This time last year I (21. cycle) ___________in the rain along a country road in France with a friend of mine. We (22. decide) _________to go on a cycling holiday in Normandy. Neither of us had gone to...

This time last year I was cycling in the rain along a country road in France with a friend of mine. We had decided to go on a cycling holiday in Normandy. Neither of us had been to France before, but we knew some French from our time at school and we had managed to brush up on the basics. We had planned our route carefully in advance, but we had forgotten one important thing, the weather. It had been raining solidly since our arrival and that night we ended up sleeping in the waiting room at a railway station. Then the next morning as we were riding down a steep hill my bike skidded on the wet road and I fell off. I realized immediately that my arm was broken, and after a visit to the local hospital I caught the next train to Calais for the ferry home. Unfortunately, my parents were not expecting me home for a fortnight, and had gone away on holiday. So I spent a miserable couple of weeks alone, reading Teach Yourself French.