Anyway, the detectives amongst you might have realised that today was rather wet. If we had been at home, the only way you would of got us out of the door was for a trip to the Waitrose Cafe ! Not today though. We surfaced from the Chalet at 09:15 in the rain and it carried on all day. It was a bit of a slow news day to be honest as it was a case of grinding out the kilometres trying to keep warm.
Looking on the upside, the panniers and trailer was a bit lighter today as we were wearing most of our clothes. We got to Mimizan where we donned just about every item of clothing we had and then set off like a bunch of Michelin man adverts all looking huge.
Getting out of Mimizan was a bit of a challange and a motorist was so upset with us riding on his road, he got out of his car at a cross roads with traffic lights to berate us not using the cycle path on the left side of the road. We turned right ! Agincourt to you to mate - best laugh of the day
Lunch was in Parentis, in some kind of food version of a wine bar with lots of banging music to eat our kebab pannini's and coffee. Rather bizarre but the food was good.
After that, it was the final leg of the day up to Sanguinet. The roads would be brilliant in decent weather, long straight and most importantly, flat.
We have been going a week now and so much has happended to us in that time. No tantrums or fallings out, but give me time and I am sure I can rustle up something. A big thank you to Mark and the boys at Peter Hansfords cycles in Winchester - all the kit is behaving brilliantly with no failures of bikes or associated equipment which is a huge relief. It would be a bit grim having mechanical failures in the recent weather conditions
We have got ourselves another Chalet type of arrangement which is handy as it gives us the ability to dry out our stuff
It gets a bit smelly at times
Anyway, it was all a bit glum today given the constant bad weather we are having to battle our way through and one of the big things that keeps us going is seeing the counter going up on the www.justgiving.com/anne-barratt page for Cancer Research so if you have not got around to it yet, please do :-)
In fact while I am on your case, feel free to forward our story onto your many friends who you think might want to chuck a few quid our way for the dubious pleasure of reading of our now "epic" adventure.
I remember someone telling me that adventure is stress and discomfort reminiced from the comfort of an armchair so the greater the stress and discomfort, the bigger the adventure - hence the "epic" qualification. Even if we say so ourselves
Anyway lets hope for a dry day tomorrow and we hope to get a decent distance
I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride my bike, I like to ride my bicycle I like to ride it where I like.
ReplyDeleteThought this one would enable you all to harmonise as you go along.
Keep going! Looking forwad to the next post and seeing you soon!
Rick and Nix
Ive got a bike, you can ride it if you like,
ReplyDeleteits got a basket a bell to make it look good.
I would give it you if I could but I borrowed it
:-)