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Ceri: What a day!!! Before we’d even left the B&B, Neil discovered I had a flat tyre, so set to and fixed it (my hero!). The cycle path which followed an old train track seemed endless, so we stopped at Andernos-les-Bains for coffee. It’s a pretty town on the lake and it happened to be market day. There’s absolutely no room in my panniers to buy anything…. but I could drool at the beautiful clothes I couldn’t buy.

On we continued following Neil’s app ( THAT APP again 🙄) and found ourselves walking over grassy paths and sandy lames…. again! Then after a while we found ourselves on a fantastically wide empty road. Bliss. The sun was shining, the wind behind us and not a car in sight. Far too good to be true. At the end of a few easy kilometres, it ended with a long sand lane. Not again 🙄!! And even when that ended, we had to cycle/walk along miles of atrocious surface. Once we were safely out of that, we decided to play safe do the next 20 miles on the main road. It started ominously well! The main road was empty with a perfect surface. Definitely too good to be true! Soon we were faced with a massive set of contraflow road works. We queued a long time with the cars and lorries. When the green flag waved, every vehicle seemed determined to make up for lost time. But there was no room to pass us so, after letting many through, we just had to cycle as fast as we could to the end. The road surface was horrible and cycling unpleasant. Eventually it all calmed down and Neil became desperate for a beer so we stopped at the first available beer stop. Boy it felt good to simply sit and watch the cars go by. We finally arrived at our hotel at 4.30 and boy, that shower felt amazing. We ended our day with the most delicious kilo of moules frites in a lakeside cafe watching the sun set.

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