Paris to Courcelles sous Thoux Beauvais Today I start to head for the coast and through the site of the Battle of France in the early stages of the war. Much of this area has great significance for Flying Officer Christie but first I need to get to Picardy. En[...]

VENEUX - LES – SABLONS TO PARIS Today's Route Sticking to my plan of keeping as close as possible to La Seine I made my way north. This plan, however, was not one of my best and navigating myself through roadworks and Paris suburbs, expectant for the afternoon match was[...]

TONNERRE TO VENEUX - LES - SABLONS The final 50 km following the canal de Bourgogne and then I headed north following the river Yonne which will eventually meet with the River Seine near the end of my day’s ride and ready for my journey into Paris. This was a[...]

CRÉANCEY TO TONNERRE I am currently making my way north along the Canal de Bourgogne, a gem of pre-industrial revolution engineering, of more than 250 kilometres in length. The canal slowly winds along the plains, then rising through a staircase of canal locks looking up to Pouilly en Auxois. Construction[...]

Cluny to Créacey I arrived in Cluny late yesterday - exhausted but pleased to have completed my second full day. Cluny is a beautiful little town in the south of the newly created Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. During the war it was just south of the demarcation line making it part of[...]