JOOO…(Jonny off on one)
We’ve noticed a change in our hotel stops in the EU this trip. We’ve not had any hotel with those little disposable bottles with shampoo etc in, every hotel has had wall mounted dispensers, which has been great, especially as trying to get the top off those little bottles in the shower sometimes with wet hands is quite tricky for us pensioners. Another thing that has also changed, and not for the best, is the disappearing bog brush. Why do hotels no longer put them in the loos? Our last hotel even had a sign asking you to go to reception if you wanted one! – the walk...
Read MoreMelt down
I’ve been fighting my bad back and the old knee is giving me some gyp too but we’ve been making good progress until we reached our first tent site of the tour. It was a fab site, the showers and toilets were better than most hotels, a bit like you’d expect in a very posh gym on the day it opened and the Germans next to us got told to shut up by some annoyed Dutch around 10:30 saving us the trouble of getting out of our sleeping bags, but overall it was a good place to stay, despite the fact it poured with rain all night and we got a disturbed night’s sleep. We set off...
Read MoreAurevoir France
Beautiful canal route from Nantes Rennes Dinan Our last coffee stop… End of the road… Our last sunset! All aboard… Au revoir ????????.. We’ve enjoyed our cycle up through France, there’s been some fabulous cities to visit -La Rochelle, Rochefort, Nantes and in particular Rennes which we would definitely like to come back to. We’ve love the cycle infrastructure once you’re away from the Spanish border. One way streets seem to always be two way for cyclists, even if they’re narrow! Cycle lanes are usually two way segregated not just a white line...
Read MoreHot hot hot!
Royan Fishermans huts The floating bridge.. Bastille Day Montaigu Castle Montaigu old market hall The coastal cycle path LA Rochelle harbour 7.30 pm!! ???? Cooling off in the Nantes fountains at 9.30pm! If you’re a climate change denier please go into the bathroom, look in the mirror then slap yourself round the face a few times and say in Captain Mainwarings voice “Stupid boy”. It’s getting very warm down here now and the forecast is for 39 later in the week with lows of 25 overnight, so our whole plan has changed to plot our route via Aircon hotels as a lack of...
Read MoreBonjour France!
Avoiding the coastal corniche.. Our route along the coast.. Euro Velo 1 Biaritz! Bay of Biarritz Forest path /roman Road! Always the first stop of the day… Calm before the storm… Oops… Lost again! Another day, another marina… Memorial to the cockleshell hero’s. The trouble with the French border is that’s just about where the cycle track ends and the mad French drivers begin. We’ve been lulled into a false sense of security by the excellent, courteous and patient Spanish drivers and the impatient uncaring French drivers came as a real shock to us....
Read MoreFall in you ‘orrible lot!
Our ten days with the Du Randts was eventful and great fun, Jacques and Mandy are early birds and we’re more likely to be thinking about a cup of tea from the comfort of our sleeping bags by the time they’re stopping for their first cuppa of the day whilst cycling. So we had to make an effort and get up, get packed and ready to go by 9am daily, which after some negotiation (us whinging) was relaxed to 9:15. He’s a hard task master that Jacques! Anyway, we set off in the direction of Strasbourg stopping at a lovely fortified walled French town for lunch. He was breaking us...
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