From last Friday, 13th until Wednesday 18th, me and four mates went to France. Normally I'd write up a glowing report of fun days filled with glorious weather and bendy roads, evenings spent quaffing fine wine and beers whilst chowing down on quality grub with my mates, regaling each other with tales of near misses, misjudged vanishing points, crazy locals and such like. Not this year. This year it just f#*king rained. Then it rained some more. It would seem to stop at night whilst we slept, but then it would rain again as we stirred. On one occasion as we paused in Dijon for lunch it actually stopped raining as we got off the bikes and I sh*t you not it stRted again as we walked out of the cafe. I have been robbed. I am the victim of a cruel and unjust god whose sole purpose appears to have been to ruin the big event I'd been looking forward to all year, I curse him, and the fecking horse he rode in on. It was just wet, wet, wet. Please find attached some pictures of a bike going from clean and excited to wet and dirty. And some pictures of things what I saw. the Verdun war memorial the bridge of saxophones in Dinant, I googled it, Adolfo sax lived there, can you guess what he invented? the place de la liberation I think it was called, in Dijon, several hours earlier I had ridden across here as it was full of people doing some sort of medieval dance thing, I apologise if any of you were scared or injured in the resulting melee, but if you had a road system which was based on logic and not some sort of randomly generated sprawl then things like that wouldn't happen, you were lucky to be honest, my compatriots travelling behind me decided not to add to the chaos and instead rode along the tram tracks to get to Rue Godrams, if any Dijon natives can supply a map of how you get to this street without breaking several French traffic laws I'll pay your mortgage! In the morning to leave we had to follow a tram and wait at pedestrian crossings pretending it wasn't odd to be on bikes instead of feet to the bemused commuters around us.
Ten years we've been going to Europe, never had more than a day of rain before, proper sh**ty luck to lose the whole trip to it, and then to get off the boat in hull in bright sunshine, and weather this weekend in Dijon? Normal again!!!!!! Cruel cruel bas**rd,
Yep that rain.....I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes lol law of sod that this should happen Pete, especially when you've been looking forward to it for so long. At least you should be in credit now for at least the next four trips
Mate know how u feel....Was in France 11th-16th September, literally as soon as we pulled into Calais, and got off the train it started raining. Down South (Route Napoleon) the weather was warm/dry (fuck doing that road in the rain) Heading back on the 15th/16th, lots and lots of rain. Was in Dijon on Sunday 15th (lunch time was dry) Been looking at the weather forecast (why I don't know) for the last few days and this weekend...Should have gone this week
Its also the time off work, the expense of the trip and the continual hope it will be fine the next day. At end of my trip in May I just felt cheated and seriously fed up for some time. At least you did not have snow and your visor icing up on the inside AND outside...
