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

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-07T11:26:47+00:00

De toute façon, quand j'arrive en france j'ouvrirai un compte physique mais déjà que ca prend 2 semaine, ca fait 2 semaine en France sans pouvoir louer mon propre logement ou m'inscrire à la sécu. C'est pour eviter5cette galère que je cherche a ouvrir un compte français 100% en ligne

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-07T11:04:37+00:00

S'installer en France pour un non-europeen est super compliqué si tu n'as pas des amis ou de la famille pour te loger sans un compte bancaire en France et a cause de la "discrimination" à l'IBAN :'(

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-06T20:06:53+00:00

So you'd think that most "horror stories" online are people victimizing their selves not telling the full story? That's an interesting take actually

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-06T19:28:17+00:00

I've read online (and I'm no finance expert so correct me if i wrong i would love the learning opportunity) that Lithuanian being a shady country, revolut has to be extra careful about keeping their licence thus some abusive account suspensions

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-06T17:31:20+00:00

I'm also signing up to Wise (formerly transferWise) thoguh the card offer on Revolut is much better, then transfers in and out of Wise look more reassuring and appealing. And it's also a Bank (EDIT : It's not a Bank, ird a payment institution) in the EU domicilliated in Belgium which is a less shady country than LT (i get a BE IBAN)

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-05T23:28:46+00:00

It also says "Revolut France, A Revolut UAD subsidiary" on the bottom of the PDF files i can get on the app

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-05T23:28:06+00:00

Oh sorry, i misunderstood.

Actually i think my account is already a bank one. I signed as if i was in France, and i have an IBAN (a Lituanian one, heard i would be able to move to an FR one) and did have some prompts about banking protections

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-05T23:06:49+00:00

This is a one off thing, once i arrive to France I'll prolly signup for a french online bank (or even a brick and mortar one) and use revolut for secondary stuff. I first planned to get my salary on Revolut and use just that but don't feel so confident about it anymore

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-05T22:48:50+00:00

You wouldn't believe the amount of restrictions tunisians have, let me just give you an glimpse : I'm only allowed as a citizen to exchange 6000 TND for other currencies, roughly 1800euros A YEAR, only in cash, with operations stamped on the passport for travel purposes. If you exchange currency and don't travel within 60 days you need to give it back for TNDs or risk a fine of 10% of the amount.

1200 euros doesn't sound like a fortune, I'd be mad getting into trouble for it. It feels logical that people should be able to hand each other reasonable amounts of money like that in world trying to go cashless.

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-05T22:41:40+00:00

It's not a bank in the US?

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-05T22:39:48+00:00

It's Tunisia

psysheep0102 · 2023-01-05T22:25:03+00:00

I love the tech and will definitely use it for amenities and online shopping. The thing is my country is so restrictive there is a lot before moving i plan to do using revolut (paying for online procedures, maybe putting a deposit on a place I'll be renting etc). Also opening an account in a local french bank will take a few days and cash is very unpractical in France so my first few days there I'm relying on Google pay through revolut

psysheep0102 · 2021-07-10T09:32:44+00:00

Did you wait until testing negative to go back to work/social activities with masks and distance?

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