This was our last day in France but before we give the description of today I need to rewind to last night. We had pitched the tent a bit hot from the days ride and it became apparent that Sandy was not her usual self. We had our showers, ate some snacks but then Sandy wasnt hungry which is very unusual for a cycle tourist. She had a lie down while I posted the blog and then I cooked myself some very boring cous cous. It was about 9pm by this stage and Sandy still didnt want to eat. Luckily she had taken one of our cooking bowls in the tent with her when we went to bed as she very urgently needed to use it. She was sick, quite ill and we think from the boiled eggs we had rolling around one of our panniers for a couple of days. It's all OK to carry eggs and butter and the like when it's 10degC but it was 29degC today and in a black pannier in the sun it was probably a bit warmer. Anyway we're blaming the egg she had on her baguette for lunch as she felt a bit better this morning after a thorough purging and like the stoic trooper she is rode on to Basel today. She is now tucked up in bed relaxing. We have booked into a very nice B&B and are having two days off the bikes.
Apart from the health drama todays ride was all flat beside the canal to Basel.
Once in the city we plugged the address of the B&B into the GPS and followed it's directions. It's a pity a factory had been built over the road that the GPS thought still existed :) We backtracked and had a bit of a laugh.
UPDATE..... Turns out the egg was unduly blamed as Gary has also succumbed to the illness, so now we are both tucked up in bed feeling sorry for ourselves. Thankfully we have en-suite facilities.
The French statistics:
We rode 1600km, averaged 61km per day, no flat tyres and ate a lot of baguettes and pastries.
1 comment:
Hope youre both are enjoying Basel. BTW, this is a very nice cyclingpath. if you look closer, you can see us at the end of the path. he he he.
Greetings from Spiez
Sibil and Bruno
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