Bon jour:
Once again, there is a funky keyboard so bear zith me in spelling errors.
I am currently sitting in a convenience type store across the street fro, our barge on the canal that runs parrallel to the Loire River. IT has been a beautiful day but very chilly in the mornings. Around 48 degrees when we stqrt out and then warms up to about 72 and sunny in the afternoon. I was not prepared for it to be so cold so basically I wear everything I own in the morning and strip down as the day goes by.
Bicycling has been fabulous: Its ,ostly flat and the scenery beautiful: We did 24 miles yesterday and I dont know how much we did today yet, but it was much easier.
The food has been fantastic and the wine even better. All these small towns are so cool. Mostly medieval cities along the Loire river zith a lot of history.
This ,orning We were in Montereol and biked over to a local goat cheese farm. It was so cool. Of course we tasted the goat cheese and I bought some to have for our lunch later. Best lunch yet: We just popped into a local bakery and bought small sandwiches and a salad, spread our goat cheese on it and enjoyed a picnic in the cnter of town.
Its about 5:00pm right now and we usually leave on our bikes around 9:00am and are biking and touring all day. The barge ,eets us at a village further up the river. The town we are in right now has an enormous nuclear reactor hovering in the distance across some fields. I could have gotten a fantastic laundry photo with it in the background but I couldnt hold up the fellow bikers: Bummer.
I dont know when we will have internet access again as I just happened across this place while helping a former Mayor of Galveston, Texas try to call home. Their house was under 3 feet of water and they have not been able to check on it before leaving. But they are in good spirits after deciding they might as well just go on this trip anyway:
Until the next time...
Once again, there is a funky keyboard so bear zith me in spelling errors.
I am currently sitting in a convenience type store across the street fro, our barge on the canal that runs parrallel to the Loire River. IT has been a beautiful day but very chilly in the mornings. Around 48 degrees when we stqrt out and then warms up to about 72 and sunny in the afternoon. I was not prepared for it to be so cold so basically I wear everything I own in the morning and strip down as the day goes by.
Bicycling has been fabulous: Its ,ostly flat and the scenery beautiful: We did 24 miles yesterday and I dont know how much we did today yet, but it was much easier.
The food has been fantastic and the wine even better. All these small towns are so cool. Mostly medieval cities along the Loire river zith a lot of history.
This ,orning We were in Montereol and biked over to a local goat cheese farm. It was so cool. Of course we tasted the goat cheese and I bought some to have for our lunch later. Best lunch yet: We just popped into a local bakery and bought small sandwiches and a salad, spread our goat cheese on it and enjoyed a picnic in the cnter of town.
Its about 5:00pm right now and we usually leave on our bikes around 9:00am and are biking and touring all day. The barge ,eets us at a village further up the river. The town we are in right now has an enormous nuclear reactor hovering in the distance across some fields. I could have gotten a fantastic laundry photo with it in the background but I couldnt hold up the fellow bikers: Bummer.
I dont know when we will have internet access again as I just happened across this place while helping a former Mayor of Galveston, Texas try to call home. Their house was under 3 feet of water and they have not been able to check on it before leaving. But they are in good spirits after deciding they might as well just go on this trip anyway:
Until the next time...
We dont know how many miles we do until each night after dinner, so I will try to go back and edit posts to keep track.
21 miles today
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