Travel Journal
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Roscoff, FR to Paris, FR
Our train to Paris didn’t depart from Morlaix (18 miles away) until nearly 6pm, so we dallied in our beloved Roscoff apartment until 10am before beginning our first real cycling in France. Immediately it was clear that this is a much more-comfortable country to ride in than England, proving that all the Brits who told… Read more…
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Plymouth, UK to Roscoff, FR
Day 1 Finally it was the day to board our ferry from England to France. It’s the second new country in a row that we will be arriving to by boat, though upon thinking about it, it’s surprising to realize we’ve actually done it three times previously: Maine, USA to Nova Scotia, Canada (and vice-versa),… Read more…
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Plymouth, UK
Days 14-17 Our inspection of the bike facilities on the Great Western Railway train that we took to Totnes confirmed that they weren’t great, but with unloaded bikes we should be able to figure something out. So we made a plan to do a day-trip west into Cornwall, to the end of the line at… Read more…
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Plymouth, UK
Further calculations regarding the start of our 90-day “Schengen Clock” produced “September 7th” as the date we would want to cross over into France and start the clock. The extra week in the UK would prevent us from being forced to exit the Schengen Zone (to Morocco) before December. It also meant that we now… Read more…
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Hendham, UK to Plymouth, UK
We had only 21 miles to ride to our AirBNB in Plymouth (where we would be staying for 10 days), and usually that would mean staying right up until checkout time at our current place to minimize the wait to check in to our new place. But we didn’t even make it to our annoyingly-early… Read more…
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Brixham, UK to Hendham, UK
We had another block of mid-ride off-bike tourism planned for today, so we were up at 6:45am, and I heated up bagel sandwiches on our stove on the patio of our backyard AirBNB while Rett nursed her still-throbbing ankle. The only “kitchen” facilities of our one-room outbuilding were a mini-fridge and an electric kettle, but… Read more…
