And of course, I couldn’t resist glancing over my shoulder to catch their incredulous expressions. “Through the Loire.”The look on my face must have registered more surprise than the congregation at Oscar Wilde’s wedding. Read our community guidelines in full Women are more than human handbags hanging around important men, says best-selling author Kathy Lette in her welcome of the launch of She Said It felt as though our bicycles had drunk an espresso. There’s no need to regret a baguette or not to nosh that brioche, as you simply pedal off the pounds afterwards.The only real danger of cycling through the Loire with Ruby was running into lamp posts from laughing too hard. Twitter fiction: Kathy Lette. Five writers talk about the things they wish they’d known about motherhood, from not boasting about your child’s achievements to not being a martyr The comedy writer and novelist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer The comedy writer and novelist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer. Her latest novel Courting Trouble is published by Bantam'We can only marvel at the business acumen of a woman who invented the Kathy Lette thinks marriage can still be slave labour, while Jenni Murray wants affordable childcare. Wij willen hier een beschrijving geven, maar de site die u nu bekijkt staat dit niet toe. Hell, they had their own postcodes.Ruby was convinced she now looked like a Kardashian and took to twerking at pedestrians as we whizzed by. Exploring these Rapunzel-like turrets made me fantasise about being rescued by a French knight in shining Armani.Thoughts of a one-knight-stand at our age only brought out Ruby’s black humour.
Yep, the thought of Ruby and me enduring a self-guided cycling trip seemed as plausible a proposition as Madonna in a nunnery or a Mormon with a bar tab.Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong, because Ruby had booked with operator Cycling For Softies. Wij willen hier een beschrijving geven, maar de site die u nu bekijkt staat dit niet toe. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. I tried to go along with her Loire Noir, until we cycled past another elegant, architectural masterpiece – Château L’Islette.By standing in front of the sign and obscuring the first few letters, it looked as though I’d stumbled upon my French ancestral home, Château Lette. The comedy writer and novelist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer Published: 10 Aug 2013 .
Find out more Luckily she was distracted by the perfect mirror reflections of her padded Rear of the Year in the pond which surrounds the sumptuous château.A gourmet binge at Le Côté Cour and a little pampering at the bijou Hôtel de Biencourt, and we were ready for our final day – an 18-mile, uphill ride back to Chinon, through ancient royal hunting forests.Gazing up at the steep, wooded hills, Ruby and I both made a noise like a bike tyre going flat. But the organisers simply swapped our bikes for electric cycles. “Lette them eat cake,” I decried, going full Marie Antoinette.“Madame Defarge is my role model,” Ruby said crisply, edging me dangerously closer to the moat. Cycling from Chinon to the sleepy little town of Montsoreau we tried asking a few French people for street directions but rue-d the day when we found ourselves inhaled into a forest of disdainful nostril hair. Should we perhaps just call the paramedics in advance? I found myself surprisingly swept up in the romance.
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Cycling For Softies offers a pampering take on a cycling holidayThe path took the pair past legendary Le Château d’UsséAt the end of the trip, Ruby and Kathy toasted to their pedalling prowessExplore Telegraph Travel's selection of tours in FranceExplore Telegraph Travel's selection of river cruises in FranceExplore Telegraph Travel's selection of villas in France Which is why I kept colliding with inanimate objects such as cars, carts and cows which stubbornly refused to take evasive action.Besides multiple bruises from lamp post pile-ups, the only other obstacle in our way was a dodgy sat nav. These padded shorts are designed to prevent chronic bum-numbing and also painful bike friction on those parts of your body primarily reserved for giving birth. Cycling? Wij willen hier een beschrijving geven, maar de site die u nu bekijkt staat dit niet toe.
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Kathy Lette at … With the restraint of an Exocet missile we were out of our sweaty clothes and into a bottle of local white wine, feeling an exhilarated sense of accomplishment. Twitter fiction Twitter fiction: Kathy Lette. You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Still, it was a glorious morning, with fluffy white clouds scudding across an azure sky – who cared if we got lost?Thirteen miles later, we fluked it to our first destination – the luxurious spa hotel La Marine.
This was mainly due to our cycling pants. Wij willen hier een beschrijving geven, maar de site die u nu bekijkt staat dit niet toe. Does it matter?