#Day85 Very wet!
Bonneval to Cloyes sur le Loir – 29km 15C Terrain: lovely countryside roads with some added hills. Only a few hours sleep last night due to eating something that didn’t quite agree but managed to eat breakfast this morning so off I went with what felt like very tired legs. It’s on days like this […] Read More
#Day84 Back on track (I think!)
Chartres to Bonneval – 39km 14C Terrain: more lovely countryside roads. As luck has it I arrived at a campsite this afternoon having called about an hour earlier and have managed to bag a caravan to sleep in for the night, result. The temperature has dropped quite significantly (after some really wonderful weather) and it’s […] Read More
#Day83 Beautiful Chartres
Maintenon to Chartres – 20km 18C Terrain: lovely countryside roads. A short one today which is great as I think it’s allowing my knee to heal. I do like it when I arrive in beautiful places and today it’s Chartres. Amazing with a huge cathedral on a top of a hill (torture to get Bob […] Read More
#Day82 Finding solutions
Rambouillet to Maintenon – 28km 18C Terrain: forest routes and country/busy roads. It was really difficult to say bye to my mum this morning. Even though we’ll hopefully be seeing each other again in a few weeks, for some reason it was much harder than usual. I miss her and my family and friends enormously […] Read More
#Day81 On the road again and in the papers!
Saint Nom la Breteche to Rambouillet – 32km 20C Terrain: relatively flat, some cycle paths! And country roads. Back on the road with shiny new trainers. Today was actually one of the best days yet in terms of route in France. There were actually cycle paths. […] Read More