August 16, 2024
Day 7: Bracieux to Chaumont
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Having tapped into Josh's phone we have some additional photos from yesterday, so let's pick up there.
Bracieux had a small but nice central square, and we happened into it with a small but nice celebration going on.
The square featured a creperie and also the Restaurant du Commerce. We wisely chose the latter, since the creperie was full!
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The arrangement was an all you can eat buffet, arrayed around three walls of a room. The fare was hearty, quality, French food, but with a lot of sausages (of dubious composition) , and as you see in the photo, moules frites.
The price for the above was 20 euros for adults and 10 euros for children. That is very reasonable by current French standards.
While we were still in Blois, Josh and kids nipped out to meet up with Jenn Quinn, an old family friend. Here is the meetup photo, which will be of interest to those who know the family, or Jenn, or both.
This will become a bit of an old story, but within minutes of setting off this morning, we hit our first boulangerie. We slammed on the brakes and parked just down the road.
Also an old story is the array of amazing, delicious stuff on offer.
Of course, goodies like this can power you a certain distance, but then there is the well known energy crash. Breakfast had also been of high quality, but only the French standard of crossants, pain au chocolate, and juice. No bacon or eggs or cheese or milk in that list. So it only took 11 km for the kids to announce that they had had it.
Josh countered this a bit with ham and cheese from the sandwiches we had planned for lunch, and before too long, we were back on the road.
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Hey, Joe seems to talk to a bunch of them.
Do you know why crops, wheat, corn etc ... have a smaller size when located on the edge of the fields ?
Same question applies to trees in the forest. Why are the trees smaller on the edges, taller in the forest center ?
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Yvon, un ami cycliste retraité ONF (Office National des Forêts) , nous précise sa réponse et nous parle du phototropisme, capacité qu'on les plantes à s'orienté vers la lumière parce l'auxine, hormone de croissance se concentre dans la partie de la plante la plus ensoleillée, sa partie apicale, le somment de la plante
L'auxine, une hormone végétale, est un de ces signaux et contrôle notamment quand et où la plante produit de nouvelles feuilles et fleurs. Les feuilles et les fleurs sont formées l'une après l'autre à l'extrémité des tiges en croissance par un petit groupe de cellules appelé méristème apical caulinaire.
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At Cande sur Beuvron, we ran into a crossroads with a park and benches, restaurant, bakery, and lots of cyclists taking a break. We grabbed a table for six at the restaurant, and set about finding some protein, especially for Amelia. I went for a burger, and had the familiar animated chat with a French waitress about exactly how "burnt" I wanted that burger to be. Not "au point", eh, but carbonized! This time , the lady and I agreed that the point of doneness was just before the fireman (pompier) would come.
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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61749-Lucanus-cervus/browse_photos?place_id=6753
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We arrived in Chaumont, where it honestly took the combined talents of the three adults to find and enter the Airbnb type apartment (house, really) that we had reserved. It was the typical horror show of phoning the owner to find out where the place was and how to get in (as usual, a multi-part process). Once in, we spotted only one bed, and it took research to uncoverr the secret doors, leading to the upstairs, with tons more beds and space. In the end, it was really fine!
Dodie and Josh left me to fend the children off all the cookies and such, which they found the farmers' market, returning with fresh string beans, grapes, potatoes, BBQ chicken and pork, and such. Despite all the cookies the kids had scored, they fell on and devoured these supplies as well!
Dodie and Josh found the market very good and interesting, so we all set off for a look. I brought my camera and so did Joe. Frankly, Joe is such a good shooter that I do not need to bother uploading my own shots!
THE KID'S TAKE
Joe
This is a cow in the perfect pose
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And finally, no words right now, just this gesture from Evee:
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Today's ride: 35 km (22 miles)
Total: 112 km (70 miles)
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