#Day83 Beautiful Chartres
Maintenon to Chartres – 20km 18C Terrain: lovely countryside roads. A short one today which is great as I think it’s allowing my knee to heal. I do like it when I arrive in beautiful places and today it’s Chartres. Amazing with a huge cathedral on a top of a hill (torture to get Bob […] Read More
#Day82 Finding solutions
Rambouillet to Maintenon – 28km 18C Terrain: forest routes and country/busy roads. It was really difficult to say bye to my mum this morning. Even though we’ll hopefully be seeing each other again in a few weeks, for some reason it was much harder than usual. I miss her and my family and friends enormously […] Read More
#Day81 On the road again and in the papers!
Saint Nom la Breteche to Rambouillet – 32km 20C Terrain: relatively flat, some cycle paths! And country roads. Back on the road with shiny new trainers. Today was actually one of the best days yet in terms of route in France. There were actually cycle paths. […] Read More
#Day80 A wonderful few days
Croissy sur Seine to Saint Nom la Breteche – 12km I’ve just had the most wonderful few days relaxing, catching up with my amazing Mum and seeing people. We went to our friends Claire and Bruno Didier’s house for dinner one night which was lovely. While not actually family I have known them so long […] Read More
#Day74 Amazing day! Half way and home!
Le Bourget to Croissy sur Seine (via Paris) – 32km 20C Terrain: Flat with pavements! I love pavements! What a truly amazing day! I’m sitting in my parents’ living room and I am just so so so happy. About half way now, over 1,660km, the equivalent to over 39 marathons on my skinny little pins. […] Read More
#Day73 With my Mum
Senlis to Le Bourget – 30km 19C Terrain: Terrifying roads and then some lovely country paths So happy, mum found me today at around 11am and we had a lovely and quite emotional hug. We’re now in a hotel in Le Bourget before heading across Paris tomorrow and then finishing up at my old school. […] Read More
#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