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27 July 2014

Day 11: VENICE! Bikes, gondolas, relief! Well done to everyone: a wonderful, mad effort.

Day 10: Rovereto to Bassano del Grappa. Injuries, rain clouds, but who’d have thought it? They are only one day away from Venice! If you’ve been holding off, why not  sponsor them now it seems likely they will actually make it.

Day 9: Gardone Riviera to Rovereto: Lake Garda and the principal in pink.

Day 8: rest day

Day 7: Amberieu to Annecy: gruelling climbs and some bike-shirt shaped sunburn.

Day 6: Cluny to Amberieu. Wine, climbs, the principal’s tweet. Read it all here.

After a well-deserved rest day for Day 4, Day 5 begins the second leg. For some reason, there are many puns about, and pictures of, leg shaving in this account of our heroes’ adventures. Dijon to Cluny: they’ve really cut the mustard.

Day 3: To Paris

Who’d have thought they’d make it? Victory lap of the Eiffel Tower, plus advice on aerodynamics in today’s tweets.

Day 2: Le Havre to Evreux

Read about their latest exploits, including pictures of the triumphant team in front of some of the less picturesque French sites.

Day 1: Oxford – Portsmouth

They’ve all arrived in Portsmouth and are scoffing cakes. Day one of the epic, bonkers bike ride from Hertford’s Bridge to the Bridge of Sighs in Venice: read it as it happened here. Still time to sponsor them. All money raised will go to our student bursaries programme.