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Friday, July 25th, 2008
16 miles Socoa to Hondarribia
The cycling was lovely along the cliff tops this morning. Fantastic views of the Atlantic, craggy rock faces and striking violet blue flowers as we trundled towards Hendaye and Spain just beyond. We shared the road with quite a few racing cyclists out training in the hills and enjoyed a descent with views over the […]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
14 miles Ilbarritz to Socoa
We slogged our way up the rest of the hill and after a couple of tough miles I spotted a sign for a tourist office and left Kez at the top of the hill while I cruised down towards the coast to try and find a cycle route map. The girl in the office said […]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
19 miles Labenne to Ilbarritz
Traffic filled streets, fast roads, nasty hills, roundabouts and traffic lights for us today as we continued South. Fighting our way past queues of slow moving traffic was actually quite a refreshing change as we cycled through Bayonne and Biarritz. We stopped to unwind at a small park with a war memorial and I had […]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
21 miles Messanges to Labenne
An early departure saw us heading Southward again on fastish roads until Lac Marin D’Hossegor, where we took the ‘Avenue Tour de Lac’ down the West side of the lake. We began to wish we’d stuck to the main road as the avenue dipped and climbed its way through multiple exhausting hills offering glimpses of […]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
27 miles St. Julien to Messanges
The morning was cloudy so we decided to press on today. Kez had a bit of a stressful time as our decamping disturbed a couple more spiders of the type that had ambushed her from the toilet roll yesterday. Luckily though I was available this time to leap on them with my size 11s as […]