Monday, May 31, 2010 Woke up this morning (most mornings I do) with rain still tapping on the tent, oh sh**! Look out and only see leaden skies. Not much choice but to lie in, concoct some kind of breakfast, stale bread buttered both sides fried in a pan as a poor substitute for toast […]

Sunday, May 30, 2010 Today was a day of different surfaces but we will come to that, first the story of our home away from home. After we retrieved the key from underneath the flowerpot we got into the cottage and offloaded all our stuff. I headed straight for the hot shower to thaw out

Saturday, 29 May, 2010 I’m running out of superlatives to describe this part of the trip so I won’t even try even though the weather did its best to spoil our journey along the canal. First though we had a chat this morning to two fellow tourers who arrived late in camp last night, turns

Friday, 28 May. 2010 It was still 30 kms to our intended goal of the canal of Brest to Nantes, a mere hop and a skip, so we set out in good spirits having recovered from yesterdays efforts. It is silly of course but I can now understand why the professional riders warm up on

Thursday, May 27, 2010 One of those days when it was heads down and make up kilometers. The tent was still quite wet when we packed. We were tired of the bigger roads with quite a lot of traffic whizzing by and tried the more rural roads which of course means more upside down. Had

Wednesday, May 26,2010 How much can one cram into one day? Quite a lot as we sit and reflect on the days happenings. We started with the usual packing up, quite difficult with the wet tent and also with having to fix Ellie’s pannier to the rack with a cable tie as somehow she lost

Tuesday, May 25,2010 Pretty, pretty, pretty. I say it three times because it is the only way to describe our first section of the day, gently sloping hills through forests with gentle mountain streams at the bottom, so picturesque that we didn’t take a single photo because we were so busy admiring the surroundings. Then

Monday, 24 May, 2010 The hottest day so far even though we found that yesterday felt hotter, perhaps it is the change from last week we are getting used to. Yesterday I was silly enough to cycle the whole day in a sleeveless shirt so guess what was previously not exposed to the sun and

Sunday, May 23,2010 Well, this Presque Ile is quite the beautifullest (how’s that for good English) bit of Brittany we have seen so far. This inspired us to do the loop to the northern Cap, the Cap de Portugese. Before we set out we had a chat to our neighbours, a delightful young French couple

Saturday, May 22, 2010 A kind of a rest day today, we had planned to spend two days at the same camp but as explained in previous post, no ways. Ellie had read the brochures so off we went to look at Cap this and Cap that. Another beautiful day, warm enough for a sleeveless