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Well, who’d have guess it? As I left the small town half way up the Pyranees on the French side and headed up to a giddy height before blasting down into Spain, a euphoria grabbed me. The countryside around me was amazing… I’m not using that world lightly. It blew me away. The mountains around…
Well would you believe it – Orange are a bunch of money grabbing buggers. No really, they are. They were nice enough to text me and WARN me that using Data abroad was much more expensive than at home, and then to text me again to tell me I´d used at least 5mb of data…
I’m sat now in the wonderful country of Spain – hurahh! It was hard to notice that I’d even crossed the border and cheered at least three times thinking I’d crossed into my second country before realizing that it was just a police post. Last night wasn’t too bad but it doesn’t rate very high…
It did start well, the ferry was on time, in fact I think we docked 15 minutes early – meaning I hit the french highways at about 11:45am (local time). ‘Yes yes yes!’ I was shouting into my helmet as I devoured French village after French village and by 2pm my tummy was shouting ‘where’s this…
Writing this in the tent. It’s very lonely here. I’m wondering how much of a good idea this was. I will write more tomorrow when things will be better I’m sure.
…. but let’s hope that the trip goes better than today. Anything that could go wrong today has… first of all when I changed my brake pads on Saturday the dealer had sold me the wrong part. Today saw me leave six hours early so I could call into a dealer on route and buy…
Well I’ve now got an interactive map thingy – which you can find over on the Route page. It shows the planned route so far, and then when I actually go it will update with news and photos from each of those locations and perhaps a few more… the theory being yellow dots are planned…