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As Guy mentioned in a previous blog entry, I did indeed spend my summer (a part of it at least) cycling to the south of France with my good friend Steve. The memories are already fading of how painful at times it was, getting on the bike each morning after having slept in a tent on rocky and hard ground and having the saddle reach places you really wouldn't want it to reach after the previous day's exertions. But after 9 days and precisely 600 miles on the dot, we staggered up the final hill to a little bar in the main square in Seillans to enjoy a celebratory drink.

After spending a few days with Steve in Seillans, I then headed off on my own to do one final stint down to the south coast, over the few remaining hills to Saint Raphael. It was during this last stretch that I couldn't get the song 'I Speak Because I Can' by Laura Marling out of my head. Partly because it's a phenomenally good song, and also because it contains the line 'Never rode my bike down to the sea' (my musical associations aren't particularly complicated). 

But for the remainder of the holiday (just relaxing by this point, no more cycling) I was itching to get to hear this song again. It comes at the end of a mesmerising album of the same name, full of fantastic storytelling, brilliant songwriting and one amazing voice. The album is packed full of remarkable songs, and in a way, I'm not even sure if this is the best (probably Goodbye England takes that) but it's got something about it. Incredible sadness in the lyrics, but a build up and chorus that makes it sound like not only is the song's protagonist finally riding her bike down to the sea, but she's going straight down the beach, into the surf and starting a new life afresh in the cool deep blue water, and she's belting out a glorious tune all the way. 

Unfortunately, my experience wasn't quite as spectacular. It turns out Saint Raphael resembles something along the lines of a French Margate only with slightly fewer pink bodies crammed onto its beach. So I just sat on the sand with my bike and finished off my bag of raisins in the gentle drizzle. Not quite as poetic as Ms Marling, but it was still a good end.