MooN Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 National holiday here. Just happens to fall on my day off too so I didn4t actually have to work it and managed to get out for a ride in the afternoon. it went something like this I have been wanting for some time to go and look at a castle / fort pair that I noticed from the autoroute a while back. Having no real reference point it took me a while to locate themusing google maps and google earth and sort of triangulating from the autoroute, guessing distances. I found them on the "Butte de Thill", about 70km south east of here as the crow flies. I managed to turn that into a 200k round trip though... round a bend... the centre section: translation: " Here, 25th nay 1944, Hitlers babarians tortured and massacred 25 young resistants of the group "Henri de Bourgogne". They gave their lives that France might live" the stone wings to right and left of the centre lists their names and nicknames ( or possibly codenames) much time was spent dodging these, they are all flat out at the moment I had to stop and watch the lemmings for 5 minutes... all heading back to their parisien kennels after the long weekend... 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Fantastic Chris! And you got a castle in for the BleedinYanks too! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 7 minutes ago, XTreme said: Fantastic Chris! And you got a castle in for the BleedinYanks too! gotta keep the colons amused ain't ya 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Great looking roads, still so green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 45 minutes ago, MooN said: ...about 70km south east of here as the crow flies. I managed to turn that into a 200k round trip though... Great report and piccies! Only a true biker can turn 70 km into 200 km. It's a gift that not many have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Nice one Chris I'm liking the look of this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tym Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 14 hours ago, XTreme said: And you got a castle in for the BleedinYanks too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 On 15/07/2020 at 13:46, boboneleg said: Nice one Chris I'm liking the look of this one yeah, i didn't explore it far enough so I'm going to have to go back, I'm not sure what the rules are for it as it's usually got a barrier across the entrance but it was open so I went along it for a handful of k's and then came back cos I needed to get home ( celebrating N01's driving licence and BAC results) it has some nasty bitumen speed bumps but avery single one of them has a packed earth earth "go around" an the grass at both sides...( typical french reaction to authority that ) you can see the entrance to one just above the right edge of my wind screen in the pic. i'm going to google earth it and see where it goes, then go back and explore it further. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Your ride reports make want to go through France on my bike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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