It was a very warm day today, not quite hot. The roads were smooth and mostly easy to follow until we got to the town of Chateauneuf.

Suddenly the route was sending us on a forest trail, muddy in parts and it almost sent us flying a couple of times. It was a mountain bike track, not a path for touring bikes.

We saw another cyclist riding on a foot path which ran adjacent to the muddy track so we followed them and this was much better.

After a while the paths returned to tarmac and it was lovely cycling alongside the river.

We cycled 51 kms today and are staying in a cabin at the campground for two nights.

The next day we had a lazy morning then visited the chateau in town. It was neat wandering around and the place had been dressed like it was in the olden days.

They are setting up in the castle courtyard for a band that is playing there tonight called Cock Robin. Apparently they were big in the 80s in continental Europe. We’d never heard of them, but we would have gone except the concert was sold out. Would have been neat seeing a concert in a chateau.

After the chateau we headed back to camp and almost made it before the torrential downpour. Almost.

We were just glad we had a cabin and weren’t in our little tent.

The temperature has dropped and it’s going to be a high of 18 tomorrow. When we’ve been having weather consistently in the mid to high 30s, this is going to feel cold. Glad I didn’t ditch my layers yet!