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This morning, we left Basel, cycled roughly north and within minutes had left Switzerland and entered France.
Our route was a good mix of roads, paved cycle paths, and gravel trails. We crossed farmland, passed through small, largely modern towns and occasionally cycled by a canal. The Rhine was largely absent.
About 15 km from our destination, we screeched to a halt outside a very nice looking restaurant/ cafe and ordered ice cream with fruit and Chantilly cream and cold drinks. The ice cream was tye highlight of an otherwise nice but unspectacular day. And it would have been the key event of the day except that...
... Literally a couple of hundred metres from today's campsite, M2 disappeared. M1 cycled back around the mist recent bend to find her pushing her nameless bike and..... Holding one of her pedals in her hand! "It just fell off!" she said.
M1 looked and found the retaining bolt/screw thing had vanished.
DISASTER!
Quite possibly, yes. At the campsite the guy on reception told M1 there was a bike repair shop 5 minutes away (on foot) but that it would not be open until 2 pm tomorrow. Today is of course a Sunday.
M1 researched and found an Intersport a 10 minutes bike ride away or 40 minutes walk. It opens at 9:30 and some branches of Intersport do bike repairs.
So, the plan is for M1 to cycle to Intersport tomorrow on The Mule and ascertain whether or not they can help. If they can, he'll cycle back and then walk M2's bike to Intersport. If not, we have to wait until 14:00 for the other shop. If they can repair, we'll have to cycle into the evening and tomorrow is a 65 mile ride. If they can't, it's back to the drawing board.
It's all part of the adventure.
It's all part of the adventure.
It's all part of the adventure.
:-)
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