We pack the bikes for the last time in the hotels underground car park and push the bikes up the ramp into sunshine and a clear blue sky. Sods law! It is a short ride to the ferry terminal and once through check-in we wait in the queue to be loaded onto the ferry. We […]

Cancale – St Malo. 13 Miles. Today is our last day on the bikes if you don’t count the short trek to and from the ferry tomorrow. The weather is fine this morning so it bodes well for the plan of a late breakfast, and then a trip around the coast to St Malo to […]

Mont St Michelle – Cancale 28 miles plus 4. It has been raining all night and the weather forecast says dry by 10:00. This forecast kept changing so by 10:00 we decide to tog up and set off. The rain was heavy and unrelenting but, believe it or not, it is not unpleasant with the […]

St Hilaire-du-Harcourt – Mont St Michel 30 miles plus 4. After an earlier than usual breakfast we start the morning by heading in the wrong direction towards the cycle shop that google claims to open at 09:30. Google is right, there is a young lad working on a bike when we arrive. I ask if […]

Domfront – St Hilaire-du-Harcourt 19 miles plus 19. The sky does not look as wild as yesterday and the traffic free route starts opposite our hotel all the way to tonights destination. This bodes well for day 17, especially as my compatriot has returned her sun top to the bottom of her pannier. This is […]

Bagnoles-de-L Orne – Domfront 13 Miles plus 3 Only a short day to day. Domfront is an interesting town which we passed through last year on the south to north La Velo Franchette route. We are making an exception and we are returning to a hotel that we stayed in then. It had an open […]

Alencon – Bagnoles-de-L Orne 32 Miles While trying to find the restaurant last night we saw an event at the corn market. There were a number of old American army vehicles with people dressed in military outfits such as American soldiers, French Foreign legionaires, and old soldiers. They were celebrating 75 years since the liberation […]

Mortagne-au-Perche – Alencon 33 Miles minus 10 At breakfast we had table mats featuring Du Tour De France. The Logis hotel chain were offering a competition, with the prize being an opportunity to attend ‘Du Tour’. Fortunatly we are not on the same route so we have missed that opportunity, but maybe we will consider […]

Nogent-au-Rotrou – Mortagne-au-Perche 22 miles plus 6. Woke up this morning, the wind has dropped, the washing is dry, and there is the smell of coffee in the air. What more could you want on the 13th day of a cycling holiday? Sunshine perhaps, but at least there is definitely no rain.The first 5 miles […]

Illiers-Combray – Nogent-au-Rotrou 26 miles plus 2 As we sit eating breakfast in the hotel the Dutch cyclist from last night come to say goodbye. They have decided to turn back because of the headwind. They were planning a longer circular ride, but will go back to Chartres, to see the light show, that they […]