Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 16th, 2008
21 miles, around Baie de Somme
Our decamps are getting faster, we were on the road just after 10am this morning! It was wonderful cycling around the bay, through misty, wild wetlands and fields. The superb cycle paths that we’re getting used to brought us into the delightful town of St. Valery sur Somme. We sipped excellent espressos in a café […]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
0 miles, La Crotoy
Decided to spend the day off the bikes today, to explore La Crotoy on the Baie de Somme. A sleepy little town with a lot of war history and some connection to Joan of Arc. What interested us more though was its numerous fish resaurants that all seemed to specialise in mussels. It was quite […]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
30 Miles Etaples to Le Crotoy
Our decamping is still very disorganised and time consuming, we’d awakened reasonably early, quite refreshed, but by the time we got everything back in the panniers and on the bikes it was gone eleven. The cycling was gorgeous though. Along quiet country lanes without any traffic at all, onto busier roads but with wonderfully designed […]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
22 miles Boulogne to Etaples
After a bit of a lay in, and breakfast of coffee and Eccles cakes, we decided to sort out our badly packed panniers. This seemed to take forever but eventually we checked out and paid at reception two minutes before it closed for their three hour lunch break. A difficult hilly ride up out of […]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
30 Miles Birchington to Boulogne
I had planned for us to be up and out at six o’clock this morning so that we would have had plenty of time to check in for our ferry at 10. I had planned to pack all the panniers ready, so that we could roll out of bed, roll up our sleeping mats and […]