Day 8, L'Arrivee La RochelleOne of the things that has become very evident is that the season is over and most tourism businesses have shut up. As I ride through...
Day 7, Vendee VeloSet off with positive spirits, forecast to be sunny by the afternoon and warming up. All I've got to do is get over that bridge. Within...
Day 6, Le fin de la pluieDon't want to tempt fate, but this might be the end of the crap weather for a while. France Meteo, who I now have to trust are...
Day 5, Arrivee Cote AtlantiqueMeteo France were predicting rain all day. I managed to find Windguru were only predicting thick cloud so I went for that. Left the hotel...
Day 4, Saved by a dateIt all comes down to the weather. Just like sailing. Today was the first nice day. Breakfast was at 7am French time. It's still dark for...
Day 3, Morale restoredThanks to all your emails on the earlier reports, I'll keep forwarding them until you get really fed up. I weighed up my options last...
Day 2, Roller coasterThis was the classic day of two halves. The morning was brilliant, largely because I discovered navigating by google maps. It really...
Day One, bonsoirI am writing this to myself as a record of my cycling trip each day. I've blind copied you in just in case you're interested, but if not,...