Day 15 – Hot, hot, hot!

Day 15 – Hot, hot, hot!

It was nice to wake by the river. Nowhere nearby to buy food this morning but due to our fabulous advance planning we were able to enjoy a breakfast of a short banana each and a shared Twix that had melted in the sun and re-solidified overnight several times over. Set...
Day 14 – Prehistory

Day 14 – Prehistory

Get up in the morning, pastries for breakfast,Allons voir une site préhistorique,Oh…Oh…The Troglodytes Woke beside the river to glorious sunshine and a day that was clearly going to become very hot. A short walk to breakfast at the local épicerie. Packed up camp and...
Day 13 – Three minutes late

Day 13 – Three minutes late

Nice cat at campsite this morning, very friendly. Packed up and cycled into Tourtoirac. Bought breakfast pastries from a lovely boulangerie and ate them at a friendly brasserie with coffee. Started with a climb that wasn’t too steep but it went on for 10 miles. We...
Day 12 – Headwind

Day 12 – Headwind

A beautiful sunny morning and Jackie started the day on the beach reading the cycling magazine given to her yesterday by the kindly man just after the fish fingers (c’mon – keep up!). Spent a relaxed morning pottering around Brantôme, looked at the abbey...
Day 11 – Trumpets of Death

Day 11 – Trumpets of Death

Started the day with bread and cheese outside our tent. Some ducks came to visit. We wanted to start early as we were anticipating a difficult day: 41 miles and almost 800 metres of climbing and we wanted to get to the bike shop in our destination town of Brantôme by...