The weather has cooled down significantly and I was even wearing a jumper this morning and had a blankie on my legs. We  are still making our way towards the ferry and not doing much else. We just want to get back before the next heatwave hits.

There were lots of really straight roads today which Mike loves to point out are Roman roads. There were also quite a few squiggly ones. And I kept seeing places we had cycled through on two separate trips. For France being such a big country I find this really odd. We even crossed over the Loire and followed it for a bit. I’d managed to find a straight line avoiding all the main cities of Tours, Angers, and Le Mans.

One thing that disappoints me about France is stale baguettes. In Spain and Portugal, every baguette we bought was so fresh, and if we didn’t eat it that day it would be hard as a rock the next day. So I suspect that France has discovered preservatives. Because when we buy a baguette it has the same chewiness a few days later.

We found a place to sleep for the night overlooking a lake, with about 5 other vans and we took the last available spot. We used our stale baguette to make a garlic bread for dinner.

We are only about 3.5 hours drive from the ferry, so we booked it for Thursday at 6pm. And we also booked a camping ground in Poole as we don’t arrive until after 10 pm.

We might do a bit of touring in the UK before the school holidays start.