Second day in, and we already had the first "incident" of the trip. We met the rest of the group this morning: 4 more people on 3 bikes have joined us today: Eric, his son Jack, and David W with his daughter Rosie. They joined us at the hotel we stayed last night, and we set off to Mereville from there. A hundred yards after we set off, one of the bikes bumped into another and knocked the paniers in the middle of the road. We all came to a halt and stop...

Hello everyone, well I've survived the first day. First entry of the blog is from Coquelles - Calais. Pretty quick and straight forward route, some might say boring: Set off from home around 11:00, got to Folkestone around 13:00 and hanged around for the 15:20 train,when we met 2 of the other guys on the trip. Only one of the guys new the hotel's address, so we followed him. Half way down the motorway we realised that the route was wrong and turned around. Finall...