Set out after breakfast and a strangely disturbed nights sleep, not sure I can handle the drink any more!

Another great day of riding without touching a motorway once. The mountain trail down to Pau was spectacular as expected and I then focused on getting up toward Le Mans using only N and D roads and found some great roads, towns and countryside through the Loire and Dordogne. Did a bit of campsite scouting for the summer en route.

Didnt quite make Le Mans but settled for an F1 hotel and adjacent Macdonalds between Poitiers and Tours. Blog update courtesy of free McD wifi!

Plan tomorrow is to get to Le Havre without motorway and maybe get the overnight crossing instead of the daytime one on Friday. If not I will try to visit the Normandy coast and look for Arromanche/Gold Beach for my Grandad RIP. Friday is a bank holiday in France to celebrate victory in WW2 so am expecting closed petrol stations and hotel shortages so preference is to sail home overnight.