Itโs been a good day on the bikeโฆ and as I write this, itโs not quite over. At 5:30pm there remains about 15km (and a train and a ferry) to ride. All will become clear. With no convivial breakfast on offer at last nightโs campsite as there had been back in Gouarec courtesy of Geoff and his team, I was the first off the site at around 8am.
I was up early this morning (when am I not up early in a tent? Iโve said this many times before but for me itโs not a case of โwaking upโ when Iโm camping itโs a case of when to stop trying to make an effort to get back to sleepโฆ) and was packed by 8am. My official campsite advisor Tim Sanders (who until only a few minutes ago was my โunofficialโ campsite advisor but as nobody else has offered their services, Iโve upgraded him to the honorary post; itโll give him something to chat to Ed Pratt about the next time they meet at their local Park Run in Somerset. Anyway, back to the pointโฆ) โฆMy official campsite advisor Tim Sanders messaged at 8:05 asking โHave you met Geoff?โ
The difference between the situation I am tonight in Aigle, Switzerland compared to the situation I was in in Excenevex near Lac Lรฉman just 24 hours ago is a stark one to say the least. But before I get into that, I have some catching up to doโฆ
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