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Le Grand Tour: Day 8 – Dieppe To Forges-Les-Eaux (57km)

Tick, tick, tickโ€ฆ Basically thatโ€™s what Iโ€™ve spent today doing. Ticking off all the things that you might, in an ideal world, want a disused railway line, converted into a walking-cycling greenway – voie verte here in France – to have. If the dรฉpartement of Seine-Maritime set out to build what I consider to be an unbeatable bit of cycle-touring infrastructure, they succeeded.

Yorkshire Velo Tours: 2017 Programme

Here’s news about a local cycling business that is helping build Yorkshire’s reputation as a world-class cycling destination: “Proud Yorkshireman and cyclist with 25 yearsโ€™ experience, Charles Oxtoby set up Yorkshire Velo Tours in 2015, largely on the back of the visit of the Tour de France to […]

Le Grand Tour: Day 6 – Saint-Quentin-En-Tourmon To Dieppe (96km)

Phew! What a scorcherโ€ฆ And itโ€™s apparently going to get hotter. I daubed myself three times today with factor 50 but Iโ€™ll be investing in a cap of some description tomorrow (as well of more supplies of the sun cream). Yet Iโ€™m staying well hydrated and fed by the French. Todayโ€™s food has all come courtesy of the toil of French labour; pastries from the boulangerie in Le Crotoy, fruit from a market in the same town and now a three-course meal in Dieppe at a restaurant called Le Sully. So far – a starter of smoked salmon and herring on a bed of new potatoes – so good, but Iโ€™ll update you as the meal progressesโ€ฆ I feel like Rick Stein without a film crew (and a bicycle).