Month: September 2016
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Day 18 Biganos to the French Leon. Lifeday 25,267
The Delta Hotel had a great buffet breakfast which I probably pigged out on 🙁 Just not used to having a choice. Strava had decided to take me along roads rather than the more circuitous Atlantic cycleway. So not as pleasant riding with all the juggernauts, I worked out why I lost some of my…
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Day17 Soulac sur Mer to Biganos – Livingday 25,266
With a late breakfast I didn’t hit the road until just after 9am but it was a totally gorgeous day without a cloud in the sky all day 🙂 Amazing to find real dedicated bike tracks for 90% of the day on the La Vélodyssée. It’s lovely & smooth well marked and totally perfect. It’s…
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Day 16 La Rochelle to Soulac Sur Mer on Day25,265 of my life.
What an amazing day 🙂 It’s just so pleasurable to walk of a plane to a nearby hotel and pick up your bike. Have a great night’s sleep, yep OK the salmon steak that I ordered for dinner was I reckon part of a cow’s behind, but we won’t that let ruin a great day 🙂 Neither…
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‘Rest’ Days 11,12,13 & 14 on my bike tour
With the owner of Hôtel La Jetée Sud happy for me to leave my bike & to drop me off at the airport. I was wafted away on a busy Ryanair flight back to Stansted for a long weekend 🙂 Whilst on the plane it occurred to me that rather than buying up apartments around the…
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Day 10 Nantes to La Rochelle at 25,259 days old
Another brilliant day of cycling South. It was a bit of a nightmare leaving Nantes in the rush hour with its maze of cycle routes, some physical cycle paths and some painted jobs like in Cambridge. I fell of the bike once when my foot I thought was unclipped was actually still clipped in 🙁…
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Day 9 Rennes to Nantes now reached 25,257 days old.
After another good nights sleep on a firm bed I was out on the road at half past eight after my croissant and coffee. It was amusing to see all the kids walking to school with their duffel coats, hats and scarfs on with me feeling OK in T shirt and shorts :-).Once out of…
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Day 8 St Malo FI Hotel to Rennes on my 25,256 day
I had a really great sleep, rock hard beds suit me I think, Should modify the bed at home with a sheet of plywood as a topper 🙂 At brekkie two English cyclists were complaining at the hills between Rennes and St Malo they didn’t seem to happy when I said they was a canal…
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Day 7 – I make it to France with my bike, 25,255 days old.
I arrived in St Malo with 15 Belgium Harley Davidsons just before midday, Condor had bought the start time forward by 2 hours because one of the boats engines had failed, apparently they needed to make sure it would catch the tide to dock in St Malo. I couldn’t easily change my booking at the F1 Hotel so…
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Day 6 – A days holiday in a holiday in retirement and 25,254 days old
Due to the vagaries of the monopoly supplier of ferries to Jersey, Condor Ferries, there was no ferry to St Malo today 🙁 So an official holiday was declared by me. With the unexpected day here I decided to revisit the North coast, this time dropping down into the coves and also practising the Boulay bay…
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Day 5 a whirlWINDY tour of Jersey on my 25,253 day.
What a wet and wild night that was, thank goodness it was only my bike outside. After a much better nights sleep, on a firmer bed I had a gorgeous scrambled egg breakfast and left The Village b&b to a windy but dry morning. I freewheeled down the hill and biked to St Aubin to…