Campanile Besancon-Ouest Chateaufarine
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Parc Naturel Des Vosges
... avez traverse le fleuve, mais ma femme et mon chien est locked dans le jardin de le châteaux behind les electric gates" Madamoiselle looks horrified and mutters to herself "how can monsieur do such a thing, la poor madame et chien". The gates open and a very grateful Madame et moi are set free.
Madame et moi have sent Monsieur a Coventry pour un jour. Madame et moi are now promenading sans Monsieur!!!!
Bruno (Le chien)
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Resistance
... enough town, on the Doubs River, but hardly top ten material. A citadel on top of the hill overlooking the town was the only significant attraction. It has been utilised as a series of museums, and as a zoo, which is quite clever. The best exposition is that of the French Resistance, an extensive series of displays explaining the rise of Nazism, and the efforts to resist the occupation of France.
We did our best to walk Besancon and look interested, but we failed miserably.
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Tourists
Two weeks in France...and a couple of days spent being tourists and heading back to the Alps for a last hill climb and to watch the Tour climb Col du Glandon.
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· Cumulative metres and distance for the trip: 12,100m and 440km.
No tour action today - a rest day - so we spent our day being tourists in ...
Evans Wigged Out
After a morning spent updating the blog, we made for a little village in the Franche-Comte region, about 20kms from where we are staying in Geneuille. Duncan had done a map recon, and reckoned we could park and walk to the Stage 9 time trial course at Boussieres, about midway along the 40km course.
We followed our GPS instructions and crossed at bridge at Torpes, parking the car not far from there. We then set off on foot. 2.5kms later we ended ...
The Tour de France Time Trial
... thumb and little finger being flicked down vertically.....motherf*****) - which is a bit disconcerting in someone not much younger than me!! Chris told us about the local area, the wines and the cheese of some renown, and the history of horology (watch-making) comparable with Switzerland; Tissau apparently started in this area. The FrancheComte region really is indeed very ...