I think there is some good riding around there; I have been over on the old SeaCat and there was a party of 30 odd bikes all going for a day out.
I've ridden inland from Boulogne en route to the Ardennes and very nice it was too, until I swallowed a large fly and subsequently endured a three-hour coughing fit which threatened to turn me inside-out.
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Not sure if the speedferries route takes foot passengers/bikes though (this may sound bizarre but it is not unknown). Will ask next week, am going on it for the weekend, only £50 return for 4 of us plus a car ;-)
Smeed's Law relates accident rate to traffic density. I seem to recall that France has about twice the U.K.'s Kms. of road, but a comparable number of vehicles, so Smeed's Law would predict a higher accident rate.
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Smeed's Law is discussed by Robert Davis in "Death on the Streets" as a special case of risk compensation.
Classically it relates vehicle ownership per head (rather than traffic density per se) to deaths per vehicle.
Classically it relates vehicle ownership per head (rather than traffic density per se) to deaths per vehicle.
The simplest and classic statement of the law is that the number of accdents at a T junction is related to the square (? if I remember correctly) root of the vehicle movements through it.
