The planned route will take us from my home in Hampshire - near Hedge End - down to Portsmouth Harbour. From there we'll take an over night ferry (allready booked) to St Malo in France. I'm hoping the weather stays toasty warm, like it is at the moment, so the channel crossing is uneventful. We maybe seeking adventure and intrigue but I'd rather avoid the ferry toliets as the first significant place to explore.
On arrival in France, we'll disembark the ferry on our bikes and this will mark thestart of our 6 day route from St Malo to Caen. Here is the route plan for each day:
Day 1 - Horton Heath to Portsmouth Harbour 16.8m
Day 2 - St Malo to Beauvoir 38.5m
Day 3 - Beauvoir to St Cyr-du-Bailleul 43.7m
Day 4 - St Cyr-du-Bailleul to Carrouges 38.7m
Day 5 - Carrouges to Vimoutier 52.1m
Day 6 - Vimoutier to Cambremer 36.2
Day 7 - Cambremer to Caen (Ouistreham) 25.3 and Portsmouth Harbour to Horton Heath 16.8m
That is a total distance of 268 and the all important 0.1miles. Our plan is to start each day at a leisurely time between 09:30 and 10:00 in the morning. We'll break the back of our journey through the morning and work in two stops. The first stop will be for the all important French coffee and pain au chocolat or croissant and the second break will be for lunch. If we stick to this plan we should be out of the saddle around 2pm each day with the opportunity to explore the immediate area in the afternoon. Alternatively we can choose to kick back and relax and if lure of red wine, maybe the odd Port or three and runny cheese proves to much we may just have to indulge. It's holiday afterall.... I wonder how many whole camembert's I can fit in my panniers?
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