Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Today we saddled our ‘horses’ again and did a nice, long circuit by bicycle. We had set out the route last night, a little bit by instinct as we don’t know the area very well but it worked out tremendously. The first bit was a little bit busy but then we […]
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Lidy suggested a short walk on the ravel near their home, I suspect that ravel is a conjugation of randonnee and velo or walking and cycling. In Europe and especially Holland and Belgium they conserve the paths along disused trainlines, canals, rivers etc. for recreation purposes and here we explored the
Monday, 21 June 2010 Lidy, my eldest sister, lives nearby but not so nearby that it is easy to get there and back by bicycle so she kindly offered to fetch us and she also insisted we spend the night. We first had a look at their old farm, quite a bit has changed since
Sunday, 20 June, 2010 Similar to yesterday, cold and wet, so not much of an incentive to go explore the surroundings. Did go to the local church service though, very friendly lot, perhaps they thought we were potential parishioners as it looked like they could do with a few. Back home Ellie scraped together the
Saturday, 19 June, 2010 Rita and Theo left very early this morning for their holiday in Austria so we are now housesitting, home alone as it were, so we took the opportunity to do some necessary housekeeping such as washing of clothes, trimming of beard (me) and hair (both) and sorting our panniers out. First
Thursday, 17 June, 2010 Today I am the culprit, diligently packed the camera into the backpack only to leave the backpack in Theo’s garage so again no pics. Today the first priority was to get some new shorts for us as the current ones were first of all quite worn by being into contact with
Wednesday. June 16, 2010 Perhaps the interest has waned, perhaps it is my writing but I notice that the novelty has worn off and that I get very few comments anymore and as a consequence the drive to update the blog every day is also not quite there. It is, of course, also easier to
Tuesday, 15 June, 2010 Final day of our “Tour De France”, the last bit to my sister, Rita and her husband Theo. I had hoped for an easy, comfortable ride, ha, anything but. A strong wind blew from the north-east and guess which way we were cycling? On top of it there was some bickering
Monday, 14 June, 2010 Boo hoo, our final day in France, we took our time packing up and only started going at about 11 o’clock. We didn’t have that far to go but of course it wasn’t quite as easy as we had expected with some nasty ups and downs. Still, the villages were quite