Assuming you're taking a bike, get out early and ride a bit of the route. The Gendarmes/marshals etc don't seem to mind as long as you're off the course before the publicity caravan comes through. Wifey and I did this a few years ago on the Mont Ventoux stage. We rode between Vaison-la-Romaine to t...

ianfitz wrote:We planned but didn’t go for a few years. We were going to stay near Fontainebleau (been there climbing many, many times!) plenty of trains in to Paris from there. Under an hour door to door, a much more relaxing place to stay too.

Cheers Ian
Sounds promising My kind of planning

No worries. It's a really good location, and to put it vaguely on topic it's a nice ride from there to Dieppe following Donald Hirsch' s London-Paris cycle route. 200km iirc. Ooh an element to trip I'd not considered. But having full gang with me will be a major challenge to the proceedings :roll: ...

DickieH wrote:We weren't towing but I remember pretty easy access off Autoroute and RN. Not too far and all wide. There were a fair few 'vans and RVs etc there.

Cheers Dickie
Looking now. ......

Hope ok to ask for ideas for a caravan site on outskirts of Paris to base at for the TDF finish weekend. We'll then continue our hols journey south...... Thinking a train/tram/bus journey in to Paris. Hopefully off a main trunk for ease of arrival and departure. If anyone has used a site in the pas...

There's only one actually in Paris, Indigo Blue iirc nr Bois de Boulogne on the South bank of the Seine. Stayed there last year with the family for that same week in a safari tent, its pretty good. The Tour procession came over the adjacent bridge. The site is served well by shuttle bus and Uber. C...

Hope ok to ask for ideas for a caravan site on outskirts of Paris to base at for the TDF finish weekend. We'll then continue our hols journey south...... Thinking a train/tram/bus journey in to Paris. Hopefully off a main trunk for ease of arrival and departure. If anyone has used a site in the past...

BigdummySteve wrote:

Bearbonesnorm wrote: really not sure I want to ride it ... looks very spiky.

You can get a sticker for that

Indeed that IS a sticker right there!!

ianfitz wrote:Given some peoples skills at becoming mis-located I was half expecting to see that someone was still out riding!

Have yiu been talking about me again Stu

Indeed :-bd "everyone inside is welcoming and friendly … but it can be hard work. There's often a level of discomfort, a bit of extra effort and sometimes, even an element of risk involved and that's why, I believe it'll never become particularly popular. Please don't misunderstand me here, I'm...

Dee reckons I both write and speak in 'Derbyshire' which tends to mean that the message you're trying to convey is directly opposite to whatever is written or said ... but I don't think I'm guilty in this instance :wink: From the email Perhaps unsurprisingly, your destination for the 'Cafe Racer' i...

notinabox wrote:

Bearbonesnorm wrote:

http://trepidexplorer.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... e.html?m=1

Must read email properly, then a second time

I was thinking of a way to say that

My left eye was twitching at -checkooint'
A good read of an adventure had

Bearbonesnorm wrote:

http://trepidexplorer.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... e.html?m=1

Must read email properly, then a second time

I was thinking of a way to say that

I read back (a bit late!) to see your note about the bits you'd found. Cheers anyway. And thanks again for organising, great weekend! We met a few people at the cafe, but me and Paul were in the staring-into-space-and-shoveling-cake zone - I think we both thought we'd be at the cafe "shortly&q...

Fantastic Reg! Great write up!
So glad we bumped into you guys. Dillon had so much fun. A proper adventure. My best bones to date. Definitely Dillon's favourite

Just need Steve Longs autograph for Dillon's victory cabinet

RIP wrote:Yes, "member not found" is a problem I encounter at all sorts of inconvenient moments .

It's now in outbox. .....

notinabox wrote:

RIP wrote:Sadly not, could u PM me pls?

I'll try to reply to your message again. ...

Oddly says member not found or similar....

I'll try again....

RIP wrote:Sadly not, could u PM me pls?

I'll try to reply to your message again. ...

RIP wrote:I've knocked up some drivel about our lovely little group's experiences... but I reckon we're "post event" now, so it's round the corner in "Trips And Adventures".....

Ooh ooh
Did my email address reach you RIP ?

Thanks Stu and Dee for a fantastic weekend, Pickers, Reg, Steve, Mark and Steve for the brill 'borg-collective' hive-mind route and Dillon for giving me a wheel to follow/ try (and fail) to keep up with. Great riding, great company, great cake, lots of tea, amazingly good weather, and flaming gas c...

MarkW wrote:Here's my photos from the weekend. Mostly Reg's group. https://photos.app.goo.gl/XLWYRFFMmEnWXK5Y2

Thank you, they are brilliant

BigdummySteve wrote:Cheers mark, I’ve added them to the Dropbox folder

Hi Steve
Looking forward to seeing pics

Generally ....... most folk are underway around 11.00 on Sat. On Sunday, someone will always be back bang on 9.00am and someone will roll in at 6.00pm. There will be a fairly steady stream returning between the hours of 10.00am and 2.00pm. Bit of a lull until 4, a sudden flurry, then a drawn out wa...

RIP wrote:"overambitious" - yes it is a serious problem. There's at least ten boozers on our route, gawd knows how we'll manage after the first eight or so .

See above

Bearbonesnorm wrote:

There's at least ten boozers on our route

Ten or ten dozen, it'll likely matter not as it's mid-Wales and they're bound to be shut

Or won't let us in eh Reg!