From the 2006/03/18 to the 2006/03/24 |
--Two days in
France |
I left the Home base in Draguignan the 18/03/06 to carry out the first part of the round the world with for objective the journey to China by visiting Mongolia beforehand. | |
On the initiative of Michel Wehrlé, I spent the weekend at Cyrill and Sylvie, author of guidebooks with GPS at the Takla-Makane editions. They live the hamlet of Eoulx in the "Gorges du Verdon". I collected information of their journey in Mongolia in 1999. The meeting ended with a diaporama showing superb landscapes. | |
The castle of Eoulx
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A street of the hamlet of Eoulx | |
Monday 20/03, I had appointment
at the Garage Campagne in St Jean de Bournay to inflate a shock
absorber with nitrogen which had been repaired and inflated with compressed air. | |
The town of Prague is difficult
access for heavy trucks. The 22/03 I stopped on a service area to a
score of kilometres from Prague. As in September 2005, I succeeded in
approaching the centre town which I visited the 24/03 from 9:00 to 15:00
to re-examine certain districts and to consult my email address.
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Sight of Mala Strana
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A walk in the old Jewish ghetto enabled me to re-examine the houses built fine XIXth century according to the “Art nouveau” called “Secession”. The report of my visit in 2005 presents pictures of these residences “end of century”. | |
Painting, house at the angle of Maiselova and Siroka
street | |
I left Prague about 16:00 to find a parking for the night on a service area of the highway from Brno to Krakow. In the early morning of the 24/03, I noted that the outside temperature was of - 6.7°C with an immensely blue sky. | |
The truck on the service
area | |
The way to the Polish border was carried out on a good highway. The last ten kilometres were terrible, road with many holes. At the border, a fastidious civil servant obliged to me to take the file of the trucks. I made the tail during approximately fifteen minutes. Control related only to the passport. An end of highway prolongs the border Polish side. I stopped on a service area about 13:30 to lunch and prepare the publication of this page of my website. Road 52 from Bielsko-Biala to Cracow was in a bad state. The traffic was dense in this Friday evening. I arrived at 17:30 on the Carrefour carpark where I decided to spend the night. | |
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Krakow, the 2006/03/25 | |||