July
11
Day 97 Vesoul
Yesterday (for Mattie’s benefit, 10/07/2012), we were obliged to stay in Vesoul in order to find maps, new ferules and some other stuff. We wandered about quite a lot as the stuff we needed could only be found in shops on the extremities of Vesoul. Having no wheels of any kind we used legs in an unassisted mode. I can understand now why cars have been such a successful invention as walking from one end of the town to the other along unfootpathed roads is quite a tedious, inefficient and time consuming exercise.
Rather than drone on for ages about Vesoul and other extreme tedium I’ll close this and talk about today.
As Mike said, the only two map shops (and we needed them both) were both in commercial centres at the edge of town. What he didn’t mention was that each was in a different commercial centre, and that they were at the far extremities from each other, and Vesoul is a very spread out sort of town. As a result, my step counter recorded 27,281 steps for the day (I walk about 2,000 steps to a mile) – more steps than on some of our strolls!