Not Flanders Fields ~ A Hot Day out on a Bike

Weather today got to at least 33.
So while Richard  visited important battle sites, I took off on a bike.
Challenge 1. Hire a bike.
Bike hire place number 1

Bike hire place number 3 is for motor bikes...
Bike Hire place number 3 is away for 2 days on a randonee...
Bike hire place number 4 is a winner!!  Bikes and maps... and suggestions about where to go.

I choose the greenway... it sounds cool on a hot day.

I loved the rural scenes...

This is not Flanders Fields, Tashi, but there are poppies.

The shade was welcome while it lasted.

Through the trees glimpses of castles and rivers hinted at more unexplored places.

 Sign posts kept me on track, but also tempted with promises of ancient abbeys, little towns and more of the unknown just a pedal stroke away.

Thury-Harcourt was the turn around point and also the scene of the most expensive glass of water on this trip.  It was also just past a lovely cool tunnel.
So back onto the cycleway... a cheery 'bonjour' and 'merci' to the workmen at the tunnel as they waved me onto the dry part of the newly painted cycle path.