Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Day 4

Its been a tough 440km from London to where we are now, Fontaine
Bleau, a world famous bouldering (type of rock climbing for the
ill-informed) spot. Tomorrow we plan to take it a bit easier as we are
currently a whole day ahead of schedule, due to some hard pushing over
the last few days. So we might attempt some climbing before aiming to
do about 60km on the road.

Generally the going has been pretty good, but the lack of training is
starting to take effect! We are both pretty certain we'll get into the
rythm of things soon though.

We've decided European campsites are a rip off so the last two nights
we did some experimental bush camping. Its not as easy as it seems
though to find a decent spot. Night 2 we settled down in some pretty
dense woodland next to the road before hearing gunshots going off not
far away (pheasant hunting was our guess). Night 3 was quite similar.
So its quite nice to have had a shower and have some nice flat grass
to camp on tonight!

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