Day 6 From Paris to Beaune
In which Sid and Doris leave Paris for Burgundian Beaune.
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Day 5 A Second Day In Paris
In which Sid and Doris take in the big sights in a grand walking tour.
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Day 4 In Paris
In which Sid and Doris settle into their little flat and explore the neighbourhood.
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Day 3 Rouen to Paris
In which Sid and Doris follow the Seine to Monet’s house and garden at Giverny and then to a small flat in the Marais, Paris.
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Day 2 Boulogne to Le Havre and Rouen
In which Sid and Doris leave Boulogne, visit Le Havre and stay in Rouen.
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Day 1 Home to Boulogne (sur Mer)
In which Sid and Doris set off for Boulogne and an epic journey.
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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