This tour was largely based on the "France en Vélo" book by John Walsh and Hannah Reynolds published by Wild Things in 2014. (Wild Things also publish Jack Thurston's excellent Lost Lanes books).
I took the first 21 stages of their itinerary from St Malo to Nice, and then turned south at Mende as my terminus was to be in the southern Cévennes.
I retained almost all of their major way points but re-planned the routes using cycle.travel to use the most minor roads and tracks available, as I wanted as little traffic as possible and I wasn't in a rush.
The full route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50090678
Some stats:
- 24 days cycling
- 1,611 km (av 67 km / day)
- 17,810 m of elevation (av 740 m / day)
- 0 punctures (Schwalbe Marathon Supreme)
- approx 9 kg of luggage
