Well, we’ve committed to cycle from home to the south of France for some sunny beach time! Its only 700 miles or so, so can’t be that tough – surely? But considering we normally just load up and take the ‘van this trip will require quite a bit of planning…
All photos from this trip are HERE, previous installment HERE I think that leaving the beach made us feel a bit ill, a bit flu-like and bunged up – the realisation of home set in! We opted to try the Verdon-sur-mer to Royan ferry to avoid a long drive, but…
All photos from this trip are HERE, previous installment HERE Our 5 fun filled and relaxing days by the beach were obviously needed, and most of our aches and bruises went away. My swollen wrist had gone down and no longer made any funny noises. However, you’d have thought a…
All photos from this trip are HERE, previous installment HERE Staying in Crest, we had, or rather tried for a morning run, but I think our bodies were beat! The run was flat but so were our batteries! Once we made it back we just about made the very busy…
All photos from this trip are HERE, previous installment HERE Think we spoke too soon about being incident free…. Mel had a bit of an off – nothing major, and ironically it was caused by not going fast enough round a banked corner. I know it was a 180’ corner…
Index for this trip HERE Travel Ferry 80.00 € Tolls 3.00 € Fuel 572.00 € Parking (see Wild if overnight stop) 2.00 € Train/bus/tram 0.00 € Subsistence Food 335.00 € Gas 28.00 € Entertainment/Goodies 421.00 € Essentials (laundry, household, repairs) 109.00 €…
Index for this trip HERE After 8 weeks and almost into September, we are fortunately still blessed with pretty good weather. On leaving La Rochelle we headed on the coastal roads through some reasonably generic tourist towns until we got to Les Sables-d’Olonne. Les Sables appears to be a better…
Index for this trip HERE On leaving Rocamadour we had a nice chat with our “neighbours” – and her English was only slight better than our French, but it was actually rather good to mutually cock up both languages yet still have a conversation! We headed to Sarlat-la-Canéda which was…
Index for this trip HERE As the weather was again clear and warm, we decided to head to the cost again for a few days, so we went to the sandy beaches of Cap d’Agde to chill out and get some rays. There was some more excitement than normal on…
Index for this trip HERE After exploring L2A and not really feeling chilled there, the weather turned to heavy rain which made the decision to leave for us. We decided to head for Gap for no other reason than the route would take us via roads and places we’ve never…