Sunday 27th May Biganos (9) to Bazas (10)
53.8 miles 4hrs 27m riding time Average speed: 12mph Total: 459 miles
The sky was blue when I sat down for breakfast. The rain started as I was
loading my panniers onto my bike and it was still raining when I took them
off again this evening.
I took the veloroute from Biganos via Hostens and St Symphorien to Bazas.
The cycling today would have been really easy had it not been for the wind
and the constant rain. The route itself was almost all through forest again
on the course of an old railway line and I was feeling utterly bored –
there’s only so much arrow-straight road with nothing to see but a
corridor of trees that a soul can take. I could have taken the D3, but in
such shitty weather all I wanted to do was get my head down and pedal to
my next hotel with the minimum of navigating and blinding spray from traffic
Veloroute to Bazas
On reaching Bazas I had to call in at the Syndicat d'Initiative (tourist
information office) for some directions before eventually finding my hotel,
Le Relais Bazadais on the town’s ring road. As I arrived at reception
the steady rain intensified into a torrential downpour. I checked into an
anonymous but pleasant room and settled into the routine of rinsing off
the road filth and mud from my clothes and luggage in the shower before
spreading and hanging it all out to dry.
The hotel’s very nice restaurant is closed ‘as it’s a
Sunday’ said the hotel receptionist.
My options were walking to town in the rain to find a restaurant or trying
my luck at the attached petrol station services which was just about to
close too. I ended up back in my room with a couple of cans of beer, a ham
sandwich and a slice of cold pizza watching un-watch-able French TV. All
in all, the last two days have been crap.
http://www.le-relais-bazadais.com/