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Location Date Oceania 1498604400 North America 1476226800 Europe 
1443826800 Asia 1428274800 -
Location Date UK 1443826800 Netherlands 1440284400 Poland 1440198000 Germany 1439766000 France
1437865200 Italy 1436828400 Greece 1428534000 Czech Republic 1371942000 Slovakia 1371682800 Austria 1371596400 Slovenia 1371250800 Turkey 1310079600 Belgium 1309129200 Isle Of Man 1306623600 Spain 1304550000 Andorra 1304290800 Switzerland 1303686000 -
Location Date Dunkerque 1437865200 Corps 1437606000 Grenoble 1437433200 Paris 1436482800 Thionville 1431903600 Strasbourg 1431730800 Corsica 1430434800 Villers-Bretonneux 1372633200 Dieppe 1305500400 Le Mans 1305414000 Sainte-Mere-Eglise 1305068400 Le Mont-St-Michel 1304982000 Laval
1304895600 Oradour-Sur-Glane 1304809200 Agen 1304722800 Lourdes 1304377200 Narbonne 1304031600 St Raphael 1303945200 Gap 1303858800
Monday 09.05.2011 – happy birthday to Greg's baby sister Cathy BATEUP who lives in Canberra. The big five O (50) today. We sent her an SMS wishing her the best.
We rode north to the city of Laval and it was pretty ordinary scenery wise. Even though we avoided the Autoroute and stuck to country roads, is was rather unremarkable. Kerrie even amused herself by taking photos of vapor trails!
The ride highlight was 40 km along the edge of the Loire River riding on basically a levee bank.
The Loire River seems to be suffering the same fate as the Murray-Darling basin - too much water being taken out from a combination of over farming and too little going in due to climate change/variation.
We checked into our Ibis hotel on the edge of town. We were both fatigued so decided to eat in the hotel restaurant and have an early night. Kerrie was fast asleep by 9.00 pm while Greg retired at 11.30 pm after working on the Blog. So much for an early night.
On packing up the P-D in next morning we took some interesting photos of a guy we think is named Randolph WEST by the sign on the back, who was riding a push bike and towing a trailer with two dogs in it.
The dogs were so well trained he walked them over to the grass where they both did a pee on command and then hopped into their buggy, one at a time, one facing right and the other left.
The guy was riding around the world raising money for cancer research.
As Kerrie said, he must be doing OK with his donations because he could afford a three star hotel.
There was nothing else to report about Laval because we never went in to town – too b*****ed!
We rode north to the city of Laval and it was pretty ordinary scenery wise. Even though we avoided the Autoroute and stuck to country roads, is was rather unremarkable. Kerrie even amused herself by taking photos of vapor trails!
The ride highlight was 40 km along the edge of the Loire River riding on basically a levee bank.
The Loire River seems to be suffering the same fate as the Murray-Darling basin - too much water being taken out from a combination of over farming and too little going in due to climate change/variation.
We checked into our Ibis hotel on the edge of town. We were both fatigued so decided to eat in the hotel restaurant and have an early night. Kerrie was fast asleep by 9.00 pm while Greg retired at 11.30 pm after working on the Blog. So much for an early night.
On packing up the P-D in next morning we took some interesting photos of a guy we think is named Randolph WEST by the sign on the back, who was riding a push bike and towing a trailer with two dogs in it.
The dogs were so well trained he walked them over to the grass where they both did a pee on command and then hopped into their buggy, one at a time, one facing right and the other left.
The guy was riding around the world raising money for cancer research.
As Kerrie said, he must be doing OK with his donations because he could afford a three star hotel.
There was nothing else to report about Laval because we never went in to town – too b*****ed!
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Cath I'm enjoying the blogs immensely, but now feel impelled to comment - a simple happy birthday would have been sufficient, no need to tell the world how old I am now:))