Ile de Re is a fabulous island just off the coast from La Rochelle in France.
Travel over a spectacular bridge.
We travel on a BMW R1250RT and our friends travel on a BMW K1600.
This is episode 3 of 4.
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Going to Dang Island. An island just off that. Looks like you got to pay. Here we go. Right. Where do we go? No idea. Stick it. Ticket. So, right then. Right. Well, I haven’t seen a hand yet. So, yeah, there there is a hand there. Oh, is it? No, they’re in. They’re in. Oh, I need to get a ticket out then. Let me huge bridge. I’ve just seen it. Jane, you’re going to have to hold this one. I will get the car. Okay. Yeah. [Music] A huge bridge. How much? I don’t know. Just put Oh, there’s a person in there. Just tell me that. Yeah. Okay. Look at that bridge. Wow. What a bridge. You got it. Okay, [Music] here we go. All these little things driving me crazy. I just want to be free. All these feelings got me singing hazy. I can barely breathe. I’m so but you can’t save me. Baby, I’ll just leave. There’s a voyage trying to chase me. Only one thing I need. Oh no. So I do it all and I don’t want to go. Oh no. Oh no. No one should know. I don’t live my life for anyone. I just live it for me. Why does everyone have a problem? Was what I’m choosing. Oh no. I do it all my [Music] go. I live life for me. I just want to be free. I live life for me. I just want to be free. Oh no. So I do what I want and I don’t know. Oh no. Say oh [Music] let go. Five words. A cup of coffee. Yeah. And we do need to get some petrol somewhere. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? Beautiful. Beautiful, isn’t it? Over that bridge. Over that bridge. Yeah. Did you ride your bike? Uh, no. I was trying to put me w trying to hold on to me wallet and move forward and I couldn’t do both. Oh, she trying to nick your wallet again, was she? She was. Yeah. Um This is I better turn my engine off and we are doing right. Well, we’re going to ride around the island. Yeah, we’re going to St. Martin, whatever it’s called up the road here. We stopped there for a coffee. Yeah. Is that what Harry said? The best place to go. Yeah. Right. Definitely. Okay. supposed to keep this. Look at this. Oh, look at them. You don’t see them. What a lovely island, isn’t it? Beautiful. It’s popular. Yeah. Yeah. It’s pretty busy, isn’t it? Very busy. Yeah. To be in it. Yeah. Heat. Heat. [Music] A camel. Camels over there. Where? There you go. Seeing it all now. Camels in France. Oh, brilliant. I don’t know which way to go. going into this camel’s smell. Okay. Lot of healthy people on push bikes. Yeah. This is St. Martin Daroo. What a beautiful place. Absolutely stunning. You’re not going to have problem getting anything to drink or eat. Absolutely beautiful. Absolutely stunning, isn’t it? Beautiful. The wall. Yeah. Fantastic wall. And it goes all the way along. They’re out there. Look. What a place. I don’t know what this is called. Don’t even ask me, C. Can I even pronounce it anyway? No. Um, I I’ll put it on the bottom of the um, you know, the the screen, but how am I getting on with my uh with my 1250? Well, got to be honest, I absolutely love it. And uh, the 1200 was really good, but I must be honest, the 1250 is better. There’s no question of it. The gearbox is better. um the layout, the screen, everything on it. It’s so much clearer to read. Um the satnav on it, well, forget it. I use a different bracket and I use ways and that’s that’s how I operate really. I just find it so much easier to operate. But but no, the the bike goes really well. It handles really well. It’s really comfortable. It’s uh job done, isn’t it? Yeah. Bronco wants you to talk about his bike. He’s feeling left out. All right. Yeah. Okay. And um Broncos. Broncos on um the K1600 GT. How you getting on with it, mate? Spot on. Lovely bike. Yeah. Yeah. Is it too big? No. Too heavy? No. It’s ideal. Perfect, isn’t it? Yeah. Sounds nice. Goes well, doesn’t it? Beautiful machine. Comfortable. Yeah. Ideal. Right. What are we doing? Not Not in the heat that we were in the other day. Well, that was any any heat in there. Well, it’s 34°. as hot. It’s hot as hell on any bike. Not not, you know, just this one. But right, are we going to get something to eat then? We are. Yes. Right. Come on then. Let’s go and get something to eat. Yeah. Come on then. So, we found this amazing restaurant. [Music] Really nice, isn’t it? Food’s very good. Of course, it’s by the harbor and um most restaurants sell fish and I don’t like fish. Jen don’t like fish. Bronco and Daft don’t like fish, so we’re eating burgers, you know. So, I think very nice the island of Il just off Larishelle. It’s a must honestly go over an amazing bridge as as you’ve seen. €3 to get in. I’m not sure where you have to pay to get out, but anyway. But literally, it’s just on the outskirts of Larelle and it’s absolutely stunning. Um, we’re here at the height of the tourist, you know, when it’s, you know, everybody’s here, it seems, you know, but well, it’s a French holiday. It’s a French holiday. So, but I’m saying that it’s still plenty of room. There’s plenty of tables. Everybody’s happy about how awesome my bike is. Yeah. So, we uh Yeah. Broncos. Um, you want to talk about your bike again? Do we have to listen? Well, he thinks it’s a 1600, but we know it’s a 125. Never my day. Some people are so gullible. Gullible. It’s actually six nearly 1650. Oh god. It’s all about size, isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. You got a problem, mate, to be honest. You got competition. No, you’re not going to get your bike up, are you? You don’t know how to put your bike up, right? Are you? I’ll put them in me top box. Take them with me. What’s your top end there? Yep. So, really delighted with the bike. Absolutely love it, don’t we, Jame? Yeah, absolutely love it. It does everything we want it to do and and some more. To be honest, it’s great. It’s fabulous bike. So, certainly recommend a RT 1250. The 1300 again is ah is it better than this? I suppose it is in a in a few ways, but uh this this this does me. It’s perfect. Love it. I think my type of places we’re going to have to go to Norway. Let’s get up there. Yeah. Sweden and places. Well, take Big Sid. Take Yeah, I might take Big Sid. Take gorgeous Tom. Yeah. Yeah, I want to do that. That’s another vlog. I want to do as much as I can with our gorgeous Tom. Yeah. Yeah. Take him places. Let him experience Oh. Oh, donkeys. Donkeys. Donkeys. Got to film the donkeys from Donkeys. Smell the donkeys. Smell them. Smell them. Why? Let’s move on. Dirty donkeys. Dirty donkey. Why donkeys? Dirty donkeys. Um, we just found this lovely little beach on the way um on the way back to Larishelle, but we’re still on IL. But beautiful. Look at that. How beautiful. I tell you, is really warm. It’s 26. Mind you, the trip we had back or going on the way down to Harris was 34. And it was just unbearable. Absolutely unbearable. But anyway, it’s actually very nice now. Really nice place. We’re right on the beach, isn’t it? It’s beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah. Absolutely gorgeous. Look at that bridge. wa rain. What do I think? Very nice. Make sure you go when it’s not right in the middle of the tourist, you know, the busiest time of the year. I’d suggest lovely restaurants, lovely restaurants by the beach. Um, some of the sites are a bit commercial. They got to make the money, I suppose. But overall, would I come back? Yes, I would. Would you, Jane? Would you come back? You can’t hear me. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Heat. [Music]
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Looks lovely there, nice helmets you wearing, carbon fibre??