Day 1 Home to Boulogne (sur Mer)
In which Sid and Doris set off for Boulogne and an epic journey.
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The Grand Tour In A Time of Covid
Sid and Doris have decided that now would be a good time to go to all the places that you wouldn’t usually dream of visiting in peak tourist season. Will Sid and Doris be the only people there, or has everyone else got the same idea? Watch this blog for details!
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Hermann Zer German
For the Grand Tour our car of choice is the mighty Hermann (full name: Hermann Zer German). He is a 1967 Mercedes SL250, known as Pagodas because of the hard top shape.
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Kindness and Ingenuity
Or: Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3.
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Grand Tour 2020 Route (and Replans)
This page contains the original maps and the various replans, as well as a link to the detailed map of the final route.
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The Dash to the Onion Patch
During the Covid Quarantine, the constant drip drip drip of cancelled events seems to have inspired our doughty duo to be creative…
Read moreDay 108 Berkhamsted to Bishop’s Stortford
In which Sid and Doris visit Verulamiam (more recently known as St Albans) then ride home using canal and railway paths before climbing up to pretty Perry Green. We open with a record of the last time we will be doing our laundry in the bathroom sink, as we have every night. We are going to a house with a…
Read moreDay 107 Midgham to Berkhamsted
In which Sid and Doris cross the Thames and The Ridgeway, battle through the Chiltern Hills and muse on punctuation marks. !Yesterday we set off up Portsdown Hill. Are there groundhogs in Berkshire? Today we immediately set off up a steep hill and there were going to be a lot more, on small roads and rough surfaces. We go over…
Read moreDay 106 Cosham to Midgham
In which the Epic nature of the ride continues on small roads across Hampshire and Berkshire with a stop on The Watercress Line.In a straight line, it is 90 miles from Cosham to Chez Bonkers. It would be very easy to turn this into a simple, joyless delivery ride, taking quicker straighter roads – a direct route through central London…
Read moreDay 105 St Malo to Portsmouth and Cosham
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…
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