Wednesday, 12 May, 2010 Bitterly cold on the way, pity really because the views were stunning, especially looking back along the coast to where we had come from. I was none too happy with the Frenchies because I don’t think they have ever heard of contouring, when they see a hill it is straight up […]
Tuesday, 11 May 2010 The weather dawns still a bit cloudy, the tent is covered with leaves of our protector tree and soon we are on our way. Today is a nature day and we take the little farmroads and byways including this one down a wooded valley. At the bottom a little track turns
Wednesday, 12 May 2010 We are now proper tourists even if on a bicycle, winding through narrow streets of little villages, admiring the extravagant architecture of the ‘belle epoche’ with the summer houses of the rich Parisiens at the turn of the 19th century. Then it is across the impressive barrage, a concrete wall across
Sunday, 09 May 2010, day 15 Effortless, that’s how I wanted to call this entry before our little mishap. Wind from the northeast which meant in the back, slightly undulating roads, gear on high cam in front. First though let me say a little bit about our home for the last two nights, the camping
Saturday, 8 May 2010, day 15 Mr Scrooge in me won the day, I convinced Ellie that it was time to do something “cultural” today, not in the least motivated of course by the thought of another night in the cozy caravan. Not that it meant a lazy day, we still did more than 50
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EuroTripFriday, May 07, 2010, day 14 We intended to get to Brittany today, not realizing that Mont St Michel is still in Normandy. Anyway, for us it was important to do that 90 degree turn into the peninsula. Tough ask but we were up for it after a good night’s sleep at a very quiet
Thursday, 06 May 2010, day 13 It may have been day 13 but there was nothing unlucky about today, what a beautiful day for cycling. We stuck our heads out of the tent this morning and were greeted by 3 ducks only a few meters away, they were none too amused when I quacked at
Wednesday, 5 May 2010, day 12 We got it down to a fine art now. The evening before we sit or rather lie in the tent with the netbook and plot our route for the next day. I transfer waypoints and route to the gps while Ellie makes a list of towns and road numbers
Monday 3 May,2010 I am writing this from the comfort of a heated cabin on the camping La Plage in Blonville. Sense prevailed as conditions are too bad to even let the dog out, not that we have a dog to let out but still. We awoke warm and well rested after our more than
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