http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Monsieur et Madame Francophile/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Monsieur et Madame Francophile en-us Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:51:27 UTC Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:51:27 UTC Hello allWell the first ten miles under their belts Julian George and Anne were raring to go after a good old english breakfast to set the energy levels nice and high.Orft they went in the rain planning to meet Dick and Timmy at Greystokes for lunch. Yes the Greystokes referred to in Tarzan literatureTimmy and Dick stopped off in Keswick for a bit of quick retail therapy and to get bread and su http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/North-Pennines/blog-275007.html Timmy the Sherpa woke at 5am and lay in bed watching the beautiful sunrise. At 5.15am Timmy decided it was time to get up and begin the preparations for the Five to set off for Workington to begin their trip.Cheese was grated specially for George and other goodies packed away in the cool box to ensure everyone was fed and adequately watered along the way.Julian and George fitted the bike to the ca http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/blog-274368.html The Famous Five are four decidedly upperclass middle aged adventurers with a mongrel Sherpa who go to Philosophy together and take part other similar antics in the city of Cambridge. They want nothing more than to have a great time strolling and biking around the countryside having picnics discussing the meaning of life and generally having jolly good fun. Unlike the Secret Seven and the Five F http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/blog-273348.html Hi everyone Just to let you all know that the C2C bikeride will be taking place this year.Ian Anne and Stuart will be riding Coast to Coast from Whitehaven to Newcastle starting on Thursday 8 May 2008. We will send you daily updates of progress.They will be fully supported and assisted by Sherpa Carrie and her trusty assistant Sherpa AlisonWatch this space to see the fun we are going to have.L http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/blog-272459.html Out and about in the rain Bonjour mes amies et families. Well we continue to enjoy ourselves despite seeing the most rain in the past five days that we have seen in the past 10 years when visiting France It has been hard to believe at times that we are in Brittany and not somewhere where they have monsoon. This very lovely area of Brittany is called Cornouaille and it is representative of ou http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-170984.html Bonjour Bloggers Well it is hard to believe that we have been away from home for a week now how time flies when you are having fun. The weather has not been so clement on this trip and yesterday and today we have had a lot of rain. However it is beautiful to see the storms gathering and rolling across the horizon. I have attached some photos to this blog for your perusal. We are having our http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-169518.html The holiday begins We set off at 7am to catch the ferry from Dover to Boulogne. We now travel with Speedferries. It takes 50 mins to cross and is really cheap. A great service. If you buy the Supervouchers you can travel at any time and it costs 62 return well worth it. We arrived in Boulogne at about 1pm French time stopped for bread and were then on our way. The roads in France are superb f http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-168324.html Untitled Bonjour Friends Family Monsieur et Madame welcome you to our blog of our trip to Brittany France June 2007. We have spent many a happy hour boring you all with our tales and photos of the beautiful Kersalic where we stay when we visit this lovely part of France although every part of France is fabulous in our opinion so this time we thought we would go one better and take you alo http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/blog-164886.html