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F & S Final Stats

Departed: 31st August 2011 Returned: 18th September 2011 16 Full Days of Riding Distance: 2283.13 Kilometers (recorded - we missed a few off...

Lazy start to the day - breakfast and coffee in sleeping bags. Fast progress down the river valley towards Le Havre in the first few hours a...

It was a good start to the 5th century-mile day in a row today, although once again a pretty chilly one; it is noticebaly getting a lot cold...

Good night sleep in the woodland camp last night. Drizzle to start the day, but all disappeared by about 1030. Very long, straight flat road...

Misty and cold start to the day today as we rolled out of the campsite, but at least there was no rain! The mist cleared by about 10 o'c...

It was raining as we headed out this morning - so it was Sealskinz on and raincoats as we descended down the rest of the valley and onto the...

We started the day with a long downhill into Grenoble - it lasted for about 50km! averaging 30kmph without hardly pedalling - proves how hig...

Today was meant to be a rest day, but we always knew that we could never resist a climb of the legendary Alp d'Huez. We had a great pizz...

Easy start to the day as we continued down the rest of the great descent from half way down the Col we camped on last night. We had a small ...

Today was pretty epic. After our efforts yesterday we had a few less miles to do, but in fact we still had quite a challenging although very...

We had a great night sleep last night on our beach campsite, and were ready for our 4th century-mile day. We rolled out onto some big hills ...

Warmer start to the day today being further south and closer to sea level. Last night we decided that we didn't want to head along the c...

The century day: 104miles. Probably one of the easier centuries that I will do, but it still had its challenges. The day started out with an...

What a day! A real mix of elation and suffering. The Col du Tourmalet and 94miles of riding bolted onto it. We knew the forecast for today w...

Woke up late today, wandered round the pretty mountain town of Luz Saint Sauveur in the Pyrenees. Breakfast of awesome pan au chocolats from...

Today started flat, but we all knew that it wasn't going to be a flat day. We had 2054 meters of climbing scheduled in, including the le...

Today it rained. Proper torrential rain at the beginning of the day, we were just riding along fully sodden and praying that the wetness was...

The N634 hadn't eased up with traffic when we set off this morning and it looked like the day was going to be a long slog along a busy r...

The alarm didn't wake us up this morning, but luckily the light did around 0740. Last night was pretty damn hot, expect it didn't ge...

The first France and Spain blog now the trip is underway! Long day on the ferry playing cards and looking at the expanse of water that is th...