Boondock Puffins

This find rescued us from despair after baking in a hot, packed campsite. We kicked off the day with an early run, setting off quietly as the campsite was silent but everyone’s doors were open because it had been so hot. People were lying about like corpses all over the place in the heat, it Read more

The journey from Mendexa (a little town in the province of Biscay in Spain, settled between Donostia-San Sebastian and Bilbao) along the north coast heading westwards was one that we thought would be easy, quiet and uneventful. We were wrong. It was late August and, after an accidental lie in til 7:30am, we awoke in Read more

The journey between Biarritz and Basque Country is wonderfully picturesque, skirting many little villages and towns and giving regular glimpses of the progressively bluer sea (what happens here as it opens out? Why does it become brighter and bluer as you move further south?). The morning in Bidart started with a run along the weirdly Read more

Today’s ride took us through some weird countryside – both some lovely forest and some deserted backroads as well as some odd feeling built up areas. We also went through the popular-parts-of-Cornwall-esque bits of France. Parts that are popular, but not really for us; places that are nice in and of themselves, but so busy Read more

We woke up by the sea just outside the little town of Fouras and headed for a slow run around the coast into the settlement – it was a beautiful spot and amazing coast. As always, Tom took a camera in a running pack so we stopped many times to admire the scenery and the Read more

In our very quiet campsite, we slept very well, although Tom didn’t use his sleeping bag again… and he regretted it, again. When he’d then got it out in the middle of the night, we were so sound asleep that we had an accidental lie in. We are getting better at packing up all our Read more