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Made a little fortnight tour in my new Ford Karavan (single bed version)...
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...trough french dep. Jura and Doubs area (Franche Comte),
passing Swabian Jura and Black Forest (Germany) and a bit of swiss Jura;
using nearly only the smallest streets I could find, lots of fine uphill and down so.
Not easy, forcing the sat nav into the most shitty and slowest ways from a to b.
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Must say, the Karavan made it pretty well,
only two bulbs and the front tyres (50 euros at a gas station) had to be changed
and sleeping in that little sardine tin can worked much better than expected, no need for using tent.
Met up with some friends in Ornans, camping, but their plans, caving with massive abseiling,
were a number too big for the good old fat, slow and weak Franconian.
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So I went on tour a bit.
Out for manmade underground but not well prepared I failed a lot.
Couldn't find exactly locations of that few places I had infos about, or maybe they did not even exist.
Isn't easy to search in a foreign language, you don't understand.
So what, saw lots of nice landscape, waterfalls, buzzard catching snake, Tour de France, etc.
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I failed here too, entrance was grilled and I was too lazy and anxious to ask for a key.
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situation had changed there, saw it in a report with three doorways...
CARRIERE DE CHASSAL
Mines et carrières de Franche-Comté / Carrière de marbre de Chassal | Aventure Minière
...but found only one left unblocked
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so what, shit happens, will give it another visit some day.
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bla, bla, bla
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one day I found a little tunnel beside the road and gave that a visit, to do not stay without any real explore
http://goo.gl/maps/d3UQI
just a 50 meter one, but better than nothing.
That part of the
Pontarlier - Andelot-en-Montagne - Salins-les-Bains rail
seems only to have been in use for seven years, from 1928-35, not a story of big success.
Read some more history here, via google translate, I couldn't do any more than copy it out, myself:
bangers-doubs.net
some more relicts are left in the area
Google Translate
original link here
tacots-doubs.net
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view inward from the middle...
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...and back, the tunnel made a curve
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found it nearly blocked by a stony, muddy pile...
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...ten meters to the other end, which was nearly totally blocked and I did not try to climb.
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collapsed from the side...
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..parts were looking fresh collapsed (so it seemed to me)...
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...it was a big hole up to the street/house level...
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...and daylight could be seen
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no wheelchair to be found, whyever, sorry just this tea pot
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placeholder / fill up shots
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way in/out was a bit muddy
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finish - Ende - aus
thanks peoples
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Made a little fortnight tour in my new Ford Karavan (single bed version)...
-
-
...trough french dep. Jura and Doubs area (Franche Comte),
passing Swabian Jura and Black Forest (Germany) and a bit of swiss Jura;
using nearly only the smallest streets I could find, lots of fine uphill and down so.
Not easy, forcing the sat nav into the most shitty and slowest ways from a to b.
-
Must say, the Karavan made it pretty well,
only two bulbs and the front tyres (50 euros at a gas station) had to be changed
and sleeping in that little sardine tin can worked much better than expected, no need for using tent.
Met up with some friends in Ornans, camping, but their plans, caving with massive abseiling,
were a number too big for the good old fat, slow and weak Franconian.
-
So I went on tour a bit.
Out for manmade underground but not well prepared I failed a lot.
Couldn't find exactly locations of that few places I had infos about, or maybe they did not even exist.
Isn't easy to search in a foreign language, you don't understand.
So what, saw lots of nice landscape, waterfalls, buzzard catching snake, Tour de France, etc.
-
I failed here too, entrance was grilled and I was too lazy and anxious to ask for a key.
-
-
situation had changed there, saw it in a report with three doorways...
CARRIERE DE CHASSAL
Mines et carrières de Franche-Comté / Carrière de marbre de Chassal | Aventure Minière
...but found only one left unblocked
-
so what, shit happens, will give it another visit some day.
----
bla, bla, bla
---
one day I found a little tunnel beside the road and gave that a visit, to do not stay without any real explore
http://goo.gl/maps/d3UQI
just a 50 meter one, but better than nothing.
That part of the
Pontarlier - Andelot-en-Montagne - Salins-les-Bains rail
seems only to have been in use for seven years, from 1928-35, not a story of big success.
Read some more history here, via google translate, I couldn't do any more than copy it out, myself:
bangers-doubs.net
some more relicts are left in the area
Google Translate
original link here
tacots-doubs.net
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view inward from the middle...
-
-
...and back, the tunnel made a curve
-
-
found it nearly blocked by a stony, muddy pile...
-
-
-
...ten meters to the other end, which was nearly totally blocked and I did not try to climb.
-
-
-
collapsed from the side...
-
-
..parts were looking fresh collapsed (so it seemed to me)...
-
-
...it was a big hole up to the street/house level...
-
-
...and daylight could be seen
-
-
no wheelchair to be found, whyever, sorry just this tea pot
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-
placeholder / fill up shots
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-
-
-
way in/out was a bit muddy
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-
finish - Ende - aus
thanks peoples
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