Ep. 112: EuroVelo 1 – Cycling the Atlantic Coast in France

EuroVelo 1 – Cycling the Atlantic Coast in France. A 1300 km long cycle route along the Atlantic coast. La Vélodyssée, French part of the Atlantic Coast Route – EuroVelo 1 is a bicycle route that crosses Brittany and along the Atlantic to the Basque Coast, La Vélodyssée is an invigorating cycling journey through landscapes of unspoilt beauty.

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Lovely walk through the city of Ordo uh the shops are now open and all the cus are open every day I just watched quite a few men and women doing some aerobics in the middle of a square running through that was quite funny okay I’m going to enjoy our video bye yeah the

Heat sunshine you m what you so Oh Come which way which way well can you see up there slaying the dragon yeah we will just looks like an arrow beautiful look like a is it a dragon here was a ram maybe not easy to break that is one duel take him want find

It wonderful Julian balcon up there something oh good morning it’s day four of our trip uh we’re still in Bordeaux we be leaving tomorrow morning and we’ve off to get a couple of paers but um apart from that we’re ready to go cycling hopefully and we’re just walking on a little boardwalk

And we noticed a fig trade and little pig’s coming on so go we haven’t had breakfast yet that’ll be our next Port P now these fig trees are growing right along here and there’s also some currents here it looks well maybe not currents actually I think that’s an ornamental very similar

Type volage but they’re inter dispersed with all of these different plants that looks like a an actual wle of some sort there going along and then further on you have and they’re cram that looks like a a type of Willow and then of course you’ve got

Here you’ve got a uh hazelnut tree I would say yeah I’d say it’s a hazelnut Tru so these this goes for hundreds and hundreds of meters right along the river fantastic habit habitat for birds and animals along here and uh provide some great shade you can see the figs are starting

To come on in size already nice snack as you walk along the river I’d say give it another few weeks they should be R to eat so the boardwalk we’re walking along here is the uh would have been where they unloaded a lot of the ships in the old days um the

Post the steel post to the Jetties beyond the trees here on the way down so I would imagine the large ships used to pull in here and offload their cargo it’s uh it’s actually a health and safety issue here it’s all patched up some of the boards and the sleepers are

Well rotted out and broken so we’ve got to watch where we’re walking very pleasant long here though beautiful day yet again bordo turns it on so we expect the weather to get up to 36 the next few uh in the next few days so when we are cycling we’ll make sure

We’re close to the Beach so we can take a dip every couple of hours you from Australian yeah from Tasmania so how long were you in Australia again sorry how long did you spend in Australia how year again one year one year yeah yeah was in 20 2019 oh okay just before Co

Yeah yes that was the last time we were in France too as well so sorry that was the last time we came over here 2019 yeah to boo good good and this just good yeah oh very good nice and hot was it hot about p take okay on I

The Comfy pan orange beautiful it’s business go good morning uh we’re just getting ready for cl ride uh we actually taking the train to down towards uh Atlantic so uh it’ll just be an hour and a half and then from then on we’ll be cycling hopefully so we’re just having a first

Breakfast too which orange coffee and a croissant what more you want bye for destination all die he well this is day six of our French Adventure we’re fully on bikes now from now on um and we’re in veon which this beautiful it’s City and um it’s actually

We just passed Roman Garrison or old Roman which dates back to the 400s so uh we’re just going to continue on cooking we’ve got to have breakfast yet and we need coffee so part from that we’ll get more today as we go along we have to find the fellow one there

Bye and some cow and this is definitely cheers quite a big radiator Pine for us the big black one you going to get get on with it definitely a Sur Beach a brunch we’re actually in Leon I believe oh I we I must have missed that sign anyway

Um we’re having a great time the weather is even though it’s foggy it’s sort of Misty not Misty sort of foggy little bit of hazy here hazy shall we say um it’s still going to be very hot today so got the sunscreen on got the shorts

On legs haven’t seen Sun for 3 years so here it goes 652 uh we’re only about 500 M from the oh not even that from the beach so we’ll check that out in a minute and we’re actually on the Beach so yeah costoms we’ve got P cheese butter loads of jams uh little

Pancakes um whatever gorgeous n n n n well this is day nine in France and I think it’s about our fifth day fifth or 6th day cycling good morning all right there’s a swimming pool over there I really love to go for a swim but anyway it

We could jump that fence couldn’t we it’s really really nice actually I could tackle the lawn mower man yeah you could be the lawn mower at man I could just get in for free yes true it’s uh it’s looking rather beautiful it’s going to be very hard I think it’s predicted 38

Today so yeah you’re right I this dog the thing H went up and down and the P top jumped it’s lovely with like just drink and we bu done not the healthiest lunches but we have done about 14 km and um we were looking for salads but we’re just on the

Side of the lake so we have to just take all opportunities while they’re open whoops um we go for a swim just after lunch and we’ll start buling again which is 38 de at the moment so it’s going to be a bit of a challenge and we haven’t booked anywhere pretty much

We better hurry up maybe beautiful for hello an ketchup plain ketchup I don’t know way to go beautiful oh so lovely s ni very nice all all 38° where would you be beautiful clear Street away but here we are we’re on the last day of cycling uh in France well we have two

More days in roscot waiting for the fery back Island so we might do a few Cycles around there but we’ve um we’ve just come from moay we uh had a lovely stay there uh in one of the largest hotels and had a lovely bath Etc so gorgeous

And we’re just following the river um the sea Inlet shall we say uh at the moment and uh we came across this lovely Shadow mini Shadow I I got uh a black cat similar to Harry woohoo beautiful cycle wow well we’re just short of rosof in a little village called Leon and um

There’s just before Leon and there’s this walled estate here but look at the Magnificent wall here not a mouse could get through that so tight fantastic even the capping on the top and it looks like it’s had a a second layer put on at some stage I’m not

Sure goes for Miles well this is uh one of the main gates that um estate Al was talking about and it’s um it’s on the rud rud mole which is Mole Street or whatever and uh it’s looking gorgeous you can just see the tip of the gate house

So this is a curved wall here right around here unfortunately we can’t see the main house as yet anyway but we will Scout around the outside and see maybe send the Drone up just see a glimpse of the uh the gate Lodge that’s only a small portion of it goes right around hello

Kat good morning an where are we an St Paul De Leon I think or something I could correct myself later but we are looking for a beer and it’s beer o00 again and let’s find out L was very rainy yesterday yeah love the ston work here it’s fantastic there’s a little

Side alley down here we just got a glimpse of a uh crepery in the distance so we came down here we haven’t been down this street before we’ll show you a photo of the oldest house in the village and if we can translate it we’ll tell you how old it’s up there okay

Here: this uh this house this build have a townhouse in 1646 it’s the only one in St H will still have it pained in which down there spring suppes to water to the basement so it looks like it’s a bar as well and this bit over here

Is check out this store this is the 1640 house so 1646 quite short there’s a carving of a boat behind Ann’s head there somewhere it looks like if I got on the top step I’d actually probably hit my head and I’m 5′ for so they must have been short in those days

That all seems to be um looks like a granite not as hard as some of the Granite you you see around but uh Granite nonetheless I just I don’t know what I right isn’t it come on make some stuff we just finished our 33 km cycle which was fantastic all the

Way down by the river and we’ve arrived in moscov and we’ve arrived at our hotel and here we are this is the on suite and we show show you photographs of the rest it’s rather cute we’re here for 2 days it’s all good lovely we’ve got in early which is

Good and uh everything’s ready for us we’ll show you it before we make a mess it’s very nice to see that my uh trousers match the color scheme of the room for