The Fridays tour - Normandy 15th-22nd June

[StuAff]

Oh TMN if I promise to dispose of your leaves in a non-plumbery fashion - will you take pity on me?
Otherwise it will be trying to get through the week on just infested apple juice and vin de pays. It'll be 'ard ..

I'm sure you'd manage........

 

[ianmac62]

Could all those interested let me know (again). Thinking of one of two options: Either as above or, as an alternative, a cultural tour in Leggsian style (Grolsch crate not included).

I'm on for either option please!

 

[srw]

Oh no, I have been busy ripping up tea bags collected from my stays in budget hotels and putting the content in a ziploc baggy. What am I to do now?

Drink coffee. Far better as a pick-me-up for the morning and in keeping with the country.

Talking of which, is the chateau well-appointed or am I going to have to bring my own supplies of essentials like coffee-pots and a decent grinder?

 

[dellzeqq]

Well, I can tell you this - there'll be no indecent grinding on this trip!

It's cafetieres only (with the appropriate accents) as far as I can remember

 

[srw]

We'll just have to sling the bike out of the boot to make way for the Gaggia then. Hey ho.

 

[srw]

Anyway. Tools. We have a car but few tools - we can run to a track pump but that's about it. Does one of the other drivers have a more comprehensive toolkit or are we going to rely on what will fit in panniers and les mechaniques locals? Or is some absurdly complex scheme going to be devised involving delivering tools to an office?

 

[dellzeqq]

don't worry about tools - the kind of thing you take on a night ride should suffice. If you have a particular need for, say, spanners, or odd sized inner tubes, then bring them along, but the bike shop is pretty darn spiffy. A pair of cutters might come in handy, and spare spokes are always clever on a tour, but that's about it.

 

[wanda2010]

I'm guessing that pretty darn spiffy bike shop won't have 'fixings' for the one and only 650c wheeler? I'll bring inners and a spare tyre. Spoke problems are not allowed.

 

[mmmmartin]

The bike shop looked capable of fixing just about anything. See posts passim. Inners always a good idea, obvs, and a Park Tool tyre boot pack would probably do the trick for less than a fiver and weighing the same as a dustcap.

 

[wanda2010]

How about a couple of empty crisp packets? I bulk buy Walkers ready salted.

 

[CharlieB]

Mind you, instead of lamenting the lack or otherwise of a decent cuppa char, we could just embrace the fact that the French make better coffee than we do…

 

[StuartG]

Cocoa, nobody's mentioned cocoa ...

 

[dellzeqq]

Mind you, instead of lamenting the lack or otherwise of a decent cuppa char, we could just embrace the fact that the French make better coffee than we do…

hmm......

 

[dellzeqq]

and while you lot are rabitting on about tea and coffee, I have established that the local cider, made in St. Joseph, is available at Auchan. All part of the Vendredis service!

 

[andyman]

Oh so this is where everyone is discussing the trip!