five audio walks to trudge (or imagine)

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What if the adventure was at the end of the road (and within the authorized perimeter)? Here are five audio walks to explore around your home … or travel from your sofa.

Let’s wander in the forest…

Using the Balade branchée app, designed by the National Forestry Office (ONF), our charentaises (or our walking shoes, if you are less than 10 kilometers away) go straight through the undergrowth of the forests Ile-de-France, on a circuit of remarkable trees in the Sénart forest or for a walk from the Eye of the Nations – a plaque on the ground placed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature – at George Sand oak, in the Fontainebleau forest. More than fifty forest walks through six of the eight Ile-de-France departments are offered: between 2 and 19 kilometers, they will work our calves and / or our imagination, thanks to the audio, photo and video content that the app contains: images of foliage , animal prints, etc.

Running or not

The weeks of confinement and curfews encouraged our overeating. Want to move your fat cells? The Runnin’City tourist running app offers 1,200 courses of 5 to 20 kilometers, in 70 cities in France, including Brest, Metz or Saint-Tropez, and 200 around the world. To dare urban tourism by running… or by walking. Do you live in the east of Paris? Try the 3.1 kilometers of the visit to Nogent-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne). We start from the Saint-Saturnin church, around which the “village” was organized in the 12th century.^e century, before joining the banks of the Marne and the promenade of the Isle of Beauty, the Baltard pavilion, to finish its “race” in the tropical agronomy garden of the Bois de Vincennes. The map of the route is before our eyes, as well as each of the stops, commented by a voice however very synthetic.

Urban strolls

We are starting to get to know our neighborhood well… But it still holds some secrets. The CityGem app offers more than 60 thematic routes in 11 French cities, and 700 places already referenced by this newborn. You select the city of your choice and the theme of your visit, architecture, green or unusual, for example. Thus, “L’insolite du Père-Lachaise” offers an instructive stroll through the Parisian cemetery, punctuated with anecdotes, from the burial place of Edith Piaf to that of Adélaïde Morris. “The getaway in Vieux-Lille” makes a detour to the “leaning house”, an old spinning mill with a battered facade, before passing through the rue Pharaon-de-Winter and its old red brick houses. For those who prefer to stay on their sofa, do not activate the “Go” which triggers the geolocated visit, but open the description sheet to discover the points of interest associated with their respective audio.

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