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Ramblings of a retiree in France
Friendly Friday Challenge: road trip
The Friendly Friday Challenge is now a fortnightly challenge co-hosted by Amanda from Something to Ponder About and Sandy from The Sandy Chronicles.
Sandy’s Friendly Friday Blog Challenge is about road trips. I’ve written extensively and ad nauseum about our various road trips around Australia and now I’m going to look at some rather closer to home. Last week’s looked at two trips we’d built around bike racing and this week, I’ve two more.
I’m currently enjoying watching the Giro d’Italia which we’ve seen a number of times in the past, most notably its 100th edition which began in Sardinia. I wrote a couple of posts about our trip.
Postcard from Sardinia I and Postcard from Sardinia II
Then, back in 2018, we kicked off a month long holiday which concluded in San Sebastian beginning with the Tour stage in La Baule where both my beloved and I had spent childhood vacations. So it was yet another trip down memory lane.
The post Holiday sets out our planned itinerary. I then posted a picture or two every day from our vacation: Holiday photos day 1 to day 32. Plus, I wrote posts about some of the locations Rioja, Pornichet and Saint Jean de Luz.
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This year the girls are are opening up the challenge, making its focus not purely on photography but making it a little more varied, a little more open and interesting.
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The Benefits
- Increase your exposure in our blogging communities
- Inspire and be inspired by diverse blog articles
- Challenge your creativity
- Make new friends and keep in touch with old ones
Are you joining in this year? Go on……you know it’ll be fun!
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Looking back on your posts – it’s almost as good as being there!
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That’s very kind of you Sandy
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thats so awesome sherry! Hope you had lots of fun!
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We did thanks
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Most of my posts from the last 2-3 weeks have been from our latest road trip, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. 🙂 I love it.
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I know, you’ve had a fabulous trip
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Yes we did. Have a great weekend. 🙂
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Thanks, you too
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How fast do you think they’re going?
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I assume you mean the riders. Obviously, it depends on the terrain they can easily motor along at 45km/hr and over 70km/hr for a few hundred metres sprint finish. Downhill they can easily exceed 75km/hr and going uphill, speed depends on the gradient.
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Phoar! That’s fast!
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I know!
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