Archive for June, 2008
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
0 miles, Peregueux
I decided to give Brock a welcome break from writing the blog and sent him on a shopping expedition instead. Hopefully I won’t let everyone down that has been enjoying his blogging so far.
We woke quite early this morning considering the just before bedtime drinky, and it being a rest day. We enjoyed a refreshing […]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
17 miles, Lisle to Perigueux
It was market day in Lisle and we stopped on our way through for a pain au raisin breakfast and for some fresh toatoes and oranges for the short journey to Perigueux. Again, a hard climb out of the town had us panting and seeking shady rest stops. I kept promising Kez we must be […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
27 miles, Nontron to Lisle
The camp madam advised us to take the quieter back road to Brantome, a town known as ‘the little Venice of Perigord’, neglecting to mention that the first five miles would be climbing up onto the high hilltops, but thankfully through the intermittent but welcome shade of the forests. Eagles circled lazily on thermals, distant […]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
0 miles, Nontron
It was just as well we’d already decided to spend today in Nontron because our ‘lovely quiet night’s sleep’ was shattered by sonme of the most continuous and frighteningly close thunder and lightning I’ve ever heard. The tent lit up repeatedly, giving scant seconds warning of hte awesome crashing, rolling, ground shaking sound of thunder […]
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
27 miles, Rochechouart to Nontron
Absolutely clear blue sky and beating hot sun greeted us as we unzipped the tent at around 8am. We were definitely leaving today, our burned shoulders couldn’t take any more pool lounging anyway, and it just wasn’t the same with other people slopping around the place making it look untidy. An English couple with a […]