View across the field from the Chausee Prive to the gite
Time has marched on and we are miles away from home. The realisation comes over us that we have some hard cycling to do if we are to get bck before nightfall. Maybe, buoyed by yesterday’ success we have overreached ourselves. It is going to be a race against time. Our urgency is not helped by a decision to take the cycleway hich presents itself and from the map seems to go towards Blois. Instead it veers towards St Dye before turning westwards and delays us even longer than necessary. So when the cycleway crosses the road to Blois we take it. The most direct way is the priority now. We pedal like mad relentlessly wearing down the kilometres as we pass through places shown on the Michelin map so we can trace our journey and gain encouragement from making progress towards Blois. The ‘D’ road is almost straight and we pass through St Claude and Vineuil where a right turmn takes us onto a main road for Blois for a short distance until we reach the river and turn laft to follow it back to the bridge across which we had travelled earlier that day.
We stopped at traffic lights at the bridge, had a drink by the river, bought a grand pain and some tuna quiche and moved off at quite a pace in the failing light along the levee down which we had come earlier. When we reached the gite it was almost dark and we were exhausted and very hungry. It had been another brilliant day.
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