Breathtakingly beautiful cycling doesn’t quite do it justice. However, if you are lucky enough to be cycling through Normandy or Brittany at the right time you might just get lucky and hit ‘pay dirt’ – as we did! The Normandy peninsula can be a capricious mistress and has a fierce temper if you are cycling at the wrong time (specifically Winter) but our early summer sojourn left nothing to be desired. Riding along near-perfect surfaces in the warmth of a July afternoon agains

Normally my blogs reserve themselves to the rides, the stay and the experience of the WAMC adventures. However I seldom go cycling on any of our popular routes without being reminded of recent (and ancient history) as our group passes through some of the ‘way-points’ that mark our journey. Wherever you cycle in Normandy and Brittany the often perfectly serviced roads, now smooth and un-pitted, transports our group over some fascinating routes. However, this was not always th