Bicycle Touring France

This week’s Travelsonabike2 bicycle touring on this day post comes from France on the 1st of August 2010. I’m off to France for a change, but on this occasion, I’ve got somebody to cycle with.

Sunday, 1st August 2010. Bognor Regis, England to Rouen, France. 83 miles.

I wasn’t very popular today. We had to get up rather early this morning. We had to leave my house by 4.30 am to catch our 8.30 ferry from Portsmouth to Le Havre.

It’s been a nice couple of days at home. I made Katrin sample some of the delights of British cuisine, fish and chips, fried breakfast and the nation’s traditional dish, curry! I don’t think she was too impressed, though.

We’ve come to an agreement on our daily mileage. I wanted to do at least eighty miles, but Katrin wanted to do sixty. So we’ve split the difference and agreed that we’d do seventy miles and then camp unless it’s a place we want to see, then it’s a hotel.

We both won today. I got my mileage, and Katrin got her hotel, as Rouen was one of the places on our list to see. The old part of town is very pretty with its narrow streets, timber-framed houses, and pretty cathedral.

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