{"id":833,"date":"2020-07-26T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2020-08-02T22:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T20:50:57","slug":"ride-in-loiret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/?p=833&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Ride in Loiret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We brought the tandems on our <a href=\"https:\/\/obccenvadrouille.wordpress.com\">trip across France,<\/a> which gives us an opportunity to discover the places we visit at a different pace. Our first housesitting is in Escrennes, a little village 9 kilometers south of Pithiviers, in Loiret. When I realised we were in Loiret, I called my friend Laurent who I knew had a place around. He happens to be there over the weekend, it&rsquo;s about 20 km away, so we would go visit him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have already been to Pithiviers, it has nice cycling paths, sometimes protected from the road. The countryside is nice, large <a href=\"https:\/\/obccenvadrouille.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/21\/food-and-agriculture-in-escrennes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fields of cereals and beets<\/a>, very flat for most of it but with little valleys along the river, l&rsquo;Oeuf. Near Estouy there are some very nice properties, with little bridges over the river and trees around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/img_9509.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"837\" data-link=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/img_9509\/\" class=\"wp-image-837\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/img_9507.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"838\" data-link=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/img_9507\/\" class=\"wp-image-838\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/img_9534.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"846\" data-link=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/img_9534\/\" class=\"wp-image-846\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/img_9547.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"841\" data-link=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/img_9547\/\" class=\"wp-image-841\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/img_9541.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"842\" data-link=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/img_9541\/\" class=\"wp-image-842\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurent has inherited from his parent an ancient auberge, he collects a lot of things and he&rsquo;s an expert in electronics, mechanics, models&#8230; he owns a couple of nice old cars, and after the lunch outside he got them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/img_9551.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"843\" data-link=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/img_9551\/\" class=\"wp-image-843\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/img_9554.jpeg?w=750\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"845\" data-link=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/img_9554\/\" class=\"wp-image-845\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The way back was a bit windy and showing we were lacking exercise. We saw some big tractors and harvesters, and the castle of Y\u00e8vres-le-Ch\u00e2tel that is close by, next time we&rsquo;ll have a stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/img_9555.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"847\" data-link=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/img_9555\/\" class=\"wp-image-847\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/img_9556.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"848\" data-link=\"https:\/\/a4sur5roues.wordpress.com\/img_9556\/\" class=\"wp-image-848\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We brought the tandems on our trip across France, which gives us an opportunity to discover the places we visit&#8230; <span class=\"gridview-grid-post-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/?p=833&#038;lang=en\">read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> Ride in Loiret<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[26,34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_9547.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.obcc.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}