With the heat wave finally breaking and  temperatures down in the 70s/80s, we decided to go big. Today’s 160km put us at our first century (in miles) of the trip since the Eleven Cities Tour in Friesland. We didn’t have a firm destination until around lunch but settled on Briare. Google Maps had some quaint […]

We got rolling by 6:30am to both avoid the midday heat and arrive in Blois with enough time to visit Chateu de Chambord. The plan was a great success. We made it to Blois by 10:30, before the day started to heat up at all. The AC at the hotel felt beyond amazing (so American, […]

We are definitely in castle country! The 89km ride featured two new chateaus; three if including the one we departed from in the morning.  Villandry (brief history here) was the first chateau we stumbled upon in the morning. We didn’t go inside, but did take a tour of the massive gardens. We took a step […]