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On the 27th August 2010 Ken and I were on our second long cycle trip and were riding from the North Sea to the Adriatic and feeling pretty pleased with ourselves.   Then somewhere along the Elbe not far out of Magdenburg we met Rudolf.  We stopped for lunch and along he came on his very well equiped bike.  Rudolf was from Heidelberg and spoke excellent English. He said he was lucky because he was able to learn such good English when he was a prisoner of war with the Americans. This made him no spring chicken.  He was in fact 85 and riding his bike from Dresden to Cuxhaven.  He said his wife was no longer well enough  to ride with him but she had told  him he was driving her crazy and needed a  good long bike ride.   He had been everywhere.  Rudolf made Ken and I feel quite young  and buoyed us up with optimism as to how many more year’s of riding we had in front of us.  We were 71 and 73, now 14 years later can we do as well as Rudolf?  Well I ride an ebike now so  that rules me out but Ken on a regular bike will give it a good go.

We leave for Europe on the 6th May and have some non biking fun first.  Then on the 2nd June pick up our bikes from our niece Louise in Moret (just out of Paris) and set out first through Burgandy, then along the Rhone and finally a bit of a tour in Provence before we fly out from Lyon on the 12th July.  Perhaps its rather ambitious but we will see.