Lans-en-Vercors - 09 September 2019
We’re up in the hills again, high enough to have skiing in the winter. Strenuous walk virtually straight up until we found a track to come down, aching muscles again. Noticeably fresh clean mountain air here.
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Marcilloles - 08 September 2019
A slow start to today, getting out of bed and deciding our course of action. Our aim was to get to the Grenoble area but there are loads of different routes, so which way do we go? In the end we went very much cross country, with long ups and downs, but with beautiful scenery.
Puy de Dôme - 7 September 2019
About a 4 hour drive to Puy de Dôme, near Clermont-Ferrand. We arrived at 1530 and started the ascent straight away. Very steep in the latter stages but we made it in 90 minutes. Arrived back in Dave after 3 hours pretty tired, could do with a bath to soak those muscles!
Oradour-sur-Glane - 6 September 2019
We drove just over 400km to get to Oradour-sur-Glane at about 1630. Here, 642 villagers were massacred by the Waffen SS in WW2 on 10 June 1944. The village was abandoned and has remained so to this day, very poignant.
Hédé, France - 05 September 2019 via St Malo featured
Back on our travels, leaving St Peter Port and sailing to St Malo on Condor Rapide. A quick run down the dual carriageway and we’re parked up close to the 11 locks at Hédé for the night. The evening sun is out but there’s a definite nip in the air, time to go south for a while.
Saint Suliac -27 June 2019
Well, last day of this trip and it’s getting hotter. Tintin drove for about an hour to a grass area at Saint Suliac, quick lunch and out on our bikes. Too hot to do much we retreat to the shaded side of Dave and read books, and it’s hot! Actually booked a restaurant on the banks of the Rance for t
Saint-André-des-Eaux - 26 June 2019
Where to go to escape the heat? We decided on an aire just south of Dinan at Saint-André-des-Eaux. Kay did the driving and we parked up in the lee of some trees, not actually in the moho park. Pleasant ride along the Rance all the way to Dinan port and back.