Sid and Doris Bonkers and their Epic Journeys
"Everybody is normal until you get to know them"
In which Sid and Doris take another ferry and return to England.We finished the laundry in Les Armateurs by drying the cycling shorts with the hotel standard hairdryer, the first time in many years that Sid has found this item at all useful. Even early on we are looking for conveyance of the day. We have cyclist company in the…
Read moreIn which Sid and Doris make for the seaside and stay in the walled town, again.Is this your first visit to St Malo? No, we have sailed the mighty Eric through the huge lock into the Port de Plaisance. Sid and Doris have cycled away from here on the trip to Bilbao. We are old mingers at St Malo. Leaving…
Read moreIn which Sid and Doris have a rest day in Rennes and take a boat trip along the Vilaine River.When we set off for Rennes we decided that night we would see if we were in good shape to carry on. We are a bit tired, we are behind with the blog/diary and Rennes has enough to keep us amused,…
Read moreIt has become a bit of a running joke with Joe to find tasteful, useful and creative things you can make with tyres. We are still trying to find anything that qualifies on all three categories at once… Meanwhile I’ll put any interesting photos in this thread. Latest photos first, so come back here for Exciting Updates later… (I’ll also…
Read moreI have been thinking about church spires, as you do. Many of the spires in France (and probably in the UK too, I will check when we get back, cf “Hertfordshire Spike”) look like they built a tower first and then went for the post-factory upgrade once they’d saved up some more money, or as spire fashions changed. As we…
Read moreIn which Doris’ birthday is spent laboriously on the toboggan roads across Brittany The rodents bring the birthday post and Doris is 35 again. Older people might struggle with an epic journey so it is best to stay young. High paws on the trip so far. Today we go through very small farming villages to Rennes, capital of Brittany. Across these…
Read moreIn which Sid and Doris cross the Loire and visit the largest contemporary line of megaliths in the world. Our small road route to Ancenis on the Loire took us across some hills and what might (we hope) be our last gravel track. From the top of the last hill at Saint Florentine Le Vieil we could look across the…
Read moreMore variations on Spotto – The Song of the Magic Goop – Lions on Gateposts – Calories in an e-battery – Not That Chicken Song – The French Neutron Bomb – The Revenge of the Wombles 1. More variations on Spotto. I think I may have mentioned some of these before, but boat-o continues to be a firm favourite, especially…
Read moreIn which Sid and Doris stop in Le Cholet to visit the textile and loom museum. When we got into this deserted ‘hotel on the bypass for commercial travellers and empty in August’ Madame asked asked us where we had come from. Neither of us could remember as La Chataigneraie is just another nowheresville. And so is this. See here…
Read moreIn which Sid and Doris outwit French shopkeeping and create a fine new song. Learning from previous French shutness Sid went into a supermarket in Rochefort to buy sandwiches and apple pie. A wise precaution as every shop we passed was shut, with a variety of excuses. At one point we were standing outside a Proxi Marche (closed because…
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