33 miles
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Forest tracks- no cars! |
Susie:
One dodgy campsite to another! Woke to a lovely sunny morning. Made great progress for 10 miles, on deserted straight roads, mostly down, through the forest park.
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| Forest cycling is fun |
James:
33 miles to Vadencourt, a day of not too many big hills. Riding through forest to start with. Finding food has become harder now in France, believe it or not! Everything is shut on a Sunday and then shut between 12.00 midday till 2 or 3 in the afternoon.
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| made it to the patisserie before it shut for lunch |
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| lunch by the canal |
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| Yum! |
At the edge of the park found an Aldi- so waited half an hour for it to open only to find they have little of use- and that in bulk. Ended up very overloaded.
Found some supermarkets and stacked up bikes with as much as possible.
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| Canal de L'oise |
We cycled downstream. It was very pretty but quite hilly, lots of well kept flowery villages, seems we are in a more visited area now.
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| a strange tall house |
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| panorama of the L'Oise valley- click for a big version |
The campsite is our first 'municipal' and very basic- Just some spaces by the road with very rough showers (but hot) and one non-squat toilet. Still no open restaurants so we ate tinned cassoulet, which was ok. How do tourists eat French food- everything is shut in August!
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| Municipal camping with ants |
Cooking the duck in a tin already as no places to eat tonight, but should still be Yum!
The Finest French Cuisine
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| just across from our tent |
Zoomable map View In Google Maps |
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