Raining when we wokr up, but then it just got damp looking and overcast grey. Indecision on what to wear but the same as yesterday. Good breakfast and I made up a sandwich for lunch, Set off at 9 and tried to but some savouries in Abbeville but nothing open and the boulangeries were bread and sweet things only.
It started off just like a holiday day in northern France were you just wanted to dash quickly to Calais and get the ferry back home. But the rain held off and by lunchtime the son came out and over the afternoon the skies cleared to blue and fluffy white clouds. Great cycling for a tandem, with good swooping down and up with some long fast descents, though you pay for them with climbs. Had lunch on picnic benches by a burrbling brook where we met with 5 others, and we then oscillated with them for the afternoon (us slower up hills but faster on the downs). Stopped for a coffee is what looked a suspect bar in Forges, but the barman was delightful and filled up my water bottle as well. Nothing else had been opened all day.
Then through the largest beech forest in Europe, down a short unpaved bit, then to the campsite in Lyons where we sat in the sun having tea and cakes. Back to the hotel which is quite posh (Hosellerie du Domaine Saint Paul) for shower and more sun on the terrace withg a beer. All of us are eating in the hotel tonight as thgere is nowhere else locally.
I have got a runny nose and am sneezing and have taken allegy tablets. I suspect the suncream but it could be the rapeseed. Ahtishoo. And again.
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