I know it's a long way off, but getting tickets for the ferry was a bit of a scramble last year.
So................this is the deal
We'll leave Hyde Park Corner at midnight on Thursday 22 May. We'll ride south, have coffee at Gatwick at about 3am, then go on to Newhaven for breakfast. Some people will go home from Newhaven, but some of us will take the 10am ferry to Dieppe - that's 10am on 23rd May.
We'll arrive in Dieppe mid-afternoon. Some people might want to stay in Dieppe, but most of us will cycle on for a little way, stop for refreshments at Torcy-le-Grand and stay overnight somewhere around Saint-Saens. The custom is to check in to our chambre d'hotes or whatever and then go down to the centre of Saint-Saens for a pasta meal.
We'll set off early on Saturday morning, stop at a boulangerie in Morgny for coffee and baguettes and then go on to somewhere like Marines for a spot of lunch. From there it's not too far to Pontoise, and, after a bit of shimmying, we'll find ourselves on a quietish road just north of the main drag for the last fifteen miles in to Paris. We go to our hotels or hostels. Last year we went out to dinner together beside a canal, which was very pleasant.
Susie and I will spend the night in Paris, take the train back to Dieppe and take the afternoon ferry to Newhaven, and thence the train to London. So our return ticket is for the afternoon sailing on the 25th May.
Ferry - DFDS http://www.dfdsseaways.co.uk/ferry-routes/travel-information/timetables/
Distances
London to Newhaven about 60 miles
Dieppe to Saint-Saens about 25 miles
Saint Saens to Paris about 83 miles
The route will be pretty much the same as last year, bar a bit of a swerve near Marines. I'm hoping that this year's edition won't be so fearsomely hot!
http://goo.gl/maps/HNwRa
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So................this is the deal
We'll leave Hyde Park Corner at midnight on Thursday 22 May. We'll ride south, have coffee at Gatwick at about 3am, then go on to Newhaven for breakfast. Some people will go home from Newhaven, but some of us will take the 10am ferry to Dieppe - that's 10am on 23rd May.
We'll arrive in Dieppe mid-afternoon. Some people might want to stay in Dieppe, but most of us will cycle on for a little way, stop for refreshments at Torcy-le-Grand and stay overnight somewhere around Saint-Saens. The custom is to check in to our chambre d'hotes or whatever and then go down to the centre of Saint-Saens for a pasta meal.
We'll set off early on Saturday morning, stop at a boulangerie in Morgny for coffee and baguettes and then go on to somewhere like Marines for a spot of lunch. From there it's not too far to Pontoise, and, after a bit of shimmying, we'll find ourselves on a quietish road just north of the main drag for the last fifteen miles in to Paris. We go to our hotels or hostels. Last year we went out to dinner together beside a canal, which was very pleasant.
Susie and I will spend the night in Paris, take the train back to Dieppe and take the afternoon ferry to Newhaven, and thence the train to London. So our return ticket is for the afternoon sailing on the 25th May.
Ferry - DFDS http://www.dfdsseaways.co.uk/ferry-routes/travel-information/timetables/
Distances
London to Newhaven about 60 miles
Dieppe to Saint-Saens about 25 miles
Saint Saens to Paris about 83 miles
The route will be pretty much the same as last year, bar a bit of a swerve near Marines. I'm hoping that this year's edition won't be so fearsomely hot!
http://goo.gl/maps/HNwRa
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