Friday 13th August
51.6 Miles!
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Last photo by the Murderville toilet facilities |
James:
51.6 Miles! To Lagny Sur Marne.
Susie:
an epic day. Decided to make a run for the one campsite east of Paris. Woken at 9am by the murderville owner mowing the plots all around ours!
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| The best thing about murderville is the huge supermarket opposite |
We left 'Murder-Ville' ASAP in the morning, even skipped breakfast to get going.
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| Breakfast by the road. We are also waiting here to avoid some dogs |
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| Away from our camping spot it is still pretty wealthy round here |
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| Ruined church in someone's back garden |
Ups and downs and some very nice stone towns in the sun.
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| Small hills |
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| Back to fields of corn and sunflowers |
This is why we are sick of sunflowers
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| James still had energy and enthusiasm at this point |
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| On entering a forest... |
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| No sign of flying reindeer |
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| a lucky shot |
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| Action shot! The only photo of us both cycling |
It was fairly hilly, but getting flatter. Thunder in the distance.
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| Passing Charles De Gaulle Airport |
Lunch at 5pm
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| Mustard and Mackerel Sandwiches mmmm |
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| Just before his knee exploded |
Around the 35 mile distance, right knee starts to have a very harsh stabbing pain with every pedal of the bike.
James' knee exploded (he says) and hills got really tricky. Reaching the campsite was taking forever. We found another one in a wood, but it looked very dodgy, and we were wary after last nights experience.
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| Luckily the thunder storm passed to our left |
The campsite we were aiming for turned out not to exist, it was just a country park
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| Not a campsite! and not even open :( |
Managed to do another 16.6 miles in pain, only to find campsite is a park!! Backtracked to a hotel we had passed- Full! Then on to a €49 Motel,
So we turned back and found a motel- after 52 miles! Dinner in an out-of-town spanish restaurant was FANTASTIC! paella mmmmm
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| Our best french food so far is in a fast food paella restaurant by a motorway |
James explains why he is allowed to be very drunk.
Yay we have a bed for the night and a nice dinner on the middle round about. Paris on foot tomorrow =)
459 Miles so far.....
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