We started our first biking day with typical British food (vile coffee, bland toast, and a tasteless yellow substance they called scrambled eggs), then walked out of our hotel into typical British weather (cool and overcast) and headed off on our bikes ... in the wrong direction! Well, not exactly the wrong direction, but on the peculiarly British left side of the road. For the whole bike ride to Dover, we had to keep concentrating on what side to cycle on and which side cars would be approaching from.
The Channel crossing to Dunkirk was less fraught with danger than that of the Allied forces in WWII: they had to confront the feared German army, we merely have to deal with the feared German E. coli.
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Which way is traffic heading?? |
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The white cliffs of Dover |
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Gear in the front of the bike: GPS, odometer, pepper spray, regular (right-sided) mirror, and snap-on left-sided mirror for biking in Britain |
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Gear on the back of the bike: two panniers (saddlebags), snack/candy container |
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Computer & electronics gear |
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