Not that I’ll be travelling anywhere for a while! But wondering what people using teriparatide (I have Terrosa) use if they are going away. We used to drive to France quite regularly and are really hoping to do so again sometime in the next 2 years (I’m only a week into my second month so nearly 23 months to go). We usually drive from the north east where we live to a hotel near the tunnel for the first night, then stay a night in a hotel in France en route. We always go self catering other than the 2 hotel nights on the way there and back so no problem about refrigerating once we’re there.
Any recommendations? There seem to be lots of products out there so it’s hard to know what’s best. It has to be stored between 2 and 8 degrees C.
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We’ve always holidayed in France in a camper van or last year in a tent - a moment of madness on my part - but it was great apart from packing and unpacking the car.
Anyway, for that I bought amongst other creature comforts, a Camping gaz plug in electric cool-box/fridge. Similar or possibly even this campingaz.com/uk/c-503-elec... It was excellent and coped with some phenomenally hot weather in Provence.
Normally though in the camper although we had a fridge / freezer I just kept all my tablets in an old make up bag in a dark cupboard that was deep enough in the body of the camper not to get warm - under my clothes was always a good place.
Same when we were using the car and hotels on other occasions. I imagine though with injections you would need to be a bit more careful so an electric cool box might be just what you need - sorry I can’t see any temperatures mentioned but things did stay cold. You can plug it into the car charger socket and we have an adapter for using with a camping power block.
Hopefully we will all be able to get back to France next year. Where we are we’ve had weather similar to what we would expect over there but without all the things we love most about being there. ☀️
Thank you - we had one of those plug in cool boxes years ago! Very good for France. It’s a good idea, I’ll have a look online. If we can make room for it in the car once husband has packed at least 2 bikes - apparently they’re too precious to go on a cycle carrier 😂 and we have the dog now as well though heaven knows how difficult it’s going to be to take her abroad now.
You’ve had much hotter weather than us then! We are in the north east though so can’t expect heat..
At least two bikes!! Sounds like your other half is a very keen cyclist! I think we have had the box in the floor behind the front seat - possibly there are different sizes of them or he could take the bikes up to the hotel room overnight.
We’re in the south east outside Cambridge. Our grass has been like dried out straw for at least the past two weeks. We had some rain last week but the sunshine and heat is back again. I like to get up early in the morning when it is quiet - the light and air is such that it feels just like being in France.
Sounds idyllic! Sea fretting here or just grey and wet 😢
Hah - 2 bikes is nothing! He has at least 7 and most live in the house because he thinks they’ll be stolen out of the shed. We have a people carrier - for 2 of us plus bikes..
7 bikes that live in the house. That is serious cycling. Years ago we used to go to France and if we were remotely near where Le Tour de France was passing we always tried and get to somewhere we could see it.
It passed about ten minutes along the road from us when it started in Cambridge a few years ago. We drove in the general direction of the route then cycled out until we got to what we thought was a good spot for taking photographs.
It was funny because the guy next to us was a really keen cyclist and wasn’t local - he had done a recce when he was in our area visiting his family and chosen the same spot. I gave him the things I collected as the caravan went past and he was thrilled. I heard him telling his wife about it on the phone
We’ve been to Mt Ventoux and lots of the places Le Tour goes but not when it was on. I bet you and your other half have too but he’s maybe even cycled. I love watching it when it goes t places we’ve been to.
I’m afraid my idea of cycling is on the Ile de Re because it is totally flat and you cycle almost completely on good cycle tracks. I’m not good on hills.
Hopefully you get to France at some point. What is your favourite area?
Yes indeed we usually try to go for the Tour at least for a few days. Husband has done Ventoux and the Tourmalet on his folding bike.. also the Aubisque a couple of times on his road bike. And a few others. We love the Pyrenees especially but last time we went was 2018 when we did a week near Bordeaux (fabulous), then caught the first 3 stages of the Tour in the Vendée finishing up with a few days in La Rochelle. So we visited Île de Re - lovely and went to a salt place which was so interesting - and very hot! It’s not his sort of cycling and I don’t think I could cycle at all now, not that it’s a big miss! Used to love horse riding but that’s not going to be possible now either. Still, at least I can still walk!
Wow, I’m impressed. Ventoux and the Tourmalet - 🚵♂️ - is his folding bike a small one like a Brompton or is it a special lightweight full size but folding bike?
You have to get out early on Ile de Re to avoid the crowds especially at the weekends but we’re early risers so the tracks were nearly always very quiet, you see some wonderful wildlife when you are cycling out along the salt pans.
We haven’t cycled for a couple of years either. Husband had a new hip then we just didn’t get back to cycling.
Horse riding might be a bit risky with osteoporosis unless you knew your horse was totally bomb proof. I remember years ago my mum and I left my husband in charge of two boys on an adventure playground and came back to find number 2 son in the first aid room with a broken arm.
We took him to a hospital to get it set and next day we went to a nice little seaside town. Same boy complete with arm in plaster decided he wanted a pony ride - I’ve got a lovely photo of him sitting on a neat little grey pony - two seconds after it was taken the horse owner whacked the pony on the rump and it practically took off vertically and headed off at a fast rate of knots - my heart was in my mouth in case I had to take him back with another broken arm. 🏇