{"id":2290,"date":"2006-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/2006\/02\/24\/j69-2-24-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T23:00:00","slug":"j69-2-24-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/2006\/02\/24\/j69-2-24-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"J69 &#8211; 2\/24\/2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<h4 class=\"h4-1\">D69 &#8211; 74.6Km<\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"h5-2\">FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24<br \/>N42 00.460 E35 05.717 (the entrance to Sinop) &#8211; N41 38.797 E35 28.209 (entrance to Yakakent)<br \/>74.6 km &#8211; 9H43&#8242;<\/h5>\n<div id=\"descin\">            Departure took place in the sun, which was quickly replaced by a thick sea haze.&nbsp; The caravan had trouble finding anything photogenic about the scenery.&nbsp; From time to time, we saw flocks of wild ducks overhead, which left us spellbound.&nbsp; The Black Sea must be on a migration route for these foul.&nbsp; The road between Sinop and Yakakent is sometimes close to the sea and sometimes far from it.&nbsp; Serge went over a 385 meter pass and then finished the stage with his feet almost in the sea.&nbsp; Even though the route is hilly, we still take advantage of the seaside climate, which has reasonable temperatures compared to those inland which we will find in about five days.&nbsp; It seems that in Erzurum the thermometer is hovering around -25 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>One day gives way to the next but they are never the same.&nbsp; We had no encounters today. This morning there was a journalist waiting for as we left.&nbsp; This always surprises us because we don&#8217;t solicit them.&nbsp; It seems that our caravan does not go unnoticed.&nbsp; The decoration on the vehicles is probably in part responsible.&nbsp; The large map which our partner Deleage Expansion put on the back of our vehicles needs no explanation and enables us to be understood wherever we go.<\/p>\n<p>It was almost dark when Serge finished his stage and he was limping.&nbsp; He wasn&#8217;t very talkative this evening; lost in thought and very tired.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p>English translation by Lee Hecht<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <br class=\"clear\">      <\/div>\n<p id=\"closingbar\">THE INCREDIBLE SERGE GIRARD&#8217;S CHALLENGE<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D69 &#8211; 74.6Km FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24N42 00.460 E35 05.717 (the entrance to Sinop) &#8211; N41 38.797 E35 28.209 (entrance to Yakakent)74.6 km &#8211; 9H43&#8242; Departure took place in the sun, which was quickly replaced by a thick sea haze.&nbsp; The caravan had trouble finding anything photogenic about the scenery.&nbsp; From time to time, we saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}