Tag: Daily Diary

In which Sid and Doris ride the Canal de Berry to the home of a company whose output ranged from the tiny Rene Bonnets to the Renault Espace as well as 1970s F1 and Le Mans winners.

In which Sid and Doris make a delivery ride to Bourges, still in the middle of quite a large country.

In which Sid and Doris celebrate the Tour de France riding into Clermont to visit Bibendum at home.

In which Sid and Doris drop down from Chateau-Chinon (Ville) and climb back up to come into Beaune through the Mersault and Pommard vineyards to stay at L’Imprimerie, that used to print clever labels for the finest wines (so that they could not be counterfeited).

In which Sid and Doris leave the Loire and visit a memorial to the French forces in fighting in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria from 1952 to 1962.

In which Sid and Doris see at Bannay a church resulting from the Hundred Years War and the Wars of Religion as well as Nevers Cathedral, not quite repaired these 80 years.

In which Sid and Doris ride to Orleans the town of La Pucelle, The Maid of Orleans, and stay in the splendid Hotel Abeille.

In which Sid and Doris have an early morning start, endure an enormous thunder and lightning storm (sheltering on an old railway line and in the Hotel Soleil D’Or) to reach L’Aigle after many rolling hills.

In which Sid and Doris ride to Portsmouth for the evening ferry to Ouistreham.