Jeremy Clarkson Meets the Neighbours: Basque Country The FULL Episode
In this series, produced by Chrysalis Entertainment in 2002, which later became part of the production company that makes Fifth Gear, Jeremy Clarkson drives a 1960s Jaguar E-Type around six European countries to discover just how different their lifestyles are to those in Britain, and whether the reality matches the stereotypical perception of each country. In this episode, Jeremy's exploring the Basque Country and makes it to the Basque Games in southwest France and samples the nightlife in San Sebastian. A bombing by Basque separatist terrorists ETA shocks him, before he visits the Rioja festival, getting pelted with tomatoes and wine.
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please keep the vintage Clarkson content coming!
Pretty sure this is "in Spain" not only the Basque Country. Video title is wrong
Very nice. Thank you very much.
@@nixxxon18 I came here to say the same. Here in Galicia I do not live in Basque country.
Did you guys do the series "Speed"?
watching this episode i get a feeling that jeremy might have been responsible for a fair share of brexit voters.
Hehee, was thinking the same, indeed
Isnt there a running gag that portugal counts as east europa because they are so poor?
@@emergcon never heard of
He definitely prepared the British world for the lies of our clown bboris the Russian tadpole
Which is ironic, since Jeremy himself is a staunch remainer
My auntie married a Basque man some forty years ago. I spent six weeks with them and his elderly parents in their mountain home some years ago. No running water, no gas or electricity, all meals cooked on open fire. The most incredible experience of my life with a backdrop that is the stuff of dreams. Proud people with deep rooted family traditions. I adore the culture, the people, the country.
Nice !
Here in the UK this coming winter most Brits will have the same experience, but it will be for six months haha
No running water, no gas or electricity. And a 3 h siesta every day.. the simple life. They don't want to work so hard and have all the luxury things like us, big houses new cars etc.
@@mrm1885 While you're working hard to keep up with the Jones' they have the biggest luxury of them all, and the one you're missing out on. Time.
@@CaptainHoratioPugwash Couldn't have said that better,and living in countrysides,which i would kill to do the same,today...
I wish Jeremy would redo all of these with updates etc....very interesting stuff
James May kind of does that now in his "Our man in...." series
So we can see how much worse everything he has gotten?
Indeed!
Jewemee. He's called Clarkson, dolt.
It would be awesome indeed, however, a lot changed in the past 20 years, Jeremy would have to endure the wrath of the woke, a.k.a. antifun😉😁
Every time I look for these, its too short and flipped. This is so great to get the full episode. Sadly we never got to see this when it came out, as I live in the US. I've been a massive fan of Clarkson for the last 16 years or so since discovering him. Fifth Gear, Please leave this up and don't delete it. Thank you.
Haha the scene at the toll booth didn't end like I thought it would. Did anyone else expect him to just drive under it? You could clearly see that his Jag was much shorter than the gate arm. He could've driven right under it haha
Early 2000s Europe is like a time capsule you acutely see Europeans on the streets
still can in some places, just have to go into the country
A lot of people don't really understand where the Brexit sentiment came from. This came out before there were any migration issues at all and its plain to see what was wrong. I used to work driving wide loads around France and Spain in 1997. This is how I remember things being.
The EU poured money into Spain and Portugal to improve infrastructure in order to bring prosperity to what were poor regions. It is what the EU does, for the benefit of everybody. The UK used to be a net contributor and benefited 10-fold for its contribution. It has now decided to leave, and all of the companies that made stuff here are in the process of relocating to the world's largest single market (this is why Land Rovers are now made in Slovakia, not Solihull). The UK is experiencing a massive contraction in its economy as a direct result, but with taxes remaining the same (remember how they promised everybody would be richer?). Expect to see massive inflation, massive unemployment, massive house repossessions, and a brain-drain. You no longer hear people say, "a couple of years of pain and everything will be better". The UK is going to experience several decades of pain until all the old peoplel have died off and then the young people will re-join. I hope all those old people who voted for Brexit have a life of misery before they do everybody a favour and die.
@@horsenuts1831 What a load of rubbish, a lot of EU money was as is spent at the detriment of other nation's industries -the fishing example in this program just one example. Another was the mass immigration of low paid workers which stifled wages in the UK for decades. Who wants to fund their own decline? Not the UK so we voted out, which has outraged the socialist lemmings somewhat hasn't it? Shame. 🤣🤣
@@horsenuts1831 incorrect. The UK voted in 1975 to join a trade bloc. In 1993 at Maastricht all that changed without another vote. So we had to wait for time to take its course.
@@horsenuts1831 If the EU is such an open, borderless, benevolent union which wants to trade with the world to benefit its population, then why on earth does it not act like it at all and it has instead "built a wall", is vindictively attacking the UK which they could instead be making good trade relations with so that all EU nations could trade with the UK profitably? If sabotaging trade with the UK on purpose just as a political extremist evil revenge hurts the UK so much, then how on earth could it not be hurting the EU just as much? If there was mutually beneficial trade before, both benefitting as the EU always says is the case, then how can one bureaucratic change suddenly change that whole 'truth' and make it beneficial for the EU to destroy that previously absolutely mutually beneficial trade? If you would've suggested earlier that trade between EU-member-UK and the rest of the EU should be decreased and made more difficult and this will benefit the EU you would've been absolutely skewered by EU politicians, the media, everyone. They would've shouted at you, calling you a nazi, and explained that all trade and open borders are good. But now that the UK left them and refused to be dictated to, robbed, and filled with Eu's corruption, that whole fundamental philosophy and political basic truth of theirs suddenly magically disappeared. Now they practice the exact opposite. The EU has revealed its true face. It is easy to prove that the EU is just a big dictatorial criminal organization run by a mafia of elites through corruption. Any good sounding political ideological benevolence they spew is just propaganda, and not true at all. It's all fake. The real purpose for the EU and their goal is just more power and money laundering through corruption schemes, and one of the many ways they enable that criminal system is through spreading their propaganda. If they were in any way trying to decrease or control corruption there would be some kind of agency, mechanisms to fight corruption, and a very high priority in everything would be to have a system to decrease the possibility of corruption already at the fundamental level. Especially at the very top. But we all can clearly see that does not exist at all. And that not existing is proof that the EU's goal and fundamentals are rotten. I already knew what the EU is because my family members have been in very high level positions in the EU leadership. And naturally have therefore met and gotten to know a very wide range of all kinds of EU elites (some at the very, very top) and people who hover around that as part of the ecosystem. I have seen their true nature, their attitudes, what they really do.
@@pistonburner6448 "vindictively attacking the UK" Are you a moron? "The EU has revealed its true face." Why don't you complain to teacher? It appears you have the mental maturity of a 7-year-old. "I already knew what the EU is because my family members have been in very high level positions in the EU leadership" No they weren't.
Great to see these old episodes... Makes me feel old as I was young when they came out haha
What a way to word it ! I feel the same.
Don't worry you're not old. These are just good Tv shows
great to see these older shows coming out of the BBC archive
Older shows that we already paid for
The card game they are playing has a variant called "All-Fours" in my country. The similarity is in the pairing of partners, and the codes to tell what cards you have or if your hand is good or bad. It is not, however, 4 games in 1.
Thank you for posting this series.
Just waited for the jaag to just drive under the barrier😄
Ditto
Great series. Thanks for posting. Can't believe how long it's been life is very short.
20 Years later, anything has changed and everything changed.
What a great TV format. I Love this!
I'd not seen this on TV... When I had a TV. Ut thank God for KZhead. This is very informative.
once again>>> thank you so much for uploading this!
Funny thing is in 19:11 his car is low enough to go through the under that gate 😅
Such a wonderful program love it
Love this! Thank you!
Thanks for uploading this
Looking 20 years back, life was indeed good...no major catastrophes, no political crisis, no economic crisis, nothing compared to what we have now. People just f...king wasted it all away...I'm sure the Spaniards won't be making a plaything of those tomatoes now.
Love this serie!
The music is a perfect snapshot in time!
THANK YOU!
20 years' old - time slips by.
1:08 This is a perfect scene. 10/10
Jeremy is so real.
Jeremy please continue to be Jeremy!!!
The most shocking bit of it all is realising Jeremy speaks a little French :)
I would absolutely love to see Jeremy Clarkson do a re-visit on "meeting the neighbours" and see what the reception is with these EU countries, especially since so much has happened over the past 20 years - Brexit, COVID, several British prime ministers, to name a few topics.
I wish the same thing,only that nowadays censorship and political corretness would compromise seriously such an adventure.
1 year since this post, and no surprise, your leftist government has just made everything worse. The rest of the world feels your pain. Thank...whomever, that Argentina, the Netherlands & Italian residents are finally seeing reality, snd what needs to be done to make the best life for everyone. Long live populism & libertarianism.
Same, I'm curious if the internet/social media has corrupted the youth and places like these are losing their traditions.
Jeremy being all Brexity before Brexit
yet weirdly hes totally against brexit 😂
Yeah, before the vote he was telling people to remain...wonder who paid him off all those years after he made complete sense in this program...really sad honestly because GB got screwed for decades by this sort of crap and he damned well knew it.
@@hendo337 he didnt as he forgot to mention that we got bigger farming subsidies than spain, for obvious reasons and a huge rebate every year . thats been since thatchers time as we were never fully in EU barely half
@@yrma_fletcher8953 not weirdly, he actually has a brain.
@@callumhardy5098 it is weirdly if you consider how dated his comments then are now.
This series should be called: Clarkson Mocks the Neighbors.
thanks for this, really enjoyed so un PC its funny i don't think he would get away with it now a days lol but i would love to see him do it and some banging tunes as well
It seems whatever Jeremy touched or touches turns into entertainment gold lovely episode 🤣
Love this :D
37:55 Jeremy Clarkson's Fish Heist, look at him go!
In the French Basque Country with Cuban background music?
Jeremy in one episode of Top Gear did a rant on Spain "Give us back our fish"
u are amazing bud
promontory is such an epic tune.
You must know that your earlobe keep growing, gosh yours are huge, and so it goes for all of us
Four people were detained and blamed for the killing of that local councillor, in 2002. During detention, they were incommunicado by five days and they reported being brutally tortured by the police (even one of them was sent to hospital during detention), but the judge didn’t care about it and sent them to prison. They spent two years imprisoned, and finally they were acquitted: the only evidence against them was the confession that one of them made to the police during detention, but told to the judge that she made the statement under torture. Judges never investigated what happened during incomunicado detention.
Going to the Tomatina de Buñol is like getting arc eye from clumsy welding. You do it once.
Epico, la tomatina! Gran pais!
As an American, I can relate to these sentiments of sending so much money abroad
America and Great Britain never give money to other countries for nothing , never have done and never will, they will always get something back in return. In the UK It's the bent politicians who say this to inrage people into voting for them. The UK found this out when they left the EU. And received a bill for billions of Euros they had received which was a shock to the people who voted to leave and pay more tax to cover it .
2:20 "This must be some of that Basque separatist rock. I've heard about this." Tom Servo. Yes, I know the real song is 'Weapon of Choice.'
Plainly the best episode IMO.
what is the music at 37:27? Vaguely like plain chant... lovely!
figured it out! Novio by Moby
What a great show. I had no idea the Nazis bombed a town in the Basque country after Franco gave them the nod - assholes. And San Sebastian looks like a riot of a place.
Never heard of Guernica? Picasso made it famous
@@howwwwwyyyyy I'm an ignorant Australian.
The card game Jeremy plays sounds like it was the inspiration for the Star Trek game of Tongo played by the Ferenghi.
Pure gold!
"Ooo - what's this? The EU cash lorry?" 😂 You'd get cancelled for putting this out today. Thank christ for the early 2000s, when we still knew how to have a laugh.
Very similar to an Israeli card game I’ve played - more complicated though... Kare Kupe or sth, do please forgive spelling. An amazing game where you play in pairs and give one another secret signals.... such fun when you get into it 👍
whats the name of the song playing when he's sitting on the beach 10 minutes in? Does anyone know?
At the river by Groove Armada.
At The River by Groove Armada
He must be so happy that the Spanish are not getting his money anymore :)
That basque coast. San sebastian, biaritz. Epic region. So is all of spains north coast.
Sounds like I got some Basque DNA
I think one of the things that makes Clarkson “likeable” he can be very self-deprecating.
Holy cow that tomato party is like a scene from a dystopian science fiction book, we really are in Y2K
Spain started from a much lower base than the rest of Europe. It was in the UK's interest while in the EU to ensure that all member countries were brought up to a level that would enable us to sell high value goods to them. The Spanish by the way, stop charging motorway tolls once the road has been paid for. That would never happen in the UK, in or out of the UK. Spain now subsidises major projects via the EU in Central Europe. The aim is to float all boats. Jeremy's economics are a bit 19th century. Also Spaniards work harder than most Brits...look it up. We are the ones with a productivity problem. British - and other European construction companies - have benefited hugely from the rise in living standards in Spain over the past couple of decades. And by the way, the tomatoes used in the tomatina are not saleable.
Titled “Basque Country,” but rants about Spain for 20 min
Is that a song about Dune at 4:30 ????
Oh yes... perfect TV for me 👍
I think clarkson and his e type would have drove under that barrier........ well maybe if he ducked!
That's what I was thinking too
Jeremy makes fun of Spain for 15 minutes
We had a large print of Picasso's Gernika at middle school. It was on the wall by the assembly hall, next to the teachers offices. If you were naughty, you were made to stand by it, all lunch break. We called the corridor 'Death Alley'. Now I know what the painting was all about.
Last of the mohicans music in there near the end haha
That e type should fit nicely under the barrier. Adding extra Jag Ness. By not paying at all.
Without this massive head you could go under ramp 😁
he was right though wasn't he in the german one...about how they're 'doing it again'....would love him to do a modern day version of this series.
what exactly are we doing again?
@@39mdg92 talking in your sleep huh?
The EU is the Fourth Reich by design
@@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 right...because in the Third Reich we had a council of European Nations that could overimpose German legislation and we were paying for everyones lovely new shit and household deficit until the Führer couldn't take it anymore and capped himself? Are you listening to yourself? Edit: now you've deleted the comment saying the EU is designed to be the Fourth Reich? The Euro wasn't even a German Idea, but a prerequisite by the French under Francois Mitterand to allow German Unification, because the french were worried that a fiscally independent unified Germany with the Deutsche Mark would just overpower them economically. We merely embraced further European integration, yet still everyone is nagging us due to their inferiority complex.
Considering this episode was supposed to be about Basque Country, I wonder if Jeremy and his producers realised that Madrid isn't Basque. Most of this episode isn't about Basque Country, there's more about Madrid and other areas..
17:25 Jeremy being a very hard brexiteer
I spent a Glorious week near Estella Spain in 2004. I fell in love with them, but they still aren't too happy with the Americans. Being a neutral country during WW2, The Americans could only free the French side, not the Spanish side. Still, with my Spanish speaking guide we traveled around to the great cities and spent the rest of the time in a small villa. I want to return.
Jezza still a King back in the days.
Would have cleared the gate without paying…well the car would.
Basque People, one of a kind!
Still, Jezza supported Remain.
Clarkson 20 years on, is now a farmer struggling without EU grants... Ironic
He's anti Brexit
Manual labor!?
How ironic! The BBC puting Jeremy's work on the Fifth Gear channel.
Ah. The neanderthal likes barnacles. And looks down on the cromagnon Basque.
The Jackal had more problem crossing that checkpoint...LOL
there is where you hit the nail right on the head; vask region has been all rebuilt and upgraded with european money signed on spain's bill (same as catalonia) and them wanting to leave the table and head off before the bill is to be paid is as rude as absurd and utterly unacceptable. no matter how a few feel about it neither the noise they make on world media, it wouldn't even matter if they start killing innocent people again.
I can't believe they killed a councilor. Unless councilors have an enormous amount of power in Spain.
Das ist ja komisch, du denkst als ob du ein Spanier wärest ... da irrst du dich sehr, du kennst überhaupt nicht das Baskenland.
Lmao! Please keep it up in everything you do.
Great episode. Our fish is still being pillaged even though we supposedly came out the EU.
Yeah well get over it, you people pillaged entire regions for centuries, so some decades is fine
And whose fault is that?
You didn't actually expect anything to change, did you? Has the British Government spent any significant money improving your local roads now that they aren't paying all this money to the EU that Spain was using for theirs? Mine are worse. What share of that £100,000,000 subsidy did the Cornish fishermen get between 2020 and 2022? £0.00. Did the British Government lower their taxes to compensate for that loss now that they aren't giving all this money to the EU? No of course not. Almost like Brexit was a total nonsense from the start. Just need the Irish passport office to hurry up so I can British exit whenever I want LOL.
You guys stayed in too long, the damage was already done. Should have never joined.
@@CaptainHoratioPugwashTime for a new Guy Fawkes, if you know what I'm saying.
HILARIOUS!!!!! Top Gear, with Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, was the GREATEST PRODUCTION, in the BBC's dismal history!!! When these 3 left the BBC, the WHOLE WORLD FOLLOWED them, and now, they're even BETTER!!!!!!!!!!
What's the music at 33:15?
Shazam
@@mctend9108 I tried that, gave no results sadly
Por fin están fuera que descanso
Nice place Biarritz/St Jean de luz...
My dad bombed St Jean de Luz, well the submarine pens. I have been to see them - BIG!
Bonita serie, cuanto amor por España. Por eso queremos tanto a los ingleses, somos como hermanos 😘😘😘😆😆😆
I d love to hear what he has got say about the EU from his perspective as a farmer....
Black legend as it best.
Crosshairs legit shout out Crossout
17:33…how much??? 3,500 million pounds?!?!? 😄
Im Britich so we paid already 😂
Basque Women are beautiful
I'm eager to see what that car looks like 20 years after
unforutanly i think it been scraped or something cos it not coming up on any checks i did on my app im sure itll be somewhere just hope not in a srapyard that be pretty said
@@thespochanal2 Left-hand drive, so it's probably been sold overseas.
@@saxon-mt5by ah right that proberly explan it then
baskin in the sun i presume. the queen died i saw flags at half mast here i live in new hampshire