Waking up in Paris is a special feeling. It gets even better when you are woken by the smell of oven baked croissants and freshly brewed coffee. Accommodation Gray style. After a laid back brekky featuring a selection of weatbix, toast, croissants, yoghurt, fresh berries, tea and coffee, the Grays minus Geof who was working in Singapore, and the Snowballs headed in to central Paris to see the Eiffel Tower. Our stroll through their small town of Maisons ...

With another 50km road ride scheduled into Courtney's training program, Courtney, Mitchell and I headed out early today for another assault on Richmond Park. Finding the traffic considerably less at 7am compared with later in the morning, we were through the gates about 40 minutes later, completing our two laps by about 8.30 and finding ourselves back at the apartment by around 9.15. Proceeding then to pack up, we discovered the zip to my borrowed bike ba...