The misguided target for today was Valence - but with the heat rising to a sweat-sapping 28 degrees, this was a bit too ambitious.
Instead we got across Lyon, and then after about 3000 traffic lights, we dragged our way to Vienne - a lovely town where the Tourist Office ladies pointed us and our bikes to a nice hotel.
The bikes's ok, but my back tyre is slowly deforming and has a strange quazimodo style hump developing. Not quite sure what to do about this - but it will probably involve inflating it to a point where bad things happen.
More stats - today covered 122km, drank 3 litres of fluids, applied 6kg of rear-end emollient, and had a vol-au-vent the size of a crash helmet for lunch.
When we stopped I realised that I'd led all day into a head wind - and Dave sheepishly agreed.
Tired now, but happy. Been thinking a lot about everyone and everything back in blighty. Enjoy your weekend.
PC.
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