October 31st - Wednesday. We had great couple of days with our friends Mike & Julia who wined and dined us right royaly. It is a pleasure to put on clean clothes - although I normally wash stuff out each evening my clothes have not seen the inside of a washing machine for over 3 weeks - people in the restaurants are no longer moving to tables further away. We left on Monday morning with frost on the ground - I pleaded for a stay of execution but they said enough is enough, get on the road and remember our old school motto 'Quit ye like men be strong'. We were strong and rode over 70km down to Valence on the Garonne and Canal du Midi. It was a hilly ride but the weather was good and Valence was a good town and we awoke on Tuesday to a haloween market with couldrons belching smoke and witches all over the place. We had a late start as we were gathering info on the canal route. It appears that we will be able to get to the coast by following a canal all the way.
The tow paths are tarmac and it is FLAT!!We have made good progress and after an overnight in Montech we are in a small hotel in the centre of Toulouse.
Haloween tonight and the fire thowers were in the central square and I was attacked by some sort of goul.
The canal is a working canal but quiet at this time of year. I thought we may have been able to do a burn off of a cyclist or two but no such luck - too old and slow - we have only 4 more days of cycling before we get to Mike & Jenny's place on the coast - let's hope there are some old folk out so that we can overtake another cyclists so far it is just 1 in 1000km!!
Looks windy tomorrow but should be behind.
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