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October 2024

October 2024

October is a harvest of sunlight. The world is drenched in cinnamon, the leaves have hues of maple syrup and my heart full of envy illuminates the lines of this landscape notebook like a Jack’O Lantern pumpkin.

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
September 2024

September 2024

I have two wishes for September, the first being to evoke the feeling of putting on a pair of long shorts again and riding through the woods towards a cup of cappuccino and a slice of cake.

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
August 2024

August 2024

August (at least, in my world) embodies something infinitely great. It's the month when you're content with the most august of things: tiredness, how far you've come, merit or a moment of happiness you wouldn't want to forget despite its apparent triviality.

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
July 2024

July 2024

Is July still the month of postcards? You'd have to be in a deep dive for July not to be synonymous with great discoveries. In the mountains, on the radio or in a museum, in the workshop, by the seaside or in the silent realm of a river...

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
June 2024

June 2024

This is the sixth article in the "Journal de Paysages" (‘The Landscape Diary’) series launched with the Berthoud cycles team. Half a year has already gone by, marked by this half-dozen articles. Each of these entries underlines the originality of the relationship we have with the landscapes we live in.

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
May 2024

May 2024

I'm in Fleurville, with my heart set on the summer ahead. During the winter, everything I was doing was about maintenance: heart rate, power meter and head unit updates, happy rides where we held our breath and checked our bikes and fits.

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
April 2024

April 2024

Every day in April, I listen to the clock as it ticks away; April goes with the beat of a tick, tock, tick, tock, and at a regularity that I question

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
March 2024

March 2024

March. Third month of the year. But more importantly, spring equinox. Perfect timing indeed to hang out at the Salon de l'Agriculture (French Farmers’ Fair): such a marvellous dictionary of terroirs, protected designations, and astonishing competitions of our rural world’s weaknesses and strengths.

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
February 2024

February 2024

At the Manufacture, February is a month of paradox - it's the wintertime, surprisingly long and compacted into these short, fast-moving days. Between two cold snaps, we find ourselves riding along windy roads, flooded like rice paddies...

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
January 2024

January 2024

On an autumn day, a conversation gives rise to an idea. The year 2024 begining on a Monday, why not starting to evoke what's at the origin of this taste? It should be materialized, told, we should write about what's the genesis of everything.

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Jean-Acier DANÈS
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