The hat, wine tasting and the missing burger We checked out of the hotel on thursday morning and left our bags with reception. The weather was actually quite poor but we both didnt bother and decided to go without our coats. We got the tram to the centre of town and i went to h&m to buy a hat id seen for €8. I tried two on and i said do i look like a twat, copey said look in the mirror i did but needed a hat so bought one anyway. We walked upto the anti...

If u aint got wheels , then your a no one in bordeaux On Wednesday we had the intention to rent bikes out. We had seen these before u can rent them out for €1 a day, we tried our best to use the machines turns out they dont like foriegn cards and they also make a deposit of €200 per bike. We had put our cards in several times so lets hope we can still use them later. We decided to walk down the river, coping sporting his carlotti oldham vest again determine...

Bordeaux, trains and the ghezin hotel I woke up at 9am in tours and headed out to update my blog as id negleted it over the weekend with the dodgy wifi we had at the hotel. I went to the local macdonalds ordered a large minute maid and updated my blog and rang home and spoke to emily too. I went back to the hotel when copey was awake we grabbed our bags and headed to the train station. We had one connecting train to the station where we needed to catch the bord...

Bordeaux? Strikes and the detour to Tours After the racing we had booked a ticket to bordeaux we hadnt booked any accomodation as we were gonna blag it when we got there. We got a taxi from the hotel at 9am and we went straight to the station we couldnt find our train anywhere on the boards. We ended up asking randomn people if they speake de english? They obviously didnt so we found a ninformation booth. Turned out that a local train operator was on strike, it ...

Le mans 24 hr bike racing weekend. 17-18th april On saturday morning we rushed out of bed at 8 am and woke a load of spanish students up getting ready to hit the train to le mans. We rushed onto the metro and was at the station with plenty of time. Le mans station was huge and had a flip timetable departures board that flickered every second it was actually quite hypnotic to watch. We boarded the train with our first class tickets and found a table seat. It turn...