8th September - Grisolles to near Carcassonne

It turns out I tempted fate with my comment about being too hot yesterday and it actually rained in the night! Ironically the ground was too hard to peg the tent properly because of the lack of rain, so it was really difficult to try and stop the layers from touching. It was raining a bit in the morning as we set off. We went to Toulouse for coffee in a lovely place called Maison De Velo. They had people who could fix your bikes while you were drinking coffee. Unfortunately (obvs not) we had nothing that needed fixing.

After the rain stopped we had lunch by the side of the canal - and then the gorgeous smooth-as-silk cycle path turned into some seriously hardcore cyclocross. The only piece of cyclocross advice I could remember was "commit to the rut" which I tried to do. We got off that path ASAP and came to the campsite along the roads. On the way we met one of our previous cyclotourists friends and he joined us - now we're all eating and drinking wine (made from grapes in fields we can actually see) together. Happy days.