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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.
After a bit of hectic traffic in Morlaix I joined a greenway disused railway route for around 60km then moved onto the towpath of the Brest-Nantes Canal for the last 20km. You couldn't ask for a more traffic free ride.
The negatives were that there were still 700m of climbing, though all gradual, and in some places there was slippy mud - which almost pulled me off the bike a few times.
I headed out of Roscoff after a Moules n Frite lunch. I had to do the identical 30km I had covered to get here which was not ideal but necessary for completeness. Shame it was very hilly too!
I am now doing Eurovelo 1 of which the French section is called Vélodyssée . This is 1300km and will take me to the Spanish border. After one big climb (22km all uphhill!) the rest of the way to Spain promises to be a pretty flat compared to what I have had to put up with this week. It will be like a holiday.
I made a miscalculation. I booked in at a campsite some 50km's away, as the crow flies, but it took 75km to get here.
It was also the hilliest day so far and with several severe climbs.
And I had to get here before 5pm. Ouch.
However, I did manage it and so enjoyed many hours of downtime.
I have just 40km to Roscoff which will end this part of the tour. I then turn south-wards to Spain.
I am on a mosquito muder mission so this will be short. I managed to get two of them in quick sucession but the third ninja is elusive.
Incredibly the route gets hillier. In a couple of days I turn inland and hope to find that the interior of north-west france is entirely flat, dry and windless.
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