A fun Wander, I thought. My thanks to all who came along to ride some of the great roads on the eastern side of central France. My particular thanks to Terry and Andy - who both came a long way before even hitting the train at Folkestone - Terry from the west Midlands and Andy from lands beyond the reaches of my shandy drinking southerner's maps.
The four-day format, with a reasonably early 09:00 start each day seemed to work OK, with the 08:30 start on the last day getting us to the train in good order without busting a gut. Starting the first full day off in France certainly helped, enabling us to avoid any motorways and still get to our second night's hotel in reasonably good shape after a 270 mile day. I hope that starting off in France helps those Wanderers like Andy and Terry who have a fair old schlep to make just to get to the south east coast, too.
My thanks too to all and everyone for mucking in with leader and tail-end-Charlie duties. We certainly kept up a good pace throughout the jaunt, which makes things so much easier and fun for everyone.
I have tidied up the track log, correcting a handful of small glitches in what was over a thousand miles of French riding. I will post the final-final version in this thread in case anyone ever wants to recreate it. The hotels were fine I thought, though anyone who might want to use them may well be advised to book ahead as all three were FULL when we used them. That being said, there is plenty of choice in the region, so a bit of mix'n'match would should enable anyone with a larger group (we had six rooms) to find suitable accommodation in one of the larger towns or even in Dijon itself.
Richard