As soon as I get off A7 (Autobahn), I start seeing photo opportunities. I'm not actually in Montelimar but rather I'm about ten kilometers north.
I was too cheap for breakfast here so I went searching and a Boulangerie / Pattiserie is a place for pastries and sandwiches. The conversations when I visit places are always comical as I know so little French but the request for a sandwich was handled quickly: no! But she could offer me a piece of pizza for €2,20 and it was quite a large piece. OK, breakfast is handled!
In exploring a little bit more I found a little village on the way to Montelimar.
On a Sunday morning there is almost nothing open and hardly anyone is moving around.
Another view of the same village.
And here's another view only this time across the river a few kilometers down the road.
It's twisted but I find this very funny for multiple reasons.
The picture of a baby on a nuclear reactor just knocks me out! What does that picture tell us?
The wind turbines next to the reactor cooling towers are what I mentioned yesterday. This just makes no sense at all!
But what is so amusing / troubling is that they are so out of place. It's a lovely quiet community here and it's biggest occupation is making nougat. Who in the world would choose that as a location for a nuclear reactor complex, the biggest I have ever seen anywhere. I have never seen anywhere one with four cooling towers before.
The river, I believe, is the Rhone and N7 follows it. N7 is the equivalent of a German Bundestrasse or a U.S. state highway whereas A7 is the equivalent of the Autobahn or an American Interstate.
The latest thinking is that I should look for another tent and a cheap sleeping bag in Lyon. It's about one hundred kilometers from here and getting a tent means I would be able to go with camping again for a tremendous reduction in costs plus staying with N7 means there will be no tolls. I learned a great deal yesterday and first is that the Autobahn is fast but boring and it's also the most expensive way to travel in France which is very expensive in any case.
I know some of you are looking to what I encounter to plan your own trips so consider well about using the Autobahn. You will not see France any more than traveling the Interstate will show you America. Plus it will cost you about a euro for every ten kilometers while the state highways cost nothing. The speed limit on the Autobahn is 130 kph but the limit on the Bundestrasse is 90 kph. If speed is your only consideration then the Autobahn may be of value to you but it doesn't seem a very good way at all to experience France.
France is on the whole very expensive, particularly next to Italy or Greece. Keep it in mind.
I was too cheap for breakfast here so I went searching and a Boulangerie / Pattiserie is a place for pastries and sandwiches. The conversations when I visit places are always comical as I know so little French but the request for a sandwich was handled quickly: no! But she could offer me a piece of pizza for €2,20 and it was quite a large piece. OK, breakfast is handled!
In exploring a little bit more I found a little village on the way to Montelimar.
On a Sunday morning there is almost nothing open and hardly anyone is moving around.
Another view of the same village.
And here's another view only this time across the river a few kilometers down the road.
It's twisted but I find this very funny for multiple reasons.
The picture of a baby on a nuclear reactor just knocks me out! What does that picture tell us?
The wind turbines next to the reactor cooling towers are what I mentioned yesterday. This just makes no sense at all!
But what is so amusing / troubling is that they are so out of place. It's a lovely quiet community here and it's biggest occupation is making nougat. Who in the world would choose that as a location for a nuclear reactor complex, the biggest I have ever seen anywhere. I have never seen anywhere one with four cooling towers before.
The river, I believe, is the Rhone and N7 follows it. N7 is the equivalent of a German Bundestrasse or a U.S. state highway whereas A7 is the equivalent of the Autobahn or an American Interstate.
The latest thinking is that I should look for another tent and a cheap sleeping bag in Lyon. It's about one hundred kilometers from here and getting a tent means I would be able to go with camping again for a tremendous reduction in costs plus staying with N7 means there will be no tolls. I learned a great deal yesterday and first is that the Autobahn is fast but boring and it's also the most expensive way to travel in France which is very expensive in any case.
I know some of you are looking to what I encounter to plan your own trips so consider well about using the Autobahn. You will not see France any more than traveling the Interstate will show you America. Plus it will cost you about a euro for every ten kilometers while the state highways cost nothing. The speed limit on the Autobahn is 130 kph but the limit on the Bundestrasse is 90 kph. If speed is your only consideration then the Autobahn may be of value to you but it doesn't seem a very good way at all to experience France.
France is on the whole very expensive, particularly next to Italy or Greece. Keep it in mind.
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if they run at 9am here. Can you use an ATM monday say 10am cst. Earliest I can make anything work. Then stay backroads and cheap hotels. Will the cost of a tent and sleeping bag at this point be cost effective. You probably only have 8 days for payback. And then is the question of the tent being a huge sail.
Yes, I would be in Lyon by then and could certainly find an ATM there. I figure a tent would be thirty euros and a sleeping bag probably that or less. For payback, it wouldn't be long as campgrounds are roughly twenty euros per night relative to about fifty for hotels. To me that says payback in at most three nights. I'm a bit more confident about finding them as I saw one between here and Montelimar and that's only ten kilometers.
I know I can manage with a wrapped up sleeping bag as I've done it already. The previous tent doesn't really tell it as there was no way to roll it up but a small rolled up tent shouldn't change the profile too much. It would be a bigger problem on the Autobahn at higher speed and with more backwash from passing speedsters and big rigs but that won't be the same on the Bundestrasse.
Born again. Why do you care how he funds this.
If I feel like sponsoring this for a vicarious look at the backroads of europe. And his trials and tribulations that would be my choice.
I gamble in casinos and most would say that is a waste of money. But it is my money
As for a job. Why. I do extremely well without one.
Since St Jude doesnt have a bank account Excuse me if I act on his behalf.
If I can.do.it for strangers Why not someone I.know
Her only purpose is to bait as she would otherwise have to face having no purpose at all.
Thanks for what you do!
Hell I have no purpose raised my kids. Flowers doing great. Now to travel with my wife or them and eat cool food and meet strangers in thier world.
Next stop dogsledding and kayaking with the Inuit. Should be wild Tell you about it when yiu settle in Scotland
I know you do! BornAgain couldn't find a purpose with a Google Map and a GPS (laughs). Too much ganja in that one. Do it right and it's inspiration, do it too much and it's just an excuse not to do anything.
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