Introduction

This is a hastily arranged blog to keep everybody up-to-date with what we have been up to on the cycle trip. My blog is supposed to be going on the Nottingham Evening Post website but I am not sure what is happening with that. Joe's blog is also on the Halifax Courier website.

My friend Joe and I are cycling through France from Roscoff to Bordeaux to raise some much needed money for pancreatic cancer.
Last summer I lost my Dad to this disease last summer and it has the highest mortality rate of any cancer.
My Dad and my family really like France, so this seemed to be the perfect way to raise some money and celebrate his life.

The trip got off to a disastorous start because the car I was getting a lift down to Plymouth in broke down. So I decided to get the train - it was going to take 7 hours but I would have got there.
So to celebrate leaving my Mum took us out for a meal. My sister warned me the lamb was under-cooked but with typical male bravado, I shrugged it off - "It'll be fine." I managed to get out of bed twice on Sunday.
A day late we finally set-off.