This is a diary of a 720km bike journey from Dieppe on the north coast of France to a small village called Vigeois, which is south of Limoges, or about two thirds of the way to the south of France. It took 9 days of cycling to reach my destination. I was accompanied for the first four days by my daughter Polly and her boyfriend Chris. Briefly, the background and reasons behind this particular choice of itinerary were as follows. My mother and father (a French teacher) used to spend their summer holidays in Vigeois for about ten years from the mid 1960s until my father’s untimely death, in Vigeois, in August 1975. My father was buried in Vigeois and the village holds a special significance for our family, as he made many friends there. In
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