Day Twelve - Pornic

I did a medium thorough chain clean and then moved on to clothing repairs. A week ago I broke my favourite pair of shorts when they got over cooked in a dryer. They have taped seams and one (critical) had parted ways.

After a week of planning I used my gas stove to heat my adjusted wrench from my toolkit. Gradually increasing the heat, and repeated application, found a sweet spot and satisfaction.

Oh, I did remove the shorts first by the way.

I arrived in deepest Pornic today. I had a celebration McDonald's which was pretty rubbish. Should have had the Cassoulet.

Day Eleven - Canal du Migron

I have spent the past hour double-checking the count - five beers and three glasses of Muscadet.

I stay tonight at Camping Du Migron, 30km west of Nantes.

I became woke this morning at a lock gate near Blain. I had had a terror in the night where I heard (imagined?) a large creature was dozing against the tent and pressing against the tent. I have had this before - I must attract beastly behaviour. I survived.

I was suprised to find on leaving that a lock keeper was in attendance. He had a deep tan, haiiry and burley arms and a string vest, Apparently it takes a lot of effort to press the button to open the electro-mechanical lock gates,

Later I enjoyed the part deux of the gut busting sandwich whilst stitting in the Jardin Botanique in Naates.

Heading out I had an easy 33km to Camping du Migron. However it turned out to be 10km of very heavy hill climbing followed by the flattest 22km you could ever have - under a hot sun.

Tomorrow I see the Atlantic.

Day Ten - Blain

.....yes, quite a few days have passed since I complained about the rain so I can indeed mention the terribly hot weather.

That also combines with today having entered a slightly lower level of towpath quality with sometimes bigger stones to traverse and signage a bit less than the exceptioallly good seen so far.

I got a rustic baguette, ham and goats cheese in Redon and made myself an enormous gut buster of a sandwich. Hopefully the remaining meat and cheese will have survived the sun so I can have another tomorrow.

I got caught by a lack of tree cover, a hot sun, and tiredness around 6pm and decided that I must find shade and stop for a while. I parked up next to a lock gatehouse and relaxed for an hour. It is very quiet around here with barely any foot or bike traffic tongiht. This then became my wildcamping spot and I had a douse in the canal to clear the sweat from the day.

Day Eight - Pontivy

I arrived in Pontivy today. The biggest town for many miles but dead as a door-nail in the evening though. However I did see a beaver in the local canal as I crossed from the campsite to the town center so that makes up for it.

I have been on the Brest-Nantes canal the entire day and will be for the next twto days. I think I saw two cars the whole way.

I made a proper lunch for the first time of spaghetti with pesto. It didn't take too long and is very inexpensive. I am also upto the fourth hour of French lessons I am following and really picking it up now.

I know I have been complaining about the repeated rain but I would like to ask - how long should I leave it until I can reasonably complain about the hot weather?

Suggest overnights option missing in mobile view

I have to switch to desktop view in Android Chrome in order to find the Suggest Overnights option.  It doesn't appear under the option list in mobile view.

I specifically referring to the ability to chop a route up into pieces.