I’m getting to the stage in writing this, with this journey taking place well over a year ago and I’m starting to forget the details! Some might say that’s down to age, I say it’s down to time โฒ๏ธ but then they’re both inextricably linked! It finally feels this journey has come to an…
After managing to untangle myself from a city ๐๏ธ ie. determine the exact direction out! I follow the river Erdre northwards. I subsequently also lost this cycle route as signposting was poor or I was poor! If it was there at all! I ended up cycling through, what I think was a kind of scout…
I wasn’t in a hurry to leave La Garde. It was peaceful (except for a rooster ๐ !) and the wine flowed ๐ท Not sure my head was terribly keen after the previous nights wine! It didn’t help it was hot too โ! I was grumpy ๐ค This is central France, it’s relatively flat….
Stage 4 – Saumur to Limoges After having seen in 2014 Le Grand Depart in Yorkshire ๐ดโโ๏ธ I was now fortunate to be staying near this years route passing through Le Dorat enroute to Limoges from Saumur. The most enjoyable part was the procession train before the race game through. And after all that,…
I’d been made aware of an operation by the British Special Air Service SAS during WW2 while staying with friends in the tiny hamlet of La Garde. This was a behind-the-enemy-lines-operation to disrupt the German (Nazi) movements of troops and heavy armour en-route to the channel coast to bolster the defenses for the Normandy…
Setting off from Chรขtelus-Malvaleix after a lovely morning swim in the lake. And it was warm ๐โโ๏ธ amazing ๐ Now heading towards a friends house in an exceedingly small hamlet of La Garde. Not so long into the days ride I pass my 3,000 km’s mark for this journey. What seems the norm, more municipal-camp-grounds…