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@Robin1Food 26 күн бұрын
00:09 - Bilbao is not the capital of the basque country
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 26 күн бұрын
I stand corrected Vitoria-Gasteiz it is. I'll have to make a bike trip there now as well! But Bilbao certainly feels like a capital.
@oskarobit 27 күн бұрын
01:29 There's a Bidegorri on your left. Bidegorri in Basque means literally "red track", because its colour, and is for exclusive use by biking, skates, scooters... In our little Bilbao there are almost 50 km of bicycle lanes: Barcelona has about 200 but with a population x 5, and Madrid multiplies our population x 9.5 and has 195 km. Not so bad, right? In Bilbao, as a general criterion, bicycles, electric scooters and any other vehicles are not allowed on the pavements, with the exception made for children. The fine for cycling on the pavement and pedestrian areas is 200 euros. You've been lucky. Come back soon, I hope you'll enjoy the city in that short trip. Trivia: In 1983 Bilbao suffered a flood; 500 litres of rain per square meters in just one day. In areas of the Old Town, the water reached a height of almost five metres (15 feet). In some parts of the Old Town there are plaques marking the level reached by the water. Others tell the origin of the names of the medieval streets. Do you know that Euskara/Basque is the oldest language in Europe?
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 26 күн бұрын
thank you for the information :)
@transfiguredtime Ай бұрын
that is so impressive, well done Merin!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Ай бұрын
thank you...I'll tell him that :)
@eduardoalexmarchese8671 Ай бұрын
quels sont les plus beaux col à faire dans le coin?
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Ай бұрын
Sans doute le Col Furka. Je pense qu'il est également important de penser à la période de l'année. J'adore le début de l'été, quand les cols ouvrent à peine. Beaucoup de neige et moins de circulation qu'en été.
@eduardoalexmarchese8671 Ай бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc merci
@davidstuart4489 Ай бұрын
Wow, Dave. So beautiful! I love your videos!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Ай бұрын
@@davidstuart4489 thank you for watching David, it’s a spectacular place.
@MadisonTen Ай бұрын
I remember hearing about this place, I think it was on TV and they said some of the wooden path markers are still out there and certain people with the right knowledge know how to walk it though quite dangerous. At least that was my vague memory. ☺ Well done! Nice ride.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Ай бұрын
yes, I don't think the causeway road is the way pilgrims came across in centuries past. The other way can still be walked but I wouldn't fancy it without a guide.
@HarriKitaunz 4 ай бұрын
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 3 ай бұрын
thank you!
@davidstuart4489 5 ай бұрын
I just absolutely love these. What an amazing place! (The music works really well with this - nothing cheesy about it!) Considering all the snow that had to be plowed to clear the road, I'm stunned at few potholes I saw - and you commented the road was in good shape. Civil engineers in America need to go there and figure that out. Thanks for posting yet another lovely journey!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 5 ай бұрын
Maybe the secret with the potholes is the fact these passes close more than half the year, protected under that thick blanket of snow. It might be a different story if they were ploughing to keep them open 365. I'm always struck how the Alps are a working place, with big population centres and all sorts of industries from hydro to agribusiness to tourism. They do a great job managing the extreme environment. We saw that In arctic Norway too, where the infrastructure is seamless. I guess it takes a fair bit of public investment.
@davidstuart4489 6 ай бұрын
Wow! So, so beautiful! Things were not always so violent or confrontational in those days. They had many, many peaceful days of fishing, farming, adherence to and celebration of their faith. But most of the history books covering the period 900 - 1800 emphasizes struggle, war, disputes over who swears fielty to whom, disease, and other aspects of that life - but very little about what life was like in the absence of those stresses. Too much emphasis on monarchs, lords, ladies, knights, etc., - not enough (probably because it wasn't recorded) on Ma and Pa and the youngins. With these videos, especially this one, I can easily imagine how lovely life might have been, save for the the occassional rascal asking for a shave.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 6 ай бұрын
Initially the Vikings were raiders and were a very really threat, but soon enough they came as settlers and assimilated with the locals. In the Middle Ages, every aspect of island life would have been dominated by the Abbey, but that came to an abrupt end when Henry VIII broke with Rome and dissolved every monastery in the land. I guess the point of mentioning the 1715 rebellion was how comical, almost Keystone Cop, the whole situation was. Like you suggest, I guess the island provided a terrific refuge, well provisioned by land and sea, for monks, scholars, fishing folk, farmers and families.
@markbennett4784 6 ай бұрын
Love the arrangement that is a perfect fit for the footage. One of my favourite places. Thanks for sharing Dave
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 6 ай бұрын
Many thanks Mark, always rains when I'm there! But I still love the wide open horizons.
@markbennett4784 6 ай бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc There is always that huge grey sky that dominates the skyline. I know what you mean about the tourists...
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 6 ай бұрын
@@markbennett4784 Sitting under the Grey Northern Sky... a song I used to play in a band years ago...about Shetland I think. Of course, Lindisfarne is down south for you😂
@markbennett4784 6 ай бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc I do still think of it as North Britain. Great tune.
@davidstuart4489 6 ай бұрын
Haha - very funny! And, yes, the future is hard to predict. It's always hard to predict - unintended consequences and all that. Still, a beautiful ride - forward, backward, doesn't matter. Thanks again for sharing your adventures! (p.s. I think you could use much better sampled instruments.)
@DaveMcKeownMusic 6 ай бұрын
Ha, yes I got lazy with the arrangement and just went with the noteperformer sounds I use for reference in my scoring program. Maybe the unnatural squawky sounds fit pretty well with how I feel about national anthems and what they represent.
@davidstuart4489 6 ай бұрын
Yet another fabulous piece, Dave! Thank you so much for bringing these remote parts of the world to those of us who will never have the chance to see them for ourselves. On this particular ride, I do wonder what that Ibex was thinking as you were filming it. Where is the Ibex Whisperer when most needed?
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 6 ай бұрын
I pulled into the little church because there was a herd of Ibex on the pasture and I wanted a pic. It was fully ten seconds before I realised there was one standing 3m behind me in the shade of the church. Later we had about twenty standing around the van in the car park. I wouldn't want to mess with those horns but they seemed pretty docile.
@davidstuart4489 6 ай бұрын
I've missed these. Thank you for resuming!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 6 ай бұрын
yes, I've got lots of footage and good intentions...but life has been getting in the way this year!
@terrific-bats 9 ай бұрын
fantastic video and awesome music
@baskooman9651 9 ай бұрын
No ride like the home ride! 🚴♂️
@dansonthetube 10 ай бұрын
Love it! Nice one Dave 🥳 xo 💕
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Dan, subscribe much appreciated :)
@davidstuart4489 10 ай бұрын
It's been awhile since your last ride video. I missed them. This one is a different kind of lovely! Music, as always, perfectly fits the imagery. Thank you for doing this. I love it!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc 10 ай бұрын
Thank you David, much appreciated. Tom and Jerry teach us that weird music is much more acceptable when accompanied by the moving image!
@transfiguredtime Жыл бұрын
I love the sound of the bells with the music
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Yes, cowbells are great, I remember my dad getting excited by the sound just a couple of miles away from this spot.
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Enchanting colours in a lonely land where the villages seem to have more letters than inhabitants
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Ha, I get fed up writing Otterton in my address. Your town is quite a mouthful! Hannah and I visited a place in Norway called Å. My kinda place.
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Haha! Our city names lack a bit of fantasy. So that's why you have Alphen and Alphen next to the river Rijn (aan den Rijn)
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Would they still treat tourists to bagpipes if Scotland seceded?
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
I think so. This band was actually from Reading, just a few miles away. And the royal family has this weird connection with the HIghlands...the Queen used to have a piper outside her window every morning.
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Been there, done that. The royals don't seems to like bikes. Next time take the Rolls!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Back in my busking days, Windsor was one of the few towns I was kicked out of. The royals don't like saxophones either.
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Tsss The Royals do like bagpipes but they don't like sax? Tastless, if you ask me!
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Lovely landscape Dave! The music is unsettling indeed, any moment I expect to bump into a murder scene or did I watch too many English detective series?
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Yes, this is the first in a series of solo pieces I've recorded with effects, and I'm afraid they just get darker and darker....
@MartinPopeFilmmaker Жыл бұрын
What an amazing ride that was. Fantastic mountain scenery. I bet you were glad to get to the summit. Nice to have the road to yourself as well. 😊😊
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Sometimes the summit is a bit of an anti-climax, but the view on the other side was fantastic
@MartinPopeFilmmaker Жыл бұрын
Great cycling video. We also love Tenby but it was shocking to see so many people stepping out into the road without even looking. 😊😊
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! Yes, I need a big hooter or something so people know I'm coming...
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Stunning!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😊
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
this was a ride for all the senses...scratch and sniff video would be useful here!
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Y'all's history - and that of the continent, the church(es), the role of the mideast etc., has always fascinated me. Thanks for the ride!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
yes, just about anywhere you go on this island has a blood-soaked and contested past. My takeaway from that is that we must never take our current peace and prosperity for granted. It's more fragile than it appears.
@petrofilmeurope Жыл бұрын
An excellent and inspiring video - impressive tour. Thank you from Oslo.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
thank you Harald, greetings from the UK
@hansfischer7261 Жыл бұрын
Oft gefahren, da gab es noch keinen Tunnel.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
so many options now :)
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Putting the harmonium to work are ye? Lovely ride! I think the Welsh need a few more vowels though. My tongue got stuck between the spaces in my teeth trying to pronounce the name of the place. (spoke too soon - just saw your caption about vowels....lol)
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
ha, sounds like you are half-way to being fluent in Welsh then!
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Haha I love this! Great upbeat music and yet another lovely ride. Is this where Doc Martin is filmed? Hannah named that place once and I don't remember the name. But some of the scenary seems familiar.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Doc Martin was filmed in St Isaac in Cornwall, on the other side of the Bristol Channel...a smaller place and even more horizontally challenged! But a similar vibe.
@SometimesTrauma Жыл бұрын
Dave, it's time to do a Doc Martin video in Port Isaac! I would love to go back there in the van... Some weekend in the next few weeks?
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
@@SometimesTrauma the hills in Port Isaac are something else...a nice video of me pushing the bike more like...yes, a revisit to that part of the world is overdue
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Another beautiful ride through a place I wish I could see. It looks wonderful - except for the squiggly lines painted on the roads - I'd have no idea what they mean or are trying to instruct. The architecture is fabulous, the place looks clean, well maintained and prosperous. I know it has it's history - but I'm not sure anyone could tell if they landed there today, without a lesson. Thank you again, very much, for posting these. They are very peaceful!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Ha, the squiggly lines warn drivers they're coming up to a pedestrian crossing. The property boom brought a lot of new building to Belfast but I'm not sure all the office and retail space is full to capacity these days. But it's all preferable to armoured cars and nervous, heavily armed troops on the streets. These are largely neutral areas near the centre. You will see and feel considerable sectarian tension in other parts of the city.
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
thank you David :)
@SometimesTrauma Жыл бұрын
The music is so beautiful
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Stunningly beautiful - except for the buses and modern stuff. But not a McDonald's in sight - awesome! Thank you for these!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Well, funny you should mention Mc Donalds. They are closer than you think. Around 47 seconds in you might just see some land on the distant horizon. This is the island of Islay, and even though McDonalds have spread throughout Scotland and beyond, Islay is considered the ancient Cradle of Clan Donald.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Just looking into this a bit more, the Clan Donald were a powerful presence in this part of Ireland, and actually held Dunseverick castle, where we parked the van, for a couple of centuries. But you're right, not a burger in sight. 😆
@franceselizabethbadger7771 Жыл бұрын
Just totally beautiful. Music and landscape.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Liz, glad you enjoyed it.
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Beautiul area of the world. Thank you again for posting these. They are remarkably peaceful!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
The words "Northern Ireland" and "peaceful" don't always go together, but I'm very happy to show folk how beautiful it is. Thanks for watching David.
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful land and picturesque town. I can imagine the green and rugged landscape and the blue sea not only fed the Irish soul with religion, but with music as well.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Thanks Bas, well the next film might just have a bit of that Irish music on it...
@markbennett4784 Жыл бұрын
Merlin is in his element. So confident for his age. Thanks for sharing this Dave. Best to you all, Mark
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
...and to you Mark, yes he was relaxed right away on the bike.
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely adorable! Merlin looks like he's having so much fun!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
He completely loved it, independence, exploring the world.
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Another nice trek, and backing track. I suppose without wealthy folks there would be no wealth management companies, and Liechtenstein might be more like the decaying cities in America that have lost the influence of wealth. Hard to say. Either way, Liechtenstein looks quite clean, organized, and safe.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
I'm not against wealth at all, just how the super rich use places like this to avoid paying the tax the rest of us do. And as for the connections to certain African nations...well, it would be naive to imagine this money was invested for the good of the population. Liechtenstein will do just fine without it's banks.
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc - I try to avoid generalizing. Warren Buffet, Bill and Melinda Gates, and even Jeff Bezos have donated billions. It's actually a very long list of generosity by a long list of wealthy individuals. The wealthy population are similar to all other slices of humanity in that we find good and altruistic acts, mixed in with selfish and harmful acts. It's just the way it is. I'm glad what you've shown us through your rides exists.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
@@davidstuart4489 Yes, there's no dispute that a large proportion of wealthy people play tax where they live and earn, and give away a great deal more besides. Just to get back to your point about safe cities, I wouldn't feel completely relaxed walking the streets of Abuja. Is it a coincidence that the late dictator of Nigeria, Abacha, amassed a personal fortune of $3-5biilion during his time in power, and that most of that was stashed away in Swiss and Liechtensteiner banks (and some in the UK too). That money would help in a small way to make Nigeria a better place to live. This is the pattern in many African countries. Yet when sub-Saharan Africans risk their lives crossing the Channel in rubber dinghies, seeking a better life, the vice chairman of our governing party says in an interview last week, "They can f*** off back to Africa". I feel a heavy sense of personal hypocrisy when I allow myself to think about it. 😒
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc - Yes, we agree. Corruption and altruistic benevolence are way out of balance in many parts of the world. Its maddening my friend.
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Great ride Dave and very entertaining subtitles! I have to admit, there were a few things I didn't know about Liechtenstein. But as you manage to cross the country in 8 minutes, I would say: let's invade the place, have a beer and distribute the $300 billion among the residents of Europe (that is, including the UK!)
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Ha, sounds like a plan 😀
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Next Holliday!
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful melancholic tune: beautiful!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Thank you Bas, I'm glad you get the vibe :)
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Haha, let me emphasize the most important: it's a wonderful beauty!
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful town, and ride!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
A fairly standard prosperous Swiss town, but with high mountains in all directions.
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Lovely relaxed flow the music has, like the speed the bike has. This looks more like vacation than the Alpes and the Belgium cobble stones 🙃
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
That is, in some places... 😂
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
@@baskooman9651 too hot! 😉 take me back to the cool of the mountains
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
@@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Okay, okay, okay! 🙃
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
This is hard work Dave, such a rousing music would also come in handy during the ride! And absolute proof of camera quality, probably even more than Italy.
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Not to mention the quality of your muscles ;-) Although I think that the Italian mountains were tougher on the legs.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
yes, this is short and intense, in the Alps you just get in the rhythm and count off the km.
@baskooman9651 Жыл бұрын
Lovely soundtrack Dave and quite a scenery. Nice to have some overviews to put the road images in perspective. Pretty amazing how your camera survived the cobble stones!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
thanks Bas :)
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Cobbles are impressive indeed. Someone laid each and every single one of those - on winding inclines. Wow! Another lovely tour, and also impressive that y'all were able to conquer these hills. Just 1 nit: hold the captions a little longer (read them twice or thrice). The longer captions fade out too quickly for some of us. Cheers!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
I get your comment re captions. I have a couple that I've made already that I can't change, but will adjust in future. Yes, beautiful cobble patterns on the road, pleasing on the eye. When we drove down in the van the next day we were grateful that we could go light on the brakes.
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
I hope you weren't sitting on that pencil of a seat during this bumpy ride. Yikes! Ouch!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Ha, it's a Brooks saddle. I have them on both my bikes. A hard strip of leather that shapes itself to your backside after a few hundred miles. It's bolted to the saddle frame front and back and is like an arse hammock in between. I swear by them, never had a saddle sore.
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
Yet another lovely ride! Seemed way too busy in places. I wonder what a ride like that would be like in the middle of the night. Part scary, part romantic, but far fewer folks in the way.
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
I would love to do the ride at night, under a full moon with no lights. No point in complaining about the congestion though...we're part of the problem!
@davidstuart4489 Жыл бұрын
The music works really well with the video. What a lovely ride! I imagine the temperatures changed a bit too over the course of 1400m. I found nothing ugly about this - also thanks to the absence of automobile traffic. Thank you for posting these! I absolutely love them!
@ComeRideWithMe-js5gc Жыл бұрын
Yes, it was insufferably hot in the valley and Hannah had to dip in a stream to keep going. I love the cool of the high mountains though.