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Pont l'eveque to Compeigne (33 kms cycled)
Published: June 21st 2011Europe » France » Picardy » Compiegne
June 13th 2011
It was raining as we ate our breakfast this morning which did not bode well for our day's riding. Fortunately, by the time we finished breakfast, cleaned out teeth and got on deck to unlock and prepare our bikes, the rain had stopped!! Our first stop this morning was at Ourscamp Abbey, a Benedictine monastery not far from Pont l'eveque. The abbey is on the Santiago de Compostela pilgrims' route and offers accommodation for pilgrims. Out the back is the most incredible ruin that attests to the fact that the site must have been spectacular in its heyday. A team of archaeologists were working in the ruins. They turned out to be American so they were able to tell us that this is their second season at the site (2009 and back again this year) and ... read more
Lost in France/my little tank/In a land of myths and time of legends
Published: November 27th 2011Europe » France » Picardy » Compiegne
May 28th 2010
What a journey! It always feels a long way before we start to feel we are on holiday. By the time we reach the M6 we generally though feel as if we are on our way. 5 hours of driving and we arrived at the Channel Tunnel. France and Calais beckoned just the other side of the Channel. We had planned a leisurely ride down to the Dordogne with stops on the way. Our journey on the train never seems to take long and on the way we found ourselves talking to two Maltese men, a father and a son who had travelled from home in Malta to Britain to purchase their second hand cars and then drive them home across Europe. It appears that it costs less to buy a car here in Britain, drive ... read more
