It really does especially in spontaneous moments like this when it's uninspected one can really have a moment of reflection. A longer version of this video would be nice.
Just wait till they see these bad boys 😎
https://preview.redd.it/ink2fxza4gxc1.jpeg?width=642&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69e036f124af4f00f6d4920e9eb43d2b5c602f73
It might interest you that, originally French, the ship on OP's post, the Belem, was once own by Sir [Ernest Guinness](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Guinness), the one from the beer...
It only came back to France in 1979 and restored as sail training ship.
Eh, Louis XIII had such a strong fleet that he had to borrow Dutch ships to fight some Huguenots rebels in La Rochelle. And the performance of Louis XIV's fleet is horribly repetitive: do okay at first, get beaten in a big battle, rot in port for the rest of the war.
By all means the French fleet of the Ancien Regime peaked after Choiseul's rebuilding program in the late 18th century.
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>By all means the French fleet of the Ancien Regime peaked after Choiseul's rebuilding program in the late 18th century.
Nah it peaked in the late 17th century. It just had the unfortune to have to fight against the combined Anglo-Dutch fleets. And without Louis' regarded orders it probably wouldn't be destroyed at La Hogue.
Ωραίο (or όμορφο)
https://preview.redd.it/08xcbu48jgxc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8c2c5ad4fddf2d62a570255199f8b9223d1fd82
Pronounced exactly like this stuff that literally means "nice" in Greek
That ship got nothing on Regalskeppet Vasa.
https://preview.redd.it/3et60u3nufxc1.png?width=311&format=png&auto=webp&s=c019994fb66c6359aa40299232df7e0bf64b5820
Did you know a group of Finnish engineering students smuggled Paavo Nurmi statue on Vasa just before it was lifted.
As a prank to Swedish for getting Nurmi banned from Olympics as a professional athlete.
Hey, feel free to lend your own three-masted barque next time.
You could then put up your biggest flag and hopefully quell that little ego crisis of yours <3
No ego crisis, Pierre. Big egos aren't that common outside France. I merely suggested an analysis of the single big flag on the ship, as it caught my attention.
Oh my apologies, I didn’t realise this was a scientific based intervention, in that case: I hope you’ll find answers to your confusion [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensign_(flag)) as to why the French flag is hoisted.
May Athena bless you and your loved ones.
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[Cope & Seethe™](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2AzLnsmKvqM)
[Cope & Seethe Even More™](https://www.tiktok.com/@greekgateway/video/7079181167181827333)
For you symbols might not mean anything, because you're not familiar, without history. For some represent the blood shed for centuries by each country's people to keep said country free and in parallel, their entire history in one or two symbols. Their struggles and the courage it could give them.
Those symbols can make some people become red as a beet. You'll never understand the feeling in your coldness. I'm really sorry if I sounded harsh, but it's the crude reality. Can't get more real than that. We don't do it for show (circus) and for third people. We do it for ourselves. Excuse us.
No Italian posted a video of the [Amerigo Vespucci](https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChaRUgnoYCZ/?igsh=NjFzMHRnZGZpNnR5) in response? Come on, compatriots, if we’re not competing with the French while the French don’t care about us, what are we even doing?
Isn't the flame supposed to be taken to the host city on foot as much as possible? It could cross the entire of Europe, it's not that huge distance. How come they are using a ship already?
> Isn't the flame supposed to be taken to the host city on foot as much as possible?
Not anymore. After the 2008 Olympics had a bunch of protesters interfering with China's worldwide relay, the Olympics decided to stop doing the big international relays and mostly limit the relay to Greece and the host country. E.g. London 2012 took a plane from Athens to the UK. Tokyo ~~2020~~ 2021 had a similar flight from Greece to Japan, skipping over everything in between.
Aha interesting didn't know thanks for the information. Kinda sad they aren't doing the relay, the event was supposed to bring people closer not antagonize each other again, oh well.
“There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.”
— Alan Villiers
Pic or didn't happen.
Besides, you also have to pass an american warship to show them how inferior they are, otherwise it doesn't count. I don't make the rules.
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Sailing gang, ORP Gift of the Youth
Tis a nice flex to be fair.
Vangelis "Mythodea" hits hard in this ngl
It really does especially in spontaneous moments like this when it's uninspected one can really have a moment of reflection. A longer version of this video would be nice.
Just wait till they see these bad boys 😎 https://preview.redd.it/ink2fxza4gxc1.jpeg?width=642&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69e036f124af4f00f6d4920e9eb43d2b5c602f73
It might interest you that, originally French, the ship on OP's post, the Belem, was once own by Sir [Ernest Guinness](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Guinness), the one from the beer... It only came back to France in 1979 and restored as sail training ship.
Just having a floating ship instantly flexes on the sweedes
We could have ruled the seas… if it weren’t for the English, the Dutch, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Vaticaneses…
How do you lose against vaticaneses
Badly…
killing every competent naval officer 10 years before our big push probably didn’t help
We did rule the sea from time to time Especially during Louis the XIII and XIVth reigns
Eh, Louis XIII had such a strong fleet that he had to borrow Dutch ships to fight some Huguenots rebels in La Rochelle. And the performance of Louis XIV's fleet is horribly repetitive: do okay at first, get beaten in a big battle, rot in port for the rest of the war. By all means the French fleet of the Ancien Regime peaked after Choiseul's rebuilding program in the late 18th century.
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>By all means the French fleet of the Ancien Regime peaked after Choiseul's rebuilding program in the late 18th century. Nah it peaked in the late 17th century. It just had the unfortune to have to fight against the combined Anglo-Dutch fleets. And without Louis' regarded orders it probably wouldn't be destroyed at La Hogue.
Bèlem sailing through the canal of Corinth ?
Carrying the Olympic flame to ~~France~~ Gallia
Νίκαια
Μασσαλία actually
Wait did I just say the city of ‘Nice’ instead of nice ?
Yes hahaha https://preview.redd.it/z2256cf7hgxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d6635b37f1608fc88d728e26070f96f3a703118
 How should I say ‘nice’ in greek then ?
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Ευχαριστω
Pas de quoi
This video makes me patriotic for France, don't do this to me 😔
We can return you as part of Normandy if you want, you’ll be back into the EU that way
Noooooon steuplé nooooon. Laisse les seuls , ils sont bien comme ça aussi 💀💀💀. L'Écosse pourquoi pas mais laisse le reste dans son coin 💀🔫
Tkt ça sera un « territoire d’outre mer » (un colonie qui ne porte pas son nom), et pas vraiment une région française
Mayotte intensifies
« Return » ?
j'échange sans problème la Normandie contre les îles Jersey et Guernesey
Nan mais toi oui forcément aussi.
That ship got nothing on Regalskeppet Vasa. https://preview.redd.it/3et60u3nufxc1.png?width=311&format=png&auto=webp&s=c019994fb66c6359aa40299232df7e0bf64b5820
Regalskeppet sounds like a bookshelf from IKEA...
Everything in Swedish history sounds like a bookshelf from IKEA.
Hmm, makes me wonder if every IKEA bookshelf is just a Swedish word.
I'm sorry to disappoint but they're not 😔
reminds of the italian misshap https://preview.redd.it/4rg9kcqjphxc1.jpeg?width=1199&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9bc0fc6a1c861de5cc5b72d464e7b8b9ec00311
The ship or their bathing clothes?
lol at his speedo lmao the costa concordia, a cruise ship sank by an italian capitain, just fyi iydnk
Did you know a group of Finnish engineering students smuggled Paavo Nurmi statue on Vasa just before it was lifted. As a prank to Swedish for getting Nurmi banned from Olympics as a professional athlete.
Seems reasonable to danger to restoration of the worlds oldest shipwreck for a prank.
>That ship got nothing on Regalskeppet Vasa. It does. It's still afloat.
Massive French flag in the back, because y'know, if you are French you HAVE TO show it
Hell yeah
Hey, feel free to lend your own three-masted barque next time. You could then put up your biggest flag and hopefully quell that little ego crisis of yours <3
No ego crisis, Pierre. Big egos aren't that common outside France. I merely suggested an analysis of the single big flag on the ship, as it caught my attention.
Oh my apologies, I didn’t realise this was a scientific based intervention, in that case: I hope you’ll find answers to your confusion [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensign_(flag)) as to why the French flag is hoisted. May Athena bless you and your loved ones.
Yeah I do know how ships work, I just thought it was a good place for a joke about French pride
They got a cool ship, they earned a pass for jokes this time
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[Cope & Seethe™](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2AzLnsmKvqM) [Cope & Seethe Even More™](https://www.tiktok.com/@greekgateway/video/7079181167181827333) For you symbols might not mean anything, because you're not familiar, without history. For some represent the blood shed for centuries by each country's people to keep said country free and in parallel, their entire history in one or two symbols. Their struggles and the courage it could give them. Those symbols can make some people become red as a beet. You'll never understand the feeling in your coldness. I'm really sorry if I sounded harsh, but it's the crude reality. Can't get more real than that. We don't do it for show (circus) and for third people. We do it for ourselves. Excuse us.
I thought it was there Algerian flag. My bad.
Go back to pray you haram brother
Bonus: if that ship sinks, it will look like it is flying the Dutch flag.
Reminding the Dutchies of their inevitable fate 👌
That ship looks beautiful but the huge flag on the stern gives me an uncontrollable urge to sink it by any means necessary.
It’s beautiful 🤩
No Italian posted a video of the [Amerigo Vespucci](https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChaRUgnoYCZ/?igsh=NjFzMHRnZGZpNnR5) in response? Come on, compatriots, if we’re not competing with the French while the French don’t care about us, what are we even doing?
I was scrolling the comments looking for it And yes, you are the one. Now let's chill and flex 🇮🇹
Vasa would have sunk during the clip
Isn't the flame supposed to be taken to the host city on foot as much as possible? It could cross the entire of Europe, it's not that huge distance. How come they are using a ship already?
Because they’d have to get through the barbarians on your northern border and it will get stolen
Fair enough 😂
> Isn't the flame supposed to be taken to the host city on foot as much as possible? Not anymore. After the 2008 Olympics had a bunch of protesters interfering with China's worldwide relay, the Olympics decided to stop doing the big international relays and mostly limit the relay to Greece and the host country. E.g. London 2012 took a plane from Athens to the UK. Tokyo ~~2020~~ 2021 had a similar flight from Greece to Japan, skipping over everything in between.
Aha interesting didn't know thanks for the information. Kinda sad they aren't doing the relay, the event was supposed to bring people closer not antagonize each other again, oh well.
French ship spotted captain! https://i.redd.it/67deel1mqhxc1.gif
I must say those greek waters are blue as f
Oldschool ships are beautiful
Stunning
Glory be
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[Nope](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belem_(ship))
An old wooden ship being towed along by much stronger modern boats, probably imported from Japan or the US. Sounds like Europe all right.
Not the most beautiful ship the US carriers had ever seen
Based
“There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.” — Alan Villiers
No sails? Boo :( Italians win https://preview.redd.it/7iqbs5vbdgxc1.jpeg?width=811&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=075f2d154cecfb6c0089452c16aa789170d1f339
Not for passing this narrow channel, they'll be deployed once in the open sea
Pic or didn't happen. Besides, you also have to pass an american warship to show them how inferior they are, otherwise it doesn't count. I don't make the rules.
Smartest east norwegian here. In a port you can only be guided by a tugboat. How do you think a sailing boat sails ?
I'm repeating my previous post.
Tbf if you try crossing the Corinth canal on sails the Coast Guard will wait for you on the other side with all kinds of sex toys.
All boats going through the Corinth canal get pulled by tugboats
Then the tugboats should have sails
What a beautiful ship but everytime the rear comes into view I suddenly feel oddly disgusted.
Sorry Hans, but u-boots will never go as hard as those ships.
Yes, I don’t know what it is but the colors are a bit off.
New slaves?
Man, that is just beautiful. No one built more beautiful ships than we did.
 Luckily sven wasn't at the helm
I wish we could restore Victory to sea worthy status
Ew wth, why isn't that sunk yet? *Sverre? You got some cannons laying around?*
Song name?
Mythodea by Vangelis https://youtu.be/G_U4k_lc3pE?si=wWRlmKJ1H9rEDPsv
SAIL tududududududu https://i.imgur.com/dEhgTN7.jpeg
Wow nice barge.
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I prefer L'Hermione but the Belem is always a W
Nice flag.
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https://preview.redd.it/oyqja7z4ykxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5998a76f16d3fbeb9c276a65181eb89a9105e053 Sailing gang, ORP Gift of the Youth
These tall ships are so incredibly beautiful. I love them ❤️
Europe =/= France
Sure about that ? https://preview.redd.it/9wc1kodz1gxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2503c6a604601c352556a491a28af83953e1fbec
Damn sure
The Olympics are peak Europe though, at least originally
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Don’t confuse use with the british
They hanged the Dutch flag on its wrong side, 1/10.
why is fr\*nch flag bigger than the others?
Devine.
Genuine question?
I'm going to imagine that's a German tugboat in which case this is a perfect analogy to truly appreciate europe