July 16

July 16
Eli, the Landy and I set off from a cloudy St Remy au Bois at about 10am and trundled through northern France farmlands most of the day (except for a brief breakdown after 160kms!) The landscape is much like that in St Remy, fields and cows and the occasional bad smell, but very pretty all the same. After 8 hours (and only 350km!) we arrived at our campsite in Troyes (pronounced Trwah). We set up our tent – a very cool readymade thing that you throw at the ground and which lands ready to inhabit – and set off on our bicycles into town. Troyes is beautiful, the houses mainly have wooden frameworks which are visible with plastered sections in between. I'm sure there's a name for that but I don't know it – similar to Tudor houses but a bit more wonky. A very good pizza and pint later, we went off back to the campsite for the first night in the tent!

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