2010-11-05 - London to Paris

i like your attitude arducius!

i'm taking the train back sunday afternoon so i can spend a bit more time in Paris. kristian has booked his Eurostar for Saturday 17:00 i think

not sure about this now

off to A&E to get shoulder looked at from yesterdays mtb stack

its interestingly coloured and can barely move

Is anyone doing this fixed? May be interested if so.

booked.
ferry from newhaven to dieppe at 11pm
eurostar paris to london at 1713.
lets ride.

So who wants to join me in riding back to Dieppe on the Sunday for the evening ferry?

That would be the option i'd favour, but still unsure if i can fit this trip in at the moment. Will stop umming and ahhing by the weekend.

So who wants to join me in riding back to Dieppe on the Sunday for the evening ferry?
Might do that if Pifko can't get the Mon and Tues off work, and if my knee can put up with 2 days of beating.

Just take more drugs!

Just take more drugs!

My knuckles have been bleeding for the past week... without me punching anyone. I don't want any 'brain zaps' either. :p

So who wants to join me in riding back to Dieppe on the Sunday for the evening ferry?

do you have accomodation lined up in paris?

^ Yeah, have you got prices/details, Andy?

@ Matt, what time are you looking to depart London on the Friday?

I haven't got accomodation sorted yet, there is somewhere that Sophie suggested, which I'll look into.
Last time we stayed in a Formula 1, very basic (communal showers/toilets, rubbish breakfast) but they let us put the bikes in the luggage room and it was only about £30.

london departure time still under discussion.

i propose leaving at 5pm.

ferry leaves at 11 and we should leave an hour or so for check in.
if we left at 5 we'd have 5 hours to get to newhaven by 10 - plenty of time.

if you guys are deffo riding back i'll try and get a refund on my eurostar ticket and join you (if thats ok).

oh yeah - lets meet asap and plan. seems so much easier if all or most of us could meet and discuss.
arrangements via mail or forum are kinda fragmented.
i guess one could ask one's pa to coordinate but it wuld be kind of cheeky.

I haven't booked anything yet as I wanted to see if anyone else was going to ride back before I do.

Ride this weekend to meet and talk some of it through? (could combine with London-Worthing-London you mentioned on PBP thread?)

That sounds good. 1st long ride in at least a month for me, so if all seems well on 100+, i'll commit to riding back.

cool.
let me know if you prefer london brighton london or london worthing london and we'll go for it.
worthing we'd need to leave from kew or anywhere west
brighton we could leave central or south

i prefer saturday if thats ok, hope that works for you guys.

Saturday would work for me, preferably not getting back too late!

Worthing would be my vote, and early on Sat, as i'm hoping to ride overnight as a Vampire n shit to Brighton later.

ok.
saturday
worthing
lets start rolling at 9am and aim to be back by 1700 so 16mph ave including lunch.

Sounds good.

checks trains

No trains between Oxford and Didcot on Saturday... FFS! Right, it'll have to be an early start for me then. Ride to Didcot then train to Paddington it'll have to be!

Where shall we meet?

Sam, meet at paddington before rolling down to the meeting point? (I won't miss the train this time!)

nuff respect Davey,
dedicated as always.
:-)

christ, that is an early start.
lots of miles before we even start rolling to worthing.
we'll need to leave london via richmond park as thats the route i know.
i could meet you at paddington and ride down from there (im in ealing)