We both had a great nights sleep and started out with a quick espresso before continuing down the Atlantic coast. It was a great start to the day, cycling along country lanes and through many picturesque villages.
We decided to do our own thing today, ignoring both the Garmin and Mrs Google, and ended up at a charming seaside town that actually had a shop that was open. We stocked up on a few essentials like sunscreen, lip balm, snickers bars. I am still so hungry no matter how much I seem to eat. After stocking up, we cycled along the waterfront for a while. The day was calm, no wind, not too hot, just perfect.
We made our way to a large town called Granville. We had decided to stop the night in a hotel to look around the town as rain was forecast. We didn’t like the look of any of the hotels and the thought of carrying all of our panniers to our rooms sounded like too much effort. The thought of having a day off to look around the town seemed like a good idea, but the reality is, we don’t really like large towns. So we had a quick bite to eat and rode out of there.
We found a nice place to camp by the beach. Rain and thunderstorms had been forecast and we needed to do some work on editing videos and getting stuff charged up, so we opted for what they call a mobil home at the campground. It’s a self contained cabin with two bedrooms, a shower, toilet and full kitchen. We would have liked to have stayed for two nights, but it is booked out for the long weekend here. We’ll probably be stuck finding somewhere tomorrow night.
It wasn’t until we stopped that we realised how tired we were. But after a little rest, we headed to L’epicerie (grocer) and got some stuff to cook ourselves a decent dinner. We had Steak hache with a poivre sauce, rice, and a large salad. For desert we had yoghurt and chopped some strawberries up into it. It was delicious. Then we polished off a bar of chocolate. For some reason, I’m still hungry!
I also managed to get most of our first day’s video edited. The rain has now stopped, but will probably settle in when it’s time to leave in the morning. At least we won’t have to pack up a wet tent.
Anyway, it’s not 10pm and still very daylight out there. Might go and watch the sunset.
