The end but not the end.  After resting, relaxing, shopping, laughing a lot and eating double our weight in food at my parents. It was sadly time to say goodbye to them and to our holiday.

We’ve arrived! 967km door to door across France. We’re so happy and already a little drunk on Apero 🙈

This is our last day camping, tomorrow we will do a final big push to reach Amailloux, 100km, a little sad now that our journey’s almost over.

Hot hot hot that’s the weather situation yesterday and today. Again we started out early to beat the heat but by midday we were ready for an ice cold beer or two which we gulped down in Argenton-sur-cruese , a picturesque village on the river Cruese.

Today was a very hot day, over 37°, we left  early, what is early? We get up at 6.00 but we don’t get organised to leave until 8.00, but we left earlyish to avoid the heat and very glad we did. It was a short ride, just 60km, to the campsite… where we paid 9.00€ for two small Heineken beers to cool us down😱 it’s a very nice campsite, with a pool we enjoyed, even if the price of a small beer was rather excessive!

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An Easy 75km on flat canal paths following the canal Nivernais that took us back onto EV6.

Another hot day and a big climbing day, 76 km covered. The day started cool and fresh after rain during the night but the temperature soon went up. 

Day 6, we wanted to get to Autun but I miscalculated the distance, it was far too far for today, an extra 23km on the 93 we had done. Cycling 93km  was enough in this heat and it has brought us to a beautiful campsite in Epinac.

The last two days were quite dramatic in that Christoph's bike was stolen in the night from the campsite in Dole! We spent a day at the police station filing a report, for sure the police won't do anything. We put my mother on loud speaker on the phone to help us translate. After the police we went to Decathlon where we literally took the only bike that fitted! The young man that helped us was so unbelievably helpful and supportive of our cycling demands, he really offered some good advice and set the bike up so that we could leave right there and then. The most frustrating and annoying thing was the attitude of the campsite! They offered no apology and no assistance. The owner even claimed his security camera didn't work at night, he took no accountability at all for what happened and showed no empathy whatsoever! I will never recommend Camping de Pasquier to anyone! Awful people! Do not go there! The two campers on either side of us also had things stolen. They took the GPS system from one and clothes from a clothes line from the other, they were a young couple and had printed shirts with pictures of themselves on, a wedding gift from friends. What are those guys going to do with that! Along with the bike they took my old HSV football cap, bikini bottoms, and a lot of things from the two small bags on Christoph's bike! 

Day 3, 93km along the very pretty Doubs, the cycle path was really nice and smooth so we did more km than planned.

Day 2- To Montbeliard