Tuesday 11 September 2012

End of the Idyll

Idyll or Idle, both would work. Three weeks of doing very little but eating, drinking, swimming, with the occasional splash in the canoe and a couple of excursions on the bikes.
We're both expanding around the middle, but we're happy.
Today we've taken down the tent and are starting to get re-organised to get back on the road tomorrow. We are sleeping tonight in Grandma's caravan so that we can get away earlier, although the lure of a dawn swim may get the better of us.
I managed to flatten the Range Rover's battery inflating the bike tyres this morning as well as wrecking another inner tube. I think we are running with too low pressure much of the time and that is damaging the valve stems causing them to fail. Different pump needed next time. For the Silk Road, maybe!
Tomorrow will see us aiming for Sanary sur Mer some 60 km away, mostly on bike track but with a forecast of 30 km headwind it could be fun (especially after a 3 week break).
So sad to leave but happy to get back to the adventure.


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