Should you ever choose to send me an email, try to send it later in the week – Thursday or Friday is highly recommended – as I tend to reply to emails on a Saturday morning. If you send an email later today or tomorrow, you’ll have to wait a few more days for a reply. Anyway, replying to emails is what I’ve just been doing; I have made a few more arrangements to give a talk in Nottinghamshire in March 2025 (more of that soon), I have offered my humble words of wisdom to a cycling-writer in Cyprus and responded to some kind feedback on the books and the podcasts from a Scottish chap who now lives in New Zealand. I’ve also replied to a woman – who I suspect lives in North America – regarding official information about the Canal des 2 Mers à Vélo cycle route in France. She appeared to have made the rather dangerous assumption that this website was in some way ‘official’ as opposed to the random ramblings of a middle-aged British cycle tourist.
I let her down gently but in the process of pointing her in the direction of the official Canal des 2 Mers à Vélo cycle route website, I discovered this rather wonderful map:
I like that a lot and I wish I’d had it when I cycled the route back in 2022. Here are a couple of screenshots of the detail. Time to practice your French!
It has prompted me to listen to the podcast that I made about cycling the Canal des 2 Mers à Vélo. You can do the same here:
To listen via other purveyors of podcasts, visit The Cycling Europe Podcast page.
Alternatively, watch the film. The Canal des 2 Mers à Vélo bit starts at around 10 minutes…
…or read about it in the book:
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