This is another travel tale but with a much younger self and with a very good mate of mine Dicky Hanlon .Itโs the summer of 1988 .. both of us 19 years of age .After getting simultaneously dumped by our girlfriends ,my dad aka Padre said โwhy donโt you go and pick grapes ๐ in France ๐ซ๐ท . โNotoriously low on cash ๐ฐ we buy a couple of second hand push bikes and with just 300 quid each ,we point the pushbikes south and roll into a new life .This episode does have some backstory in it ,to give the listener an insight into howโs these kids were shaped into who they were by the time they were 19 .The end of this podcast also has Dans message . A decent sounding chap who left me a message of encouragement on my podcast ,asking, if i would do the story about riding to France and Spain ๐ช๐ธ and making many a mistake along the way ๐ so here it is . I hope you enjoy it and if you do ,please record a message for me and Iโll put you in my next episode .And finally โthis oneโs for you Dicky ๐โ