Refreshing my French
Happy news! We’re going to France in June for a week-long bicycle tour in Dordogne. So what does that mean? Training on the bike? Well, yes, but what else does it mean? Yes! Re-learning French! I studied French for a…
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Packing list for France
(Subject to change!) The stuff in italics is the tour organizer’s suggestions; my interpretation is in parentheses. The current forecast at our destination is for highs in the mid-70s and rain, so my list has been evolving over the last…
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Cycling the Dordogne 2011: CliffsNotes Version
Everything was great. We made all our flights, the handcycle arrived with us and is still intact, we didn’t have to spend a fortune to ship it back, all the hotels were accessible, I didn’t collapse, die, have a relapse,…
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Cycling the Dordogne 2011: Restaurants
I’ve never been on an organized tour before, but certainly one of the great advantages of this one was the excellence of the restaurants and meals chosen by the tour leaders. Accessibility was not as high a priority for restaurants…
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Cycling the Dordogne 2011: Hotels
The ExperiencePlus staff did a superb job of ensuring that all our hotels were accessible on our trip to France. There were three hotels: Brive-la-Gaillarde In the first town, Brive-la-Gaillarde (Brive the Brave!), the group normally stays at La Truffe…
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