The Fridays tour - Normandy 15th-22nd June

[Aperitif]

Thankfully your helmet will have prevented serious damage to the car, Adrian. The Lions tackled out the game today, and won 47 - 17.
Croft, Wyn Jones, Warburton, Davies, Halfpenny, Vunipola, T Youngs,Jones, O' Connell, Heaslip, Sexton/Farrell, North, Zebo, B Youngs, O'Driscoll = the starting line-up for next week.
It's raining in Londres.

 

[rvw]

Les Wilcoxes sont arrives! Avec le gateau des Vendredis traditionel.

 

[wanda2010]

Final contingent on the ferry. I can confirm salted peanuts and Glenfiddich, with a motion sickness tablet works well. So far.

 

[mmmmartin]

We are currently in the boaty thing and it left early. Several of us were searched by the border guards. We were leaving the country so I cannot see the point of that.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

We waved to you and then got soaked by by a wave coming over the wall. It's fair windy out there.

 

[mmmmartin]

The boaty thing is not the best thing in a few waves. Sometimes they go right over the roof. And we rock from side to side in a wild manner. The captain told us not to walk around. No food is being eaten. If you get my drift. .....

 

[srw]

On train going through Crawley. Am envious of Team Caen's mini-adventures with collateral damage and money-saving exploits. My journey is uneventful so far. Although I did have to turn back at my gate to pick up some chain lube. And I just realised I have forgotten the budgie smugglers. So might have to be "tackle-out".

There is a plage naturiste marked on the map in the chateau, just up the coast from Carteret.

 

[mmmmartin]

Immaculately dressed French men wearing black bow ties skip laconically round the vessel handing small white sick bags to comatose English. Land ahoy thank god. At this rate we'll soon run out of bags......

 

[mmmmartin]

We're going so fast if we don't slow up soon we won't need to ride far to get to the château.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

If we'd cycled along the quayside we'd have been in France before you.

 

[mmmmartin]

All in. Weather perfect. Early arrivals cooked us a meal. All alcohol has been consumed. Dell demands a 9.30 departure and to pack rain gear. This will be interesting. ...

 

[Flying Dodo]

9:30? He's giving you a lie-in then!

 

[mmmmartin]

Great day. A few spots of rain but not enough to get the gear on for. Coffee in barfleur. Fish and chips in st huge le vaaast (other spellings are available) some had fresh oysters to boot. Others had crepes. Return was through idyllic lanes. As you do. The Splittist Tendency of The Fridays International Brigade went off in search of Calvados on the return. The Orthodox Front returned direct to Le Chateau. Where the secret supply of Le Cidre was raided. Those older and wiser are currently holed up in the secret lounge on the second floor of the chateau. Where no one knows where I am as I knock back this deilisshhioush ssschider on my own...
Communal meal tonight. Tomorrow night we eat at the local place which is opening especially for us.
To those who cancelled I'd just like to say hahaha haha haha

 

[wanda2010]

Day One - fabulous. Even though I was stuck in the big ring for a while and am now stuck on the small ring till I visit the bike shop in Brix on Tuesday. Bike cleaned and beers are being drunk whilst waiting for the chef and her assistants to do their thing. The heating is now on. All is well in my world.

 

[wanda2010]

A point to note. Motion sickness tablets, alcohol and peanuts are not a good combination on a very rough crossing.