There's cycling in the sun and there's cycling in the heat. Today we cycled in both. By the time we reached the Loire river and the campsite at beautiful Amboise Angela was fit to drop.
We'd left at eight that morning, lost our way multiple times, stopped for three hours at lunchtime to let the heat of midday pass and diced with death on busy roads.
Ask any cycle tourer and they will tell you, some days are just not enjoyable.
That aside, once we'd set up our tent, unpacked and showered we sat near a stateau of Leonardo de Vinci looking at the stunning Loire river which wrapped it's cold wet arms around us like a cooling comfort blanket.
We were on familiar territory and it felt great. The day had really tested us, but all that was forgotten. And as an added bonus Angela managed to persuade the ladies at reception to lend us a couple of chairs. She did have to come up with a bit of a sob story to get them. Who cares? It worked.
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