Arrival to France When I check the map of Europe searching for places I haven’t yet cycled to, I see the whole of the British Isles in front of me. They say there are some beautiful places there, but they also say cyclists can get quite soaked by rain there. I set out to check it out. And to avoid packing my bike on for a plain, I decided to approach it discreetly through France. First by train to Offenburg in Germany, a short bike ride over the border to Strasbourg, by TGV to Paris and by another train to Le Havre. From there, it’s along the coast until I catch some ship across the Channel. Normandie and Bretagne When I got off the train in Le Havre, I was…