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Wednesday 31st August
Today we managed to get going at
just before 9:30 after one of us overslept ever so slightly.. On the way out of
Reims, we briefly stopped at the old pit garages and grandstands for the Reims
road race circuit. They are literally just on the side of the road as you're
riding along so it really would be rude not to stop and take some photos!
We then headed on through the
vineyards and champagne region towards Charly-sur-Marne and arrived there at
around 11. The reason we purposefully went through Charly, as well as the
pretty countryside of the champagne region, was that it proved my name did have
a correct spelling for all those people not accepting it as a
"proper" spelling/name.
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| Selfie by my town sign with my bike in the background |
After our stop in Charly,
we headed into another of France's national parks with a general aim of getting
to Chantilly for lunch. This little detour also stopped us getting tangled up
in the ring road around Paris. The buildings in Chantilly were beautiful but as
it was lunch time, all the shops in the centre, minus the odd couple, were
closed for lunch so we found somewhere to sit, slowly melting in our bike
trousers in 28 degree heat, and had some lunch.
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| One of the many beautiful buildings in Chantilly |
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| Parked up in Chantilly |
Pressing on in the general
direction of Rouen to get to our hotel for the night, we hit a couple of main A
roads just to knock off a few miles. After going to the wrong village first as
I placed the flag marker for the end point in the wrong place (neighbouring
villages with the same road names just makes life confusing), we eventually
arrived at the hotel here at around 5:30 so it was a pretty decent days riding
all in all.
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| Our view from the hotel, parked in the evening sunshine |
Our hotel is really lovely and
right on the Seine so we've got some good tonight. We're now over halfway
through our trip and roughly halfway in mileage terms too despite only having 2
days of riding left to do with a long day tomorrow to the beach via Honfleur.
Daily miles: 180;
Total miles done: 691.
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