For some reason – perhaps complacency – short days are harder than long ones. The prescribed day was to Dampierre-sur-Salon, but due to a lack of accommodation options, I booked a B&B a few km further on in Savoyeux.
It was a day of wandering near rivers, firstly the Salon, then the Saône, which even up here in the middle of nowhere is a navigable river. I passed through the normal multitude of small villages, but traversing land given over to livestock farming as opposed to the seemingly endless cropping.
The day ended up not being as short as advertised, and I trudged into my B&B at 1500. I chose this place to stay as it is half board. Like many of the smaller villages, finding accommodation is easier than finding good – either a store or cafe/restaurant.
Pic of the day is the Savoyeux tunnel. If locks are too challenging, dig a hole instead!
Daily km: 27.4
In 2009, we embarked on a one-year family sailing adventure aboard a Grand Soleil 39, "SV Mulan". Our original sailing blog is linked on this site.
In 2017, Susan, Andrew, Sam & Max walked the Camino Frances from St-Jean-Pied-de-Porte to Santiago de Compostella (and rode bikes from Burgos to Leon as a blister recovery strategy), and in 2018 Jack also joined the crew as we waled the northern section of the Camino Portuguese from Porto to S de C.
In 2019 Andrew, accompanied by Max for the first few hundred kms, and Susan for the Tiscan section, walked the via francigena from Canterbury to Rome. That journey is blogged in this site.
This blog is planned as an alternative to the endless instagram posts used previously to communicate with those interested in our travels - although there is a linked instagram account as well!
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