Category: France en velo
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Figeac to entraygues sur truyere
A day of too halfs, the first one was the steep climb out of town on roads shared by the composinual religious walk this was culminated in a small village which provided picnic bench, water tap and compost toilet, then an amazing downhill to slot onto the lot valley. The river lot I was to…
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Rocamadour to figeac
Early up in the morning got the light just right for goid shorts of the abbey village It was a steep decent with switchbacks followed by tough solid accent, then the rest of the day was spent traversing the hot limestone plateau, this department of lot. Fairly sparsely inhabited. It was a hard day and…
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Nontron to tourtoirac…..and a watery trip
Early start as wanted to get to the tourist hot spot of brantome in time for 11am boat trip. Again straight off was a stiff climb but after that the d675 was an excellent road…Smooth , wide and little traffic. Some open and some wooded areas. Soon arrived in brantome…it was about 20km there. Lovely…
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Rochechourt to nontron
This was day of June 5th…it was a bit of a wet start to the day….first order of the day was to carry out a steep climb. I picked my own route on small lanes having become a bit disdusioned by the choices of roads in the book. Glad i did as there was some…
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Ferrari’s….hard day and tin snails
Today was the hardest so far, cycled up to l’isle jordain and on the old rail viaduct watched about 20 Ferrari’s split the air with screaming V12’s as then went through town…this was just to be the start.. After crossing to west bank for the next 8km or so plagued by packs of Ferrari, and…
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Lusignan to l’isle jordain….no moussac
So plan was to hit the road early ish and make my way to l’isle jordain….as I was leaving the campsite guardian said that camp in l’isle jordain….is ferme. A quick check on the phone indicated it is cabins only….but a campsite was 5km north in the small village of moussac…..a cunning deviation point added…
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A far better day….
So during all yesterday’s crap ending passed the 1000 miles mark… Today was from parthenay to liusgnan on a fairly flat route, through some small villages and some planned and unplanned history. First a quick ride through the old town, showed a fine church and town wall gate. Then on to the first village of…
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Mmm the day did not go quite to plan…..
So after 93km yesterday i did not want to go all the way to parthaney as it would be another 90 plus km day…..so you have guessed it ended up going all the way. Planned to stop at a campsite at a resevoir….not much info on it, but owned by local community. Started off fine…
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From chalonnes sur loire to montsoreau
Got up at first light and was on the road by 7am…as it was to be a long day… first up it was away from the river and s climb and into the vinyards After a while on tiny roads it was on the main Cornish road above the valley, a fine view from a…
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Day off pootle along the north bank
Decided to take a Day off here so cycled back north over the three bridges again and turned right towards La Possonnière, having no load on the bike apart from bar bag and flat smooth empty road enabled a real lick on. So did not take long to La possonniere to arrive…and it is an…
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