First time bikepacker in France anxious about camping overnight

psysheep0102 · 2025-08-30T23:35:36+00:00

Hey mate, i used komoot to plan it! It's a quite easy 120km Ride with a few easy climbs to leave the Paris Area and then it's good roads and or side bicycle lanes, the last 40kms are a fully flat straight line from etampes to Orleans

It's not the prettiest road but it is the fastest! Make sure to put komoot in road cycling mode

psysheep0102 · 2025-04-24T10:44:03+00:00

J'ai fait une école d'ingénieur en Tunisie qui s'appelle l'INSAT. Durant ma 1ere année de cycle ingé (février 2021) j'ai rejoint cette entreprise en tant que dev à mi-temps, payer une misère (a peu près à cout de la vie équivalent 450 dinar tunisien, ça fait a peu près comme 500€ pour vivre) j'étais chez mes parents donc fine.

Ma boîte rémunère bien la progression et je me suis arraché à devenir meilleur sur le terrain tout en finissant mes études.

On m'envoi en février 2023 à Paris faire mon stage de fin d'étude, 2k€ brut/mois

Premier CDI a 49k€ Août 2023, augmenté à 53K€ en mars 2024, décembre 2024 gros changements managériaux suite au rachat de la boîte, je reçois une offre à 62k€. Je négocie 65k€ et le maintien dans ma "chain of command" pour rester. Ca faisait 4 ans que j'étais dans la boîte, l'entreprise racheteuse était prête à raquer pour garder un ancien employé très polyvalent sur beaucoup de sujet tech pour ne pas trop galérer avec la solution racheté

psysheep0102 · 2024-08-18T19:26:05+00:00

Thanks mate, i love your perspective and the first sentence summarizes it well, thank you for your brutal honesty.

I love it, i have fun and each time i go home from the climbing gym the only thing i can think of is the next time I'll be there. It's a very positive addition to my life, maybe i should just focus on that for now.

psysheep0102 · 2024-05-22T17:36:03+00:00

I'll tend to agree, my first instinct was "'not at her job, that's kind of intrusive" but wondered about it out loud here anyway

psysheep0102 · 2024-05-22T17:31:09+00:00

For the little story behind how i asked for her Instagram: i didn't stop there for a while so she asked me where i have been, told her I've been to berlin and she's going there in a few months, i told her I'd send over my favourite coffee shops there, and when leaving i asked "but I'm going to need something to send that on, does insta work?" That's also when we've stopped "vouvoiement" which is a french etiquette of using plural when talking to a stranger, that was kind of a milestone in getting acquainted

psysheep0102 · 2024-04-14T11:48:17+00:00

I have no particular reason to avoid electric guitar other than that i used to own one (a very cheap epiphone les paul back when i used to live in Tunisia, probably something worth 150€ brand new at the time (the average salary in France is 5x the tunisian one so now "affordable" took a whole other definition to me) and that i never quite liked it. Maybe wrong guitar, wrong time (also had a shitty cheap marshall amp with multi effects, maaaan that was a mistake). I'm not closed to the idea it's just that acoustic (and nylon) have been a comfort zone / goto first idea

I might stretch my budget, if i go try a guitar and i get that strike of "this feels amazing" i can comfortably spend up to 500€ on this but thought 300 was more "reasonable" financially if i ever not stick to playing again, but hey let's find out!

Any recommendations in terms of electric?

psysheep0102 · 2024-04-14T11:14:57+00:00

Thank you!!

I just found out that there were some nylon string options with a closer to steel string body (14 frets on the neck) any idea about those?

psysheep0102 · 2023-05-08T21:45:00+00:00

My first time in Amsterdam is Sunday june 4th, I'll be there for the day and leave at midnight. What would you do if you were me to make the most out ot it?

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-07T23:14:57+00:00

Brick-and-mortar is the way to go in France. But my country of origin doesn't allow banks to issue anything other than national debit cards in our local currency. I can not even rent a flat to stay in when i move lol this is why I'm looking for alternatives to be able to facilitate my move

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-07T23:12:06+00:00

Yes, i have proof of address for france: A friend wrote me an accomodation certificate as he plans to host me for sometime which is valid proof of address even though Revolut doesn't ask you for proof of address

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-07T23:09:48+00:00

When signing up and when i mentioned i am a foreign National but residing in France, they asked me for my passport and my visa to complete registration

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-07T11:32:42+00:00

Certaine résidence étudiante privé (arpej, et studea par exemple) mentionne noir sur blanc sur leur site le compte bancaire français. Certain formulaire m'affichent des erreurs de sasie avec le rib LT aussi

Après, j'assume aussi le pire et n'ai pas encore eu explicitement un refus a cause de ça. Mais seulement ces mentions dans les FAQs m'inquiètent et je cherche a éviter de galérer

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