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Apr. 24th, 2011 11:21 amI've finished my readathon for my PhD. There'll be another starting Wednesday, when more books come in. I have back-pack of books to return on that day.
I promised myself a bunch of writing once this was done and yet I have written nothing. This is because somehow, just somehow, I had forgotten to sort out some crucial parts of my Europe itinerary.
I needed to find out if Pezenas still has the remnants of building that I need (1), whether Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert teaches about the garrigue and its wildlife(2), whether there are any markets on suitable days anywhere I'm going, how far the Devil's Bridge is (walking) from Aniane and from Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert (4), how much it costs to get into the York museums I must go to (5), details of what's available medievalishly for Montpellier and Beziers and their days of closing (6), if the Herault bus network gets everywhere I need (7), various things about Aigues-Mortes including a street plan (8), details of the Montpellier transport system (9), city maps for most places (10), if I need to book anything in advance apart from accommodation (11) and so on (12).
And now all of ye-who-love-footnotes should be happy. I have intentionally formatted this so that there are more footnotes than post.
1. No, but the related ones are webbed and I only need to go through the town, not stop, which is good, because Pezenas has the least good tourist interface for historians of any place I had planned to visit
2. No, but Gignac might - I've written one email and have one still to write - my French failed me at 1 am - and this means that Gignac now replaces Pezenas on my places-I-must-visit list.
3. Possibly.
4. Still not certain - different maps say different things. There may, however, be a tourist shuttle bus from near the bridge to Saint-Guilhem, which'd do me fine.
5. I can spend a lot on a Yorkshire Pass or half that on just the ones I need to see - the York tourist information is excellent, the Yorkshire Pass information, less so.
6. Haven't managed to solve this one yet, though Beziers might be sending me a brochure. I just need to know about their garden.
7. It goes to Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert albeit with a restricted timetable and to Gignac, but I will need to book a train to Beziers. This is why I'm doing all this early work - much cheaper to book trains early.
8. The tourism folk for Aigues-Mortes totally, totally rock. Everything I needed is in one downloadable booklet, which, unlike the Herault booklets was actually saveable. I not only have a map, I have an annotated map telling me what was built when. I was so excited about this that I forgot to check transport to the town!
9. Very mixed information. Some of it is clear and some of it is very strange. I rather suspect I will need to visit the tourist info centre in Montpellier and ask questions, my first day.
10. I have htem for about half the places I need. I can't work out whether there's a path direct from the railway station in York to the guesthouse (it would be along the railway line if there were one) or if I have to go into town and out again because of bridges. Google Earth will solve this and also my Montpellier map issues. What I wanted was simple street maps to get me around. Again, with Montpellier, the tourist information service is essential. For some other places, however, I am all solved.
11. York encourages it but charges for it, as well. I need to find out if the queues are really, really bad in July - if they are then it's worth doing the timed and advance bookings and then queue-jumping. For other places, no-one seems to know.
12. I've run out of steam, right now, just as I ran out of French last night.
I promised myself a bunch of writing once this was done and yet I have written nothing. This is because somehow, just somehow, I had forgotten to sort out some crucial parts of my Europe itinerary.
I needed to find out if Pezenas still has the remnants of building that I need (1), whether Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert teaches about the garrigue and its wildlife(2), whether there are any markets on suitable days anywhere I'm going, how far the Devil's Bridge is (walking) from Aniane and from Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert (4), how much it costs to get into the York museums I must go to (5), details of what's available medievalishly for Montpellier and Beziers and their days of closing (6), if the Herault bus network gets everywhere I need (7), various things about Aigues-Mortes including a street plan (8), details of the Montpellier transport system (9), city maps for most places (10), if I need to book anything in advance apart from accommodation (11) and so on (12).
And now all of ye-who-love-footnotes should be happy. I have intentionally formatted this so that there are more footnotes than post.
1. No, but the related ones are webbed and I only need to go through the town, not stop, which is good, because Pezenas has the least good tourist interface for historians of any place I had planned to visit
2. No, but Gignac might - I've written one email and have one still to write - my French failed me at 1 am - and this means that Gignac now replaces Pezenas on my places-I-must-visit list.
3. Possibly.
4. Still not certain - different maps say different things. There may, however, be a tourist shuttle bus from near the bridge to Saint-Guilhem, which'd do me fine.
5. I can spend a lot on a Yorkshire Pass or half that on just the ones I need to see - the York tourist information is excellent, the Yorkshire Pass information, less so.
6. Haven't managed to solve this one yet, though Beziers might be sending me a brochure. I just need to know about their garden.
7. It goes to Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert albeit with a restricted timetable and to Gignac, but I will need to book a train to Beziers. This is why I'm doing all this early work - much cheaper to book trains early.
8. The tourism folk for Aigues-Mortes totally, totally rock. Everything I needed is in one downloadable booklet, which, unlike the Herault booklets was actually saveable. I not only have a map, I have an annotated map telling me what was built when. I was so excited about this that I forgot to check transport to the town!
9. Very mixed information. Some of it is clear and some of it is very strange. I rather suspect I will need to visit the tourist info centre in Montpellier and ask questions, my first day.
10. I have htem for about half the places I need. I can't work out whether there's a path direct from the railway station in York to the guesthouse (it would be along the railway line if there were one) or if I have to go into town and out again because of bridges. Google Earth will solve this and also my Montpellier map issues. What I wanted was simple street maps to get me around. Again, with Montpellier, the tourist information service is essential. For some other places, however, I am all solved.
11. York encourages it but charges for it, as well. I need to find out if the queues are really, really bad in July - if they are then it's worth doing the timed and advance bookings and then queue-jumping. For other places, no-one seems to know.
12. I've run out of steam, right now, just as I ran out of French last night.