Distance: 82 km
Ride Quality: Excellent, despite the wind
Accommodation: B&B Hotel (really a hotel - right beside the train station)
To pick up where we left off yesterday, our B&B host drove us a little ways into town for dinner. And it was AWESOME! A nice little French restaurant in an old building with delicious food and wine. We were both stuffed! It was called La Petite Brocante. Then, breakfast at the house this morning was also amazing. Fruit and great bread and yogurt - with candles!- on the patio and everything. We chatted with another couple who were visiting for their grandson's First Communion. They were super friendly and the host was wonderful. He does some biking himself and said he was jealous of our trip. Best accommodation of the trip so far!
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| Best breakfast yet! We should do breakfast by candlelight more often. |
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| There was a tropical fishy in Saroja's glass of OJ! |
The bike ride today was much drier, with only a sprinkling of rain, but very cold. We're still searching for that trifecta of no rain, reasonable winds, and warm weather. The morning started out hilly, but not as bad as yesterday. By noon the landscape had flattened out nicely and the wind, which in the morning would sometimes threaten to topple the trailer over in the crosswind, was for the most part firmly at our backs. Except for the 3 km detour we took where we were slightly lost... But we won't speak of that.
We made pretty good time despite the tricker navigation to avoid the busy roads, which resulted in our longest mileage day so far. Tonight we're staying in a hotel that was pretty much chosen solely for the fact that they have eggs for breakfast, along with the usual continental affair. We've decided that we need more for breakfast than bread, cheese, and fruit. If for no other reason than that's usually all we eat for lunch most days, too.
Today is our last night in France as we're heading to Bruges in Belgium tomorrow. France has been great — delicious baguettes, good wine, friendly people, and beautiful countryside. I'll admit that I am looking forward to what I've read about Belgium's very nice, well-signed bicycle routes instead of trying to find creative routes to avoid major roads. I'm also looking forward to beer and chocolate! And hopefully nicer weather. The forecast for this coming week is looking good, so we expect to finally use the tent we've been dragging behind us for a week now and maybe do some camping in Belgium.
-Penguin
PS: Happy Mother's Day to both our moms and all our friends-who-are-also-moms back home!
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