Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Off to Europe on a whim

Thursday 11th June 2009. Two guys, 2 bikes and one goal in mind......... to get a real taste of what Europe has to offer.

So we finally got on our wayat 3pm, on schedule actually and would you guess it we lost each other in the first five minutes. André managed to head off in the wrong direction.

When we eventually got back on track, things went pretty well. Got to Folkstone early so got the early train across the channel, this after having the easiest border crossing i have ever had, showing our passports but keeping our helmets on, weird. It's funny that it took us just over an hour to reach French soil and took us 4 hours to reach Wales.

On arrival in Calais, the wind was a bit shocking, could have sworn i was back in Cape Town. Decided heading to the hotel would be the best option. All i can say is £5 for a pint of beer.....are they mad??!!??

It's 22:30 and outside is still light, summer is strange north of the equator.

Only 74miles covered today

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