Before the sun sinks and stays completely behind the western horizon I though we might have one last jaunt for 2011, down to Peronne.
Plan would be to catch a Chunnel train at about 09:00, arriving in France and getting on the road by say 10:40 local time. We will then have two stops between the coast and Peronne, one for coffee and another for lunch, arriving in Peronne sometime in the late afternoon, I guess.
I will try to find us a hotel and book us a table at a restaurant for supper. Where we ate in Peronne on the last Wander wasn't too bad and a decent price, too.
Sunday, we can have a half decent earlyish breakfast, then take in the WW1 museum in the morning*, maybe grabbing a snack. Then hightail it out around noon back to the coast, stopping somewhere en-route about halfway for a coffee and / or another snack. At the Channel coast we can then either pick up the motorway (from roughly just north of Boulogne) for a 20 minute run up to the Chunnel or drop in to the cafe at Cap Gris Nez for a coffee or whatever.
The weather? Well it will be whatever it will be. Last weekend we went from about six degrees, up to about 12 degrees, then down to three point five degrees in the space of a morning and afternoon. The Sunday was positively tropical at about 17 degrees in the sunshine. The route down and back can lend itself to hitting the motorway if it's loshing down. Either way, I think we can bet that it may well not be that warm.
DATE: 12-13 November if I can get my act together. That is the Armistice weekend, so I may struggle with hotel rooms in a town that has big WW1 links.... We shall see.
NUMBERS: Will all depend on the hotel booking and the need to make a decent amount of progress in the (limited) amount of light we will have. Say six bikes, maximum eight. Pillions welcome.
NAVIGATION: I will do a Garmin GPS route for everyone and we will use the marker 'drop-off' system.
SUITABLE FOR: Anyone who can ride a motorbike. I really do do my best to avoid cart tracks, though we did hit one on Sunday for about 800 yards. In short, nothing I would not ride on my HP2 Sport; trust me.
BOOKINGS: I will book the hotel (I hope) and the restaurant. Train bookings bods can make themselves, please.
ANYTHING ELSE? I guess not. A half decent sense of humour helps.... and I haven't been let down yet
* I hear it's good. http://www.somme-battlefields.com/battlefields/museums/historial_de_la_grande_guerre http://en.historial.org/
Plan would be to catch a Chunnel train at about 09:00, arriving in France and getting on the road by say 10:40 local time. We will then have two stops between the coast and Peronne, one for coffee and another for lunch, arriving in Peronne sometime in the late afternoon, I guess.
I will try to find us a hotel and book us a table at a restaurant for supper. Where we ate in Peronne on the last Wander wasn't too bad and a decent price, too.
Sunday, we can have a half decent earlyish breakfast, then take in the WW1 museum in the morning*, maybe grabbing a snack. Then hightail it out around noon back to the coast, stopping somewhere en-route about halfway for a coffee and / or another snack. At the Channel coast we can then either pick up the motorway (from roughly just north of Boulogne) for a 20 minute run up to the Chunnel or drop in to the cafe at Cap Gris Nez for a coffee or whatever.
The weather? Well it will be whatever it will be. Last weekend we went from about six degrees, up to about 12 degrees, then down to three point five degrees in the space of a morning and afternoon. The Sunday was positively tropical at about 17 degrees in the sunshine. The route down and back can lend itself to hitting the motorway if it's loshing down. Either way, I think we can bet that it may well not be that warm.
DATE: 12-13 November if I can get my act together. That is the Armistice weekend, so I may struggle with hotel rooms in a town that has big WW1 links.... We shall see.
NUMBERS: Will all depend on the hotel booking and the need to make a decent amount of progress in the (limited) amount of light we will have. Say six bikes, maximum eight. Pillions welcome.
NAVIGATION: I will do a Garmin GPS route for everyone and we will use the marker 'drop-off' system.
SUITABLE FOR: Anyone who can ride a motorbike. I really do do my best to avoid cart tracks, though we did hit one on Sunday for about 800 yards. In short, nothing I would not ride on my HP2 Sport; trust me.
BOOKINGS: I will book the hotel (I hope) and the restaurant. Train bookings bods can make themselves, please.
ANYTHING ELSE? I guess not. A half decent sense of humour helps.... and I haven't been let down yet
* I hear it's good. http://www.somme-battlefields.com/battlefields/museums/historial_de_la_grande_guerre http://en.historial.org/
