Four and a half hours!

Been busy this last while with last minute shopping, pouring over maps, searching Internet, deciding what to take, packing, unpacking, discarding, repacking and now decisions have been made. Car is packed, bikes are on and straps checked. Now for shower and some shut eye before heading off to Stokesley after midnight. There we will board the European Bike Express which will drop us and bikes off at some unearthly hour Sunday morning in Bordeaux.

We are not flying as twice previously we have arrived home 3 days before our bikes. For touring this would be disastrous if it happened on the way on the way out.

Won't be blipping but hope to have some sunny photos to blip when I get back.