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	<title>JC&#039;s Traveblog &#187; France, 2008</title>
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	<description>- there&#039;s too much world out there to stay at home</description>
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		<title>Reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Unsettled&#8221; seems to be the most appropriate word to summarize our 2008 French trip.
As we approached Calais on the outbound ferry, we learned that the French were unsettled about the price of diesel/petrol (aren&#8217;t we all?) and that a few factions had begun to blockade several oil depots potentially disrupting supplies. While we were over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had booked a 2:10 PM return ferry from Calais which is just over two hours from Neufchatel-en-Bray so we had no rush. After a leisurely packing (in the dry) we joined the exodus from the campsite, sailed along on a stiff favourable wind, and arrived at Calais ferry port at 11:45 AM.
&#8220;We&#8217;re a tad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Around Tours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Well, through it, actually, but then the pun wouldn&#8217;t work, would it?)
The rain held off for us to finish packing in the morning (we had begun yesterday evening because rain had been forecast) and we managed to get Billy out of the campsite without any damage. The campsite at Savonni&#232;res has some &#34;interestingly&#34; tight corners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong Ch&#226;teau</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We thought we&#8217;d seen the ch&#226;teau at Azay-le-Rideau more years ago than we care to remember. I suppose I should have said more years ago than we could remember since, when we actually got to Azay-le-Rideau this morning, the ch&#226;teau that we had seen way back then was clearly not Azay-le-Rideau. I told you there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Villandry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We came here to Savonni&#232;res mainly to see the supposedly spectacular formal gardens at the ch&#226;teau de Villandry. We set off in the morning to cycle the two or three miles to Villandry hoping to beat the crowds that might arrive for the afternoon. Our 600 cycling miles scrolled passed on way &#8211; notional target [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To the Cher, mon Cher</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrific, we awoke to rain which soon got quite heavy. I detest packing up in the rain, especially the awning which, owing the late evening disturbances, was still up and saturated. However, pack we did, wet we got and the road we hit (all very Yoda).
We&#8217;d really wanted to stay where we were until the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blitzcamping</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been invaded by a swarm of Irish itinerants yesterday, I went down into St. Gervais to check out the local camping municipal site. As is often the case, it was somewhat basic but we don&#8217;t mind that. There was also a barrier and la guardienne was utterly charming and seemed to be related to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brilliant Day until &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been here near St. Gervais for three nights now and today seemed to be giving us a stunning blue sky. Neither of us is in any way a sailor but, given a daily shift of an hour or so between high tides, we reckoned the tide might be flooding the Passage du Gois (a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stork Stalking</title>
		<link>http://www.curdhome.co.uk/blog/2008/06/stork-stalking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our neighbours on the campsite told us where there is a stork nest in the vicinity. It could just be seen through binoculars from our pitch but there is a track passing close by it so, after breakfast we pedalled off to have a look. The nest, an unkempt pile of sticks that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dykes on Bikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This place had everything today: sun, countryside and in Challans about 10 miles away, a Leclerc supermarket and a McDonalds with McWiFi. First we went to McDonalds to publish a couple of blog postings (two espressos but no McTasteless McChicken with McYankee sauce this time), then next door to a brilliant Leclerc supermarket to do [...]]]></description>
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