Our DOG ESCAPES in the LITTLE ITALY of PROVENCE! (Vanlife – L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France)

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The day at Parc Spirou theme park is a scorcher, and Daz finds ways of keeping the motorhome cool, while adding to his office on the road.
Sammy the greyhound disappears after the family arrive at L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, and after being reunited they enjoy a stroll around the winding waterways of the beautiful town.

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Sam’s just escaped no one knows where he is is it doable CCH we’re just getting set to go to what is called The Little Venice of provance and here we are actually swanning around Little Venice and here’s the boys on a pump track in 32° heat and here’s some folk having

Lots of fun punting around Le s hi I’m Daz and she’s bee and we’re on a 12we road trip round 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 Moto good morning from a beautifully Sunny Monto it’s going to be a hot one today the kids have got no idea where we are and what we’re doing and we went to

Bed last night a little bit scared because we were in the corner of an enormous carpart but look Stampy’s been joined by a couple of friends it’s like a little secret treasure parking in this them park car park at night but actually we discovered it’s owned by the

Municipality so it’s not the theme parts car park it’s actually owned by the the council hello well there’s not going to be much for me today because I’m just doing a boring day in the office uh the once empty Park last night spooky empty Park is now a wash with cars and kids

Going to the park one thing I’ve managed to do we’ve been carrying a printer like a stowaway right up there in the cupboard and it was all lassoed in with bungees and I knew there was going to be a reason and it’s taking just over two

Months for the reason to come in but I’ve got uh something to sign it needs a wet signature unfortunately the paper we’ve got is like toilet paper and I’ve asked if they’ll take us digital signature they won’t so I’ve got to use this printer and I think I’ve set it all

Up right so here’s my office for the day with my secretary down there we got the shades Up On the Sunny Side to keep it all cool cup of tea obligatory I think I’ve connected these things up to print down to that printer right I’ll set it off to

Print this is the first time we’ve tried this come on guys talk to each other talk to each other it’s making a noise after two months and the heat we’ve been in all the inks could be dry come on just waiting for something to come out of there oh no look oh few

It’s cuz it’s like toilet paper is just getting crushed it’s got no strength of its own look at that office on the road I won’t bore you with what this is there we go what more do I need then off your pop be good to Dy right then so it’s just me the

T and uh the Samsung Galaxy come on Sammy good boy I just on the did did boys Co Everywhere I Go there a leaf Blower honestly come Autumn these guys must have a field day roll roll this my second roller coaster well it’s 3:00 and it’s getting up to 29° Centigrade outside and a little bit warmer it feels like in here we’ve got vents open blinds up I’ve just tried out a tiny airon hack

For my man Sam down there I’ll show you what it is so there’s Sam he’s trying to stay cool and up here the fan I got off of Amazon while we’re on the campsite this was about uh4 delivered it’s a USB plug in and it has a dial just to turn the

Speed up and then above that I’ve wedged uh a chill block the idea being hopefully that some air will get drawn over this through the fan and down to Samy cold air being heavier than and denser than warm air hopefully that will reach him and behind that my sagging

Sad much uh insulted uh fly curtain we’ve now gone through both metal bars that I bought for this just because people uh were accidentally treading on this so I found a branch and I’ve just stuck a branch through it but actually there’s so much uh sort of golden bamboo

Around the edges of car parks and Parks a lot of it obviously gone wild as it does so what I’m going to do is next time I see a lad of that if I can find a fallen piece of bamboo and strip it I’ll put it up there instead and then the

Metal that came from those broken bars um actually funny enough is just the right size to go inside the belt buckle if I can fix that recoil thing then the little strip of metal will be the perfect thing to thread the strap back through except I know very little about

Belt buckles I’ve only ever bought brand new ones which came as a whole set so that repair job is uh still on the to-do list along with maybe about half a dozen other Things got gas on you yeah yeah there I see You these Comics are really brutal look oh my gosh well while be the kids make the most of the last hour at Park spiru in the background there I can also see there’s a water park just beyond that I’m taking Sammy to the man-made lake that’s maybe just 1 kilometer from from

The main car park and walking through it’s obviously oh no well it’s there I can see it now that took me about 5 minutes of walking including sniffles uh it’s an area of mass Redevelopment too there’s a lot of apartment buildings going up so even though places is rough around the edes

It’s actually pretty nice around here and if you do come to stay here at all uh at the park then why not take a dip in the man-made lake after work where I think there was also flatable course there’s the usual pedo hire and I think

You can take your own canoes and kayaks out on it too I don’t see me getting a swim in seeing as I’m with Sammy here we’ll take a look anyway right outdoor gym pedalos something looks like a temple my gosh what is that well looking up close it actually looks like a

Stadium rather than some kind of here or Dam and there’s a platform there like a stage yeah well I wonder what kind of performances go on here as is always the way with me I read a little bit about this area and totally forgot it you can

See the park spir in the background there where being and the boys have been and then beyond that over there in a kind of weather man way is a rather high mountain now you can cycle up here and drive up here jog up it if you really want to and I think

When you get to the top it’s something like 1,900 M would that be right H if like me you thought it was snow on top I don’t think it is looking at the pictures it’s just gravel but it is cold up there even in the

Summer Dam it you just fell off the side again it’s becoming a habit on these trips he’s might be fast but he’s not very Eagle eyed this guy you all right mister yeah just embarrassing in front of those French people over there ah don’t worry you’ll never see him again come

On drink as much as you want mister there’s plenty to go around oh if only you could manage the pedalos eh with those muscles like a speed boat Sammy well it has been a day of ups and downs at Park spirro but overall we had a fantastic day we spent

The entire day there we came out at 700 p.m. and I’ve just cooked up what I would describe as a a Pella I suppose but I’ve also covered as and the kids not dazzy he thinks they’re Victorian peas but we all love Capers CU they’re vinegary and

Indie was craving some vinegar for his chips earlier whilst we were in the park so I’ve covered his Pella with capers and I just had it and it was delicious even though I do say so myself I can say that can’t I it’s okay to say your meal is delicious because

Most of the time I apologize for my cooking but that was pretty good so we’re finishing up here really impressed with the parking here as well €6 I don’t know whether we’re going to be ask anymore but we’ve stayed here for nearly 2 24 hours we’re just getting set to go

To what is called The Little Venice of Provance we’ve woken up early and I can see a graveyard in the distance but what woke me up early was the smell of bonfire it was quite disconcerting I was wondering whether somebody had set a light to our van or something that’s what your brain does at halfast 5 in the

Morning it’s going to be another hot one today so we were the theme park yesterday and it was super hot of 3132 today is going to be 4° warmer interestingly it doesn’t get to that heat until about 4:00 p.m. some reason 400 p.m. seems to be the hottest time in

France if you’re going to have a hot day so I’m looking for bodies of water but in between that time we’re going to have a fun on the pump track which is just outside this free park up and then we’re going to head into town which is apparently full of beautiful Waterways What fantastic facilities for children and teenagers there is well I can only describe us my son calls it a bowl but it just looks like an empty swimming pool and it is for skateboarding it is phenomenal so I reckon they used to have motor home facilities here you can stay

Here no problem at all but they don’t have facilities they don’t have waste water but I feel like there is electricity points and what was a gray water waste um point but here I’ve just found a water tab now our water is on red right now so DZ can get a couple of

Bags from over here later what you doing catch yes this is what this is a essential piece of motor home kit the printer wa you need to make some spaces big boy yeah so I’m going to impress you with how the amount of dust good grief

This is this is 2 and a half months of motor home dust good grief should suck the cleaner yeah I’m paying the cleaner enough but she doesn’t come out to our motor home think we need to have a little review don’t we so so yeah Daz said it was absolutely

Essential that we bring the printer um I would like to just about work out the percentage of use to not use of the printer since we’ve been here but it has print it has done a job as you would have seen previously but I’m now asking

D to print something for me and it’s taking a long time about it so I might dock his wages for today um so yeah the reason why I’m asking dad to print me something this morning is because we have less than a month before we have to

Return so I thought it’d be quite good to get a sheet of paper 1 A4 sheet at a glance with all the dates on where we are now where we need to be and the fact that we’ve got to get Sammy wormed and a certain window before we go back and add

In all the places that we want to visit and see what’s doable and what’s not um so I tried to make my own one and be independent and I did some origami and then realized there weren’t enough um folds in my paper so yeah I probably shouldn’t be employed as a children’s um

Math educator and I thought I could do some on the back and then I said oh I wish I had a printer and then this guy told me he used a printer yesterday so he stepped into to help so I used a printer all the time at home so this

Printer has gone from throwing and regurgitating masses and masses of stuff out to doing practically nothing the route that we’ve taken on our trip has kind of been dictated by all the places and things that I wanted the kids to see um and I thought would be either educational or something beautiful to

See in terms of nature historical and so on something key things that you see in France there’s the printer going but I’ve been working from this so this is a a nightmare isn’t it really I have moved over to using my phone for calendar and for notes but yeah I’m working from

Scraps of pieces of paper so this is this is my my Airbnb August notes um which I do need to update on my um computer look look what he’s produced for me it’s a thing of beauty I mean the boxes are quite small but what there and

Great big margins but it’s good it’s good I can’t complain he’s got all the right dates on there hang on I’ll put you another one then with small Mar no no look at this look at this that’s my pet hate you see original calendar 8% bigger calendar I I I think

It makes a difference well done you keep your job I get a gold star you do get a gold star well done now get on with running your multi-million pound company Well Sam’s just escaped no one knows where he is where is he where did you find him there all way the Sammy you monkey well you’re a dog you’re a c of a monkey how scary o he’s having a weave it’s a good job he’s he likes sniffing he doesn’t go

Very far but even so I just came even so he is silent like a ninja when he leaves the van this way Sammy not a reward hopefully weing he weing that was scary God knows what I’ve run through back here I’m sure I’ve seen several gentlemen taking weave back here so

Anyway panic over so today has been a day of work day pump tracking around the bike track until it got too hot and for me trying to plan our August with lots of things to think about for instance Disneyland staying there cheaply or uh wait actually you can stay

In your motor home overnight in Disney who knew that and it’s the same prize for staying in the park you have to leave by 10 making sure that we get Sammy wormed at the right time within um 120 hours of leaving and and no more than 24 hours but now we’ve got this

Time good to get from Ila or S and we’ve got a few other things that we need to do in between all the way to Cal and lots of hours to cover and dad’s also got to go and see a work colleague driving over to Switzerland is

It doable so right next to the park up uh on the way into town is a rather large graveyard with these very different to the UK okay massive family Graves I mean they’re almost monuments and on top of them are all little plaques for I guess family members individual family members that

Have died since there’s a lot of Italian sounding names which is interesting all my French is terrible could be the latter Indie just made me jump by ringing this Bell which I think awakens the dead or something ding yeah d we don’t know what it does and there’s a

Lot of bodies here well that’s enough of this of course it’s the uh dead center of town can’t say that seriously it’s blistering today absolutely blistering 400 p.m. it’s probably about 35° and we decided to go into Town the water looks absolutely beautiful and these guys are making the most of it having their apparative maybe before dinner you probably heard me talk about the shadow Diaries before but I had never heard of a parate until I watched the uh that particular Vlog a

Parate tends to be a small snack like peanuts or something else or something a bit more ly Dar on a plate with an alcoholic drink before you have your dinner a lot later so I think the French had their dinner much later than we ordinarily would so AAR tee tends to

Happen maybe between 5 and 7 o’clock but I might get my timings wrong because I’m not French well that’s what I’m guessing is about the timings and your dinner might be kind of 9 10 o’clock at night I love the idea of an extra dinner Le s s

Is famous for antiques there are in fact 300 antique dealers here in the town it sits upon the s River and is also famous for its beautiful waterways and wheels the river once served as a defensive moat in the 12th century but then became a source of food and

Industry harnessing the energy of the river for oil wheat silk paper and wool Mills are you okay Jaz I’m good thanks this is this is good for my not The Souls of my feet they’re freezing my inner Souls the river seems to hug the town and the canals that run through the narrow streets have earned the place its title of the Little Venice of Provance at first glance we thought these were sandbags then realized it was actually a table and cushions for sitting and enjoying a Riverside snack the bustling town is perfect for tourists looking for a Keepsake or perhaps an antique and the Sunday market runs from 8:00 a.m. there are two annual

Antiques faires where the whole town becomes an Emporium of the weird and Wonderful while we wandered about the town we saw many punting gonders echoing their grand associations with Venice but the attire was far more casual in fact the whole thing looked like quite good fun though the backbreaking bridges looked like a Challenge we just spent ages in this beautiful toy shop and spent a little bit of money as well cuz ety has birthday money to spend but I couldn’t resist getting a few bits so ety got a pen knife and we got some scratch art and I got a little gift

To send home to some friends and we also got another card game cuz card games are nice and small and portable really easy to have in their motor home what’ you get Phoenix scratch so we have the red onions sizzling away and in here we have some delicious fine green

Beans and it’s a noodle day today so we’re not sure what town we’re in but they’ve got speed bump sections with glittery roads and lots of lights and decorations and we can just see some rock formations on that side so we’ll have to look up it was or organ Oran

Oron we’ve all gone of Oran so in the halflight DZ has managed to get the hose to go up around the side of the unit to avoid touching the floor and the WC I don’t think you can can just oh my gosh let me hold that in let me make myself

Useful there we go so here we are we’re in deepest darkest provance we’ve just left iler s or surge which is lovely and we’re at the a of service but there are only about four four spaces yeah they’re massive spaces they’ve even got provision for handicapped motoroma with

A massive space at the side which is amazing so um we have to go and park rough for the night I think there’s a little Street side street we’re going to chance our luck on I know some people in reviews will talk about being fined by

The jeary but around here it’s so quiet so much space I just can’t imagine it far too close anyway it’s uh gone to 10:00 and one thing we forgot to mention was this thing flapping all the way here for the last 45 minutes or so thankfully

It’s another dry night so that’s a job for tomorrow here he is he’s his suspicious character creeping around the corner with his hose out oh my Lord oh it must be night time he’s gone wrong another badly timed badly timed sanitary change over and what an

Abrupt end to the Vlog but look how idilic things are next time when Dad sets up office in a forest car park as me and the boys have a lovely but very quirky day out in a curious Place who would have thought Indie would be psyching around the inside of a whale

However it all goes horribly wrong when we return to the mot home which D sums up like this today is a part of crap right well I stepped away from the van for a second cuz I’m feeling hugely negative about today the end of the day

Has been a bit Bleak B text boys to a grim Mar say if I survive today I’ll be very pleased now I will always be thankful for London water dearo dear what a potty mouth anyway I hope you enjoyed the video like And subscribe and until our next Escape thanks for Watching