Writing On The Road A Tour De France For My Father Nina Jenkin by Nina Jenkin 9781906000660, 1906000662 instant download after payment.

Nina Jenkin's father Roy died of cancer when she was eight years old. In 1953, aged 21, he and his student friend Gordon Newbery had undertaken a 2300-mile cyclng trip through France and he kept a diary of their travels which he later worked up into an illustrated travelogue with over 150 pictures and 12 hand-drawn maps. The journey started in Exeter and took in an anticlockwise route down the west coast of France, along the Canal du Midi, up the Rhone valley and the mountains of Vercors to Geneva, then through Switzerland and over the Jura mountains to Basel, crossing Germany through the Black Forest then down the Rhine to Heidelberg. There they turned east for Paris and then north to Le Touquet where they boarded a small plane and crossed the Channel to Lympne before the final leg along the south coast. In total they had been away for almost 6 weeks and spent £16 each!