- Edouard Philippe announced that from May 11, travel would be limited to a radius of 100 km around the home.
- The Helloways hiking site has set up a tool to identify the walks accessible from home and respecting the deconfinement measures.
- Especially since hiking, where contact between human beings is rare, seems to be the deconfinement activity par excellence.
The gradual deconfinement announced by Edouard Philippe limits desires elsewhere. To a radius of 100 km around your home to be precise. Fortunately, the Helloways site, which lists hikes accessible by public transport from major urban centers, has implemented a special deconfinement tool.
"I was listening to the Prime Minister's announcements when there was this 100 km limit," said Clément Lhommeau, co-founder of Helloways. We then wondered how to facilitate the exits of people during the deconfinement, and came a little naturally the idea of coding a functionality which makes it possible to quickly locate around home the hikes in a radius of 100 km. No sooner said than done, since the functionality is integrated into the Helloways site the next morning.
At the same time, Helloways has forged a partnership with the French Hiking Federation. The latter thus makes available, initially, “600 routes from all over France […] available for download by means of a subscription to the paid offer from Helloways (€ 39.90)”, the press release said. These “600 hikes put online now represent a little less than 10% of the offer of the 230 topoguides of the Federation”, it is specified, and are added to the 400 circuits already on Helloways. What find happiness.
Reconnect with nature
And for Clément Lhommeau, hiking is the ideal activity to deconfine. "It is an activity that can be practiced in places where there are not many people and where it is easy to respect the sanitary safety distances," he says. It’s also a bit of a mission that we give ourselves with HelloWays to get people out of the quays and Parisian parks where everyone gathers to go and discover places that are not much further but almost deserted . If you want to reconnect with nature, if you want to clear your head after being locked up for two months at home, I think that there is not much better as an activity of deconfinement. "
And how do we get to the start of the hikes? Ile-de-France Mobilités announces that only 60% of SNCF trains will run in the region on May 11. For the co-founder of HelloWays, this will be more than enough: “it still leaves a lot of opportunities on the main lines, the lines that go to Fontainebleau, in Vexin. »He also believes that the first reflexes will be to take their car to go for a drive away from their street corner. "It will be better not to be on a return route to Paris from 4 pm / 5 pm Saturday evening and Sunday evening during the first weekend of deconfinement, it will be undrinkable, he warns. Public transport still has its role to play. To discover Ile-de-France far from confinement.
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