It was a wet start to the day. It had been raining throughout the night and with no surprise a few of the tents had decided to add swimming pools to the list of their features.
After a groggy start we finally managed to pack up the wet camp and get on the road around 11am, ponchos and all.
Some of the guys didn't have much breakfast so they decided to go to the creperie in the town centre not realising it was market day. This caused some kerfuffle as we had to walk our bikes through the town centre. After filling up on pain au chocolats we set on the road but not before knowing which road to take! We stopped a couple of cars and vans for directions and were told multiple things. In the end we decided the downhill road was much more preferable.
Again, my pace suffered due to my knee pain. Tom and Phil fell behind with me as we rode on but Phil made a charge for our first stop, Villedieu les Poeles. Tom stayed with me to Villedieu but enroute I told him that I was staying there for the night due despite it only being 20 miles for the day.
I was in far too much pain to cycle very far so I wanted to see if a nights rest would help my knee.
After arriving at Villedieu I announced to the guys I was staying there for the night to see how my knee recovered and Alex and Tom kindly offered to stay with me.
After some lunch the others moved on and made some good progress around 60-70 miles for the day making it to Louvigne.
Me, Tom and Alex needed somewhere to stay for the night so went to the tourist information desk and enquired. We were told that the Cheval Noir (the black horse for those who aren't good at french...) was the cheapest around so we trekked up a hill past it and then back round to find a very derelict hotel and restaurant with no one answering the door.
Consequently we left and headed back down to the tourist information desk. They told us that a static caravan might be our best bet so headed down to the local caravan site and found that we could have a caravan for one night. Perfect for what we needed.
We set out to wash all of our clothes and lighten my panniers in order to lessen the blow on my knee. Me, Alex and Tom then had a lovely evening meal of snack pasta and cupasoups. Delightful. We then curled up in our comfy beds and slept away the night with some magic cream on my knee.
Hoping the next day would be better.
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