Salut! It's been a while since the last post, but we now have a mini laptop which will make the fandangled internet more accessible and hopefully help us to post here more regularly. We've made our way from Paris south to the Loire River, then along that for a while before heading east. We are currently in Dijon, on our way to Belfort (near the border) where we are meeting Colin and Liz to attend a music festival which is on from the 1st to 5th July.
Cruising past a nuclear power station on the Loire River
Matthew playing table tennis with a wee french boy at a campsite
M passes out on arrival at a campsite after a long, hilly day
Considering going for a swim in this mountain lake
Crouching pig fountain
This is how they spell pony in french - very cute, I thought you'd like it Libs.
Parking at the supermarket. Actually, lots of supermarkets have bike racks just outside (not this one)
Matthew patting a donkey. The poor thing had flies all over it's face. We shooed them all away but I'm sure they came straight back after we left. We considered trading one of our bikes for the donkey but I'm not sure he'd appreciate lugging our panniers across Europe?
The minutest frog I have ever seen, who was nestled into a crease in my pannier.
A gorgeous canal bridge on the Loire River. This was designed by Gustave Eiffel and apparently is the longest in Europe.
One of the highlights of each cycling day is stopping for lunch. There are lovely little towns all through the countryside so we always find somewhere nice to bask for a while (when it's sunny! On rainy days we huddle in bus shelters/pogodas/anywhere vaguely dry and don't take photos.)
We have been camping every night since Paris, mostly in campsites but in a couple of wild spots too.
Brushing my teeth at camp in Foret d'Orleans (Orleans Forest)
Bois de Justice (woods of justice?) where we found a luxury campsite with swimming pool etc. Matthew thinking about justice (and perhaps pondering "liberte, egalite, fraternite" or something).
Pretending to be in the Tour de France - this starts soon and they have been re-sealing lots of road sections along the route.
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