After yesterday’s long day in the saddle with Julie I was on my own today. No internet at the gite meant I couldn’t use my favourite www.ridewithgps website for route planning & loading into my Garmin, not to worry I spent ages studying the map & making a few notes.
Off to Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche for starters, 20km with a tail wind & mostly gently downhill, oh & the roads are silky smooth. After Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche I got onto what I thought was the right route but after a while it started to feel wrong, I had been heading South instead of West. Not to worry, no pressing appointments today. I eventually stopped & checked my map & found a route over to Jumilhac-le-Grand, which turned out to be a great route, bringing me into Jumilhac-le-Grand, a spot we visited last September, with another great Chateau, set dominantly at the end of a grand square with a great outlook.
I left town heading in the wrong direction but corrected myself a bit quicker this time. Once onto the correct road it was another fantastically smooth section that despite having a couple of drags was another lovely route. To the next junction where according to my map I needed the D20, but there it was, a road marked with the name of my next town but with a different number, D67. That can’t be the right road then can it! Oh it was, but being uncertain I went on to the next town La Coquille & hit the main road, N21 North. I was heading for Bussiere-Galant so when I saw another sign for it I took a right & was there via Bussiere-Galant La Gare, the railway station. Once into Bussiere, just about 3km from base, I managed to pick up a couple of croissants to take back & add some of that strawberry jam to, sweet indeed!
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