A short ferry ride, slightly longer than the Mersey, saved about 2 days to the next crossing point.
Otherwise it's been an uneventful week, cycle, set up camp, get up, ride bikes, fall off. (Ok, maybe not that uneventful).
One of my front pannier frames took the full force, the bag fortunately designed to come away easily. It is slightly bent and I suspect the lower screw has snapped, but it will tighten (and loosen during the day). So after tie straps applied, seems to be holding.
I had comedy fall a few days ago. The cycle path was about to change to the other side of the road and a couple were coming the other way. I thought best to give them room and swung out early.
Next thing I knew I was rolling in the road and a front pannier was behind me.
I'd ridden straight into a sign post.
The other couple gave me a wide berth as I lay in the road laughing.
As we were picking me and my bike up two guys from Warrington rode down the road. Small world.
Thinking it through later I remembered there were two sign posts, one either side of the crossing, so when I adjusted my line they lined up as one and in my head it was the further one.
Heat is now definitely our enemy, the afternoons have got really hot and energy sapping, so our current strategy is to get to a campsite by 1400. As we are starting off about 0900 each day and rattling off 25 miles by midday this has become workable.
And we got to play on a working transporter bridge in Rochefort.
625 miles, in France, so far.
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