THE BIG ISSUE FOUNDATION LONDON-TO-PARIS CHARITY BIKE RIDE

DAY 4, 25 July 2010: Paris, France

10:00 – Slept like a log last night and started the day with another great meal. Spend a little while shooting the breeze with Adrian the photographer, who was among those who didn’t get back to the hotel till 5am. He’s surprisingly chipper. One reason he doesn’t like being made the Big Issue Foundation’s poster-boy, he says, is that it makes him feel a little guilty, knowing that he actually got his life back together doing something he loved to do. It somehow didn’t seem hard enough. Maybe not, I think to myself, but everyone deserves a little luck along the way.
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THE BIG ISSUE FOUNDATION LONDON-TO-PARIS CHARITY BIKE RIDE

DAY 2, 23 July 2010: Caen to Evreux, France

9:45 – Because the idea is for the whole team to make its triumphal entrance into Paris together, the departures are staggered such that the fastest group leaves last. That gives us a chance to sleep in and enjoy our delicious breakfast at a leisurely pace, but it also means we’re impatient to hit the road some time before it’s our turn. I think Barrie is impatient too, because he leads us out of the parking lot about fifteen minutes early. Read More→