StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
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The Fridays Tour de Normandie 2015
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AKA Bob
Riding a folding bike far too much of the time...
- Location
- Reading upon Thames
Rachel and I are booked into a B+B near Brix for Friday night, Première Class in Bayeux and Campanile in Honfleur. Who says romance is dead........
we're sailing to Cherbourg for a recce on Friday 13th, returning from Dieppe Tuesday 17th. So hold your horses on the Forges thing until then please - I'll be going to all the hotels to check out availability, so anybody booking before then will screw up my calculations.
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Hotels booked: Ibis at La Glacerie, Premiere Classe at Bayeux, and Ibis at Honfleur.
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Rue+Genas+Duhomme&daddr=49.2765482,-0.7001778+to:49.2796639,-0.694114+to:49.3125669,-0.5728479+to:49.3432922,-0.5151286+to:49.3349917,-0.4919497+to:49.3299105,-0.4567292+to:49.3325433,-0.3961403+to:49.3237172,-0.3640522+to:49.2761618,-0.2519476+to:49.2421435,-0.2735072+to:49.2648761,-0.1960593+to:49.2908611,-0.0962932+to:49.3049048,-0.0726836+to:49.307647,-0.0409478+to:49.3547527,0.0582316+to:49.3615178,0.0724513+to:49.3863839,0.1074311+to:49.4210441,0.2062125+to:Honfleur,+France&hl=en&sll=49.279117,-0.696173&sspn=0.007167,0.021136&geocode=Fbvq7wIdXEL1_w;FYTm7wId71D1_ympO_-irKwLSDHm5C7nvAs_YA;Fa_y7wIdnmj1_ylJYGFPVFMKSDHocuhTPgOFtw;FTZz8AIdUUL3_yknK8cx41YKSDH18yUgvU97eA;FTzr8AIdyCP4_ynxB-uaIlgKSDE8MFnfjmAkHg;Fc_K8AIdU374_yljn5NARVgKSDGwKoHPtZf0hg;Ffa28AId5wf5_ymZxnDC3VgKSDHTs6oR4QKo1Q;FT_B8AIdlPT5_ymj8SNCBl8KSDHkTpcTOryEQQ;FcWe8AId7HH6_yk1FgtLy18KSDGIy6HNIxLOog;FQHl7wId1Sf8_ynNieKnBWQKSDE73vAyolqP-g;FR9g7wIdndP7_yml8wJiYmYKSDFDOqlvMGoqGw;Fey47wIdJQL9_ynPkVNFlWQKSDGL1yZy6EaAaQ;FW0e8AId24f-_ylRL0WUBXwKSDHJEIsvjtLUdw;FUhV8AIdFeT-_ykN5Gksln4KSDG4wN9f4Y0FPg;Ff9f8AIdDWD__yn5oIRFHn8KSDFmK8aGm7sXaQ;FQAY8QIdd-MAACk9xAiQxdThRzFW5Ir5y8BsUw;FW0y8QIdAxsBAClNjTHAs9ThRzFJt6_pBIKBgg;FY-T8QIdp6MBAClpQA8jvizgRzHrmFCEgatFtw;FfQa8gIdhCUDACmJUO7PRTLgRzEo3BUQxqgIBg;FQoS8gIdLo8DACnFXQ_jpTPgRzHw6rxPSBQMBA&oq=honfle&doflg=ptm&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=16&via=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18&t=m&z=10
a tricky item. Our first recce took us down a road east of Ouistreham that was vile. This, amended version, looks decent, but it does involve going on a cycle path down the side of the road for a little way west of Cabourg, and then going through Cabourg, which is a bit of a tip.
Once again, Google Maps doesn't 'allow' one to go down the prom (tiddly-om-pom-pom) in certain places, so it won't be quite like this.
a tricky item. Our first recce took us down a road east of Ouistreham that was vile. This, amended version, looks decent, but it does involve going on a cycle path down the side of the road for a little way west of Cabourg, and then going through Cabourg, which is a bit of a tip.
Once again, Google Maps doesn't 'allow' one to go down the prom (tiddly-om-pom-pom) in certain places, so it won't be quite like this.
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Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sadd...=10&sz=11&via=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11&t=m&z=9
kindasorta. This is the bit we didn't cover on our recce last year. We might ride down the faster road to Forges, just to strike it off the list.
kindasorta. This is the bit we didn't cover on our recce last year. We might ride down the faster road to Forges, just to strike it off the list.
AKA Bob
Riding a folding bike far too much of the time...
- Location
- Reading upon Thames
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
For future reference:
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
And here's a GPX... http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2738311
We're just back from Normandy, having covered over 200 miles on roads that wet, muddy and covered in cow poo. Who has more fun?
To begin at the beginning......
If I've purchased a ticket from 1600 Portsmouth to Cherbourg for you, the cost is £29 per person
If I've purchased a ticket from 1230 Dieppe to Newhaven for you the cost is £28.75 per person
When you have the funds (and there's no rush) you could
a) send me a cheque. My address is in my e-mail to you
b) give me the money in one form or another on Olaf's Brighton ride
c) put money in my account (details on request).
If you're booked in to the Ibis or Budget Ibis at La Glacerie on the first night then you will need a guide to get to it because there's a big scary roundabout. I intend to meet the ferries from Poole and from Portsmouth and take you up there. If you're booked elsewhere and you need directions, please let me know - there are many ways out of Cherbourg, but some are better than others.
If you haven't booked a hotel for Cherbourg/La Glacerie/Brix (May 22nd), or for Bayeux (May 23rd) or for Honfleur (May 24th), it's time to do so. Honfleur has a festival running through May, so it will fill up. Do not, whatever you do, book in to the Maison de Honfleur
Our recce ride was mostly good. The first and second days are pretty (cow poo excepted). The first half of the third day was a delight. The BAC (an open ferry across the Seine) was brilliant. The second half of the third day was not so good, and, unfortunately, our chosen destination, Forges-les-Eaux is a bit of a dump. Actually, it's a casino town with an unexceptional pizza parlour and the one decent sized hotel looks like it was decorated by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. So we're not going there.
I've cast around for all the available options and decided that on the third day we will go direct to Dieppe. This isn't what was on the tin at the beginning, but the ride from Honfleur to Dieppe is going to be sweet. There will be rivers large and small, a ferry, pretty villages and Dieppe is a great place for a fun night out.
So.........go for it. Book your rooms, and ponder byways, beaches and boulangeries. And don't worry about the cow poo, because it will all be gone by May.
Any questions.....................
To begin at the beginning......
If I've purchased a ticket from 1600 Portsmouth to Cherbourg for you, the cost is £29 per person
If I've purchased a ticket from 1230 Dieppe to Newhaven for you the cost is £28.75 per person
When you have the funds (and there's no rush) you could
a) send me a cheque. My address is in my e-mail to you
b) give me the money in one form or another on Olaf's Brighton ride
c) put money in my account (details on request).
If you're booked in to the Ibis or Budget Ibis at La Glacerie on the first night then you will need a guide to get to it because there's a big scary roundabout. I intend to meet the ferries from Poole and from Portsmouth and take you up there. If you're booked elsewhere and you need directions, please let me know - there are many ways out of Cherbourg, but some are better than others.
If you haven't booked a hotel for Cherbourg/La Glacerie/Brix (May 22nd), or for Bayeux (May 23rd) or for Honfleur (May 24th), it's time to do so. Honfleur has a festival running through May, so it will fill up. Do not, whatever you do, book in to the Maison de Honfleur
Our recce ride was mostly good. The first and second days are pretty (cow poo excepted). The first half of the third day was a delight. The BAC (an open ferry across the Seine) was brilliant. The second half of the third day was not so good, and, unfortunately, our chosen destination, Forges-les-Eaux is a bit of a dump. Actually, it's a casino town with an unexceptional pizza parlour and the one decent sized hotel looks like it was decorated by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. So we're not going there.
I've cast around for all the available options and decided that on the third day we will go direct to Dieppe. This isn't what was on the tin at the beginning, but the ride from Honfleur to Dieppe is going to be sweet. There will be rivers large and small, a ferry, pretty villages and Dieppe is a great place for a fun night out.
So.........go for it. Book your rooms, and ponder byways, beaches and boulangeries. And don't worry about the cow poo, because it will all be gone by May.
Any questions.....................
redfalo
known as Olaf in real life
- Location
- Brexit Boomtown
Acommodation in Dieppe sorted. We'll be staying at a B&B, where a double including breakfast is 80 euros (their email address is a bit hard to come by, but I'm happy to share it)
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_..._Seine_Maritime_Haute_Normandie_Normandy.html
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_..._Seine_Maritime_Haute_Normandie_Normandy.html
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