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| The GPS tracklog from 2021/05/05 to 2021/05/05 click on the pic for opening the picture |
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| The GPS tracklog from 2021/05/05 to 2021/05/05 click on the pic for opening the picture |
On Wednesday May 5th I left Villa Thebaid at the legal time, 06:00. I arrived shortly before 3:00 p.m. at Loges Margueron
to pay homage to my deceased parents. I resumed my road to stop at the Rohrbach motorway rest area around 8:10 pm after
1068 km.
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| The GPS tracklog from 2021/05/06 to 2021/05/06 click on the pic for opening the picture |
Thursday morning from early morning I headed to QuoVadis where I had
meeting at 10:00 with Thomas Flemming, designer of the
QuoVadis navigation that I have been using since July 2004. The goal
was to migrate the QV7 version to the new QVX version in 64
bits. Hours of work had been estimated at 10 hours. Indeed I
left Thomas shortly after 8:00 p.m. to bivouac on the motorway area
by Reinhardshain.
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| The GPS tracklog from 2021/05/07au 2021/05/07 click on the pic for opening the picture |
Friday morning still at dawn I went to the Danish border
where after a very courteous discussion I was asked to return to
Germany because the border is closed to tourists, even vaccinated. He
It was explained to me that I could take the ferry to Hirtshals by
crossing the border on the same day of embarkation, Saturday May 22,
traveling the 350 km without stopping in four hours! I was
driven back to the border escorted by a police car with a
photo of my vehicle's license plate, confidence is everything
relative… I found a bivouac at Scandi Park near Flensburg. The
Saturday I was looking for a campsite without result because they were closed
until the end of May. I decided to go to the tourist office in Glücksburg
Monday morning.
Le tracé GPS de la route
de Scandinavian Park à EkernFörde via Kiel
du 2021/05/11
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Monday, May 10 I went on an expedition to Glücksburg in search of a
campsite by obtaining information from the tourist office, without
result. Everything is closed until the end of May.
Tuesday May
11th after a night of reflection I went to Kiel to inquire at the
office of Smyril Line, the company of ferries which serve the Faroe
Islands and Iceland. I got confirmation that the Danish border was
closed to tourists with the opening the same day I boarded the
ferry. I continued my search for a campsite without success. I was
going back to Scandi Park.
On Wednesday, May 12, the download of
the Windows 10 update was very slow due to an asthmatic WiFi
connection. Of course I have two laptops to maintain.
Thursday
May 13th was devoted to the maintenance of my trips around, to the
resolution of some technical problems with the QuoVadis team, and to
the maintenance of my website with the new software, it is time
consuming.
Here at Scandi Park, the car park is always full in
front of the supermarket selling beer and all kinds of alcohol at
discount prices, the locals fill the chests with cans! But from 8:00
p.m. I'm on my own.
The weather is deplorable, cold, 10 ° C, rain
and mist. Certainly I am in the north, latitude 54° north. The night
is getting shorter.
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Shipwrecked in Scandinavian Park near Flensburg about ten kilometers
from the Danish border, I witnessed the addiction of the locals, German
and Danish, to alcoholic drinks, mainly beer with which they filled
the trunk of their car overflowing. I stayed there from Friday 7th to
Saturday morning May 22nd when I boarded the Norröna ferry. Apart from
the surrounding trips in search of a campsite, I remained stuck in this
gloomy car park, fortunately before leaving my home I had read the commentary on the book
"L'énigme Pompidou / de Gaulle" by Arnaud Teyssier of the newsletter
by Ph. Bilger. I had downloaded this book and two
others by the same author, concerning de Gaulle and Charles Péguy, so I
had a literary viaticum for my trip to the North Atlantic. Beyond the
object of the book
"The Enigma", the author's subtle analysis of the state
of France from the liberation until the resignation of de Gaulle in
April 1969 can be, for an enlightened mind, put in perception with the
current situation since the presidential election of 2017. My
observation, of a non-specialist not frequenting the television sets,
consists in the recurring immaturity of the political elites since the
establishment of the republic, 1792, as well as the versatility of the
Gallic (French) people. I have neither the vision of the long duration of the
Bergsonian apprehension of de Gaulle nor the Normalian intelligence of
Pompidou, I will be careful not to prophesy the future by not consulting
the guts of chicken like the Romans. In any case, a close reading of
Arnaud Teyssier's book is highly recommended.
