There’s been a strange feel to this week, as we try and get back into some sort of routine. Everything is different as there are more and more policies in place as to what and how to do things each day. Thankfully, some things have remained the same; we nipped up the valley on Wednesday Read more

Hoorah! We’re allowed out into the big wide world again. Nicely timed with a one-day heatwave, where temperatures suddenly reached 25 degrees. The last two weeks really have blurred into a ‘period of time’, and it’s hard to remember exactly what happened when, or what we even did each day. But the days have actually Read more

There’s not been much excitement to report over the last few weeks, hence the blog has been a bit quiet of late. Our enforced quarantine is almost over. Here’s a bit of rhyming nonsense that’s helped to pass the time….. The Quarantine House Arrest A destination, R-Rate low, Seems sensibly, the place to go. So Read more

Here are a few little nuggets of information that may be of use to anyone considering a cycle touring trip in the Brittany area of northwest France. If you flick back thought the last month of this blog (any post from August 2020), you’ll be able to get more specific information about our journey as Read more

The last few days have gone by in a blur of travel and sleep. We said our goodbyes to the continent with a final early morning walk along a windswept beach at Boulogne. It turns out that Boulogne is actually a pretty cool town with an incredible cathedral within an old walled city. Timings worked Read more

The grand cycle touring circuit of Bretagne is finally complete! After twenty something days on the road, we’ve arrived back where we started at the tow-path (or Chemin de Haulage as it’s known around here) where we began back at the start of the month. Like most best laid expedition plans, we had to adapt Read more