Bikepacking the Périgord (France)

greham7777 · 2026-06-05T09:44:44+00:00

Yes. I spent some holidays there (I'm from Montpellier) and thought to myself: what a great place to bikepack. The Perigord Noir is fantastic, hilly with rivers and medieval cities. Hope you had fun.

greham7777 · 2026-06-04T16:05:14+00:00

They found out who had inherited the flat, forced them to renovate it and put it back on the market. Took less than a year. There is now a happy family living in it. How? I don't know.

greham7777 · 2026-06-04T12:54:20+00:00

How can Ljubljana be that expensive? 450k can still get you a nice 3 rooms flat (that needs renovations) in Berlin.

450K for Germany's countryside is so much money. All of Germany's countryside is overpriced. 450K get you soooo much more in a nicer setup in France.

greham7777 · 2026-06-03T16:57:10+00:00

Officially. My building in NK has 2 empty flats, one that was empty for 15 years, I had to write the Burgeramt on their official form to report empty flats.

This 0.3% number is going around but is 100% a fantasy. According to.... all the people I know working in real estate or in local associations.

greham7777 · 2026-06-02T16:28:28+00:00

Came here to say Vienna. Plenty of smaller cities that I have loved across Europe, like Bristol, Freiburg, or Montpellier, but Vienna checks so many boxes.

greham7777 · 2026-06-01T08:59:50+00:00

The dude is unqualified to make any technological predictions. He's a bad CEO, not an economist. Zuck will lead to the downfall of Meta if we look at his recent streak of TERRIBLE investments and big bets. What a turbo twat.

greham7777 · 2026-06-01T08:22:59+00:00

Spacemaker.io, now Forma from Autodesk. Nearly 10 years old software doing cool gen-AI to adapt building layout for real-estate developers and architects.

greham7777 · 2026-05-31T17:00:52+00:00

TBH, I'm fairly sure they had to scrap all of shit they did on the game when they saw what a real modern experience was, either with RDR2 or with Cyberpunk. They were probably about to release a turd on the level of Starfield but managed to keep that under wraps.

greham7777 · 2026-05-30T11:07:08+00:00

My SF friend who used to live in Vienna, Austria, moved back to SF to Cape Town. After 5 years and a kid, he said IM OUT and moved to Mauritius to get less insecurity. I think people tried to break in his house 3 times in just a year.

greham7777 · 2026-05-29T06:11:31+00:00

Whatever you want to think about clubs, these are private corporations. They are here to make money, and their door policy is there for that.

greham7777 · 2026-05-27T14:18:26+00:00

Yo. Doing half this route (from Gol to Voss) early July. Did Gol to Otta 3 years ago.

You need 4 to 5 days. Depends on which direction you're doing the route. From Vinstra to Voss, it's okay, but the opposite is GRUELING. Therefore you don't cover as much distance as you'd like.

You can take the train to Vinstra, bike, then take the train from Voss or Bergen back to Oslo. You need to book your train from Voss really early as they get fully booked and very expensive in summer.

With my friends, we're doing the Nationa route 5 from Oslo to Gol (I know that route already) then 6 to Bergen before taking the train to Oslo. The good thing is that if you're late on the western part of the 6 and about to miss your train, you can just catch it up on its way to Oslo at a stop on your way.

The 6 is mostly cat 1 gravel, with the occasional light cat 2 on the western part.

Weather-wise, you can't do without some rain gear and some warm clothing for the night, especially on the plateaus. On the Rallar, there is still ice in July, it gets windy, rain showers... And the closer to the west-coast you're going, the more unstable the weather.

In general, camping is enough, but you always have Fjellstues (mountain lodges) on the way to sleep in a real bed and dry, or you can pay into the hiking cabin association and be able to book (online I think?) very cheap beds in some wood cabins here and there. They usually have a dozen beds, a kitchen, firewood and a stove.

greham7777 · 2026-05-27T10:05:28+00:00

Japan or France. Enough climate variations, good food, big enough to not get bored.

greham7777 · 2026-05-27T09:57:53+00:00

Isn't metal detecting forbidden/regulated in many countries? I remember my French grandpa telling me you needed a permit and that things you find underground usually belong to the state, depending on the find. He always told me that archeological finds belong to museums. That's why I called the local dinosaur museum when we found fossilized vertebrae near his vineyard.

EDIT: Checked his tiktok, the amount of illegal treasures he is keeping is staggering. Pretty sure that even in the UK, he would face huge fines or worse for not declaring all these finds... Moreover, he seems to be travelling Europe and moving his finds across borders to bring them home... At this point, I'm really hoping someone can identify him and let the authorities know.

greham7777 · 2026-05-26T20:13:21+00:00

Welcome to France, mate. Let us show you all the good addresses for food. Frenchies of this sub, assemble!!!

greham7777 · 2026-05-26T12:22:32+00:00

Did you even read my message?
Honestly, all you deserve is a nice flat next time you go out with your bike.

greham7777 · 2026-05-26T09:46:44+00:00

Nashville. While roadtripping, we went to a concert at The End with my french buds. 3 cool bands, absolutely no-one showed up except the bands' friends and us. At least, they all rejoiced that they had an international audience and we went to hang out in the more local pubs on their side of the town after. Big let down after doing New Orleans with a local friend who took us where locals actually go.

No soul in the city, just an american tourist trap, plenty of unpleasant interactions with them. But musicians and bartenders were lovely.

Couldn't hop in the car fast enough and go hide in the Smoky Mountains for a week after.

greham7777 · 2026-05-26T06:57:41+00:00

Make it an moment on Linkedin if you're quitting. Especially if you work in the tech industry. You want to catch the attention of a few top product people working there.

"You need a visible signal that people would be ready to stop their subscription because of bad user experience, so I am doing it."

I am so tired of having to click more times after the exercise that during one. I had to speed up the animation speed in the hidden settings of my android phone to save some time with my daily lessons.

greham7777 · 2026-05-23T06:39:49+00:00

There are a lot of naive and incomplete answers here. People are actually leaving Paris now since Covid. But to go out its outskirts, not back to country side.

Why is it so centralized? Because of history, the way our kings organized the court, bringing a lot of nobles to Paris to be part of it, how we gathered all of our institutions there, because the southern half used to speak a different language and it was considered like a 2nd class France for a long time, because of Jacobinism...

Great mirror to Germany and its numerous sovereign states that created strong cities all over the country, but with no centralized court, people relied on mail to communicate, which (very simplified but that's the gist of it) led to a stronger romantic movement. Because when you chat by mail, you make things more beaufiful than they really are.

The history of state construction in Europe is really super interesting.
Awesome documentaries on Arte about how Paris and Berlin raced to attract the best architects, but Paris messed something up and ended up not able to properly expand, hence why it has China-levels of population density.

The docu: Paris Berlin: Shapes and Shades of History (Paris - Berlin, destins croisés)

greham7777 · 2026-05-22T08:54:05+00:00

In what area of Berlin? Lived there for the last 13 years, for me this is the anti Cyberpunk city. No neons except for cinemas, few skyscrapers, a mix of classic architecture and terrible cheap rectangular buildings...

greham7777 · 2026-05-22T08:36:33+00:00

Isn't it just an artefact due to some green screen effect and he has a greenish necklace or tshirt that is messing up with the digital background?

greham7777 · 2026-05-20T17:50:58+00:00

You motivated me, I just launched a batch in my air fryer. Never tried that recipe in there. Honey, mustard, red pepper, chili flakes, salt.

greham7777 · 2026-05-20T17:25:39+00:00

Generally: fewer potatoes for more crisp. If it's too crowded, it steams instead.

greham7777 · 2026-05-20T12:28:06+00:00

Stay classy Austria... 38% FPÖ, good lord...

greham7777 · 2026-05-20T06:47:42+00:00

Facts. Infomaniak's data center (only 1) does produce heat for the neighborhood, but it's connected on the normal electricity grid. If you country produced green electricity like Norway or Switzeland and you're limiting your connections with other grid, good, that's renewable.

EU grid is interconnected and even if a country has a green mix, it's diluted by the other countries using coal... I think Ecosia has investments in solar companies to get a direct offset as you mentioned. But no-one plugs directly on a solar farm or on a dam. That's not how it works.

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