tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92005936109840550702024-02-19T16:36:20.730-08:00Carmen's WorldCarmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-52522500875323470342015-05-15T14:19:00.001-07:002015-05-15T14:19:43.443-07:00La Loire à vélo : Day 5 : Clisson to Nantes<div dir="ltr">
Today we recruited a couple of friends from Clisson to join us in the last leg of our bike tour, a 30km ride from Clisson to Nantes. It was nice to be cycling in a small group for a change. </div>
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We saw a flying saucer on the road, at La Haie-Fouassière. Technically, though, it was a parked saucer, not a flying saucer. The driver of this saucer looks like an Earthling astronaut though, and he is holding a cookie typical of the region. Several interpretations are possible, one of which is "this is your tax euros at work". </div>
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Nantes is in the Loire-Atlantique department, in the Pays de la Loire region, but there are references to Bretagne (the neighboring region) everywhere: souvenirs, restaurants, building and tramway stop names, signs in Breton... After the ten minutes I've just spent trying to inform myself on this matter, I can say that the separation (or possible future reunification rather) of Loire-Atlantique from Bretagne has been a subject of debate for decades. In 1956, Loire-Atlantique was separated administratively from Bretagne, even though historically they were associated for hundreds of years. In recent months, the French government has been "redesigning" the organization of the regions in France. Apparently the people in Bretagne and Loire-Atlantique were mostly in favor of reunification, but it looks like it won't happen after all. To understand why is left as an exercise for the reader. </div>
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For dinner, we wandered about the streets of Nantes, hesitating between all the choices of restaurants. Finally we saw a sign that said "No bullshit, just burgers." If this restaurant is targeting American tourists they are doing a good job, because that is where we ate. </div>
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Below is a photo I forgot to include from the castle in Yseron: an extremely friendly and adorable dog greeted us and couldn't get enough of our affection. </div>
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Tomorrow we'll bid farewell to the Loire and say hello again to the Seine. </div>
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Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-31035786482071733962015-05-14T14:44:00.002-07:002015-05-14T14:44:16.788-07:00La Loire à vélo: Day 4: Yseron to Clisson <div dir="ltr">
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Before heading out on the road, we had a little chat with the owner of the castle we stayed at. He detected a "slight accent" and asked where we were from. I'm used to hearing this, but this time he said that Benoit also had an accent. I guess he's been hanging around me too long :-) The castle owner mentioned that he used to work in California, on the high speed train project. Maybe one day it will become a reality :-) </div>
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We expected heavy rains, but fortunately only had a few drops. We spent the day visiting with some friends: playing board games and geocaching. We found 10 geocaches today, which is the most we've ever found in one day. Geocaching is definitely easier with a four person team than with just two people. </div>
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Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-48375423522467822362015-05-13T14:36:00.000-07:002015-05-13T14:36:06.534-07:00La Loire à vélo : Day 3: Ancenis to Yseron<div dir="ltr">
Today we probably cycled the least out of all the days on this tour so far, but it was the most tiring day. We said goodbye to the Loire river (for now) and headed south. We stopped to visit a zoo at La Boissière du Doré, where we spent the whole afternoon. Then we cycled over to Yseron, near Vallet, where we are spending the night in a castle. The roads were hilly, and there was a bit of traffic, but the weather was perfect. The path we took is here: <a href="https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/773588675">https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/773588675</a></div>
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For dinner, we walked about 4 or 5 km to a pizzeria in Vallet, the closest city with restaurants. We found two geocaches on the route to the restaurant. </div>
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Tomorrow should be a nice and easy day: less than 15 km of riding planned,though the weather calls for rain! </div>
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Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-82156747349519875852015-05-12T09:38:00.000-07:002015-05-12T09:46:12.106-07:00La Loire à vélo : Day 2 : Saint Germain des Prés to Ancenis<div dir="ltr">
Today we cycled from Saint Germain des Prés to Ancenis, stopping at Saint-Florent-le-Vieil. We had a delicious roasted chicken for lunch. I keep forgetting to take pictures of the food... </div>
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At Saint Florent, we tried to find a few Geocaches. If you don't know about Geocaching, it's a game in which people hide small boxes in miscellaneous public places, and publish the coordinates of the hidden boxes on a website. Geocachers try to find these boxes, and sign their names in tiny logbooks which are inside the boxes. </div>
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We only found one of the three we attempted. Yesterday, at Montjean, we also attempted to find a couple of Geocaches. We found both, but one of them was too high to reach to open to sign the logbook. We nevertheless marked it as "found" on the website, only to immediately receive a message from the owner of that cache saying we needed to mark it as "not found" since we didn't sign the logbook. Some people take this hobby way too seriously. On a previous trip to Amboise, we ran into a group of Geocachers who were in "speed" mode, trying to find as many caches as possible, as quickly as possible, comparing their records (how many total caches found) with us. </div>
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This is the path we took today: <a href="https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/772384625">https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/772384625</a></div>
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There's not much else to say about today's trip: the weather was a bit cooler, but still pretty sunny. Tomorrow, we'll leave the Loire river and head south to Vallet. There is a zoo along the way: maybe we will visit it. </div>
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Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-46072987672220216252015-05-11T08:20:00.001-07:002015-05-11T08:22:15.628-07:00La Loire à vélo : Day 1: Angers to Saint Germain des Prés <div dir="ltr">
Once again faced with an obligation to take some days off (vive la France), I decided to take a small tour of part of the Loire river. This time, I'm not alone! Benoit decided to join me. The tour is from Angers to Nantes, mostly following the Loire river, but with a deviation to Clisson, where we will visit some friends. </div>
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Sunday morning we took our bikes and ourselves to Angers, by train. It wasn't a cycling day though: we spent the day visiting the city of Angers, mostly the castle. The weather was beautiful - even on the hot side. </div>
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Today, we cycled from Angers to Saint Germain des Prés, just over 30km. This is a popular route for cyclists, and there are signs indicating the cycle route, the whole way. </div>
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Part of the road was a bit rough, the road covered by small rocks. A mountain bike wouldn't have any problem. However, our bikes are hybrids (vtc in French) - with tire thickness between mountain bike and racing bike tire widths. We made it through those parts of the route without getting any flats, but I'm not sure a road bike would handle the terrain well. </div>
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My bike has, for each brake, a tiny screw near the brake barrel adjuster and the brake lever. As you screw it in, the brake lever closes. I guess the purpose is to have the brake levers closer to the handlebars to minimize the reach required by your fingers, to brake. At some point, I'm guessing due to the vibrations on the rough road, this screw, on the rear brake side, managed to screw itself all the way in, thus leaving my brake lever practically completely closed and my rear brakes always on. The fix is of course simple : simply take the Allen key of the correct size and unscrew (or remove completely) this (useless) screw. Unfortunately, I didn't have the right size Allen key. I had two other keys, but not that one (thanks, Murphy). One of the two keys I had allowed me to find a workaround, though: I loosened the cable clamp bolt (near the brake pads), then loosened the cable which allowed me to separate the pads from the rim a tiny bit, and tightened the bolt again. It was good enough. </div>
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Just after this quick adjustment, we went to a park to have lunch. A couple of cyclists there had all the imaginable tools you might need, and they were kind enough to lend me the right Allen key so I could do the proper fix. They were on a Nantes - Angers - Nantes tour. I guess if you're ever going to need some help from fellow cyclists in France, the Loire route is one of the best places to be. We also met a Danish couple at the Angers hotel who were on tour. I don't know where they had been already, but they were heading to Paris. </div>
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This tour has gotten off to a good start: beautiful weather, nice roads (except for the little bumpy part), mostly flat route, no wind, almost no traffic at all, and beautiful scenery. </div>
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Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-55272436034234709272014-06-07T08:43:00.000-07:002014-06-07T11:06:58.378-07:00Brittany Rain Tour 2014 - Recap<br />
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Last week, I cycled about 340 km in Brittany France, starting from Brest in the west, and ending in the border between Brittany and Lower Normandy, visiting the Mont Saint-Michel. I anticipated and prepared for a week full of rain, hence the tour name "Brittany Rain Tour 2014", but throughout the week, I only received a few drops. I guess the Celtic sun god Belenos was with me.<br />
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As with previous tours, it was enjoyable to be out in the countryside and forget my e-mails for a week!<br />
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This is the path I took, as recorded by my GPS:<br />
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You can see an interactive map of the entire trip <a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/515145146">here</a>.<br />
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These are the daily steps of the tour. Click on each map to see the the track in an interactive map with stats:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/515084836">Day 7: Pléven - Saint-Malo</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/515085345">Day 8: Saint-Malo - Pontorson</a></td></tr>
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<h3>
Blog posts</h3>
If you missed the daily commentaries and photos, you can catch up by following these links:<br />
<ul>
<li>Day -6: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-6.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-6.html</a></li>
<li>Day -5: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-5.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-5.html</a></li>
<li>Day 1: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-1.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-1.html</a></li>
<li>Day 2: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-2.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-2.html</a></li>
<li>Day 3: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-3.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-3.html</a></li>
<li>Day 4: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-4.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-4.html</a></li>
<li>Day 5: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-jour-5.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-jour-5.html</a></li>
<li>Day 6: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-jour-6.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-jour-6.html</a></li>
<li>Day 7: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-7.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-7.html</a></li>
<li>Day 8: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-8.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/05/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-8.html</a></li>
<li>Day 9: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/06/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-9.html">http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2014/06/brittany-rain-tour-2014-day-9.html</a></li>
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<h3>
Stats</h3>
None of my blogs would be complete without a table or charts.<br />
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The following table shows the distance traveled each day, the time I was outside each day, the average speed (includes breaks) and average moving speed (only includes when I was cycling or walking).<br />
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<th align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b>Tour step</b></th>
<th align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b>Distance (km)</b></th>
<th align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b>Time</b></th>
<th align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000;"><b>Average speed (km/h)</b></th>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" height="20">Day 1</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6">Brest – Landerneau</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="26.49">26.49</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;HH:MM:SS" sdval="0.125925925925926">03:01:20</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="8.76507352941177">8.8</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;" sdval="11.7">11.7</td>
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<td align="center" height="20">Day 2</td>
<td align="center">Landerneau – Morlaix</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="44.1">44.10</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;HH:MM:SS" sdval="0.243472222222222">05:50:36</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="7.54706217912151">7.5</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;" sdval="12">12</td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" height="20">Day 3</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6">Morlaix – Lannion</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="42.34">42.34</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;HH:MM:SS" sdval="0.194282407407407">04:39:46</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="9.08042416299297">9.1</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;" sdval="13">13</td>
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<td align="center" height="20">Day 4</td>
<td align="center">Lannion – Guingamp</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="44.82">44.82</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;HH:MM:SS" sdval="0.200671296296296">04:48:58</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="9.30626369823509">9.3</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;" sdval="14.4">14.4</td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" height="20">Day 5</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6">Guingamp – Saint-Brieuc</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="45.69">45.69</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;HH:MM:SS" sdval="0.203912037037037">04:53:38</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="9.33613349982972">9.3</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;" sdval="14.3">14.3</td>
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<td align="center" height="20">Day 6</td>
<td align="center">Saint-Brieuc – Pléven</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="39.12">39.12</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;HH:MM:SS" sdval="0.134386574074074">03:13:31</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="12.1291878391181">12.1</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;" sdval="16.3">16.3</td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" height="20">Day 7</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6">Pléven – Saint-Malo</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="49.84">49.84</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;HH:MM:SS" sdval="0.184224537037037">04:25:17</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="11.2724759690897">11.3</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" sdnum="1033;" sdval="14.8">14.8</td>
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<td align="center" height="20" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">Day 8</td>
<td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">Saint-Malo – Pontorson</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="50.06" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">50.06</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;HH:MM:SS" sdval="0.247453703703704" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">05:56:20</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="8.42918615528531" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">8.4</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;" sdval="14.6" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">14.6</td>
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<td align="center" height="20"><b>Total</b></td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFF00" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="342.46"><b>342.46</b></td>
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<td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;"><br /></td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.00" sdval="42.8075" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">42.81</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;HH:MM:SS" sdval="0.191791087962963" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">04:36:11</td>
<td align="center" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="9.48322587913551" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">9.3</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFF00" sdnum="1033;0;0.0" sdval="13.8875" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;"><b>13.9</b></td>
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Since I traveled more lightly on this tour than previous tours,
perhaps because I had a real bike pump to inflate my tires to maximum
recommended pressure, and probably because I paced myself better this
time, compared to other tours, my average moving speed was about 14 km/h.<br />
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My previous tours, in comparison:<br />
<ul>
<li>2013: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2013/04/france-cycling-trip-recap.html">Crossing France</a>: 1186 km, 9.3 km/h average, 12.9 km/h moving average</li>
<li>2012: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2012/03/bike-road-trip-from-paris-to-london.html">Paris to London</a>: 301 km, 8.8 km/h average, 11.0 km/h moving average</li>
<li>2011: <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2011/03/bike-road-trip-from-paris-to-bordeaux.html">Paris to Bordeaux</a>: 665 km, 8.5 km/h average, 10.3 km/h moving average</li>
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After I accumulate a few more tours, I'll include a graph of this data. <br />
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As for this trip, I took it easy this time, only cycling about 45 km per day, compared to 60 or 65 on previous trips. <br />
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<h3>
Fun stats</h3>
<ul>
<li>This tour was:</li>
<ul>
<li>about the distance walked by backpackers to create this HD time-lapse video of <a href="http://vimeo.com/87701971">Yosemite National Park</a>.</li>
<li>a bit longer than the distance of the "Total 200", a route covered by crazy cyclists in <b><a href="http://www.total200.com/The_Ride/Route_Map">one day</a></b> (miles version), which will take place next weekend.</li>
<li>just longer than the distance of the "<a href="http://www.tahoe200.com/">Tahoe 200</a>", a running race around lake Tahoe this fall which must be completed in 100 hours (just over 4 days).</li>
<li>about the distance from Long Beach to San Diego and back. </li>
<li>the distance Indian man Mani Manithan <a href="http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/daily-world/man-forgets-how-to-walk-forward">walked backwards, naked, to promote peace</a>.</li>
<li>the distance blind Australian Liam Haven <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/west/blinded-newport-war-veteran-liam-haven-will-walk-across-nullarbor-for-charity/story-fngnvmj7-1226940293698">walked from Sydney to Canberra</a>, for which he was awarded the Guide Dogs Victoria's Freedom Award.</li>
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<li>The tour was about 24 hours and 43 minutes of cycling time. Depending on the source, this corresponds to between 5100 - 8000 calories burned during cycling. This equals:</li>
<ul>
<li>10 to 15.7 French Big Macs (or 9.2 to 14.5 American Big Macs).</li>
<li>108 to 170 McNuggets</li>
<li>453 to 711 Life Saver candies</li>
<li>almost my body weight in celery</li>
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<h3>
Cows</h3>
When I was on the road, I couldn't include videos in this blog. Now that I'm at home, with a real computer, I can finally edit this blog normally. Here's a video of some cows eating (very exciting!):<br />
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And the sun and clouds each day of the trip:<br />
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<h3>
Conclusion</h3>
That's it! Thanks to the people who followed along and commented. Where will the next tour be.....?Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-34122081194095693562014-06-01T10:06:00.001-07:002014-06-01T12:06:01.454-07:00Brittany Rain Tour 2014 - Day 9<p dir="ltr">This morning, during breakfast at the hotel, I took a picture of my orange juice. Why? Well, I've noticed that in all the hotels where I've had breakfast, it's always a self serve buffet, and the plates and glasses are abnormally small, in some cases ridiculously small. I'm sure it's a psychological trick to make you take less food. It doesn't work on me though. If I know I'm going to be cycling for 4 or 6 hours, I eat accordingly. :-) But today,the glass for the orange juice was almost as small as a shot glass,so I had to take a picture. I think I got up to refill it five times. </p><p dir="ltr">Today I visited the Mont Saint Michel. I was able to bike up to a parking lot <u>which</u> is about a 40 minute walk to the island, and leave my bags in a locker while I visited the site. </p>
<p dir="ltr">My first impression was that there wasn't much there besides restaurants and cheap souvenir shops. I had lunch in one of the restaurants there: I ordered moules frites. Afterwards, I bought a galette Bretonne from one of the shops: a huge cookie. I also bought a pin of the Breton flag, which I've put on my backpack to remind me of this trip.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On the road today, I saw:</p><p dir="ltr">* sheep</p><p dir="ltr">* horses</p><p dir="ltr">* tour bikes parked with all their gear left on the bike (I think we're still not in Paris anymore, Toto) </p><p dir="ltr">* A family cycling on the same path as I. </p><p dir="ltr">* A group of bike tourists at the train station</p><p dir="ltr">* cow sculptures which were not scary at all</p><p dir="ltr">* road signs warning about cyclists</p><p dir="ltr">* absolutely no grocery store open when I had two hours to wait for the train and wanted to buy a snack to munch on. </p><p dir="ltr">So, while today has been a sad end to my trip, the rest of the trip was a perfect cycling trip: beautiful scenery, great cycling weather, conversations with cows, a visit with co-workers, not too difficult routes and distances. On my paper map (which is now "done"), I see there are some long distance cycling routes running North /South. Maybe I'll come back to Brittany for another "Rain Tour" some day! </p>
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Only sun and blue skies today. </p>
<p dir="ltr">This morning I cycled on a bike path along the beach, passing through Saint Benoît des Ondes. I sent a message to Benoît to tell him I was in his city. He told me I had just unlocked the achievement of chatting with Benoît while in Benoît. At noon, I headed on to Mont Dol and Dol de Bretagne, following the advice of the hotel owner at Pléven. I had lunch at Dol de Bretagne: tagliatelle bolognaise and a crêpe for desert. I'm starting to get used to having crêpes every day now. </p>
<p dir="ltr">This afternoon was a cow afternoon. Because of a blocked road about 10km from Pontorson, I had to take a detour. In part of this detour, I had to go on a road next to a farm with some cows. These cows seemed agitated: a few of them were making noise (meeeeuuuuhhh) and running around. As I approached, they looked at me and started heading in my direction. I wasn't sure if they were pissed off for some reason. I waited until a car came by and stopped it to ask the driver. She reassured me that there was nothing to worry about, and I cycled on through. She will probably be telling her friends about the crazy tourist on a bike who was afraid of cows. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just around the corner, I saw some more cows who were just chilling out. I got as close as I could to them to take a few pictures. A little boy across the street was calling out to me "Madame Vache! Madame Vache!" I'm going to have a reputation in this region... </p><p dir="ltr">For dinner, I went to a brasserie where I ordered a salad for a change. At a table near me were seated four older people, I think all Americans. A French lady was chatting with them. One of the guys said he was from California. A second guy introduced a third guy as his boyfriend. The introduction was amusing:</p><p dir="ltr">American man: this is my boyfriend. </p><p dir="ltr">French lady: ton ami ? </p><p dir="ltr">American man: yes, my ami. </p><p dir="ltr">French lady: ton "ami" ami, ou...? </p><p dir="ltr">American man: my "ou la la" ami. (Laughter) </p><p dir="ltr">French lady: Oh, c'est bien ! </p><p dir="ltr">I thought about introducing myself, a fellow American, to them, but shyness got the better of me, as well as the thought that it would be obvious I had been eavesdropping on them:-) </p>
<p dir="ltr">A couple of the photos below are from last night's hotel: I watched the sun set from the yard of the manor. I also snapped a photo of a dog who seems to live there. This must be a happy dog, with so much space to run around. There's also a photo of the guestbook inside the gypsy wagon. I signed it:</p>
<p dir="ltr">"Had a lovely stay in this gypsy wagon during my bike tour across Brittany.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Http://GOO.GL/<u>vJuNx3</u></p>
<p dir="ltr">-Carmen, the American from Paris." </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tomorrow, I plan to visit Le Mont Saint Michel, before taking the train home. I have to change trains at Rennes, and I'll probably get home after midnight. I have a feeling Monday is going to be difficult. When is the next holiday?! </p>
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The roads going into Saint Malo were not very cycle friendly: lots of traffic. Also, the address of the "hotel" I'm staying at was only approximate: only a street name and no number. For some reason, my Garmin GPS had me do a 5km detour only to lead me to a blocked road. But even if this road were not blocked, I think bicycles are not allowed on it anyway. I called the hotel and the owner told me to enter a different address, about 200m from the hotel. My GPS could find correct directions to this point just 200m from the address I had for the hotel, but not to the hotel itself. I tried to do an experiment: find directions from this alternative point to the hotel: My GPS crashed :-) I eventually found the place. It took about 1.5 hours when it should have taken about 5 minutes. So, I've had better cycling days :-) </p>
<p dir=ltr>On a positive note, the weather was quite nice today: fluctuating between hot/sunny and cooler/partly cloudy. I also had some nice views of the sea coming into Saint Malo. </p>
<p dir=ltr>For lunch, I had traditional French cuisine: a Grand Maque. I also rediscovered Sprite. After lunch, I went to a beach nearby and just sat and relaxed for a while. </p>
<p dir=ltr>The hotel I'm staying at has normal rooms, but it also has what I'm staying in: roulottes, or gypsy wagons. There's a guest book inside the wagon signed by people who previously stayed here. I'll have to think of something clever to write in there. </p>
<p dir=ltr>There's a small sort of bucket inside the wagon to care of business if need be. But in the main building there are modern toilets available. I wonder which one I'll use... </p>
<p dir=ltr>For dinner, I went to Casino cafeteria in a mall next to the hotel. It doesn't sound glamorous but it was delicious, and the portions <u>were</u> generous : I had salmon with potatoes, a glass of wine, and pie for dessert. I'm actually writing this blog as I eat. Burp. Excuse me. </p>
<p dir=ltr>After all the cycling detours I did today, I'm just too tired to go for a visit in the center of Saint Malo. If you were hoping to have a virtual visit of the city through me, and you're disappointed it won't happen: tough. Visit it yourself some day :-) And send me a postcard. <br>
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I saw rain forecast for the early afternoon, so I left "early" (around 9am) to beat the rain. I arrived at the hotel (which is actually a manor) just before noon, and dry. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Pléven is kind of in the middle of nowhere. For example, the nearest grocery store is about 8km away. For lunch, the hotel owner recommended a crêperie a couple of kilometers away. This restaurant is not on Google maps, the Yellow Pages, or my Garmin. But I followed the manor owner's advice and looked for directions to the Château de la Hunaudaye, which is next to the crêperie.  For lunch, I had a galette with ham, cheese, and mushrooms, and a strawberry jam crêpe for dessert. That was around 1pm.I felt completely stuffed after lunch, but it's only 6 hours later now, and I'm hungry again! <br>
Dinner tonight will be exciting food I bought at a grocery store this morning : ham and cheese sandwich, banana, and a box of Figolu (for a change). I'm just too comfy in bed to go out into the cold wet weather again :-) </p>
<p dir=ltr>After lunch, just as it started to sprinkle, I visited the Château de la Hunaudaye, which currently has an exposition on "table manners from the middle ages to the 18th century." Maybe not the most intellectual topic, but an entertaining enough way to pass a couple of hours when it's sprinkling outside :-) </p>
<p dir=ltr>Today on the road, I saw:<br>
* a flight of stairs I had to carry my bike up (thanks, Garmin) <br>
* some more cows eyeing me suspiciously as I took their photo. Is my fear of cows irrational? They are surrounded by a barbed wire fence. If I get too close to them, can they get aggravated and storm through the fence? :-) <br>
* a sign that said "beau soleil"<br>
* two people who parked their bikes outside the grocery store without locking them up at all. (I don't think we're in Paris anymore, Toto) <br>
* another cyclist who was on the same path as I was, for several kilometers. It was nice to have this company even though we didn't chat. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Backtracking a bit : I published yesterday's blog post from the Tijuana restaurant. After publishing it, the server brought the check to me, with a shot glass containing... 2 Krema Régal'ad candies (chewy fruit flavored candies). This is my second comfort food after Figolu, so I thought this was a very cool way to present the check. I didn't swallow the candies in one shot, though. </p>
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The ride to reach the hotel, in the center of Saint-Brieuc, was 35km, but I went a bit further to see what my paper map indicated as a nice view point of the sea, making today's trip a total of 45km.</p><p dir="ltr">Lunch was a bit less glamorous today: I bought a ham and cheese sandwich, a banana, and a box of Figolu (it had been a whole day since I'd had a box), and I ate sitting on the side of the road :-) </p><p dir="ltr">I passed through Mississipi (that's spelled correctly) today. I couldn't help laughing when I saw that sign saying "Mississipi". If the people who live there heard me laughing and saw me taking a photo of the sign, they probably rolled their eyes and thought "another American tourist" </p><p dir="ltr">On the road at Saint-Brieuc, I saw a car with a "Route 66" sticker. </p><p dir="ltr">Shortly after arriving at the hotel, I took a two hour nap. This is becoming a habit. I hope management will understand when I return to work, if I continue taking afternoon naps, preferably after lunch. </p><p dir="ltr">For dinner, I went to a Mexican restaurant called "Tijuana". I ordered a beef burrito and an apple crumble for dessert. This delicious meal more than made up for my sandwich-on-the-side-of-the-road lunch (which actually was quite nice but not as intetesting for you readers, I guess.) </p><p dir="ltr">After passing through Mississipi, seeing Route 66 and eating in Tijuana, I'm not sure anymore if I'm in France (excuse me, in Brittany) or North America.</p><p dir="ltr">Still no rain, but it will probably come tomorrow! <br></p>
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I'm almost half way through the Brittany Rain Tour, and I've seen almost no rain. Not a drop today, even though rain was forecast. I'm not complaining, of course! <br />
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This morning I got a ride to the office in Lannion where some of my co-workers are based, to say hello. Then I cycled 45km to Guingamp. I stopped at Bégard for lunch and had a generous serving of tagliatelle carbonara. For dinner, I had a rib steak, fries, AND a baked potato, with an apple crumble for dessert. Have I really earned all these calories? Last year when I was cycling 65km per day, I would say "of course". But only 45km... I don't know. :-) In any case the food today was delicious. <br />
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On the road today, I saw a castle (not sure if it's the Château de Tonquédec or another one), some cows, windmills, a few cars and plenty of vegetation. The previous bike tours I've done have been at the end of winter. I don't know if it's just because this trip is in the middle of spring, or if Brittany really is more beautiful than most of the other parts of France I've visited, but I'm really enjoying the scenery on this tour. In fact, I haven't really visited much the cities I'm staying in. I basically just arrive at the hotel and relax there, where I write about the day and plan the trip for the following day. Visiting the cities is only secondary for me: what I enjoy most is between the cities: rolling along on the quiet roads in the countryside. <br />
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Today's trip seemed to go by so quickly. I was on the road from 9am to 2pm, with an hour lunch break.<br />
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As I left Lannion, I finished the Finistère / Morbihan road map and started the Côtes d'Armor / Ille-et-Vilaine roadmap. The real achievement for me on this trip so far is not having to stay comatose in bed for 30 hours recovering from sore muscles. Yay for pacing :-) I'll keep this in mind for the next epic (for me) tour I plan. Where shall it be? Brest to Monaco? Crossing Spain? Montreal to Vancouver.......? (I think I'd need 4 or 5 months for that one, plus I'd need to camp. I think that tour will only ever be alive in my daydreams :-) ) <br />
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In yesterday's post, I forgot to mention Mr. Bretagne. I was walking my bike, looking for a sign that said "Lannion" that I could take a picture of with my bike (otherwise how can you be sure I was really there?!) A guy said something like "a cyclist!" and he asked where I was from. I told him I was from California (the short answer) and then he switched to speak in English. Then he told me "you know, you're in Brittany here. Not France. Brittany." Then he smiled and went on his way. <br />
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Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-40529876298406305932014-05-26T12:50:00.001-07:002014-05-26T14:55:21.527-07:00Brittany Rain Tour 2014 - Day 3<p dir=ltr>Today's trip was from Morlaix to Lannion. </p>
<p dir=ltr>This morning the hotel employee who served me breakfast commented on the (unusually?) nice weather they've been having in Bretagne lately. He said tourists often come to Bretagne not expecting sun, and go home with a Brittany sunburn. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Well, today I didn't see a single drop of rain, but I don't think I've caught a Brittany sunburn :-) I did see what I consider some of the nicest scenery I've seen in France on my bike tours.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The roads I took today were quite hilly, but nothing I couldn't handle using the granny gear on my bike. Actually, that's not true: some hills were so steep, I just couldn't get my bike started from a stopped position, so I had to walk and push it up like a loser :-) Also, my bike sometimes didn't want to switch to the easiest gear. Fortunately, past Carmen helped me out here : she looked at YouTube videos a while ago on adjusting the derailleur (because she read somewhere that the derailleur requires periodic maintenance and didn't even know what it was), so present Carmen is now able to tinker with the right screws to solve this problem. It's nice when past Carmen helps out like that. I should send her a thank you note. </p>
<p dir=ltr>This evening I had dinner with a couple of co-workers who live in Lannion, Guillaume and Pierre. We had a lovely home cooked spaghetti bolognaise. For dessert we had a pommé, which was nothing like the "I'm sorry that's not a tartelette aux pommes that's a pommé" from Morlaix, but was delicious. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Guillaume also drove me and his son to the beach for a visit. I saw a couple of people brave enough to go in the cold water, but they were fully dressed... His son taught me a new phrase: when you want an ice cream, say "my stomach is hot". Maybe I'm just clueless for never having heard this before, but I thought that was cute. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Tomorrow it's supposed to rain finally. My name for this tour will finally made sense! The guys also told me that the highest point in Bretagne will be on my path tomorrow. </p>
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The weather fluctuated between sunny/hot and cloudy/cool, with only a few minutes of very light rain. When it started to get hot, I stopped to put on sunscreen, but by the time I was finishing putting it on, it was cloudy again. Likewise, when it was cool and I stopped to put on more layers, the sun started shining just as I finished putting on my last layer. Overall though it was pretty good weather for cycling. I saw dozens of cyclists on the road, in groups. Maybe training for the Tour de France? :-)  I saw one or two cyclists being pulled along by cars. I wonder if that's for training or just thrill seeking :-)  One cyclist told me, as he passed me by, "Gotta take advantage of the good weather!" I think that was 10 minutes before it sprinkled. Coincidence? I think not. </p>
<p dir=ltr>I arrived at Landivisiau around noon. I got my lunch at a supermarket and ate in a park. On my way to Morlaix in the afternoon, I met a friendly horse, and went through a dirt road in the middle of some farms. Perhaps this road was on private property, but my Garmin GPS said it was ok, so it must have been ok. </p>
<p dir=ltr>The last twenty minutes or so approaching Morlaix were a pleasant descent. I arrived a couple of hours before the hotel opened, so I went to a laundromat. This laundromat doesn't exist on Google maps or the Yellow Pages: I happened to find it navigating with Google Street View last week. I thought going to a laundromat would be a step up from hand washing clothes in the hotel bathroom. In most cases, this would be true. But not when the machine is broken and there is no phone number posted to call if there's a problem :-) The machine I chose kind of worked, but every now and then it would stop and just click click click for ten or fifteen minutes. I couldn't stop the machine to retrieve my clothes, so I was starting to think that hand washing wasn't so bad after all :-) Fortunately, a man who knew the machines in this laundromat came in, told me my machine was broken, and helped me to open it to retrieve my soapy clothes. Then he started his own laundry load. In ten minutes his load was further along than mine had done in one hour. </p>
<p dir=ltr>While I was waiting for my washing to stop click click clicking and move on to the next phase, I went to the bakery next door to get some dinner. Maybe people from Bretagne are not used to speaking with Americans living in Paris, because I had to repeat myself multiple times to the person at the bakery, and Mr Laundry Helper asked me several times, in a strange way, what time it was, before I understood him.  I have no idea what he said the first couple of times before he just gave up and said it simply: "il est quelle heure ?"  As for my dinner from the bakery, I ordered a feuilleté de jambon (the thing I had to say 3 times), a bag of chips, orange juice and a "pommé". Now, I didn't have the pommé yet, but it looks exactly like the "tartelette aux pommes"  in bakeries in Paris. In this bakery, I pointed to this desert and said "tartelette aux pommes", to which the employee replied : "that's not a tartelette, it's a pommé." I'm looking forward to discovering what the difference is, but I'm suspecting it's the same :-) At least the same for me. Maybe not the same for a French pastry chef. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Today's trip was about 44km. Tomorrow I head out to Lannion, about a 35km trip. So far, feeling in good shape still! :-) </p>
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It was a bit cloudy, but the sun was trying hard to shine through the clouds, so I quickly became hot and ended up cycling with a t-shirt.  So far I haven't seen more than a couple of drops of rain here in Bretagne. I must have brought the Paris sun with me. </p>
<p dir=ltr>I visited a couple of beaches. I saw Oceanopolis, but didn't know what it was, so I didn't go in. It's a sea-themed science museum with about 50 aquariums. On the way to Landerneau, I saw a campsite, which was closed due to maintenance or public works, scheduled to be reopened in summer... 2013. Glad I booked a hotel instead of planning to camp there :-) </p>
<p dir=ltr>Today has not been very exciting gastronomically speaking. I had a microwave heated chicken pasta dish on the train for lunch. I had dinner at the hotel. The restaurant was not open tonight, but they have meals you can order at the reception. I ordered a fish and rice dinner, with a crumble dessert. They gave me an extra dessert because they had to get rid of it. Maybe it was expired :-)</p>
<p dir=ltr>Today I cycled 26km in Bretagne, plus 5km in Paris to get to the train station.  You can see route I took as recorded by my GPS, <u>below</u>. Tomorrow I head out to Morlaix. Here's the list of cities I plan to visit:</p>
<p dir=ltr>Brest (today) <br>
Landerneau (today) <br>
Morlaix (tomorrow) <br>
Lannion (Monday) <br>
Guingamp (Tuesday) <br>
Saint-Brieuc (Wednesday) <br>
Pléven (Thursday) <br>
Saint Malo (Friday) <br>
Pontorson (Saturday) <br>
Le Mont Saint Michel (Sunday) </p>
<p dir=ltr>The last few bike tours I did, my legs were so sore after two days that I had to spend a whole day in bed recovering. I've tried to reduce the number of kilometers per day for this trip to prevent that from happening again, but I'm still a bit nervous about that, as this time all my hotels are booked, so I have less flexibility. We'll see. So far, I still feel in good shape :-) </p>
<p dir=ltr>The road signs here are often both in French and Breton.  The hotel information pamphlet is also in Breton. You can see a photo of it below. </p>
<p dir=ltr>That's about it for day 1!</p>
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I took a look at some of the hotels in the region, and, at least according to Booking.com, I'm not the only one taking a vacation in Bretagne next week. I guess since Thursday next week is a bank holiday, many people will be taking a mini-vacation for the long weekend. Some of the cities looked almost completely sold out.</div>
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Having already experienced arriving in a city where all hotels were sold out (Dieppe, during my <a href="http://c6rm3n.blogspot.fr/2012/03/bike-road-trip-from-paris-to-london.html">Paris-London trip in 2012</a>), I decided to do things a bit differently this time: tonight I reserved hotels for most of the days of my trip. I usually prefer to wait and reserve each hotel day by day, as this gives me flexibility to change plans, or, if I end up with aches and pains, the possibility to stay in bed for an entire day before continuing my journey. However, the past trips I've taken were during the off-season. Preferring to not have to sleep on the street, without a tent, in the rain, I opted to reserve rooms ahead of time, this time. The good news is that all reservations have free cancelation.</div>
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<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Brest,+France/Landerneau,+France/Morlaix,+France/Lannion,+France/Guingamp,+France/Saint-Brieuc,+France/Pl%C3%A9ven,+France/St-Malo,+France/Pontorson,+France/@48.5557658,-4.0970563,8z/data=!4m56!4m55!1m5!1m1!1s0x4816bbe1d9925b93:0xc6488358179c30ab!2m2!1d-4.486076!2d48.390394!1m5!1m1!1s0x4816b2c3704da377:0xc99f9e88f3fe53a4!2m2!1d-4.248437!2d48.450821!1m5!1m1!1s0x481160d5e8504c13:0xcd60ce3d9a3082d3!2m2!1d-3.828228!2d48.577613!1m5!1m1!1s0x48122b8ac523c539:0x40ca5cd36e63400!2m2!1d-3.459144!2d48.732084!1m5!1m1!1s0x48118cd489130639:0x40ca5cd36e636a0!2m2!1d-3.148352!2d48.561366!1m5!1m1!1s0x480e1d4129562b03:0x40ca5cd36e62a40!2m2!1d-2.765835!2d48.51418!1m5!1m1!1s0x480e6e8bdd5449c5:0x40ca5cd36e62ee0!2m2!1d-2.318975!2d48.488991!1m5!1m1!1s0x480e81102126bf5d:0xf8e97dadb22be12d!2m2!1d-2.025674!2d48.649337!1m5!1m1!1s0x480eae41ee335549:0x40c14484fb96e20!2m2!1d-1.509877!2d48.553872!3e1">This is the map</a> of the trip I'm planning:</div>
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<br />Each leg is about 40km, which is less than the average of 65km per day I've done on previous trips, so hopefully I won't need that whole day in bed this time!<br />
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Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-67223999833132652892014-05-18T13:26:00.001-07:002014-05-18T13:26:27.797-07:00Brittany Rain Tour 2014: Day -6I recently found myself required to take some days off. With the Ascension holiday in France on May 29, a company holiday on May 30, and three extra days I had to take off, I found myself with a full week off at the end of this month. With the weekends before and after, I saw that that left me with nine days.<br />
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What else to do during nine days but another bike trip?<br />
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I figured I could ride about 300 km in seven days, plus two days for transportation. After checking on which trains in France I could take my bike (without unassembling it), I decided to do a trip in Brittany: from Brest to Mont Saint-Michel. This region is not particularly known for its sunny skies, hence the title of my tour: the "Brittany Rain Tour 2014".<br />
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This weekend I did some preparation. I took my bike to the "bike doctor" around the corner. The normal price for a checkup at this place is 32€. I told the guy that I had done about 8000 km on the bike. He looked at my bike and said there was not much work to be done, so it would probably be less. In the end it was 28€. He fixed the gears a bit so changing gears is smoother now, he replaced the rear break pads, and he actually cleaned my bike. I was surprised he went to the trouble to clean it. It was so filthy. Just before leaving, I discovered the bike doctor had thought I was planning to do a bike trip of 8000 km. He seemed disappointed to discover that I was just planning on riding 300 km, in Bretagne.<br />
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I then went shopping for some supplies. Today (Sunday) I realized that I didn't have any paper maps of the region. Google maps and my Garmin GPS are great tools for navigation and calculating distances, but I've always found paper maps to be useful as well: for their "high resolution" detail, as well as seeing which streets are major highways versus small departmental roads.<br />
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In France, most businesses are closed on Sundays, with some exceptions including grocery stores, restaurants, and stores in tourist areas. So, I went to the Fnac store at the Champs Elysées, which sells some books, in the hopes of finding some road maps. Unfortunately they didn't have any maps there, so I had to go farther, to La Défense, to the Quatre Temps mall. I found what I was looking for there, in the Cultura store.<br />
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It was a beautiful day today, so I stopped to take a few pictures at La Défense. This brought back some memories, as I used to work there a few years ago. I think I generally prefer these "modern shiny" buildings rather than the architecture with more "historical value" that you see around most of Europe. So sue me.<br />
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When I got home, I gathered my supplies to snap a photo to share with you, and to make sure I had everything on my list for my trip next week.<br />
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Voilà :<br />
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My list of supplies for the upcoming trip:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Bike supplies: </li>
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<li>Lube: Since this is the "Brittany Rain Tour 2014", I need to combat rust. I know you're thinking of dirty jokes. Shame on you.</li>
<li>Bike pump</li>
<li>Spare inner tube</li>
<li>Levers to help remove the tires if needed</li>
<li>Alan keys</li>
<li>Screw driver</li>
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<li>Gadgets:</li>
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<li>Garmin GPS</li>
<li>GoPro camera</li>
<li>Sony Xperia Go (waterproof phone)</li>
<li>Batteries for the GPS</li>
<li>Charger</li>
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<li>Toiletries:</li>
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<li>Makeup (lipstick, eye shadow, mascara). Gotta look good out there!</li>
<li>Sodium Bicarbonate (baking soda). This looks like a suspicious white power in a baggy. But I've found it works better than normal deodorant. TMI? I wouldn't try to take this on an airplane: I'd probably end up at least having it confiscated by security and possibly being interrogated at the airport. Can we end the f***ing drug war already so I can use my deodorant of choice when travelling? Thank you.</li>
<li>Sunscreen</li>
<li>Toothpaste, toothbrush (not pictured)</li>
<li>Kleenex</li>
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<li>Papers:</li>
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<li>Train tickets</li>
<li>Passport. Just in case I need to show ID at any hotel. This happens very rarely.</li>
<li>Pen, paper</li>
</ul>
<li>Clothes:</li>
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<li>Biking pants</li>
<li>Biking shirt</li>
<li>Biking gloves</li>
<li>Socks, underwear (not pictured: you think I'd post photos of my undergarments on the internet?)</li>
<li>Light rain coat and rain pants</li>
<li>Yellow security vest</li>
<li>Support sock in case one of my feet needs it.</li>
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<li>Other:</li>
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<li>Water pouch with a tube, to go into my backpack so that I can drink while cycling.</li>
<li>Laundry detergent in the form of sheets</li>
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<li>The bags this crap will all go into:</li>
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<li>Panniers (how do English-speaking people pronounce this? pan-ee-YAY?)</li>
<li>Backpack</li>
<li>Handlebar bag</li>
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So these are most of my supplies. I've left a couple of things out. Surprisingly, most of all of this fits just into the panniers. It seems lighter than the supplies I've taken on previous trips: probably because the weather is warmer this year, requiring fewer clothes.</div>
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Tune in to hear about the trip when it starts!<br />
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<br />Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-4622840653276647212013-12-01T07:07:00.000-08:002013-12-01T07:07:45.582-08:00Learning French GeographyI love geography quizzes, and maps. I'm pretty sure geography wasn't among my favorite subjects in school, but for some reason, I can spend hours just navigating around in Google Earth or playing quizzes online, trying to beat my personal best time trying to locate the 50 states of the US, the countries of the world, state capitals, etc. I guess I'm low maintenance and easy to entertain.<br />
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GeoFun</h4>
A few years ago, I developed a geography game for Android devices, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.rmen.android.geofun">GeoFun</a>, in which the user must find as many cities as possible within 90 seconds. The goal is to tap as closely as possible to the given city, striving for both accuracy and speed. At the time, I don't think there were other geography games on Android which worked this way, although today there are probably several. In this type of game, it is often difficult to get 100% accuracy as a city only occupies one pixel on the screen. If your finger doesn't cover this pixel, then the distance for this guess is non-zero. <br />
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After comments from users that it was too "difficult" to guess cities, I made the game a bit easier, even though 100% accuracy was never the goal: wherever you tap on the screen, I add a buffer circle of about 1cm diameter (the size of your fat finger touching the screen). If the city happens to be anywhere inside this circle, the distance is zero. After this modification, some users still seemed disappointed when they did not guess 100% accurately. Not finding any new ways to try to make the game easier for users while keeping the basic principle of the game the same (if the game asks you to select Paris and you tap near Madrid, what can I do anyway?), I developed a new tongue-in-cheek "game" called <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.rmen.youreawinner">You're a Winner!</a> which tells the user how awesome they are every time they press a big red button. If you tap on Madrid when trying to locate Paris, and you still want a high score, You're a Winner! is probably a better game for you. So now I recommend You're a Winner! to GeoFun users who say that this geography game is "too hard".<br />
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But I digress...<br />
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French departments quiz</h3>
Other geography games allow 100% accuracy (and therefore happier users as their egos are more easily placated) by focusing on locating regions (states or countries) instead of cities, or guessing the capitals of states or countries. One of these games is for the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.and.nic.departements">French departments</a>, made by Nicolas Cornette.<br />
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<i>(For strangers to French geography: France is divided into several regions, each region divided into several departments, and each department has a prefecture, or capital.)</i><br />
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This app allows you to quiz yourself on on the 101 departments in France:<br />
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<li>Finding the department on a map</li>
<li>Guessing the region in which a department is located</li>
<li>Guessing the capital of a department</li>
<li>Guessing the number (postal code) of the department</li>
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I figured I should learn the French departments since:</div>
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<li>Quizzing myself on the US states was getting old</li>
<li>I've been living in France for a while</li>
<li>My knowledge of the French departments is crap</li>
<li>This cool app was developed by my very own coworker, so I can make feature requests to him directly!</li>
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I thought I'd do an experiment and record my score for each test, as well as how long it took to complete the test, and see what my learning curve looks like. Oh yeah, I also really like charts and graphs. Again, I'm a low maintenance person.</div>
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Find the deparment</h4>
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I started out with the "find the department on the map" quiz. In this quiz, you are given the name of a department, and you have to tap on its location on the map. You have three attempts for each department. You basically get 3 points for getting it right on the first guess, 2 points for getting on the second guess, and 1 point for getting on the third guess. The total number of possible points is 303 for the 101 departments. The score you see at the end is the percent of your points divided by 303.<br />
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The first attempt I recorded had a shameful score of 42%, and it took me almost a half hour to complete the quiz. 17 more tests and three hours later, I finally reached a score of 100%! And the last test took less than 7 minutes.<br />
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The score line is almost a straight line if we plot it on a logarithmic scale:<br />
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The first few tests take the longest, but they are the tests where the most is learned. It took me about two hours of quizzing before I was able to improve a whole 50% (from 42% to 92%). That's two hours of studying to improve from an F to an A, on the American grading system. Then one more hour to perfect this to 100%. I think the lesson we can take away from this is that perhaps when I was in school, I still could have gotten A's with 33% less studying. That's 33% more time I could have had for biking, playing music, and wishing the internet existed already so I could be playing geography quizzes and blogging with charts of my progress.<br />
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I also like animated gifs. So, here's one showing the progress of the "find the department" quiz:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Find the department quiz</td></tr>
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This is a sequence of the "Game Over" screen at the end of each of the tests. The departments in green are the ones I guessed on the first attempt. The red ones are the ones I failed to guess after three attempts. And the in-between colors are for departments I guessed correctly after one to three attempts. My apologies to the daltonians out there. Maybe you don't even see an animated gif :)<br />
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Name the capital</h4>
The next quiz I attacked was the "name the capital quiz". In this quiz, you are given the name of a department, and you have to provide the name of its capital. You can either type the capital name or choose it from the list of 101 capitals. Again, you have three attempts for each department.<br />
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The result of the first test was interesting:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First test result of the French capitals quiz</td></tr>
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Why this green band running from the north to the south, surrounded by red almost everywhere else, except the southeast? The green zones are the areas I passed through on my cycling trips across France. I've also visited some cities in the south of France. Most of the major cities I've visited happen to the be the capitals of their departments.<br />
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Instead of doing an intensive cramming session over a few hours, I played this game once or twice per day over a week. For some reason, there were a few departments that I consistently failed to guess nearly every time. I eventually took some time to review these capitals on the map (the app provides a search function which is handy for this) before continuing testing using the quiz. So the learning curve for the capitals is not completely based on the capitals quiz alone.<br />
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This curve is not logarithmic at all. Why? Maybe because I didn't cram, or maybe because I took some time to review the map between quizzes.<br />
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And the animation sequence of each Game Over screen:<br />
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I plan to learn the numbers of the departments next. I have a feeling this will be more difficult than learning the location of the departments or their capitals. Too bad this proposal from the French revolution wasn't accepted:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proposal for French departments after the revolution</td></tr>
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Conclusions </h3>
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<li>It's still possible to learn after being out of school for nearly 10 years.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.and.nic.departements">French Department quiz</a> is a great tool to learn the departments.</li>
<li>I have no life.</li>
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<br />Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-60750218831456350422013-08-03T14:26:00.002-07:002013-08-03T14:30:13.164-07:00Bike trip along the Seine river in Fontainebleau forestThis weekend, we followed a suggestion on the <a href="http://www.transilien.com/static/transilien-velo">Transilien website</a> for a bike trip: <a href="http://www.transilien.com/contents/en/Docs---PDF/Depliants/Fontainebleau_a_velo.pdf">in the Fontainebleau forest</a>. We took the train from Paris to the south-east limit of the forest (Moret Veneux-les-Sablons) and biked along the Seine river up to the northern limit of the forest (Melun). In total we may have done about 43 km today, but the main ride was about 25km.<br />
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BoD recently acquired a phone mount for the handlebars of his bike, and used an Android app called CycleDroid to track our movement. The data recorded by his phone with this app was almost identical to the data recorded by my Garmin GPS. <a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/352810020">This is the path we took</a>:<br />
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As we went through Blois-le-Roi, we discovered the Base des Loisirs, which had a beach filled with sunbathers and people enjoying a dip in the water. <br />
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Here are a few of the photos we took today. You can see all the photos from today's trip <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/116717361514146840588/20130803Fontainebleau?authkey=Gv1sRgCNKGoeLOwIqn2QE#slideshow/5907995737202304770">in the gallery</a>.<br />
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<br />Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-14804522006101012402013-07-21T14:24:00.000-07:002013-07-21T14:24:49.357-07:00Bike ride to Parc de la Villette and priority to the right<h3>
Biking to La Villette</h3>
This Saturday, we biked over to Parc de la Villette. It seemed like the rest of Paris was also outside, taking advantage of the sun. After taking a nap on the grass, we continued biking along the Canal de l'Ourcq for a bit, before turning back. We stopped for dinner at Belushi's, where it seemed that the waiters preferred to speak English rather than French. Not that I minded :) The total trip was around 25 km.<br />
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The <a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/345560944">route to the park</a>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can never have too many pictures of huge shiny bawlz</td></tr>
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Priority to the right</h3>
The other day, as I was biking home from work, I was heading east on a rather large street (an avenue with traffic in both directions), and a motorcycle delivering sushi was waiting on a small one-way perpendicular side-street. He was facing north, and wanted to turn right (east) onto the avenue. He entered the avenue just as I approached the intersection. <br />
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Seeing as he cut me off, I rang my bike bell (which is quite loud :)) several times. Much to my surprise, he actually stopped to talk to me. He told me that he had the right of way. I couldn't believe that a vehicle entering a large avenue from a small one-way side street could possibly have priority over the traffic on the avenue, and I insisted upon this point. The driver of the motorcycle simply just kept repeating one phrase: "priority to the right". He also offered, in a rather condescending way, to buy me a book of traffic code in France... My big mistake in this whole ordeal is forgetting that the traffic code in France (or anywhere, I suppose) is not always logical or even safe. Indeed, since there was no other signage or markings on the ground at this intersection, the priority by default is given to the right, regardless of the size or "importance" of the two streets. Sigh. I hope I never see Mr. Sushi again, because I'm quite embarrassed now. Fortunately, that is not the road I usually take to go home. I did find some consolation by discovering that other <a href="http://www.forum-auto.com/automobile-pratique/securite/sujet167326.htm">people on forums complain</a> about the priority-to-the-right not making sense or even being safe in some cases.<br />
<br />Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-53246864377305803902013-07-13T14:20:00.000-07:002013-07-13T14:29:29.862-07:00Biking from Paris to Versailles and preparing the way for stage 21Taking advantage of the unusually long streak of sunny days in Paris, we went on another bike trip today, this time from Paris to Versailles. At Versailles, we met with a friend, Guillaume, who will be climbing the <a href="http://www.climbbybike.com/climb.asp?qryMountainID=5">Alpe d'Huez</a> next week, which is stage 18 in the Tour de France 2013. This ascent has an average grade of 8% over 13 km. My GoPro camera is very excited to be joining him on his journey.<br />
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As we biked to Versailles, we noticed that we were on part of the path of stage 21 of the Tour de France 2013 (the last day of the race). About 3 km of this path on Pavé des Gardes was pretty tough for us, at about 4.3% average grade, if the elevation measurements from my Garmin are to be trusted. Guillaume told us he hopes to be able to do the Alpe d'Huez in a bit over one hour. Seeing how hard doing just 4% over 3 km was for us today, I think I'd consider it a personal accomplishment to just be able to finish the Alpe d'Huez without having to get off and walk my bike :)<br />
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On the way home, we saw a group of American (I assume, from the accent) bike tourists, with loads of gear on their bikes. I wanted to ask them where they were from and where they were touring, but I didn't seize the moment :) <br />
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This is the route we took today. You can see the <a href="https://connect.garmin.com/activity/341785928">details of this route</a> and the <a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/341786748">return route</a>, uploaded from my GPS. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Path from Paris to Versailles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Signs along the road warning about the roads being blocked off for the Tour de France</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The start of the main hill on <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.808135,2.193832&spn=0.016393,0.036478&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.001301,74.707031&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=48.8081,2.19369&panoid=DPQ2uIl_fmGrLG9TMnAdhg&cbp=12,82.48,,0,15.78">Pavé des Gardes in Chaville</a>, on the return trip.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Versailles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elevation profile for the trip to Versailles. The selected data point is the highest point on the trip.</td></tr>
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<br />Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-10356767800932925912013-07-09T00:17:00.000-07:002013-07-09T00:17:25.969-07:00Bike trip to Bois de Boulogne and other tourist trapsThis weekend we took a bike trip to Bois de Boulogne, and also stopped by the Eiffel Tower, Champ de Mars, Invalides, dinner at HD Diner Opéra, and finally returned home. The trip was a total of 32km.<br />
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Here's a video from our outing: I mounted the camera to the handlebars of my bike and set it to take one picture every two seconds. It ran out of battery just as we arrived at the Eiffel Tower.<br />
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And some photos:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What can you say</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tourist</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking a break in Bois de Boulogne</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samsung S4 "Beauty face" mode smooths my skin :) Now if i could only make it work in real life...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panorama of a small lake in Bois de Boulogne</td></tr>
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<br />Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-78970188097726100712013-06-08T17:20:00.000-07:002013-06-08T17:20:59.273-07:00Biking south east of Paris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last week we took a 33km bike ride along the Seine south of Paris, and this week we had a shorter 15km stroll through Bois de Vincennes.<br />
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Today it was about 27°C/81°F. Feels like summer already. This is welcome after an extended winter this year. In a couple of weeks, it will be officially summer!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path we took to Choisy-le-Roi/Orly</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Viewing the bridge over the Seine river, near Maisons-Alfort</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path we took to Bois de Vincennes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Vincennes castle</td></tr>
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When we were on avenue Daumesnil, I recognized the road from a video we had taken back in 2006. We redid the same video today, and the two videos, 7 years apart, can be seen side-by-side:<br />
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The photo galleries from last weekend and this weekend are here:</div>
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Last weekend: <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/carmen75013/20130601PorteDeChoisyToChoisyLeRoi?authkey=Gv1sRgCO2WjLTVkZyKVg#">to Choisy-le-roi</a></div>
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This weekend: <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/carmen75013/20130608BoisDeVincennes?authkey=Gv1sRgCJrv-OmUp5ukmgE">Bois de Vincennes</a>.</div>
Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-73052774078364288812013-05-25T15:51:00.003-07:002013-06-14T15:27:30.326-07:00B&You : HSPA+ #fail @Paris 13<i>English speakers, you may read the automatic translation of this post: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fc6rm3n.blogspot.fr%2F2013%2F05%2Fb-pas-de-hspa-dans-le-13eme.html&act=url">http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fc6rm3n.blogspot.fr%2F2013%2F05%2Fb-pas-de-hspa-dans-le-13eme.html&act=url</a></i><br />
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Depuis plusieurs semaines, BoD et moi constatons des problèmes de réseau avec nos téléphones mobiles. Nous sommes tous les deux chez B&You depuis environ un an. <br />
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Le problème qu'on constate est que chez nous, la data fonctionne pendant une ou deux minutes. Ensuite, il est impossible d'utiliser internet. Si on essaie de se connecter à Google dans le navigateur, on ne voit rien pendant environ 10 secondes, puis on voit une erreur "serveur introuvable". Si on met le téléphone en mode avion, puis on désactive le mode avion, internet fonctionne bien de nouveau, mais encore seulement quelques minutes. Puis les problèmes de connectivité et les erreurs de "serveur introuvable" reviennent.<br />
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BoD a contacté l'assistance B&You, qui lui a envoyé une nouvelle carte sim. Pas de surprise, la nouvelle carte sim avait exactement le même comportement. (Je ne raconterai même pas les soucis pour activer la carte sim, commençant par le site web de B&You qui ne fonctionnait pas. Seule une menace de quitter B&You et aller chez Sosh a abouti à l'activation de la carte).<br />
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Nous avons remarqué qu'en désactivant la data 3G, et en n'autorisant que la data en 2G (EDGE, GSM), nous n'avions plus aucun souci pour nous connecter à internet. Sauf, bien entendu, que la connexion en 2G est plus lente qu'une connexion (qui fonctionne correctement) en 3G.<br />
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L'application Network Monitor</h2>
Curieux de comprendre mieux les conditions dans lesquelles notre connexion fonctionne ou pas, nous avons développé une application Network Monitor, qui est <a href="https://github.com/BoD/network-monitor">open source</a> (pas encore disponible sur le Google Play Store). Cette application fait un test de connexion périodiquement, qui consiste en une requête GET simple sur le serveur web principal de Google. Après chaque test de connexion sur le site de Google, l'application stocke le résultat du test (PASS ou FAIL) dans une base de données sur le téléphone, ainsi que d'autres informations concernant le téléphone et la connexion, comme par exemple :<br />
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<li>Le type de réseau (WiFi, mobile/EDGE, mobile/HSPA, etc)</li>
<li>Le SSID WiFi ou APN</li>
<li>La localisation du device (latitude, longitude)</li>
<li>Les identifiants de l'antenne relais</li>
<li>Le nombre de barres de la connexion (de 0 à 4)</li>
<li>D'autres informations fournies par le framework Android (surtout la classe <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/TelephonyManager.html">TelephonyManager</a>).</li>
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L'application permet d'exporter un rapport sous Excel (et d'autres formats) contenant toutes les données enregistrées, et une synthèse listant le taux de succès des tests par antenne relais.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Les résultats des tests et les données récupérées par Network Monitor, sur une tablette</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L'exportation du rapport</td></tr>
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Les resultats des tests</h2>
Avec Network Monitor, nous avons fait des tests croisés, avec des cartes sim Orange, SFR, et B&You, dans des devices différents :</div>
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<li>HTC One S</li>
<li>Galaxy S4</li>
<li>HTC Desire</li>
<li>Asus Transformer EEE Pad</li>
<li>Sony Xperia Go</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
En voici un résumé des résultats :</div>
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<tr>
<th colspan="3"></th>
<th>B&You</th>
<th>SFR</th>
<th>Orange</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th rowspan="3">HTC One S & <br />
Galaxy S4</th>
<td class="subHeading">3G activé (HSPA+)</td>
<td class="subHeading">13ème arrondissement</td>
<td class="fail">KO</td>
<td>Pas testé</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="subHeading">3G désactivé (EDGE)</td>
<td class="subHeading">13ème arrondissement</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
<td>Pas testé</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectionEnd">
<td class="subHeading">3G activé (HSPA+)</td>
<td class="subHeading">En dehors du 13ème</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
<td>Pas testé</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectionEnd">
<th>HTC Desire</th>
<td class="subHeading">3G activé (HSDPA)</td>
<td class="subHeading">Partout</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
<td>Pas testé</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectionEnd">
<th>Sony Xperia Go</th>
<td class="subHeading">3G activé (HSPA)</td>
<td class="subHeading">Partout</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
<td>Pas testé</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Asus Transformer EEEPad</th>
<td class="subHeading">3G activé (HSPA)</td>
<td class="subHeading">13ème arrondissement</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
<td class="pass">OK</td>
<td>Pas testé</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<br />
<div>
Le problème décrit n'arrive donc que dans les conditions suivantes (cumulatives) :</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Dans le 13ème arrondissement de Paris,</li>
<li>Et avec les cartes sim de B&You,</li>
<li>Et dans le HTC One S et le Galaxy S4 (les seuls devices à se connecter en HSPA+),</li>
<li>Et avec la data en 3G autorisée</li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h2>
Les antennes relais qui déconnent</h2>
<div>
Le rapport envoyé par l'application sur mon HTC One S montre qu'il y a quelques antennes relais où les tests de connectivité réussissent moins de 25% du temps. Malheureusement, c'est uniquement ces deux antennes relais (220772, 204043) qui sont utilisés chez nous.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #45818e;">B&You</span> :</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><b>LAC=20031,CID=24164(220772): 16% (6 tests)<br />
LAC=20031,CID=7435(204043): 21% (85 tests)</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=20031,CID=17954(214562): 55% (18 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=20031,CID=804(197412): 66% (6 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=20251,CID=37394(14782994): 95% (22 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=20251,CID=37395(14782995): 95% (86 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=20251,CID=1282(14746882): 96% (122 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=20251,CID=1281(14746881): 97% (192 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=194,CID=3611(3611): 100% (1 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=20251,CID=587(27853387): 100% (1 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=318,CID=30746(30746): 100% (3 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=20251,CID=1976(14747576): 100% (3 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=20251,CID=1977(14747577): 100% (4 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=20251,CID=30387(14775987): 100% (9 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: orange;">Orange </span>:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=1021,CID=22767(1136879): 100% (1 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=1021,CID=36354(1150466): 100% (1 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=1021,CID=47617(1161729): 100% (1 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=14341,CID=22119(611943): 100% (1 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=1021,CID=35048(1149160): 100% (2 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=14341,CID=50952(640776): 100% (2 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=832,CID=46292(46292): 100% (3 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=14341,CID=12500(602324): 100% (3 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=14341,CID=63618(653442): 100% (3 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=1021,CID=27020(1141132): 100% (4 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=1021,CID=1914(1116026): 100% (5 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=14341,CID=5139(594963): 100% (5 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=14341,CID=5463(595287): 100% (5 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=14341,CID=20851(610675): 100% (6 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=1021,CID=5731(1119843): 100% (7 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=1021,CID=63369(1177481): 100% (8 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=14341,CID=43441(633265): 100% (8 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=1021,CID=56288(1170400): 100% (11 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=1021,CID=49821(1163933): 100% (12 tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">LAC=1021,CID=15442(1129554): 100% (19 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=14341,CID=63485(653309): 100% (27 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=1021,CID=42922(1157034): 100% (110 tests)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> LAC=1021,CID=22510(1136622): 100% (186 tests)
</span></blockquote>
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<h2>
Quoi faire ?</h2>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Il suffit d'enlever n'importe laquelle de ces conditions pour avoir un internet qui fonctionne correctement :</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li><u>Changer de téléphone</u>. Je pourrais utiliser le Sony Xperia Go ou un autre téléphone moins récent que mon HTC One S, qui ne supporterait pas la norme HSPA+. Mais le HTC One S est mon meilleur téléphone, donc j'ai envie de l'utiliser :)</li>
<li><u>Ne pas utiliser 3G</u>. C'est ce que je fais en ce moment. À la maison, j'utilise WiFi, et en dehors (dans mon quartier), je suis obligée de passer en 2G/EDGE pour acceder à internet.</li>
<li><u>Déménager</u>. Oui, je pourrais déménager pour avoir tout le temps internet sur mon téléphone. J'énumère toutes les options, histoire d'être exhaustive.</li>
<li><u>Essayer de résoudre le problème avec l'assistance B&You</u>. Jusqu'ici, cette voie n'a pas l'air le plus prometteur. </li>
<li><u>Changer d'opérateur</u>. On verra. Vous lisez ceci, B&You ?</li>
</ul>
<div>
<br />
<h2>
Des précisions</h2>
EDIT : Network Monitor est maintenant <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.rmen.android.networkmonitor">disponible sur le PlayStore</a>.</div>
</div>
<div>
<br />
EDIT : Il est à noter que malgré le fait qu'internet ne fonctionne plus du tout en HSPA+ après quelques minutes, nous avons toujours une bonne reception : l'icône dans la barre de notification montre toujours 4 ou 5 barres sur 5. Je dois préciser également (comme on l'a fait pour l'assistance B&You), qu'il ne s'agit pas d'une lenteur. En HSPA+, internet fonctionne correctement pendant quelques minutes, puis plus du tout.<br />
<br />
<h2>
Ça remarche !</h2>
Mise à jour du 14 juin 2013 : Depuis quelques jours on n'a plus aucun souci pour se connecter en HSPA+, sur le HTC One S et Galaxy S4, chez nous ! Les antennes relais sont toujours les mêmes, mais elles fonctionnent maintenant. Par contre, je n'ai aucune nouvelle de B&You. Depuis que Sébastien de B&You a commenté sur mon blog, il m'a demandé où précisément j'avais des problèmes de connectivité, je lui ai répondu, et je n'ai eu aucune réponse depuis. <br />
<br />
BoD a eu plusieurs échanges par e-mail avec l'assistance B&You. Frustré par leur incompréhension du sujet (ils lisaient clairement pas ses explications du problème), il est parti chez Sosh.<br />
<br />
On ne saura peut-être jamais pourquoi les antennes relais se sont remises à fonctionner. Une machine a été redémarrée lors d'une maintenance prévue ? L'assistance a finalement compris les e-mails de BoD, mais n'a pas pu répondre car il était déjà parti ? Tout cela restera un mystère qui, avec un peu de chance, ne se repetera pas.</div>
Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200593610984055070.post-64449994196373892022013-05-12T02:11:00.003-07:002013-05-12T02:12:05.904-07:00Triceracycling east of ParisMy photographer didn't accompany me on yesterday's bike ride, so I couldn't easily be in the pictures. I thought that taking pictures of solely roads and trees would be dull, so I invited my triceratops to come along with me and pose in the pictures.<br />
<br />
Yesterday's bike ride was 87 km and followed two paths I had previously done partially, years ago, but on separate occasions:<br />
<ul>
<li>The Canal de l'Ourcq</li>
<li>The Marne river</li>
</ul>
This is <a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/311198708">the path I took</a>:<br />
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<a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/311198708"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLyTGXlqcG1HiJAHmwkeTMYvt1gj4mamiYD2TuSnlMPrRuhB2vD8QJvGckXAoa3Omdb0ZjcvFfzAcCvvj06sVrUOMyfnkiHmqvcqgWswyNA_KgyUWWWnT_ObW0hlzmvHZttMsqRsVV7Wo/s1600/garminmap.png" /></a></div>
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Roughly speaking, in this map, the Canal de l'Ourcq portion of the trip is the upper part of the loop, and the Marne river is the lower part. Most of the trip was on paths alongside the canal and river, which made for pleasant riding. I was quite motivated once I got out of Paris after about an hour of cycling, finally leaving behind the traffic and stoplights. I went pretty fast (for me) along the Canal de l'Ourcq, maintaining a speed between 20-25 km/h.<br />
<br />
But after getting slightly lost and finding myself riding on grassy fields on private property, I decided to cut over to the Marne river a few km earlier than planned, and head home. As I headed back home on the second half of the loop, along the Marne river, I was starting to feel tired. My speed probably dropped to around 10-15 km/h for that part of the trip. Apparently my average moving speed for the whole trip was around 14 km/h. This is a bit better than my average speed on my trip across France. I guess it's not too surprising considering I had less gear on this time! I had fewer clothes packed, no spare inner tube or bike pump, and of course nothing like soap, toothbrush, etc. However, I did have twice as much water (1L) and a whole triceratops...<br />
<br />
The whole trip was about 8 hours long, with about 2 hours for breaks.<br />
<br />
My ride took me within about 5km from Disneyland. I didn't bother stopping to visit. My triceratops would kick Mickey's butt any day. <br />
<br />
Here are a few photos from the trip. More photos are <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/carmen75013/OurcqMarneLoop?authkey=Gv1sRgCKnp1pyvh_-WIg">in the gallery</a>. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the beginning of the Canal de l'Ourcq, still in Paris</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhc5m4hqfa26BGPSo2wBV_X-MZRlXw8rSwzvCFky3UOieXfi9wcJnjaneSW1_7WzWs4DoQ63MnTsXcmXiO81G3yovgo0YVMJVA_BGuKmTWKw0lOW_3h-bjnwXymey91B5sgj9LN4zGhc/s1600/2013-05-11_12-10-08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhc5m4hqfa26BGPSo2wBV_X-MZRlXw8rSwzvCFky3UOieXfi9wcJnjaneSW1_7WzWs4DoQ63MnTsXcmXiO81G3yovgo0YVMJVA_BGuKmTWKw0lOW_3h-bjnwXymey91B5sgj9LN4zGhc/s640/2013-05-11_12-10-08.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enjoying a nice view of the Ourcq canal</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmIA_-KTcGFUPBKAy5QJhoRAOT0MLscZexE_UTmEp4mjrEVsKSYe9xlF2tf5yEaOBwsjDzpe5ou-S7reXjypcVye7xhzcg91PnNODQgGh-ZgVRZFRstVsfOzb3B7L1lsgPyzEBPtGBV4/s1600/2013-05-11_13-26-34_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmIA_-KTcGFUPBKAy5QJhoRAOT0MLscZexE_UTmEp4mjrEVsKSYe9xlF2tf5yEaOBwsjDzpe5ou-S7reXjypcVye7xhzcg91PnNODQgGh-ZgVRZFRstVsfOzb3B7L1lsgPyzEBPtGBV4/s640/2013-05-11_13-26-34_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah, the fresh smell of springtime</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yQr7HzsiosxjjcnHAhOVh-OGvtYksKtskmst6C_PzAZmS-9Wir0dovtMTRQTjvPLypYYusUK7Q4corbuZUe5spERKIfYSWgwizw_8xgmxNtU8oAH1RCJavK8H50hN86lGHUMiSB3pc0/s1600/2013-05-11_15-44-39.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yQr7HzsiosxjjcnHAhOVh-OGvtYksKtskmst6C_PzAZmS-9Wir0dovtMTRQTjvPLypYYusUK7Q4corbuZUe5spERKIfYSWgwizw_8xgmxNtU8oAH1RCJavK8H50hN86lGHUMiSB3pc0/s640/2013-05-11_15-44-39.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Having a strawberry yogurt snack. This triceratops is vegetarian, but not vegan.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzdWSDKk3maDWZVkalZFFeCO_zN_GiEsn-Bhm4m9bixlV8fqyrlCL-fhk5__FdH4v1hnogp_IfuiHFbmWGxPRZ6U2XBmtdBBrZa9faIPiBo80umayOF-_S5Ijlm-PBBr0BDylRgBWsJ8Q/s1600/2013-05-11_18-20-42.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzdWSDKk3maDWZVkalZFFeCO_zN_GiEsn-Bhm4m9bixlV8fqyrlCL-fhk5__FdH4v1hnogp_IfuiHFbmWGxPRZ6U2XBmtdBBrZa9faIPiBo80umayOF-_S5Ijlm-PBBr0BDylRgBWsJ8Q/s640/2013-05-11_18-20-42.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next to the bike path which follows tramway T3 in the south of Paris</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5cl7cjbqiI8xYARnwMJ4gK9JoU2Lctd57ifqOMy3-Vh173gJL7C0WrD_aWHv5KA75pxMohXIL-j-66a9R9PJc1C_OHHnm9CO5jQWT6P1RrcgFdk1bvcXf2kPF8YCRPnhbYS2f8MeRugE/s1600/2013-05-11_19-01-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5cl7cjbqiI8xYARnwMJ4gK9JoU2Lctd57ifqOMy3-Vh173gJL7C0WrD_aWHv5KA75pxMohXIL-j-66a9R9PJc1C_OHHnm9CO5jQWT6P1RrcgFdk1bvcXf2kPF8YCRPnhbYS2f8MeRugE/s640/2013-05-11_19-01-04.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exhausted after a long day</td></tr>
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These and more photos are <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/carmen75013/OurcqMarneLoop?authkey=Gv1sRgCKnp1pyvh_-WIg">in the gallery</a>.<br />
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The time/date and location captions on top of each picture were added by the app BoD made just for me: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jraf.android.piclabel">PicLabel</a>. He's just published it on the Play Store so other people using Android can also have fun with this simple but useful app :)Carmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882566932762169125noreply@blogger.com1