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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a hike
4 days ago
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
6 days ago
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Day 11 - Epilogue - (small) tour of the island of Oléron
51 km for 120 m of D+
I say "small" because originally it was supposed to be +/- 70 km. Only... a small mistake on my part... when putting back Caro's bike battery, it showed 25%... So we head to our hotel where we can charge it for about an hour
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
7 days ago
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
7 days ago
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6 days ago
Day 10 - Stage 7 - Saint-Savinien to Châtelaillon-Plage
70 km with 270 m of elevation gain
Stage 7 bis - 15 km Châtelaillon-Plage - La Rochelle.
Last stage which we will do in 2 parts due to the heatwave.
We leave the campsite in the cool of the early morning via the Flow Vélo towards Rochefort in the
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
June 22, 2026
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June 22, 2026
Day 8 - Stage 6 - Cognac - Saint-Savinien.
70 km with 270 m of elevation gain
The 3 pillars of current events are: the Bruel affair, the World Cup, and the heatwave.
In reality... only the 3rd one really concerns us!
It must be said that the mercury is going crazy a little more every day and it doesn't suit
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
June 21, 2026
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June 21, 2026
Day 7 - Stage 5 - Marillac - Cognac !
We were aiming for a 7 am start, but it will end up being 7:30 am.
The sun has just risen and we're already saying it's time to go! The sky is very clear, it's going to be hot.
The hardest part is at the beginning of the day, but we will successively cross the Braconne
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
June 20, 2026
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June 20, 2026
Day 6 - rest day
After the first 4 stages, 3 of which were rather intensive and consecutive (a total of 359 km for 2580 m of elevation gain) and with the heat helping, we had decided to decide nothing 🤪😂
We will even allow ourselves a lie-in favored by a very cool room. You would think it's air-conditioned
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
June 19, 2026
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June 19, 2026
Day 5 - Stage 4
From Exideuil-sur-Vienne to Marillac-le-Franc: 63 km with 740 m of elevation gain
The stages follow one another and are decidedly not alike, but really... not at all!
We take a small detour via "Chez Cuss" to pick up our water supplies (reserved the evening before via WhatsApp!!) It's the
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
June 18, 2026
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June 18, 2026
Day 4 - Stage 3
From Villefagnan to Exideuil-sur-Vienne: 103 km with 970 m of elevation gain.
The heatwave is still very much here!!! We start relatively early, but at 9 am the thermometer already shows 24°!! We pop into the village's small grocery store to pick up 4 bottles of 1.5 liters of water that
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Day 3 - Stage 2
From Niort to Villefagnan: 100 km for 670 m of elevation gain
The heatwave is setting in; we therefore start in the cool of the morning around 9 a.m. and it's already 19°!
Niort has fewer cycling infrastructures than La Rochelle and crossing it is therefore less safe. No less than 10 km
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a hike
June 16, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Day 2 - Visit to Niort on foot.
No stage today, rest day before attacking 3 stages.
We are therefore going to do some sightseeing and discover Niort.
A very beautiful city, very green with numerous small parks and avenues lined with plane trees, some of which are very impressive.
Beautiful and plush buildings
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Caroline and Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ went for a bike ride
June 15, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Day 1 - Stage 1
La Rochelle - Niort: 92 km for 240 m of elevation gain
As expected, we leave La Rochelle relatively early, it's +/- 8:30 am and it's already 18°... the temperature will rise quite quickly to reach no less than 34° in Damvix, where we will be barely 2/3 of the way!
So we leave La Rochelle
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Christian 🚴♂️🚶♂️ and Caroline went for a bike ride
May 25, 2026
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May 25, 2026
Val Dieu Gravel ride 100km revised and corrected starting from Stembert and not from Val Dieu.
We will pass successively through Hèvremont, Lac de la Gileppe, Lac de Eupen, crossing Kettenis, Herbestal station, Welkenraedt, Hombourg, the Henri-Chapelle golf course, La Clouse, the northern outskirts of
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Caroline and others went for a hike
May 4, 2026
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J13 - Discovering Troyes on foot 😆
Initially, I had planned a first loop by bike and a second on foot. But the heat eventually got the better of our motivation, and besides, tomorrow is the return home and there was no question of coming back on our knees.
So we will limit ourselves to one of the two
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