Odos Nr. 3, 2009, The Newsletter of RouteYou
Odos News-Flash
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HiptriptipTrip-advice of the month |
 Tonbridge Castle along the route "Castle Ride 100 2009" Source Picture: x3mwt | The Hiptriptip of this month is the cycling route "Castle Ride 100 2009" of the organisation "take Action". You are invited to join their activity and join the charity work related to medical research. Read more about it here...
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The Hockenhall Hobble along a route passing interesting Roman Bridges. Picture source: http://www.chestercyclecity.org/?cat=69 | A second Hiptriptip is "The Hockenhall Hobble", which you also can admire on the very nice website http://www.chestercyclecity.org. The Hockenhall Hobble is passing interesting Roman Bridges in the area of Chester. |
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FarosRouteYou-groups in the spotlight |
Château de Flers: the home country of the group of the month "Les Détours du Bocage" Source picture: Pifor |
The group of this month is "Les Détours du Bocage". Creator Chedeville provided a nice set of cycling routes in the aea of Normandy, around the city of Flers.
Check also their website http://rcvv.ifrance.com/ |
Source picture: luckyluque | We also would like to put Cycle-Domfrontais in the picture. Author luckyluque provides a very organised set of cycling routes from the town of Domfront in France.
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 Source Picture: igeltier64 | And to convince you that you find a great variety of routes on RouteYou, we also put the Group Inline-Skating Lübeck in the spotlight. Just their logo would be enough reason to put them here, but they have also a great set of tours for inline skaters near the wonderful city of Lübeck. |
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KnuggetsPast Route-knuggets |
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The link between high heeels and ancient monuments. Read more here...
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Pytheas's ChoiceGlobespot of the month |
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Every month, we ask somebody to be a modern Pytheas and tell us something about the most amazing place they have ever experienced, and explain why this is!
Globespots of the month: Mont-Saint Michel
Source picture: Pascal Brackman | Globespot of the month: Mont Saint-Micel The selected 'tasty spot' is the area around "Mont Saint-Michel" in France. More specific, the pastureland around the estuary of the Mont Saint-Michel. |
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Are you our next Pytheas of the Month? Tell us about the most amazing globe-spot you have ever experienced! Or alternatively, ask a friend who you think has a favourite globe-spot and would like to share it with the RouteYou community.
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Nadar's PicturePicture of the month |
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| The picture of this month is made by Sara Collier. She is one of the people behind "The Action Medical Research London to Paris Ride". The trip for this summer is full, but you can still chip in for charity... Read here all about the goal of this organisation Check out this website providing you more pictures about their eventIf you feel like joining next year, hurry up and get to their website: http://www.action.org.uk/get_involved/london_paris_2010
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Gluring TuringThe Techy-spot |
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Every month, we nominate a more technical item here which is linked to RouteYou activities, directly or indirectly. We have named this item in honor of Alan Turing.
Another new website... Wolfram Alpha. We checked it out for you... Read more about it here
| What can you do with the net website Wolfram Alpha If you are in the search engine business, you must have heard about the launch of Wolfram Alpha on friday 15th of May. You might wonder what the link is between RouteYou and this impressive new functionality on the Internet.
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Source picture: www.segway.com | And GM is on a good track for innovation with Segway... The Puma Car is something your might want to check out. It looks like a great way to see a city. Buy one and you also support the car industry which can use a bit of a push now... Check out this video or read more about it on CrunchGear... |
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