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| view from our campspot |
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| Mirjam trying to defrost |
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| this is just half a minute off the main road out of Andorra to France |
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| our second day in France. Daniel, his wife Jocelyne and their son Alex invited us to their house, stuffed us with fantastic dinner, great wine and excellent breakfast, double bed, private room, SHOWER and..and ..sent us away with a jar of Jocelyne's own made cherry jam..which we finished off the same day. what a family!!! thousand thanks! |
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| our room for the night!!!!!!!!! five stars! |
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| time to say goodbye and hit the road again |
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| The Cherry Jam!!!!!!!!!!!!! what more to you need to be happy??!! |
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| Daniel's Gasell which has travelled with himall over the place..shared some great adventures in Corsica. I think will get one of those for ourselves :) |
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| And this is the Great Plan Daniel constructed for us working all night long behind his computer - a plan which has taken us to incredible places and got us together with fantastic people. alll the way from Arignac to Itay |
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| in Mirepoix |
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| and there goes the last of the cherry jam ;( |
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| a little slug |
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| in front of McDonald's in Carcasonne..waiting for Melissa coming back from shopping..shopping presents for my birthday!!! |
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| by the canal Midi. all these 40 000 trees will be cut off by the next year cos they are infected with some kind of disease. so take good look |
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| what do you do when your partner is in trouble..you take a picture |
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| and another one.. |
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| new home? |
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| camping in vinyard |
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| our french brunch in Trebes! |
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| not sure what's going on |
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| a puncture. again |
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| and another puncture the same day. in total 3 times!!!!! |
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| sometimes it's just tooooo much |
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| stranded in the bus stop - our first proper rain since we started the trip! |
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| show offs |
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| laundry day |
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| what to you do when you desperately need a shower - you walk into a 4 star campsite, occupy the shower for half an hour and just walk out. just like that. the best stolen shower ever! |
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| just seconds after the picture was taken , she dropped our map over the edge of the bridge...but fortunately it landed on the concrete underneath the bridge and someone handed it back up. |
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| very helpful car service place where they fixed Bella' broken pannier rack |
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| five minute fun to cross the river and back |
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| and then came along Jerome!!!! the crazy french artist |
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| king in the castle! king in the castle! |
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| half an hour later it was decided. wine, food and camping together |
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| perfect spot by the lake before Saintes -Maries- de- la- Mer |
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| little free ferry crossing with other cyclist, horses and cars. don't ask the directions, no idea where we were or how we got there |
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| and to the next bar. we didn't really get far with those two days together. but it was all worth it! |
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| ..and the next bar..took ages to get going again..don't know why.... :) |
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| camping committe making a decision |
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| we stayed. the sunrise the next morning. the next day we found out that it was a special reserve and camping was prohibited. great place |
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| sunrise |
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| breakfast is served! |
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| carrots enjoying the romantic sunrise |
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| a passer by |
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| a litle photoshoot on the beach for the Milan fashion week. this summer - tents are in fashion! |
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| look at the consentration on their faces! |
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| in Arles. where are paths departed |
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| in Arles |
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| the end of the road |
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| saying goodbyes i just not easy |
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| Akim!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| in Saint Martin de Crau, where we just ,, just thought to go to the train station and just check the price to get to Italy ( we're in a hurry no, Melisa's visa is running out)..and there was no customer service person (it was a tiny little place) but instead there was Akim..five hours later we were, showered, full and had spent a great afternoon with him! what a guy!!!! what a great big heart!!! he jumped over his shadow to help us in any possible way! A fan of cartoons!!!!! |
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| for my birthday.. well i have to say..ehmm..original. never had that one before :) |
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| cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| check out my new earrings!!! |
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| jean Paul Gaultier..excactly what a girl needs in the bush! yess |
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| a typical french public toilet. lovely. this one is a clean version of the usual ones |
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| Miramas train station |
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| Marseille |
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| Marseille |
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| handicap parking, speciall reserved for Mirjam (in french Myriam) |
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| Cassis coming up |
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| in Casis |
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| the cutest person in the world! |
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| a great bar, shitty bar tender but a gret looking bar. toilet for the kings and queens! |
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| a bicycle tunnel! |
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| the creatures we meet on the road.. |
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| cycle in style of Saint Tropez! |
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| in Saint Tropez |
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| dinner in front of VIP Club in Saint Tropez |
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| Dick. From Holland. who joined our private VIP party and left us his dutch french bicycle dictionary! |
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| dedication! |
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| AHV!!!!!!!!! |
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| in Cannes |
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| in the meditarrenean retaurant |
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| Mirjam telling her stories |
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| Australian candy in Cannes |
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| camping in the middle of Antibes in a bush where there was many many other people living under umbrellas and in different sheds and tents. very nice spot. |
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| Monaco! |
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| Carlo from Italy who helped us finding a campsite..which we "accidentaly" used for free...a we'd done already before..accidentally ;) |
