Category: EuroVelo
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From La Rochelle to Bordeaux: 180 miles!
When we were riding along the great rivers of Europe on the EV6 last year, we passed through small historic and picturesque towns every day. Here on the Atlantique coast, we are routed mostly along the coast or along sequestered paths for bikes. There are occasionally some small fishing villages, but mostly it’s the larger…
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Into La Rochelle!
We headed into La Rochelle, to spend a couple days exploring. Neither Chris nor I have ever been there. The ride into La Rochelle from La Tranche-sur-Mer was uneventful. Most of it was along small road and canals, quiet and sometimes even monotonous. The most exciting parts were crossing over and under bridges and locks…
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St Hilaire-de-Riez to La Tranche-sur-Mer: Heading towards La Rochelle
Today had many similarities yesterday, crossing more of the Marais waterways, riding along canals and shallow waterways, and also passing through a busy beach area. This evening, we also got given the “last campsite available”, but no one arrived after us and got another “last campsite.” We had called around to see what was available…
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Heading into lovely weather, through the Marais Breton
It was a good decision to make yesterday a short day. The wind was howling and there was no real reason that we needed to hurry along. The morning brought blue skies and minimal wind, which brought smiles to our lips. We are heading into the Marais Breton, a reclaimed marsh/wetland that covers 36,000 hectares…
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A short day in wind and rain: St. Michel-Chef-Chef to Les Moutiers-en-Retz
Today’s forecast was for strong wind from the WSW, up to 30MPH steady, accompanied by rain. So, we decided to make it a short day, fighting the headwind in the morning and then enjoying a bit of tailwind in the afternoon but avoiding going too far. We ended up staying in the small town of…
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Into Nantes and out again
Our bikes spent the night in the garbage room in Lorient, and then they (and we) took the train from Lorient to Nantes. We stayed in a place near the train station that was in kind of sketchy area, but it was inexpensive. I guess we are cheap. We had visited Nantes last year, but…
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Sunscreen?? Non!
It’s been grey, cool and wet since we’ve arrived in Brittany, which was sort of unexpected after being subjected to all the news stories about Europe being in a historic heat wave! We’ve been staying in hotels and AirBnb’s for most of our days in Brittany, avoiding camping in the rain. Yesterday, we left Pont…
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Old friends of old friends, in Pont L’ABBÉ
Last year, when we were in Brittany, an old friend of Chris named Joëlle told us to visit her old friend Youenn when we passed through Pont L’Abbé. Alas, we decided to head to Slovakia instead of completing a circuit around Brittany, but this year we found ourselves going right through Pont L’Abbé and connected…
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Brest to Douarnenez: 55 miles of hilly with sun!
We stayed in a modern apartment in Brest, small but comfortable. While the building had an elevator to take our bikes up to the floor where were staying, we just left them on the ground floor locked to each other in an alcove. They were still there the next morning. In the morning, the forecast…
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While Europe bakes, cool temperatures and rain!
Normally, when we are riding, we want warm, dry weather. But we can’t complain about cool, wet conditions when so much of the world is roasting. I’m sure we’ll get enough hot and dry weather in Spain so we are enjoying our cool wet Brittany weather while we have it. In these past couple days,…