We started the day with breakfast provided by our host at the chamber d’otes.

It was promising to be a lovely day.

We started out on a nice country road and soon picked up a cycle path along a disused railway. These are always good to ride as there are never any steep hills on them.

We also managed to pick up a map of cycle routes. This showed routes for bikes all the way to Angers. All we had to do is find them.

The trail we started out on should meet up with these other routes so we were fixed for the day.

At the first town was our first challenge there were several routes on our map, but no other roads were marked so finding the exact location might be a bit more difficult. But they would shortly would be signed.

I was also tracking our route with my garmin.

At the first road crossing there were no signs of other cycle ways so we crossed and continued along the old railway. My garmin then decided to turn us back. We ignored here as there was a new bridge across a river that she didn’t know about.

We carried on a short way and then stopped to check again as there were still no signs of these other paths.

Jo’s google wanted us to turn around and follow the river. My garmin wanted us to turn around and follow the road.

Jo not trusting the garmin decided we would follow the river, I didn’t as I had seen the track.

We back tracked to the road and decended a hill to the river bank, only to find that it’s a walking or mountain bike track and not fit for our overloaded road style bikes.

So we struggled to push our bikes back up the hill and then to follow the garmin.

By following our procedure of navigating a short distance ahead we managed to keep to the country lanes we enjoy.

At times is felt like we were back on a camino with all the churches, little chapels and crucifixes along the way.

We made it to Angers without touching a main road and are staying in a cabin for a couple of days rest from the bikes.

We plan to do some sight seeing in Angers and also some maintenance on the bikes.