I rode the Eurovelo 6 bike route from Nante France to Budapest. This is Part 1 in France of my bike tour.
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Okay, so first video biking through France. Um, it’s August 12th. Uh, I just flew in, got into Nance. This is the NAN, I think they say. N airport. It’s tiny airport. And there’s the bike. I just spent 2 hours getting it together. Hopefully, it works. And I didn’t leave anything home. Anyway, now just heading to get some cash so I can go have money for the campgrounds tonight and it’s about 10 miles into the city of N. And then I think another 6 miles to the campground. So hopefully the bike works and I make it there. I’ll check in the morning of August 24th. And I’m all packed up and ready to go. And I think the bike’s fine and my legs feel fine after my crash. I’ve got my baguette, which is what everybody got here. Um, it’s quick shot of the office. Lot of bikes here. So anyway, don’t know where I’m going today, but I usually my MMO has been to just ride like 25 or 30 miles before lunch and then I figure out where I’m going to camp after lunch and just go that far. So we’ll see see what happens today. Quick video. I headed inland for a bit on the relax cycle trail. Lots of people here. Sure, sure, sure. Anything else, Frank? Some hikers, a lot of bikers, a lot of families. And I’m learning all my French words, as you can tell. So, anyway, we’re about almost 20 miles in. It’s 10:00. Going to find the first town stop. I need to get camping fuel for my stove and park is on the same platform now as the UFC soap. I forgot soap and some other stuff. So, had a quick road stop. Just came over the river and I just I found these cool cool things. Battery recharging lockers. And there’s a plug right there. So, you can put your stuff in there. And I guess you have to pay. But I’m just going to sit here and charge my stuff. All right. Morning of 8:14. I’m not filming much because uh I don’t know. Just not not really doing it. But anyway, this is um what they call I learned a lot about camping in France. There’s three tiers of campgrounds. One star, two star, and three star. This is a three onear. It’s a municipal campground. And that’s where I was last night. And honestly, this is what this is as much as you’d ever really need. It’s they’re spaced far apart. There’s shade. There’s a building over there. Every one of them has like a place to wash up your clothes, showers, toilets, electric to charge, and a lot of bicycles here. which is cool. Talked to a couple people from Germany yesterday and uh anyway, that’s that’s the campground. So, today um getting a late start. It’s 8:30. I’ll probably probably be on the road by 9:00. Usually by 7:30 or 8. Anyway, we’re going to have five good days of hot weather and see if I pull a camera. All right, 10:00 off on the Eurovllo getting beaten bop this hill by two kids, but heading into uh oh, getting beaten up this hill by everybody. Anyway, we’re heading in towards I call it Orleans, but it’s Orlon or something like that. the next few days and towards all the the big castles, French chateau. Never saw this before. If you can check this out, the lady’s pulling her child up with a string attached to the bike. So, as usual, I don’t know much about the French countryside, but you can barely see it through this little tiny wide GoPro lens. That’s the city of Samur. And when I get in camping tonight, I’ll explain it. First big city I’m coming to. Uh, more later. So, I kind of messed up. You can’t really see it. There’s a little cut off here that I skipped because I’m trying to get to a campsite. It’s late in the day, but I missed those famous caves like the trail rides through. I’m going to go back and try to ride through them. Okay, so it appears you can’t go through those caves. They’re over here. I’m on the Euro uh Urbel 6 or La Lir as they call it. A nice view through the vineyard up a hill when I still have 10 more miles to get my campsite. But anyway, uh stick to the route, right? No blue blazing as they say. It’s a dangerous descent coming up. So there’s Paloir as everyone calls it. And Samora is back there somewhere. And I think after some more we start coming into the the chateau region which is like the big castles as they say in England or in the US. So anyway, I’m glad I came up here. It’s pretty. So anyway, I’m about 47 in for the day. I got another six or so. somehow have to get across the river to my campsite. So, we’ll see what happens. Well, I don’t think those were caves. I think they were just houses on people’s on the hill that people live on. Anyway, coming into another typical French town. The one thing I noticed about all these French towns, everything looks closed all the time. 8 in the morning, the middle of the day. It’s early. It’s like 5:00 now. Everything always looks closed. I’m Anyway, I got about seven miles to get to a campsite. That’ll put me about 56 or something for the day. And I wasted about five of those 56 miles up there lost. If anybody watched my Eurov6 videos from last summer, I had my uh section of the video in the called the afternoon rant. Well, I haven’t done it. It’s only day three, but I’m ranting now. By the way, I’m going through some seaside town. Just back there was like tons of food, but I have to go this way. Anyway, these campgrounds are like pretty high-end here in France and you have to make a reservation and if you don’t have one, they turn your way. Even if you’re just a guy on a bike and um a tiny little tent. So, this is like my afternoon where I go and then they say go check the campground two miles away and I do that and then keep going. So anyway, hopefully any second I’ll be to another campground. She gave me the name. I didn’t understand a word of it. Um so uh hopefully I can check in at this one soon. Okay, so morning of August 15th. I don’t know where I am and I don’t know where I’m going today, but I know I’m going through tours and I just stopped at this bulerie which or Patisserie and have all this good food for later. Um, I’ll check in with you later when I know where I am.