Day 12 of our 'virtual 'bike ride, Clitheroe to Lourdes. 22.7 miles

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Very grey and just a little damp for most of today's ride, with just the last three miles being quite unpleasant. At least the wind had dropped a lot. From home it was through Pendleton, Wiswell, Whalley, Billington, Mitton, Waddington, West Bradford, Chatburn, Worston and home via Four Lane Ends.

Our virtual journey would be out of Saint-Quentin across more rolling hills and tiny lanes through crops and some fields of sunflowers. I have to stop and take a photo of the first field of sunflowers we see! This area attracts tourists because of the War Grave Cemeteries, the pretty villages and towns and the better weather. Occasionally we would pass a camp site and after passing one there was a supermarket with an outdoor laundrette, 'laverie', across from it (see photo). . Montigny sur Crecy is another tiny hamlet.

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