A lazy start to the day then we took the bikes to find L'Eclerce, Cathy getting withdrawal symptoms after 24 hours without shopping. Ha, it was closed – everything was closed except restaurants, cafes, bars & boulangeries so we bought some bread. So we came back, had lunch & took the bikes around L'ile de Mouchet, a circular route for walkers & cyclists. There are loads of cycle paths around & plenty of purpose built roads that accommodate cyclists so is a magnet for them – hence the young family I suppose. A lot of the Loire valley is much the same apparently probably as it's so flat & pretty. It became very hot again so we sat beneath the shade, helped a couple of French chaps fix their ancient caravan with the tools I had
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