Archive for July, 2008
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 […]
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
0 miles, St. Julien en Born
Our plan to spend a second day lazing at the beach went belly up from the start. The inconsiderate youngsters that woke us around 5am by chatting away merrily in a nearby pitch, presumably after returning from a very late Saturday night out didn’t matter so much, but the cloudy sky, chilly breeze and Kez’s […]
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
6 miles to the beach and back
We made our way back along the cycle path, past Kez’s crash spot to Contis Plage, the large beach that most of the tourists in the area head for. With panniers full of picnic food and grapefruit squash we sat ourselves down on the golden sand while the green/blue waves rolled in impressively carrying surfers […]