A Paradocs Abroad

It wasn't exactly a dry day and it took a bit of persuading to get Doug out the door.

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Everyone knows about French cheese. There are hundreds of varieties. Our Saturday market in Saint-Renan has at least 6 cheese vendors. Three of them have selections rivaling the Les Amis du Fromage shop in Vancouver; and they are in trailers that they move from market to market each day!

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We've uploaded a bunch of new images to Flickr over the past couple of days:

• Images from our visit to the Musée Rodin in Paris on 24 September
• Susan's images of Notre Dame de Paris (mostly through the trees on the river side) taken on 25 September
• Images from our stay at Timberline Lodge on the south flank of Mt. Hood where we attended the Eatern Pacific Ocean Conference (EPOC) during the last days of September

There are a few other miscellaneous images that didn't make it into one of the sets above - dig around in the photostream if you're interested...

The time zone may be weird, but we had a beautiful, sunny 20°+ day today, that made the beginning of our winter training for PBP 2007 pretty easy to start.

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According to Google Maps Saint-Renan is located at about 48° 26' N, 4° 37' W. Only a little south of Vancouver's 49°+ N, but 2/3 of the way to the western edge of the GMT time zone, even though we are in the Central European time zone, 1 hr ahead of GMT...

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In kilometers it's about 10,000 (taking great circle distances from Vancouver to Montréal, Montréal to Paris, and adding in the 600 km from Paris to Brest). But we live in time, not kilometers, and it's a lot of hours, further complicated by 9 time zones difference.

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Time for another trip - this time to Vancouver, Oregon, and Parksville...

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