is down there somewhere Daz is picking us up but there’s nowhere to stop oh this is fun oh golly we just want to leave this place that was mental couldn’t film it because I literally didn’t have any hands the jeary on horses just outside D followed a bus went into the bus L very very briefly picked us all up luckily I had the motor home spare keys in my bag was able to unlock and get everybody in oh what a mental mental mission that was what I keep saying to the kids is that there are loads of loads of beautiful parts to this big beautiful city unfortunately Daz has had to Trail around looking for gas today so he’s seen the very worst of it and we’ve literally seen the train station a a road leading down to one of the beaches there are several beaches our one wasn’t particularly nice but it was the scen scenery around it and the hills and the mountains were fantastic so I think we had our own personal experience of it today but our own personal experience was pretty awful and I’m sure that there are lots of you out there that have had amazing experiences here and I’d love to hear from you because maybe there’s a better Beach for us to go to or there’s a Hidden Gem but our conclusion is marsill is not somewhere to take your motor home because you may well struggle to get your gas and you’re certainly going to struggle to park it safely and it’s very very busy in the summer the beach that we were at was the LA Plage de Delo or Delo so that was the one that we were not impressed with there’s another Mars Beach that you know of that is really nice I’d love to know but we’re now moving on I think the plan is but DZ and I have got very sketchy plans for the next few days just because we see that we’re over a barrel in terms of where we stay we think we’re going Beyond ciss to a the next Bay on so I think in our country it was the Meg and now it’s going to be the Meg to but I love I love how like the French translation of a film needs to make sense to the French so instead of Frozen there is no word for Frozen in French so it is I’ve probably said this on another Vlog it is the queen of snow the snow queen I think so this is UN trouble um so I don’t know whether that means um in water in waters in Troubled Waters maybe in very Troubled Waters so cuz Meg is not a word it’s not a m word to us really I I guess we’ve got um what is the Mega Megalosaurus or something Megalodon thank you uh science fans so it means a Megalodon but I’m guessing they have a different word for Megalodon which is why it wouldn’t have worked I just said it’s nice to hear the cigas again which I don’t didn’t think I’d ever say rather than the mopeds and the buses and the beeping and the crowds and the just the engines The Never Ending engines of a big city yeah it’s a lot of aggressive driving imagine living here with these beautiful mountains behind you in this sunshine and that is a dramatic landscape I don’t think I’d ever get bored of that so yeah we’ve come out of town and then suddenly it’s like breathing out I no longer have my shoulders tensed up I no longer feel like I’m going to have my bag sashed this is the road from Marseilles to CIS now I like the I like the fact that we’re going to somewhere that translates as black current that’s kind of cute I’m sure they say in a far more elegant and sophisticated way Cassis but uh that’s where we’re going so this is a really nice Mountain Road how you feeling about that DZ nervous can’t believe that’s actually there where’s the sea there’s the sea going to whip around this mountain yeah nice boys we’re going around like a mountain [Music] pass oh look we’re entering the National Park to colong we’re in the colong we’re in the colog oh Beauty Bey huh what’s that there’s a motor home with a big cross through you’re joking I think that’s possibly the part for stopping oh thank God I ban I was going to say the road itself look quite direct from what I could [Music] see this is what worries me is that we weren’t supposed to bring a motor home up here it’s today about to get a lot worse oh my gosh look at that Coastline so we found ourselves in a little town called laso T and this is last chance Ali otherwise we have no guest for the weekend would you believe it they’ve got two uh don’t feel very heavy so I’m just going to check the weight of them and and 62 I got a feeling that’s if you want it brand new we’re just doing a recharge I just got to find out where I bring my bottle in to so I can get the recharged cost and not the full cost though I am thinking about why don’t we just spend 62 and have a backup so here we are in lasa so this looks absolutely beautiful here we’ve tried camping place after camping place there’s one place that can have us tomorrow we still can’t find anywhere even free tonight what’s that it’s not that was a free gift from the last campsite so Daz in a fit of anger when leaving the complete or complete that means uh full campsite that hadn’t left enough of a turning Circle for people that aren’t staying uh he decided that the only bit of turning Circle that they had separated off with some tape he was just going to run into it anyway and so we’ve taken it with us we stole it I’ll give it back so I wonder I wonder if we can stay here for free you got the handbrake on there this hanging off the B like with some sort of Party Vehicle party time I’m just going to go and put this in theed yes I would like a receipt I’d like proof so after scratching around at the few campsites there are in the area all of them a little bit rough we’ve managed to secure parking overnight for €380 and it’s okay until 11: tomorrow morning yay 11:40 let’s just hope no one’s got a problem with the motor home being out here we are slightly hanging over but then so is he and definitely the person in front of that so they just need to have slightly bigger spaces oh hello we’re moving oh Bargains leaving yeah thought you’d had enough your parking is very good dear there was us thinking that we got our gas sorted and that we’ve got our space for the night and we haven’t had to spend very much on it and actually we’ve just gone to start making pasta pesto and there is no gas and Dad actually said that the gas canister felt light when he picked it up but his Instinct didn’t kick in to go and ask so now we’ve been away from that place for about 45 minutes so are they going to believe us if we go back and say this is empty you’ve sold me an empty one because it’s got the clasp on top of it so something has gone wrong there maybe if we all go into the supermarket there’s you know power and numbers maybe I don’t know then we lose our space here we will end up losing our space here I know but then you’ve lost 30 something euros and you’ve been solding empty canister I don’t even know which casino it was it was a casino in this town several of them so we were just trying to dash into Mars do a couple of things of how hit this and dash out but of course when you’ve got five people producing five lots of waste and using five lots of people’s water then you are going to need your services you just are and that’s something we perhaps didn’t consider so this day can officially do one just when you think some things are starting to go right even though we’ve got a choc block toilet which stinks we were quite happy with that we were just going to cope with that cook our pasta pesto go down to the beach and have a nice time with Sammy paid our €380 to park really nice parking space no problems there go to go cooking no it’s empty so now we are driving back to the casino Supermarket hoping hoping that they’re not going to think that we are liars there is no proof how can we how can we prove that the camping gas was empty the only thing he’s got is he had an inkling and it felt a little bit lighter as he left I think it’s another reminder to ourselves if we doubt something we should just follow it up it’s good news we’re back in casino and they read our information and they believe us and they say it’s fine to change over I don’t I feel emotion on that think it’s has been one of those hard days it’s probably your relief that you found one that you didn’t want to doubt it so I’ve just taken that off and I was just saying to be that the seal is completely intact on this so although this is heavier this could just as easily be tampered with and I’m was just saying we can fly people into uh space and we can put people on the moon but we can’t this company doesn’t seem to be able to design a security tag that actually works please let this work please let it not be a problem on our side boring is it Sam it’s boring okay Indy do you know how to put the gas on yay oh do it again oh okay press it in and hold it hey there is gas [Music] no that’s not a child Suite that is the path that we’re taking so I think we know the reason as to why the waters are empty and as to why it’s not absolutely rounding people down here today oh check out this we really didn’t want to do this absolutely empty does appear to be a bit of a ghost town though I’m now sat here in my Smalls and a t-shirt trying to hang on to the last strips of dignity that I have so there you go there are my glasses from the bottom of the sea oh Melle until the next Escape thanks for [Music] watching