The 4000 km photo

I've done 4000 kms! Way hey. Not so much as lycra or clipless pedals in sight. This was taken in the middle of Normandy on day three of our France cycle adventure (and back dated as such...).

This wasn't one of the rainy days, in fact it was pretty sweet from start to end. Nice tarmac in France.

Four days till France/Camp/Cycle/Adventure

We've got two panniers each, tenting equipment, vague plans of cooking some food along the way, a map with campgrounds marked and return ferry tickets to Newhaven.

This is a trip that we meant to do back near Easter but we bailed out because April / May weather was looking atrocious. This means there has been a reasonable amount of planning (even a googlemap somewhere in the ether) and at the other end of the 'er' summer, we're fitter, possibly better prepared. Plus the International Kite Festival happens to start the weekend we land in Dieppe.

Ready to go, I'd say - except that that today the GDP listed at an all time low against the Euro, and there's a pretty high chance of rain... ah, well, all part of the adventure.

The 3000 km picture

Three thousand kilometres in and its another central London road...

The clock ticked over just before an odd art deco building with giant stone cats outside, which sounds exotic but its just down the road from my work, and on the road up to Camden (Camden Road?) Most of the last 1000 kms have been done on the daily commute, except a ride down to Brighton, two day trip out to Oxford and a quiet weekend ride north of London to see friends of Justin's.

Its summer, would you believe it? Not from this picture anyway...

May 2008 update

Another month has sped by, this one aided by three trips out of town, first we managed an overnight ride up to Oxford (trip report on its way), then hopped over to Italy to the Cinque Terre coastline for Justin's birthday, then I caught my breath in London for two days and headed to Helsinki, Finland to attend a conference for work, go to a very expensive spanish restaurant and head out into the wood to hunt for bears and make fires. I might treat you to some photos of me, Naomi and Vanessa in the woods, if you're lucky. We didn't see any bears.

Still trying to figure out the bugs on this publishing software as I don't want a long post tag up for everything that I write, and it should be a bit easier to organise that now I've got a flash new Asus Eee, which is possibly the smallest useful computer in the world. Its pretty cool.