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Sounds like you were crucified by the weather....
We encountered one of what the locals refer to as a 'pisse comme la vache' rainy day in France a few years back. Persistent rain hour after hour rather than the variety of stuff you had, but with much the same effect on vision and feet. It culminated in having to get through a village (there was no way around it) where the road that was flooded to crotch height - of course we didn't realise it was this deep immediately - for some twenty or so yards. Instead of approaching the obstacle in the correct way (hoisting our bikes over our shoulders - perhaps the fact that they were laden with full panniers for and aft had something to do with it - we tried to cycle through. Not possible, and extremely inadvisable - my pal's bike ended up with a broken/corroded crank while both of us enjoyed soaking wet clothing (both in and out of the panniers) as a result of our hasty decision to sally forth!
Who said cycling wasn't fun?
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