From St Malo to just south of Guer (65 miles)
After a sketchy, expensive full English on the ferry we made a really rainy start to France, not what we were promised! However, no amount of rain could take away from the joy of roads lacking potholes and drivers who go out of their way to give you enough space on the road. Pictured above is the team waiting on the bridge between St Malo and La Richardais for the bridge to drop, not fun in the rain. Due to the rain and my gammy knee the morale in the team was fairly low. For this reason, Matty tried to pass off a spectacular fall, clean off his bike into a drainage ditch as a "morale boosting fall!" Nearing the end of the day we realised that we may have been slightly overzealous when leaving some items at Char's mum's house to save on weight...none of the bike pumps we brought appeared to have made the cut! After a quick visit to the nearest bike shop we stopped off for our first French pint of the trip in a place called Guer.
Chris volunteered to ask the nearest farmer, who didn't speak a word of English, whether we could set up tent in a corner of his field. After plenty of hand gestures and cave drawings, we got the thumbs up and set up camp...
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