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Day Thirteen - Notre-Dame-de-Monts

15 Aug 2021
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A tough day - I had a bit of a mental breakdown. The milk I bought yesterday ended the day upturned and soaked a lot of things in my pannier. There was a large milky pool in the bottom.

I felt pretty crushed at discovering this. I had double-bagged the milk and, for example, double bagged my powerbank. But it got soaked anyway.

On arrival at this great municipal campsite in a large pine forest I spent a lot of time wiping and washing trying to clear up the mess.

One saving grace is that my sleeping bag was in the other pannier. This is my brand new expensive down bag and would have had to be thrown away. Phew.

So, learnings - Try even harder than ever to be careful with milk, never ever put it in the same side as sleeping bag.

I won't detail the saga of the dropped poncho that cost me 5km to recover - and don't ask me to explain further either!

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