Europe 2014: Staying put..

Today's distance: 53km (33 Miles)

First of all: Happy Birthday to our son Colin!!! (who is vacationing in Greece in the same time zone we are)..

We got up this morning after one of our best rests last night. We looked at each other and both said how nice it would be to stay here longer... Well, that was what we decided to do after of course checking with our hosts to make sure the room was still available the next couple days. "Pas de problème" they replied and so we will stay here, enjoying this part of France a bit longer. Yah!! The new plan will be that we bike to Nevers further south on Monday and catch a train to Lyon. We'll stay there 1-2 nights and then take a high speed train back to Brussels.

We still got on our bikes, sans our heavy yellow luggage to explore the area a little further. It was a beautiful crisp fall day with hardly a cloud in the sky. We went through the town of Pouilly-sur-Loire which has a lot of different resident winemakers. Looked like there were some tours, but we decided not to partake. First, they are all in French (ok for Linda but not for me), and second they typically expect their visitors to sample and buy several of their bottles too. So, we continued on towards the town of La Charité-sur-Loire. It was market day and we took advantage of buying some dinner supplies and had lunch in one of the cafés. Visited on old church built in the 11th century and is one of the stopping points for the French part of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela. We have seen some of the hiking pilgrims while in France who usually have a large sea shell fixed on their backpacks.

Not much else to report on other than we are back in the B&B relaxing right now. Probably won't be putting out another blog post until we arrive in Lyon in a couple days. All is well, just winding down now..