Tag: france
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Apparently, zero of the imagineers building this Disneyland Paris cafe conceived that "Chuck Wagon" sounds like what a cowboy would call a wheeled vomit trough. 😂
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Faux Old-West building painted with lettering identifying it as the Chuck Wagon Cafe.
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Contactless Transport in London vs Paris
Paris is rolling-out contactless tap-in payments for its transport network. Sounds like London's... except that Paris's includes a "convenience tax" that seems to disproportionately target short-term visitors. What might this say about each city's relationship with tourism?
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The secret API I used to tell LeShuttle about different outbound and return passengers
Channel Tunnel operator LeShuttle's website wouldn't provide a working UI to specify that I'd have different passengers in my car for the outbound and return journeys. So, obviously, I reverse-engineered their API and pushed the information to their database directly.
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Freedom of the Mountain
Being able to safely ski virtually any run in any resort is a privilege I enjoy, but I wonder if perhaps my skiing skills have peaked and it's time to try to learn another snowsport...
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Found GCADXC6 Tour de France
This checkin to GCADXC6 Tour de France reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My very first "ski-o-cache" was 9 years ago, down in La Tania: this was my second! Found the host easily at the coordinates and found the cache in the third hiding place I tried. It's quite stiff …
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The family that shrank France
Another video from the Map Men, this time about the Cassini map of France and its legacy on contemporary cartography, presented in their usual hilarious style.
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Couldn't find GC629TH EABDG : La vache qui tourne dans le Tour de France
This checkin to GC629TH EABDG : La vache qui tourne dans le Tour de France reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Salutations d'Angleterre.
On a skiing holiday I took a day to go geocaching. Even with the hint, unable to find this cache: suspect it must be buried under … -
You know what they call a MegaLounge in France?
A Royale Lounge with Cheese.
Here! Have some cheese. Cheese! CHEESE! CHEESE FOR EVERYBODY!!!
I might not be getting enough sleep.
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The Tour de France website lists the names of all hills using the French style...
...which looks awful with Yorkshire place names. Today's hardest ascent: "Côte de Buttertubs"