Friday 18 May 2012

May 15th eighth stage


May 15th eighth stage  Le Faou to Chateaulin  20 kms



Nearly everything conspired against us today to put me now two days behind schedule. Although I was on my bike by 8.50 and had covered the two long uphills and two equally long downhills into Chateaulin in record time, that was it for the day. A mixture of lots and lots of correspondence, some concerned with WATU (luckily there is an excellent campsite at Chateaulin with free WiFi access) together with another inexplicable puncture, this time in the brand new inner tube in the VTT tyres I was now going to use for the rougher tracks by the side of the Brest/ Nantes canal, and then losing the mobile phone held us up for the rest of the day. However, Chateaulin is an attractive town on the Aulne River, the starting point on the canal to Nantes so the hold up was not as frustrating as yesterday’s. It is essential now, though, to make up time over the next few days.  

20kms  
Total 434 kms. 

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