Running, Cycle Touring and Roaming with Simple Living and Slow Travel
In the spirit of keeping up with the locals and ignoring the winter weather to embrace the great outdoors, I decided to enter a 10K run today. My new determination to defeat the winter chills wasn’t so much a baptism of fire, as a baptism of ice. A glance out the window this morning, was... Continue Reading →
Friday, November 20 Are we there yet? Are weeee theeeeeerre yeeeet!? What a day. First, quite a few glitches with the van hire this morning, which had us leaving London a few hours later that intended. We were eventually on the road, in our latest form of between-rides transport. We’ll be motoring around the country... Continue Reading →
Today was a good day for ducks, but that rain made it a monster day for museums! It was a day to be indoors, so we returned for Part II of our discovery tour of the Victoria and Albert Museum. It seems we had the right plan. When we entered through our newly discovered underground... Continue Reading →
With a crisp clear morning and a touch of blue sky, I couldn’t pass up the chance to go for a run, so run I did. Steve came with me on the bike and I ran alongside the Thames, looking across at Docklands, watching the varied water traffic going up and down and watching the... Continue Reading →
There were two missions to accomplish today: 1.Make the maiden voyage of navigation, driving through the centre of London, to find our apartment at Canary Wharf. 2. Make the return voyage through the centre of London to return the vulgar van. Mission 1 Captain Steve took the helm again, with myself as First Officer beside... Continue Reading →
Look! I think, I think that could be blue sky! It’s not raining! And look…look…I think that could be a glimmer of sunshine!! We left Dunkerque in rain, but arrived in merry ol’ England with almost, almost sunshine! We found our way to the ferry terminal in Dunkerque and proceeded through passport control. While Steve... Continue Reading →
When we looked out the window this morning, we saw grey skies and wind, lots of wind. “We wouldn’t like the look of that if we were on the bikes,” I commented to Steve. It turns out the new shoes were well timed because it rained when we arrived in St. Quentin last night and... Continue Reading →
Just a short blog post today, because nothing I have to say today is of any importance, given the events overnight. However, I will mention just a couple of ordinary, mundane things that happened, just to show that the ordinary and mundane can stare down attempts at fear and terror and the ordinary, the mundane,... Continue Reading →
Walking out in daylight this morning, gave us our first real glimpse of the town of Modane, where we’d stayed last night. What a lovely little town, sitting in the Alps and high above, looking down on the main street, were the mountains with their snow-capped peaks. Beautiful. The air was mountain air too! It... Continue Reading →
Y’know when you have a destination in mind and you look at maps and you type that place into the GPS, and y’know how the GPS says to turn left and turn right and y’know when it tells you to turn right, sometimes the road is blocked and you can’t go that way, well then... Continue Reading →
Run. Ride. Roam. 