The Fridays tour - Normandy 15th-22nd June

[dellzeqq]

And we have five or six litres of red for Friday night. But, happily there are only ten of us.

 

[mmmmartin]

On my way over now. Might be some time as I am luxuriating in my private sitting room on the second floor of the château.

 

[dellzeqq]

Sweet Jesus! I've just seen the beer stock. We're down to our last fifty bottles! Call the social workers!

 

[dellzeqq]

On my way over now. Might be some time as I am luxuriating in my private sitting room on the second floor of the château.

Is that the one with the rococo ceiling?

 

[rvw]

Team Fast & Hard and Team Weak-willed were all up and looking lively on bikes before the captain of Team Wilcox surfaced. So we ended up with a day by ourselves, pootling down the voie verte from Rochville to St Sauveur le Vicomte - on a surface that was mostly as good as it needed to be on our tough tandem tyres, and with gates at junctions which we could mostly get round without dismounting. And - particularly nice after yesterday's exertions - with very gentle gradients. A picnic on the grass outside the chateau medievale in the sun, then back up little lanes to the chateau. We've found a slightly longer route up the hill via a place called St Joseph, but unfortunately although it is fine when approached from some points, the way we came today wasn't one of them. There was a nice long slope down, then quite a gentle hill most of the way up to the main road - and then a cliff face for the last 1/4 mile or so. But we found cold drinks in the supermarket in St Joseph to revitalise us for the last 6 miles.

And another storming meal at chez Cri-Cri to finish a lovely day.

 

[Aperitif]

"We.."

 

[Aperitif]

Michael Caine and Ian 'Pouledry' in a scene from "Get Carte" (The guy with the grey shirt has shoulders so small, they're almost 'épaulettes')

 

[Michael Adu]

And we have five or six litres of red for Friday night. But, happily there are only ten of us.

But will it last till Friday night?!

 

[Michael Adu]

On my way over now. Might be some time as I am luxuriating in my private sitting room on the second floor of the château.

The private luxury sitting room has bats

 

[srw]

The grand départ of team chic-gite, Thursday.

An Essex girl in her fighter-plane dress.

 

[mmmmartin]

The bat in the secret sitting room seems to have gone. Am girding my loins prior to Le Grand Depart of the Children And Old Ladies Team. Opted to leave waterproof jacket behind to continue the unbroken run of the week. Despite light drizzle. Have adopted the wishful thinking attitude to the weather forecast. Today the lunch stop has been a closely guarded secret known only to the recce team. It is a battered and nondescript bistro. From the outside. Inside it's huge and frequented by large numbers of French electricity workers, who are the aristocrats of dining. Their lunches are paid for by the electricity company and competition for their patronage is intense. The food there is good. And cheap. Finding it on the recce was a bit of serendipity, the sort of thing that the Fridays seem to find all the time.

 

[mmmmartin]

fighter-plane dress.

Don't ask.

 

[Snail Bait]

Don't ask.

So short you can see the cock-pit. This was a homage to the lady at the petrol station on the Dun Run Lite.

 

[wanda2010]

Fighter-plane dress looks better with suitable heels. A certain male looked good in it too.

 

[srw]