On the 27th of march myself and Cat started our rather random journey south wards with the aim of arriving at the Ardeche on the 8th of april ready to start work the following day.
Our first problem came soon after leaving the the home land of Wales when a massive crash had closed the M4 (I think it was. I was following sally satnav) No problem set the satnav around the closed section, easy, till we came across a head on smash between 2 wagons on the major route everyone took around the crash.
Nuts to it we thought, phoned the ferry company and told them the refrence number we had been given only problem was that the refrence wasn't for a ferry till june many confused conversations later we were booked on to a ferry leaving 3 hours later than the origonal going to be late and they moved us to a ferry 3 hours later.
When we arrived in France our first stop was Fontainebleau a lovely forest full of Sandstone bolders and one of Frances most popular climbing areas. We met up with some cool guys from Inverness, who showed us how a few things were done and I pleasently suprised by myself as i slithered up some hard routes than I was expecting. 4 days of finger/arm abuse and it was time to head south again for some paddling.
We arrived at Lyon in the dead of Night and by a miracle of satnav and my memory of random French bridges we found the wave on our first pass. Lyon was wonderful as usual but unforts there was 10 whole people for shefield Uni who soon made themselves un-popular by make the dreded que from 11 till 6 nearly everyday. Luckily we made friend with Simon and Seppi Strohmirre (spelt terribly) and Xaviou from gemany. Which helped us a stay reasonable sain by playing on slack lines and generally having a laugh. 6 days of german and chez humour and we were ready to head south as water levels dropped for easter weekend. Think we had a days driving at the least we set up the sat nav and headed off.........
2 hours later we arrived a day early at are lovely piece of sunny southern France. A day early the managers were suprised but very welcoming. Everyone else arrives later today and I will keep you posted on my sanity levels.
So there you have it a very boring account 980 miles and a good bit of fun.
Have a good summer guys and I will see you soon.
Keep smiling and keep paddling.
Sunday, 8 April 2007
Bonjour! From sunny france
On the 27th of march myself and Cat started our rather random journey south wards with the aim of arriving at the Ardeche on the 8th of april ready to start work the following day.
Our first problem came soon after leaving the the home land of Wales when a massive crash had closed the M4 (I think it was. I was following sally satnav) No problem set the satnav around the closed section, easy, till we came across a head on smash between 2 wagons on the major route everyone took around the crash.
Nuts to it we thought, phoned the ferry company and told them the refrence number we had been given only problem was that the refrence wasn't for a ferry till june many confused conversations later we were booked on to a ferry leaving 3 hours later than the origonal going to be late and they moved us to a ferry 3 hours later.
When we arrived in France our first stop was Fontainebleau a lovely forest full of Sandstone bolders and one of Frances most popular climbing areas. We met up with some cool guys from Inverness, who showed us how a few things were done and I pleasently suprised by myself as i slithered up some hard routes than I was expecting. 4 days of finger/arm abuse and it was time to head south again for some paddling.
We arrived at Lyon in the dead of Night and by a miracle of satnav and my memory of random French bridges we found the wave on our first pass. Lyon was wonderful as usual but unforts there was 10 whole people for shefield Uni who soon made themselves un-popular by make the dreded que from 11 till 6 nearly everyday. Luckily we made friend with Simon and Seppi Strohmirre (spelt terribly) and Xaviou from gemany. Which helped us a stay reasonable sain by playing on slack lines and generally having a laugh. 6 days of german and chez humour and we were ready to head south as water levels dropped for easter weekend. Think we had a days driving at the least we set up the sat nav and headed off.........
2 hours later we arrived a day early at are lovely piece of sunny southern France. A day early the managers were suprised but very welcoming. Everyone else arrives later today and I will keep you posted on my sanity levels.
So there you have it a very boring account 980 miles and a good bit of fun.
Have a good summer guys and I will see you soon.
Keep smiling and keep paddling.
Our first problem came soon after leaving the the home land of Wales when a massive crash had closed the M4 (I think it was. I was following sally satnav) No problem set the satnav around the closed section, easy, till we came across a head on smash between 2 wagons on the major route everyone took around the crash.
Nuts to it we thought, phoned the ferry company and told them the refrence number we had been given only problem was that the refrence wasn't for a ferry till june many confused conversations later we were booked on to a ferry leaving 3 hours later than the origonal going to be late and they moved us to a ferry 3 hours later.
When we arrived in France our first stop was Fontainebleau a lovely forest full of Sandstone bolders and one of Frances most popular climbing areas. We met up with some cool guys from Inverness, who showed us how a few things were done and I pleasently suprised by myself as i slithered up some hard routes than I was expecting. 4 days of finger/arm abuse and it was time to head south again for some paddling.
We arrived at Lyon in the dead of Night and by a miracle of satnav and my memory of random French bridges we found the wave on our first pass. Lyon was wonderful as usual but unforts there was 10 whole people for shefield Uni who soon made themselves un-popular by make the dreded que from 11 till 6 nearly everyday. Luckily we made friend with Simon and Seppi Strohmirre (spelt terribly) and Xaviou from gemany. Which helped us a stay reasonable sain by playing on slack lines and generally having a laugh. 6 days of german and chez humour and we were ready to head south as water levels dropped for easter weekend. Think we had a days driving at the least we set up the sat nav and headed off.........
2 hours later we arrived a day early at are lovely piece of sunny southern France. A day early the managers were suprised but very welcoming. Everyone else arrives later today and I will keep you posted on my sanity levels.
So there you have it a very boring account 980 miles and a good bit of fun.
Have a good summer guys and I will see you soon.
Keep smiling and keep paddling.
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