Day 39 27/8/16 56 miles (Biscarosse to Contis) Average speed 11.2 mph Top speed 35 mph Awake at 4 am but read a bit and fell back to sleep. Up at 8.30 and made tea, you’re supposed to use wood fires here but it’s the only one I’ve got and I don’t think I fumigated … [Read more…]
Day 38 26/8/16 61 miles (Audenge to Biscarosse) Top speed 30mph Started brilliantly but I needed brekkie as I’d packed up quick to get away at 8.50. Had brekkie at Gujan Mestras … [Read more…]
Day 37 25/8/16 46 miles (Lac d’Hourtin to Audenge) Average speed 12 mph Top speed 22.9 mph I woke early as I had to blow up my bed in the night as the sand wasn’t as comfortable as I expected. Got back to sleep and was up at 7.30. Nervous brekkie of toast and Camembert … [Read more…]
Day 36 24/8/16 80 miles (Pont-l’abbe-d’Anoult to Lac d’Hourtin) Average speed 10.9 mph Top speed 25.2 mph (Ermintrude: I can’t work out Brian’s destination today, only that he is at a campsite on the southern bank of the Lac d’Hourtin, possibly at Maubuisson.) Woke early at 4.30. Considered an early start to avoid heat but … [Read more…]
Day 35 23/8/16 33 miles (Fouras les Bains to Pont-l’Abbé-d’Arnoult) Average speed 9.4 mph Top speed 26.3 mph A slow start due my first proper hangover. So midday by the time I set off. Stopped at a fort but it was closed. Then I saw a massive rat in the river which I … [Read more…]
This post is the photos Brian took during the boat trip around Fort Boyard :
Day 34 22/8/16 Fouras les Bains (and a boat trip around Fort Boyard) 19 miles cycling around average speed 8.4 mph top speed 19 mph Now that’s what I call a day off. Up late at 8.30. Went into town to market and bought sardines on ice. Went to see girl at tourist office and … [Read more…]
Day 33 21/8/16 44miles (La Rochelle to Fouras Les Bains) Average speed 12.2 mph Top speed 80mph A brilliant start to the day, two in a row at Ibis Hotel breakfast buffet. All you … [Read more…]
Day 32 20/8/16 La Rochelle It is easier cycling than having a day off! Today I clocked up 40 miles . Great early start: in the shower … [Read more…]
More rivers, more fishing, more football, a wedding, more beers, more wine, more music, more tourist offices, more football, 800 miles, less wifi, less electric, NO PHONE. Disaster! In Lorient, where Brian left his phone in the shower block and it had gone when he went back for it. So most of the day he … [Read more…]