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Retrospective: Warmshowers works great, even for spontaneous travels. I wanted to plan more in advance, but it was hard due to unknown route choice, weather and general sleepiness. The route planners "cycle.travel" and "openrouteservice.org" are good for finding small roads to cycle along.
Stage 5 - Lyon/Grenoble
All stays via Couchsurfing.
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I met with Valentin from Disco Soupe, Hadrian from Another Man's Treasure facebook group and went dumpster diving with him. We offered the food over the fb group.
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A lot of coding for the foodsaving tool, yay! Also huge amounts of fun and social interaction (does Estelle's cat also count?).
Stage 6 - Nimes
Nimes (Christmas 2016) - 310 km from Lyon, 2-3 daysBarcelona
Tais said she will be there on the 20th, so let's see how I can manage to not arrive earlier
2016-12-16: Tournon-sur-Rhone
17: Valence?
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Future destinations
Barcelona - 480 km from Nimes, 4-5 days
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