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Day 1:Montpellier to Gruissan.

I was all Sete, but in the end it wasNar bonne.

Riding 5:30/6 - 11 is completely doable. I ended up doing 125km all afternoon for crap admin reasons and it was very hot but manageable, only by stopping in aircon regularly and drinking a lot of water.

Lost a long reply just now

Even what type of tradesperson does that would be helpful for me

Thank you - today I need to post my bike bag, but after today I hope to cycle from eg 5:30am - 10/11am, and then maybe a couple of hours in the evening if I haven’t got far enough. That means I’m looking for both b&bs and day time lounging around in the shade preferably near water. Still winging it though…

Lovely! I’ve been following your adventures with Puffin. Hopefully End of August will be marginally cooler?!

Plan so far

Up the canal, veer north to the river.

Sete > Carcassonne > Gaillac > Cahors > Bergerac > Bordeaux > The Atlantic

I need to adjust the days a bit

I’m excited! An unplanned trip is often a great trip, and so far I managed to check in on my phone at the desk, with 3 mins to spare (saving £55 “admin”), not get charged £11/kg by Ryanair for the 9kg my bike bag was over 20kg, and get free guacamole with my burrito bowl.

Fantastic start 🥳

Thank you, this sounds like a plan. I am worried about the heat. I was supposed to be going south from Brittany to Bordeaux, which would have been much cooler….!

Bump. Need to read this thread, but just in case anyone has recently done exactly what I’m planning….

My cycling holiday has, three days ago, changed dramatically, for reasons outwith my control. I’m ending up in Arcachon near Bordeaux but now flying into Marseille. Tomorrow! I am probably going to get the train to [probably Montpelier] tomorrow afternoon, stay the night and post my bike bag Monday morning, I doubt I can post it Sunday. Any route suggestions much appreciated - I think probably Carcassonne, Toulouse, Cahors, and then up to La Roque-Gageac, Bergerac, Bordeaux.

But I made that up in 5 minutes on Komoot. I think maybe getting north earlier and going west might be prettier? But I quite fancy seeing carcassonne, and know I like Toulouse. I’ll have time in the airport tomorrow to plan! Total hopefully 700-800km in 6-7 days, I don’t want to be cycling alllll day

Yes. That’s my preference, but I don’t think there’s much in it

I’d want Option 2 from image below, I wouldn’t want a vertical visible “top end” effectively extending the work surface.

If the upstands go up to the work surface and carry on above, up a side wall or taller unit (not drawn), I would care less, but still probably prefer the full width work surface, in a normal ish small ish London kitchen. Then it’s aesthetics

Never mind that … “some of my current skills include …. Hostility de-escalation”!

Yes to impregnating with repellent, and I fucking hope not to eventually wearing out!

*forgot my footnote. You might specifically want wool or you might specifically not. Wool is less shiny and looks/feels nicer to me. It’s harder to clean though. Synthetic you can get bike oil out of by rubbing hard with wd40 🤗

First link on Google -

https://designer-carpet.co.uk/search/remnant?length=4.00&width=4.00

My method, recently utilised:

I don’t really care, it’s carpet. I want it to be good but cheap.
Neutral colour.
Measure room, then search eBay and the internet generally for offcuts / end of roll big enough.
NB rolls are either 5m wide or 4m, if your room is more than 4m in either dimension, a 5m wide carpet is likely to be cheaper, but do the maths.
Find an independent one man band local carpet fitter to do it, and in my case let him supply underlay.

My carpet was 100% wool* and £15 psqm, reduced from £40psqm. Underlay was £6psqm. You can buy underlay cheaper if you get it online too, but I ran out of time. Fitting varies on where you are, mine was something like £150 inc the underlay, I think I could have got the fitting cheaper too.

Ha! Progress is progress.

I think I’d like somehow a dumb phone and a smart phone on the same number, and to have smart phone free days / weekends / evenings. Checking out entirely isn’t realistic for me.

Update? How’s it going

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Thanks Gus! Bike being serviced and sinewave to be added this weekend 🙂

As a reference point: I’ve been told that land in Berkshire so just about within your search criteria (near Newbury/Hungerford, to be more precise) is £10,000 per acre for farm land and up to £20,000 per acre for “amenity” land, which for most people who buy fields seems to mean adding a stable and grazing a horse. I was unclear what exactly is and isn’t permitted - but Google was reasonably helpful.

Good luck on your land ownership quest.

This is all fascinating stuff, I’m educating myself vicariously - thank you!

Lazy Q, but what can I follow to know when these are coming up? Thank you

I enjoyed learning a small amount more about carbon trading through this article