Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Creative Reception Seating Charts

Tag 12: Montgontier (F)-Revel-Tourdan (F), 7am - 3 ° C



The fog is no longer quite so close. However, it will still be covered all day, so it looks like. The high humidity is uncomfortably cold, cold lies like a veil on the dress, the little skin that is not covered.



Ah, how beautiful! I discover in a small village a warm bar where I could not stand long. Many of the LPs on the wall are rare, I could browse for days in it.




a well house, walled in a special local style. Large pebbles are stacked diagonally, alternating rows to the left and right. The part for washing the laundry is made of wood, with a bracket to hang wet laundry for the first drip.



Faramans in the department of Isère, Rhone-Alpes. The population increased in the past 30 years by 50%, now at 750th The population density is 68 inhabitants per km 2 . For comparison, in Germany, the density averaged 231 inhabitants per km ² , Holland even 393 people per km ² .



In Eglise (Church) Saint Romain in place Pommier de Beaurepaire .
I'm not sure at first whether this figure is a Veräppelung. I have to laugh out loud when I realize to whom she remembers me. It is similar to Krusty the Clown of the Simpsons.
Later I see the same FIG often, however. This is St. Jean Vianney , the parish priest of Ars . He is the patron saint of parish priests. He had big problem with learning a hard life and many doubts about his profession. He was resistant to all the tests of time and thus in his community very popular.



the way in the wide valley of the Dolon .



The ice and the snow lay over the land and enchant it. Caspar David Friedrich would ensure his happiness.



Later I read about the Area " offers the way to Revel-Tourdan very often in the sweeping views shaped by the last ice age level of Geoirs . You can not have it all.




time I'm going to Revel-Tourdan to have on the mayor's office. You give me accommodation in a house in the village, which struck me on arrival so. It looks medieval, was sure the house of a wealthy nobleman. The husband picks me up (on foot) and greeted me cordially. Fantastic house, beautifully renovated, he has done it all. No, he was not a descendant of wealthy merchants, he says with a smile on that question. He is a currently-unemployed IT Manager from Grenoble with a penchant for country life. We eat and drink

local specialties in the fireplace crackles in the fire. What a treat!



view from my window in the dusk.



The friendly Maître de la Maison to its Gothic door.

Saturday, October 8, 2005

Kasamh Setv Streaming

Tag 13: Revel-Tourdan (F)-Bessey (F), 10 am, -5 ° C



Today is a bitter cold wind blows from North-West. At high altitudes it blows me right between the back and the backpack, which is quite unpleasant. The neck and back are cooling down fast, prompt, there are tensions.



I'm not sure if this really is the top seat of a hunter. To me from local forests known high seats look different, almost luxurious in contrast. A feeding station, it is not, I find no lining.



come after a long and tiring march through vast forests and drafty heights after I Auberives-sur-Varèze . Here, the population has doubled in the last 40 years. I approach slowly the Lyon metropolitan area, where the city continues to feel not much is. Only the new development areas of the sites are bigger.



Clonas-sur-Varèze . It goes down a cliff in the village. The Rhône, to guess the background has milled a broad valley.
Finally I find an open bar and drink some coffee shops. I feel now quite dull. Today is Saturday, tomorrow I will have a rest day, my first one. Have in a report read by a pilgrim, that he kept every Sunday a day of rest. That seems like a good idea, it is not a question as soon as possible to be in Santiago. The body to rest and reflect the spirit is certainly valuable.
Let's see how it is tomorrow, I'm looking forward to it.



But as far as is it yet. I would first cross the Rhone to stay in Chavanay. Before
happens again a special promotion, which belongs to me seem to do so. As I walk through Clonas-sur-Varèze, rises from the mist on your left a large plant that turns out to be a nuclear power plant. The French are well known in this respect somewhat benighted - and the Germans then buy the cheap nuclear power, but officially make eco.

When I do the photo above, go cry in one fire engine sirens in Clonas-sur-Varèze. Then, some of fire trucks roaring out of the village towards nuclear power and disappear in the haze. In a few moments, I imagine all the scenarios. There is only one Alternative: I am walking on the road, one kilometer away from a nuclear power plant, rush to the fire engines. Before me the Rhône, a few villages around me, otherwise covered fields and forests. I will probably have no choice but to keep running than to do as if nothing happened and wait.

The NPP is certainly not explode. Whether an accident or a practice existed, I could never find out.



At the bridge over the Rhone. I leave the Isere department and look for the third time in a few days, the Rhône.



On the bridge over the Rhone. The wind blows so strong that I started to take off my hat in order not to lose him. Against the cold, I wear a headband under his hat, for which I am particularly grateful.
no signs I would not have recognized the Rhone. She has since won a Yenne much more water to it. You should already have a volume such as the Lower Rhine. But she is also the most water, and 812 km the second longest river in France.



view Chavanay, in the Loire still in the Région Rhône-Alpes. The town is located at 155 Hm, in the coming days it will go to higher altitudes.



Chavanay is twinned with beech wood in Germany. Buchholz is a town of Waldkirch, a town in the Breisgau in Baden-Württemberg, 20 km from Freiburg im Breisgau.

on the left leg of the plate one can see an X in a red and a white bar. The GR65 is a form of sign and means that the way not go straight.



have two hours I looked for a reasonably good and affordable accommodation in Chavaney, I'm not found it. Then I have to just go a bit further. As is already the norm in this situation with a faster tempo, not in the dark to have to run.
Chavaney would have been a nice place to enjoy a day off. The incident at the nearby nuclear plant, however, I plugged in the bone, maybe it's better to move on.



At dusk I come Bessey to 400 Hm Unfortunately, the Gite is closed. After some questioning, I am sent to a place to stay in a kilometer away. I can come here at the weekend is saved! tears

Friday, September 9, 2005

Command And Conquer 3 Pc Install Interrupted

Tag 14: Bessey (F) -5 ° C



A terrible cry me last night from the half-sleep. I had taken a shower after my arrival, and for me a few minutes down on the bed before I wanted to make me something to eat. It sounded as if someone was dipped by hand in hot oil. Anyway, I thought at first of something. Then again. What's going on?

My property is an annex with two bunk beds next to an assisted living home for mentally disabled people. I go over, maybe something happened and I can help. I'm in the kitchen. Nothing to see, all are peaceful, make something or entertain themselves.

Then again, this craze. One of the residents, a small woman of about 30 years ago, saw me and shouted at me with tremendous volume. The supervisor takes me by the arm and says the woman that I ok was. Now it's quiet again, and all are absorbed in their activities as if nothing had happened. I will therefore be included and I am from now until Monday morning part of this illustrious family.



view Bessey . I'm going to walk Mitttag something to keep the circle alive and to relax the muscles and joints. A restaurant is open, they offer a pilgrim menu that fits yes. For the rest of the day I read and sleep. The weather is still hazy, just right for a day off.

In the kitchen there is pizza night, everyone can help to demonstrate the possibilities and pizza. I am invited and must eat with.

night I still hear the screams of a couple of times, but they feel almost as normal.

I admire the caregivers and pay tribute to them the highest respect. In my eyes they run every day at least back to Santiago and .

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

What Do You Have To Buy For The National Guard

Tag 15: Bessey (F)-The Setoux ( F), 9 am, -3 ° C



The rest day has been good, I look forward to the stage today. The body has recovered enough only the feet make me a bit of worry, the swelling of the joints is not diminished.
I'm on the road early, the school bus drives over the country and collect the children. It must be a good day when one morning already direction Paradis running.



And indeed, the sky clears and the sun comes to the fore!



an experience once again to have distance vision and see what's in a beautiful place for you.



The mud on the roads and the snow is frozen hard. The wind in recent days has lain down to luck.



pulls However, after a few hours the sky again, it looks like snow.



Col de Banchet a hill between St-Julien-Molin-Molette and Bourg-Argental.



After the Col de Banchet it goes down into a valley, Bourg-Argental in it.



Bourg Argental is on the route to Le-Puy-En-Velay before a pass to 1083 Hm Suc des Trois Chiens next goes to 1365 Hm heavy traffic through the narrow streets of the provincial town . The metropolitan Saint-Étienne is 30 km away in the north-west.



The church of Saint-André in the center, the traffic tortures himself over it.



The church has a very nice portal with tympanum of the 12th Century with a representation of St. James, and pilgrims.



Who knows this picture is not, it hangs in almost every restaurant serving traditional cuisine. At this situation, I have to think in much more positive context, of course, when I walk up the long climb to the Forêt de Taillard . Suddenly steps are heard, then trudge down I see two people in the snow the forest.



I encounter two pilgrims!

Big surprise. No one expects that right here, right in the forest, other pilgrims opposite could occur. In my case it is even the first pilgrims that I see at all. Two tanned, cheerful people. His name is Raul, her name has escaped me, unfortunately.

you started running in August last year of Antwerp in Belgium to Santiago. On 6.ten December, two months ago today, they are then broken down in Santiago to retreat via Geneva. She will stay in Geneva with family, he will continue to return to Antwerp.

you warn me before the day tomorrow, which should lead to very icy roads and had been one of its most difficult stages. Then we say goodbye, Ultreia !

in the next couple weeks, I more often their names refer to the pilgrim books, after felting in churches and gites in France.

When I walk around at their own pace, so I'm in about two months in Santiago, at the 10th April.



St-Sauveur-en-Rue on the pass line. I think I need to pass, just below the fog, which is visible from here.



The forest is gorgeous. Close to forest workers are heard, with chainsaws and heavy equipment.



Here cross the GR7 and GR65, including the GR42 through this area, I must So take good care of the markers. Now I am in the mist, then it probably can not all be too far.



The snow is deep ...



... and dense fog.



With this image size, it is perhaps not quite to advantage. The yellow lichen on the trunk of the tree lights in the otherwise white surface.



Les-Setoux , a small farming village in 1142 Hm I'm glad to have finally arrived. In this fog I do not wish to run in the big woods. This saves me so far, fortunately remained. For safety, I'm attending a compass and orient myself in this weather regularly on the map. In the (real) mountains I've seen weather conditions and upheavals that have made a policy almost impossible, even with a compass and map.
physical exhaustion and fatigue are factors that should not be underestimated. You have to concentrate all day on his way. Some of the small shell icons or the red-white trail markers are covered in snow, placed partly on the ground on stones. In the summer, to see great, now invisible.



food and bed. Just what I need. The Gite has actually Open all year, as it is in the guidebook. I get a bed in a community building. Whether I was making up, if anyone is sleeping in the room? Of course not. Later comes a 25-year-old forestry worker, driver of the wooden machine that I've heard this afternoon. He is very proud of his work. He is from St-Étienne, a week sleeping on the Gite, on weekends, he drives home.
dinner he will not go with me, he knew the map by heart. Menu du jour , daily menu of French home cooking with lots Vin de Pays , the red table wine.
The night's sleep is sure.