Day 8

A strange day. Up early and no breakfast as yesterday, but after only a few miles, very tired and hungry, so needed to divert to find something to eat. Coffee, croissants and pain au chocolate seems to agree with me. Fine after eating and genuinely surprised to see 30 miles come up quickly. Met a local cycle tourist, Claude, just out for a day ride and stopped for a chat; he eventually rode off while I was sorting some stuff out. I plodded on until I saw a peloton approaching fast from behind, then upped my speed to theirs and let them pull me along to Claude, who was happy to let me ride behind him for miles :-) Later I stopped because the noise from the frogs in the dykes beside the road was so loud. Couldn't spot a frog, but an otter surfaced just in front of me. Lots of st range birds close up during the day.Camped at Pornic Golf ***, so slightly bigger shower stalls and one WC stall had paper. Evening meal at a cafe that happened to have wifi, so some little blog entries at last. Cumul 434