Feeling Homesick While Riding in France
Elizabeth Friday 11 September 2015 (Day 110: Noyon to Monampteuil, France) The day starts lazily. When I’ve paid good money for a nice hotel room I do like to make the…
Riding My Bicycle in France: Days with Fallen Australian Soldiers
I am slowly transcribing the long-hand diary entries from my midlife gap year and turning them into blog posts. On my 108th day of travel I awake in Amiens to…
Riding in France: Arriving in Amiens
I am slowly transcribing the long-hand diary entries from my midlife gap-year and turning them into blog posts. I’ve reached the mornign of the 106th day as I awake in…
Riding in France: Cows, Coffee, and Poetry in Neufchâtel-en-Bray and Poix-de-Picardie (5 – 6 September 2015)
I am slowly transcribing the long-hand diary entries from my midlife gap-year and turning them into blog posts. I’ve reached the afternoon of the 105th day and I’m enjoying a…
Looks Like I’m Turning Toward Zurich (6 September 2015)
I have two other blogs – both of which are sleeping while I’m travelling. However, the inspiration for one of them has interrupted my journey and changed my course. That…
Riding in France and Thinking of an Austrian Actor: Le Havre to Yvetot to Le Grande-Ventes (3 – 5 September 2015)
I’m slowly transcribing the long-hand diary entries from my midlife gap-year and turning them into blog posts. I’ve reached the 103rd day of my journey when I awoke in a…
In Between Days, Riding in France: Houlgate – Le Havre (1 – 2 September 2015)
Camping Municipal des Chevaliers, Houlgate – Tuesday 1 September 2015, 9:50 am (Day 100 of my midlife gapyear) In the Australian way, it’s the first day of Spring – but…
Silent in Foggy France: Bayeux – Benouville – Houlgate (30 – 31 August 2015)
Sunday 30 August 9:10 am – Relais ‘La Roseraie’, Bayeux (Day 98 of my midlife gapyear) I wonder when I will converse again. Will my voice go rusty, my tongue…
Beautiful Bayeux: A pink room, loneliness, and a tapestry (28 – 29 August 2015)
Friday 28 August 2015 (Day 96 of my midlife gap year) 8:20 pm A Restaurant in Bayeux It’s nice to be in a city again. Bayeux is compact, beautiful, and…
Pedaling with Ghosts in the Normandy Rain: Isigny-sur-Mer to Bayeux
Thursday 27 August 2015 (Day 95 of my midlife gap-year) 9:15 am, Camping Le Fanal, Isigny-sur-Mer, France: Rain Rain Go Away I slept until 9 and it’s raining again. At…