On towards Cahors

These ones in a bit of a jumbled order to catch up with the last few days through Bordeaux, where we collected a third Pendix battery.

Discovering that its range is the same as our two older ones, which can only mean (given nothing else has changed, e.g. bike weight or configuration) that it’s our slightly older legs that are no longer delivering the same power as last year…

We’ve come down the Atlantic coast along what the French, imaginative as usual, call the Vélodesee – map to illustrate our journey so far, 15 days cycling of 16 so far.

We then turned east through Bordeaux (gorgeous city), thence along a stretch of Entre Deux Mers canal giving a whole new meaning to the concept of bicycle roots – trees that line the French canals have very bumpy routes…

This then from the Lot Valley as we head towards Cahors, with pictures of tunnels (helpfully lit as bikes approach), and of a sensational light show of Dutch art in the repurposed German WW2 submarine docks in Bordeaux.

Again, so imaginative.