Day 1: Wotton-under-Edge to Salisbury - 120km Day 2: Salisbury to Holton Heath - 65km Day 3: Holton Heath to Langton Matravers - 56km Day 4: Rest Day Day 5: Rest Day Day 6: Langton Matravers to Portsmouth - 130km Day 7: Le Harve to Auberville - 96km Day 8: Auberville to Thury Harcourt - 100km Day 9: Thury Harcourt to Pont-d'Ouilly - 25km Day 10: Pont-d'Ouilly to St Hillaire du Harcourt - [View Full Entry]

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After 8 days of breaking camp and moving on, although I didn't always do lots of miles, I treated myself to a day off in Paimpont. It's a small town in the middle of the Paimpont Forest which is associated with Arthurian legend. Lots of places to visit, such as Merlin's Tomb but my tired legs only made it as far as the local bar which was showing Le Tour all afternoon. At last, a French bar with Le Tour on instead of horse racing. Yep, amazingly gambling on the horses seems more important in most places that the biggest big [View Full Entry]

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Well, apologies to all those who have been checking this blog thingy to see updates but I'm back here in the UK already without having added any blogs whilst on my travels. The lack of blogs was down to the relative lack of internet access in the places I ended up visiting and also the fact that I was enjoying barely going near a computer for the best part of 5 weeks so didn't look too hard. Most internet cafes were in the big cities and big cities, poor road signs, a poor sense of direction and a heavy touring bike [View Full Entry]

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Well, after what seems like absolutely ages in the planning and probably a fair bit of procrastinating and faffing, I am finally ready for the off. The original plan was to get going by early June, now, the 24th is the eventual date, still, better late than never and hopefully this means that I'll have everything I need, ha, fat chance. After being made redundant earlier this year, and always liking the idea of cycle touring I thought I'd take the opportunity to give it a go. With no job to rush back to I've decided to head off over into [View Full Entry]

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