Spent the night at the Premier Inn in Folkstone. The town seems have been given over to Highways as the whole town is being dug up. Through the tunnel, surely Mrs Thatchers greatest achievement, and a long way down to Mortagne du Perche, a Logis hotel, the Tribunal. A very comfortable place next to the beautiful church. The back garden. My hotel.the chef is Vincent Bisset. A town of marvellous rooves. Eglise Notre Dame. The band setting Ill go after dinner.
Tom was having a double op today at the Horton. We arrived at 7.15am. Luckily it is easy to park so you can come and go. So I nipped into Banbury. It has 4 huge banks, so that was a surprise. Charity shops with 50% off. Plenty of Turkish barbers, vape shops selling disposables which I thought had been banned, closed down Thomas Cook, empty shops, cafes and one luxury jewellery shop selling Rolex. All in all a pretty depressing place. This is the market square. The op took a couple of hours and we finally left 12 hours after we arrived. Sometimes the heat and humidity makes me quite nauseas so I went up to the cafe for an iced coffee with all the cyclists. Dentist in Cirencester, then noticed this outside the church. And a virtually car free street with the old department store now a number of shops.