Month: August 2013
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Day 5 Gonnehem to Fresnes Les Montauban
With great reluctance I departed from Le Clos du Fouan into the grey & wet morning. I headed back down to the canal, marvelling at the size of the barges, probably equivalent to half a dozen UK ones also on the distance between locks, this part of France is certainly flat. I left the canal at La…
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Day 4 Calais to Gonnehem
After a dreadful nights sleep, what with the squawking seagulls (please remind me never to live near the sea!) and plumbing noises. It was straight off to SFR to sort out the bricked dongle. They eventually replaced it after everyone inspected it like some dead animal. I started to follow the rather magnificent canal although…
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Leaving the Country – Day 3 – Whitstable to Calais
After a most magnificent breakfast at the Oyster Guest House, unusually, in my experience, cooked by the landlady. I started the final UK leg to Dover, I opted for the scenic route to avoid Canterbury & the evils of the A290. The first part was on the Oyster Bay cyclepath, A REAL cycle path along the…
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Mega bike ride – Day 2 Euston to Whitsable
Today started with a very emotional Sally kissing me goodbye at Kings Cross, after our Pret breakfast. Not sure if the emotion was caused by the £22 single ticket fare to Cambridge (it’s only £15 the other way & the return is only £1 more). After my previous fiasco navigating out of South London I…
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Black Sea here I come
Today marks my first cycling day in this years marathon ride which, hopefully, will take me to Les Gets to visit my apartment and maybe meet Euan for a walk or two. I hope to cycle over to Zurich to see my neühew then onto the start of The Danube River at Donoueschlingen, cycling down…