#Day72 Excited!
Compiegne to Senlis – 34km 17C Terrain: A cycle path! (briefly) and hilly roads I set out this morning in the thick fog again to arrive at a forest and to find a beautiful cycle path! Woohoo! Sadly though, only for about 5km. I was getting slightly ahead of […] Read More
#Day71 Silly mistakes
Quesmy to Compiegne – 35km 20C Terrain: hills, canal paths (not always official) and some flat road (phew!) I met a lovely lady over breakfast this morning called Isabelle. She’s a doctor and specialises is non-medicinal care for diseases that affect the elderly, such as Alzheimer’s. She had such a human approach, I found her […] Read More
#Day70 Refugees
Saint-Quentin to Quesmy – 35km 20C Terrain: lovely flat canal route and hilly country roads So after a day’s rest, I was back on the road this morning. Over breakfast though, I read a horrifying story about Syrian refugees. 66,000 Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey over the weekend due to the advances of Islamic State […] Read More
#Day68 Man down! And it wasn’t me!
Meretz to Saint Quentin – 29km 26C (felt hot!) Terrain: hilly country roads and busy roads So, I’m in the middle of the countryside happily running down a hill with Bob. The next thing I now, I hear a noise, CRASH, we’re grinding to a halt with no right wheel! S*** (sorry kids). Man down! […] Read More
#Day67 Interesting chance encounter
Bermeries la Boete to Meretz – 37km 25C Terrain: hilly country roads and busy roads Oof, that was a tough one. I don’t think there was any flat road at all today, just constant up and down with some pretty steep bits. It ended up being quite slow going but got here in the end. I […] Read More
#Day66 La France!
Binche to Bermeries la Boete – 37km 22C Terrain: hilly country roads and busy roads Today is a milestone. Over 1,430km into this wondrous journey and I am in France! Having been through Poland, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium, I am officially in my birth country, where I spent most of my youth growing up […] Read More
#Day65 Serenaded
Charleroi Airport to Binche – 27km 25C (in the shade) Terrain: hilly country roads and busy roads What an amazingly varied day. From feeling pretty rough to being serenaded in a town square. Life is beautiful. Woke up not feeling fantastic but thought once the blood got flowing all would be ok. This did happen, […] Read More
#Day64 So touched
Thorembais Saint-Trond to Charleroi airport (NOT GOING ANYWHERE!) – 31km 24C Terrain: busy roads I am just blown away by the kind people that I’m coming across on this journey. Sandrine and Olivier Ghellinck who run the B&B I stayed at last night told me this morning that they wouldn’t accept payment and instead for […] Read More