31/5 - Day 8 – miles
cycled = 28, total so far 225
I had a broken nights sleep due to noisy animals and woke
at 8 – latest so far. It was a dull start to the day but it was to clear up by
lunchtime into clear blue skies with hot sunshine. Had breakfast of tea and croissants (I’m now
well and truly sick of croissants) and was on the road by 9.30 heading for the
town of Moncontour and an open campsite.
Mike and Chris were heading the same way and so we cycled together.
We rode 28 hilly miles to the campsite after getting lost
around Plemy (nothing to bothersome compared to early on – I’m quite used to getting
lost now).
It was a very quiet municipal site on the edge of town,
there were just 2 other people camping on the far side of the site. After pitching we walked into town,
Moncontour is built on a hillside and the streets are very steep and
windy. The place has a distinctly
medieval feel – and this is echoed each year by their annual medieval
festival. It would be great to visit
during the festival – I guess that would be the closest you could get to time
travel.
After a couple of beers I left Mike and Chris to look for
somewhere to eat. Everywhere was pretty
much closed so I went to the small Carrefour supermarket and bought far too
much food for a picnic before heading back to my tent for a feast.
I retired to my sleeping bag at 9.30 feeling rather sick.
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