--Four days in
Germany
--Fourteen days in
Paris
The departure of "the Globe" approached, I was to go to take my truck at UNICAT in Germany, then to head towards Paris in order to solve administrative problems.
My truck was at Dettenheim since
the 10/10/2005 for setting up a diesel cooker and
for fixing various modifications caused by the experience of the
two gallops of test in West Africa and Northern Europe.
I benefited from a trip of Michel accompanied by
Patrice which went there to join them in Lyon the 15/01/2006 at 11 a.m.
coming from Draguignan-Les Arcs by the TGV. We arrived at Dettenheim
around 6 p.m.
I remained four days at UNICAT to take delivery of installations and to improve my technical skill in order to do the service of the truck.
The diesel cooker by Webasto.
I left UNICAT 19/01 around 3 p.m.
to go to TOURATECH at Heppenheim, exit 31 of the German A5 highway. I
bought the update of TTQV version 4 and digital maps.
I took again the road around 6 p.m. to go
to France with a night stop on a lay-by of the A4 highway before
the exit of Phalsbourg. I had planned a two-week stay in
Paris.
The truck at the Camp-site of Bois
de Boulogne
under low angle light in the end afternoon
January 2006
The occupation in Paris was
divided
between the complements of hardware purchase for the truck, technological
as well as technical, and the solution of administrative problems
involved in obtaining the seven visas for the journey to the Chinese
border. The VALS agency not having been able to have a letter of
invitation for Azerbaijan, I have had to go to the embassy to meet the Consul in
order to have of an exemption of the LOI. He asked me to
write a letter of motivation of my trip to his country. I benefited from my Parisian
stay to visit to
La Maison des Français à l'Étranger, MFE.
The reception of the hostesses was very cordial
and very interested in my project of a trip around the world. I collected
invaluable information. It is necessary to mention the many computers with
a free Internet access.
Another strong time was the delivery, with delay, of a Durabook laptop computer and a BGAN Thrane & Thrane satellite modem
by IEC Telecom. The publication
of this page was justified by the training to use the laptop computer
connected with the satellite modem.
The hardware, GPS connected
to the laptop in the cockpit, and the software of navigation, TTQV 4,
must enable me to follow on-line the road on digital map. The test
will be carried out at the time of my trip towards MAN-Bresse on the 05/02.
The report of this experiment will be presented with the next
publication.
At all events
it is not certain that I have all the visas before my departure. I would
know it on the 24/02.
During my stay in Paris, the weather was not mild. Every night, the temperature went down under zero. In spite of sometimes negative temperatures, bicycling in Paris was pleasant with dry and sunny weather.
