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300 odd km around the Puisaye and Jovinien ( west and north of me) just put "300km" in the "loop" section of KURVIGER on the puter and let it generate a route. transferred direct to the "me-phone" for use tomorrow when the girls team will have left for a long weekend with mother in law.   

I then looked at the weather forcast and discovered that the forcast for tomorrow is 40 odd by midday so I dug out my phrase book and found the page marked " sod that for a game of soldiers" and abandoned the children for the afternoon today cos tomorrow I will be mostly lying flat on the tiles of the living room floor with all the windows shuttered!

La Puisay, open countryside mostly arable and windfarms DSC04196.thumb.JPG.3aa5cd708263334f961a0c1b6cd48c38.JPG

untill you get over the other side and start down towards the Loire  when it becomes marshy and decidedly medieval DSC04206.thumb.JPG.58cc79b15dbd1025bda5128ce67a7f38.JPG

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something for the religious

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and for the historians ( s'funny that the french word for a fortified tower is Donjon, wheras the same word in English, "Dungeon" means the exact opposite of a tower...)

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I even managed to find a cooling splash for the tigers tyres...DSC04226.thumb.JPG.d3d431219003a7c04c64d7b3c0e765a2.JPG

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Great stuff Chris.......the water is a bit disturbing though. I'd have had to turn round and go home! :classic_unsure:

And I think English gets Tower from the Spanish word Torre.

Spanish for Dungeon is Mazmorra........so they went with your Donjon for Dungeon cos the Spanish one was too hard to say. :classic_laugh:

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I don’t think a dungeon has to be underground, though, pretty sure any closed space where you keep chained prisoners can be called one, or am I wrong? If so, it makes a lot more sense.

 

I love your bike’s colour, best looking Tiger ever!

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7 hours ago, Grasshopper's Ride said:

Looks like a nice ride, the road through the forest is my favourite, go figure.... ?

Oh me too, i love roads like that, partly the shade of course...?

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