Wednesday August 6, 2014
We have been leaving the fly doors open during the night, as it is quite warm and the breeze stops the condensation building up inside the tent. We woke up during the night to rain pattering on the tent, we quickly closed the fly doors and went back to sleep. At 6:15am it was still raining and continued to rain for the rest of the morning. We decided that this could be a non-cycling day. I checked the forecast, which indicated that it would clear by 9:00 and then rain all afternoon with a chance of thunderstorms. At 9:00 it was still raining and continued to rain until 12:30pm. We had decided by 10:00 that we would not cycle today. It is a real pain to take the tent down when it is raining and if we had got to Mortain, wet and dirty we would have opted for a hotel again. We really need to control the budget, therefore we decided to stay in this municipal campsite for one more night. Tomorrow the weather is supposed to improve and we will stay in another municipal site in Mortain.
We managed to eat breakfast and lunch in the tent, very cosy.
![\"Inside](\"http://winter-rides.ca/SweetCheeks/wp-content/uploads/Inside-the-tent.jpg\")
Ralf called me a \’net\’ curtain twitcher, I kept opening and closing the fly so that I could see what was happening, who was leaving, who was staying. However, Ralf was taking the photos – who is the curtain twitcher?
The Belgians were the first to make the move out of the campsite. They had their tent down and cycled of in the rain by 9:30 am.
When the rain eased up at 12:30 the French couple decided to make a move and were on the road by 1:30.
![\"French](\"http://winter-rides.ca/SweetCheeks/wp-content/uploads/French-ready-to-leave.jpg\")
Followed shortly after by the non-communicative couple at about 2:00. Their gear was still wet.
![\"Wet](\"http://winter-rides.ca/SweetCheeks/wp-content/uploads/Hanging-the-wet-gear-out.jpg\")
The other French couple on the tandem, were planning on staying here for another night anyway.
![\"OLYMPUS](\"http://winter-rides.ca/SweetCheeks/wp-content/uploads/Tandem-French-staying.jpg\")
The sun came out and we considered breaking camp and heading out ourselves, but it was very humid so we decided to relax and catch up on posting the blog.
We went for a walk in the afternoon to get dinner for tonight – tortellini and camembert buns, more cheap wine.
The waterfalls at Mortain should be spectacular tomorrow, with the amount of rain that has fallen.
Here we are up to date.
Well it about time, not been great since you left in fact slept from after you left last We’d until yesterday afternoon, but starting to pick up again!!
France sounds fabulous, just as I imagined! When this is all over I’d like to take a week touring parts if France so keep that in mind and let me know the best bits. Xxx
Not found a bad bit yet. Clean roads, clean villages, friendly people, excellent cycle routes, reasonable prices. What more could we ask for.
France sounds better all the time. Are the locals friendly? We never got to France while in Europe. We heard from others that they were a bit stuck up. Sorry to hear about the rain, but it is always good to take a day off now and then and let life catch up. Be safe and keep enjoying your adventure.
France is awesome and the people are really friendly – surprised the heck out of us as 26 years ago they were very stuck up.