My advice. Bin your razors.. the temptation to maintain cleanshavenness in normal males these days is horribly high.
Exactly. The standard PBP method is to shave on Thursday morning, and then do a couple of 100km days, via the ferry, to pootle down to Paris staying Thursday night in any random town in Normandy. Saturday is registration and bike check. Sunday you're off. Thursday you're back. Friday and Saturday and the 100km days pootling back to Blighty via Normandy and a ferry. You then get to shave on Sunday before you're back on the bike commuting on the Monday.
Exactly. The standard PBP method is to shave on Thursday morning, and then do a couple of 100km days, via the ferry, to pootle down to Paris staying Thursday night in any random town in Normandy. Saturday is registration and bike check. Sunday you're off. Thursday you're back. Friday and Saturday and the 100km days pootling back to Blighty via Normandy and a ferry. You then get to shave on Sunday before you're back on the bike commuting on the Monday.