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After a reasonable sleep in our apartment, we walked down the road to the local bakery to buy croissants for breakfast. Not just any croissants, obviously. One croissants aux amandes and two croissant aux amandes et chocolat. Yes, either M1 or M2 is a big greedy croissant hog. You decide which of the two it might be.
Yesterday the weather forecast for today had been for thunderstorms. So we considered a mixture of drizzle and dry but sometimes windy conditions a win. We loaded up The Mule and.... The sadly, still nameless other bike (Bikey McBike Face?) and set off for Day 2. We rejoined the former railway track we largely followed from Dieppe and pedalled. We'd ridden along this same cycle path in 2023, in the opposite direction and recognised some of the sights including an enormous chateau.
We stopped at Neufchatel-en-Bray for coffee and impressed ourselves by not adding pastries to the order.
After 45 km of very civilised but always slightly uphill cycling, we reached the end of the cycle lane and continued on quiet country roads. It got hillier and our legs offered their usual, pointless complaints as we passed through small villages.
One of those villages had an enormous abbey and a wedding was in progress.
We met another bikepacker, a French Canadian man called Stephan. He'd been visiting war memorials in Northern France.
Stopping at Gournay-en-Bray, we hit a supermarket and bought ingredients for camping mush.
After another 15 km of hills, we arrived at our campsite, Camping La Belle Etoile
Showers were had and mush was prepared sat inside the tent. It wasn't raining but it was chilly. The mush was delicious and hit the spot. We settled in and read our Kindles.
It started to rain. And then pour, hammering the tent. We could hear thunder rumbling in the distance. The thunderstorm that had been forecast, perhaps. It never quite became a thunderstorm but the rain was extremely heavy. The tent survived though and we stayed dry.
And that, was day 2. What about a few photos?
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