After talking with a German couple who were on their way home after cycling from Dover to Bristol via the Channel Islands. They'd really enjoyed their trip unlike the German couple we met on the train yesterday who didn't like to be away from home for more than ten days as they became homesick. The thought of a two week holiday horrified them. Wasn't a lot we could say to them after that, they thought we were mad to be away camping for six weeks. Hotels all the way for them. Today was suppose to be an easy day, just a short cycle. Of course it wasn't. The cycling through the built up areas stressful and uninteresting. Eventually we found ourselves alongside the river Seine, swapping concrete for countryside.
Yesterday at the Beautiful Village campsite we'd seen parakeets, today multiple squadrons of swans. Our day turned out to be long. The first campsite static caravans only. The second just didn't feel right, the full time residents had the look of travellers. So on we cycled. Our bodies not yet fully tuned complaining.
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Now we are on a nice campsite just past the town of Melun. The river Seine is opposite, and the view beautiful. Our neighbours of from various parts of Europe, two from England. We have cycled thirty five miles today, and are on course to arrive in the Loire in about four days.  |
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