13 August 2005

Dieppe on the journey from Calais south. Having been split up after leaving the hotel in Boulogne-sur-Mer we then headed down the D925 cost road. As with all other journey's taken so far we somehow managed to push the bikes as hard possible and try to average the most consistently fast speed we could. We would soon learn that this did nothing but make us constatntly tired and defeat the purpose of a journey of this nature. It is worth noting that this also marked the site of our first beer in France of this holiday. Dieppe was a lovely little town (at least arond the harbour) and is a town I would certainly return to to spend a little more time there. As it was, we stayed in Dieppe for long enough to have some food, a beer and a sit down. Checking the map we decided to try for St Naszaire, or at the very least somewhere heading towards St Nazaire. Or maybe Rennes. Or perhaps Caen.We were amazed by how little distance we had travelled in a morning and were already starting to think that perhaps we were being over optimistic in thinking we would be able to get to Spain in two or three days.