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Sallicombe Rd, Colyton EX24 6EF, UK

80.4 miles over big ole devon clliffs

4900 ft elevation

https://www.strava.com/activities/1719258374

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McDonald's

Post-ferry Maccies just outside of Cherbourg...and up a colossal hill

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Bournemouth

Ferry fun

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D235, 50200 Saussey, France

setting up camp

Although he laughed about us with another customer,

the barman kindly gave us butter and jam for our baguettes

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Last hill conquered
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Les Fanils, 50170 Le Mont-Saint-Michel, France

Met a couple with the same pannier set up as us 😂

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Mont st Michel

Km 289

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Campsite #2

Campsite #2

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Cuissai

The water stop we waited 60k for

Tough day today been very slow and struggling to drink enough water in the heat

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Lazy

450 miles done and a sprint finish to our first proper campsite, it’s time for a rest day

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Campsite #3

Mmmm breakfast

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OrlΓ©ans

We’re grubby af but we don’t care because it’s finally flat 👌

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D60, 45600 Saint-Père-sur-Loire, France

Enjoying a well earned rest day, trying as we might not to dwell on the long road ahead.

Supply run into the local village beneath a magnificent chateau

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Loire

Loire Loire Loire

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Food

Nutrition is key

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Quai de la Loire, 71160 Digoin, France

Au revoir Loire

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Le Gorlay, 71800 ChΓ’tenay, France

Hills start as we approach the alpes

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Unnamed Road, 69790 ChΓ©nelette, France

A disgustingly sweaty selfie to celebrate our first ‘alp’

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Col du chat

Col du chat! Our first sighting of the alpine scenery we’d hoped for and a family FaceTime to celebrate 🎉

My knee begins to hurt as we approach our biggest climb so we took it easy and got an Airbnb.

The hosts were amazing, cooked us a lovely local meal and gave us much local alcohol which cannot have helped the next days climb..

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Col du mont cenis

THE BIG DAY! We climbed up to 2250m and look pretty awful for it.

About a minute after the photos were taken we heard a mighty clap of thunder which led to a fast and fearful decent into Italy 🇮🇹

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LocalitΓ  Posta, 6, 10050 Z.ind. Siderurgica TO, Italy

Dreamy 🍴