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Day 35 – La Tremblade to Royan Click to view route

Tuesday June 7, 2011, 38 km (24 miles) – Total so far: 1,178 km (732 miles)

For the month of May we had endless sunny days, and now it is June it seems the sunny day spell has been broken as we woke up to rain again. Bugger – I hate having to pack up a wet tent. Luckily it stopped raining when we got up, but everything was wet. We leave our panniers outside the tent at night as there is no room inside. They are meant to be 100% waterproof, but the rain still manages to seep in through the top a bit. It was bloody freezing too.

We packed up our tent wet and put on our wet weather gear and continued on.Despite the overcast damp morning, It was a pleasant ride through the forest. In the afternoon the sun came out and it was quite warmish.

I couldn’t handle another damp night, plus the tent and my clothes needed drying out as they were starting to smell a bit. We decided to try a cabin at the campground. Only problem was it was a two night minimum. Bugger – we really didn’t want to stay two nights – but the black clouds above forced the decision to stay in a cabin as another damp night in the tent would have been grotty.

Obviously it didn’t rain and we had two days of brilliant sunshine!

Day 36 – Royan

Wednesday June 8, 2011

As we had to book our cabin for 2 day minimum, we took the day off cycling and did a 40 minute walk into Royan.

Most of Royan was bombed during the war so it’s a pretty modern city having been rebuilt in the 1950’s.