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After having left the Netherlands finally in june 2017 I first started living in France. I travelled over there with my stationcar and big trailer, and all of my big campingstuff. Which means a 6 x 3 x 2 meter tent with small fridge, a cookingstove, a table and chair, and lot's of room in it. But this time I not only had my beloved MudRacer 3.0 with me but also my "new life" : my new, selfbuilt OnTheRoad 4.0 🖱️ supertouringbicycle, plus a set of new, small, lightweight campingstuff 🖱️.
I enjoyed the French Alpes per mountainbike (as always in the past 15 years) up to the end of october. Living at simple and easygoing campsites on several spots, changing region about every 2 to 3 weeks.
During that wintertime I rented an apartment near Beziers where I stayed until early may 2018. This turned out to be not such a good spot since it was hardly possible to make decent bicycletours there, being them onroad or offroad. All nice small roads there End up at the Canal du Midi, at some highway or in the middle of nowhere.
Besides that the old town of Beziers is at a hill, and entering from the west I did not one time manage to ride that long steep uphill ... Nevertheless did I have a good time there and I used the MudRacer 3.0 and OnTheRoad 4.0 pretty often.
Then spring 2018 arrived and I moved over to a campsite near Montpellier for a stay of about one month. A huge 4-star camping it was with all comfort and animations one could (not) want, including lying (problem-"solving") management and (always some very) loud guests within my range.
Around a city like this there are simply no nice campings available since there is to much money involved. I only chose this site since it was closest to Montpellier and I absolutely wanted to visit Montpellier several days (by bike). And you can be sure Montpellier is gorgeous !!!
Then the 19th of june 2018 arrived and that was the 1 year anniversary day of me being in France and of the YesTrip project !
Exactly on that same date I had my old car demolished and sent the "Certificat de demolision d'un vehicule" to the Dutch RDW to get rid of the ownership (-costs).
I then sold my dearest mtb MudRacer 3.0 to a bicycleshop. Thank You So Much Mr. Mudracer, how very much did I like every meter and second I was offroad with you !
Finally the last day of my former life arrived : on Friday 22 of June 2018 I started my YesTrip 🖱️ on the OnTheRoad 4.0 🖱️ :
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You find the first day's blog 🖱️ here !
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