The Long Horse Ride Blog
From Beijing to London between the Olympics and beyond
Thursday, 12 July 2012
To the Woods, To the Woods
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7th June I was now riding across the limestone plateau to the south of Soissons. Erosion of the limestone has created steep valleys bound...
Into Picardy
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6th June. Some places in the Champagne vineyards sport plastic bags warning that the vines have been sprayed by helicopter.... Sligh...
Whte Vin Men and monsters
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5th June. The French countryside is splashed with the colour of wildflowers at this time of year. These poppies and cornflowers were i...
Along the Marne
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4th June and I set out along the GR14, crossing the Marne at Pogny. ..and following the Marne valley northwards through poppy sprinkl...
Following the Grand Randonnees
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2nd June Riding away from the canals I now started to tap increasingly into the network of Grand Randonnee or long distance public footpat...
We sleep in a Silage Pit
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May 30th . The Rhine-Marne canal swings north through Nancy at Varangeville but I decided to cut across to the south of Nancy along a netwo...
Canal days
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May 28th . We were now in a narrow valley in the hills, and I saw from the map that the canal appeared to swing sharply round at what was ...
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