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For six years we toiled in our allotment, learning about organic gardening, writing for the Nelson
Leader, planting, sowing, eating, growing - we were like rats running
along familiar runs - one run to Asda at the end of the street, one to
Nelson to pay the rent, but mostly running to the allotment. I was always
aware there was another world out there. I remembered my single days
when I took my bike on long tours, I dreamed of one day showing it all
to Wolfram . . I told myself there is a time and a season for
everything, and this was the gardening part of my life. One day the time
would be right to do other things. . . |
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In 1995 those 'other things'
arrived. Wolfram had an insurance policy maturing in Germany, and
instead of getting his mother to send it on, he thought we would make
the journey and collect it ourselves - but he wanted to do it by bike!
This was a huge undertaking - not least because we did not know how long
we would be away, and there were debts to pay. We economised like
mad to get all our affairs straight, and even managed to pay for an
alarm system for the house. We don't exactly live in the salubrious
suburbs! Telling a neighbour you are going to be away can be like an
open invitation to a burglar. We made the German trip in 1995.
We covered 804 miles and were away six weeks. Read about it here |
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In 1997 we were off again to Lake
Como. We planned to ride down to the coast, then go west along the
French Coast through Brittany, ending up in Languedoc. But Fate decreed
we should never leave the shores of the lake. Find out why here |
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In 1998 Wolf's former mother in
law came with offers of reparation for her daughter's atrocities
committed during the marriage, and funded a real holiday (her
words not mine) where we wouldn't have to sleep in tents - I point blank
refused to go to a hotel, so she paid for a cottage in the Languedoc - Le
Saute du Roland - or, Roland's Leap in the Dark, as it turned out to
be (rather Satanic!). Read about it here |
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1999 passed without us taking a
trip, and by Spring 2000 we really felt in need of a break. When Binliner's
brochure arrived with details of a short break in Normandy
we signed up, and in May we were off! Read about it here |
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