Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Lionel visits the Musée du Sabotier (Clog Museum) in the village of Soucht, where the traditional craft of clog making has been practiced for centuries.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
In part two on this series on the Clog Museum, we meet the last remaining clog maker in the village. And surprisingly, he isn't wearing clogs!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Hilaire from the Clog Museum shares some more interesting facts about clog manufacturing back in the day. For instance, clogs used to be sold without a strap—the buyer would have to put one on him or herself.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
We continue our visit to the Clog Museum with Lionel and Hilaire who will teach you how to use some very interesting tools for clog manufacturing.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
We continue our series on clog making. Hilaire explains step three, the hollowing out of the clog with special equipment, and the finishing stage, sanding the outside and drying the wood.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Hilaire summarizes all the steps in the clog-making process. The Clog Museum has descriptions with models in relief for the blind and visually impaired.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
We continue our visit to the Clog Museum and learn about these very old machines that are still in use today.
Difficulty: Advanced
France
Hilaire shows us some of the more unusual clogs at the Clog Museum, from souvenirs clogs made for American troops in World War II to clogs made for cracking chestnuts.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
In the final episode of this series on the Clog Maker's Museum, you'll see many kinds of clogs from all over Europe, including clogs for babies!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
You will discover in this video the great history of Bitche, a medieval city in the east of France. Its citadel, an important line of defense in the Thirty Years' War, was rebuilt on the ruins of a castle dating back to the twelfth century.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
We continue our tour of the citadel of Bitche deep in its underground passages, which contain a large well that dates from the Middle Ages.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Cyril walks us through the underground passages where livestock was kept and troops were housed during the 1870-71 siege of Bitche.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Lionel takes us to a bakery, not the modern kind, but one located beneath the citadel of Bitche. The four giant ovens could each bake five hundred rations a day to feed up to two thousand soldiers!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Cyril and Lionel end our visit to the citadel by showing us where the officers of the garrison slept. And why not take them up on their invitation to visit the citadel in person during your future travels?
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Lionel and Jacqueline take us to the Moselle region in the little town of Schorbach, which is renowned for its pink sandstone sculptures and its Path of the Ten Covenants.
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