Day 2/3 and a bit of 4 - St Malo to St Michel Chef Chef

Day 2 - As we got off the very we made friends with two other lovely cyclists who were going in exactly the same direction as us, so we cycled together for the first few miles. After coffee decided to press on along the main road (with the few of getting to parkrun bordeaux) whereas they wanted to take the more scenic route along the voies vertes we had been following. We spent ages and ages trying to find the right main road, and after about 5 minutes on it decided that it was horrendous and we needed to get off ASAP. We got off the main road and ended up exactly where we had been having coffee hours before, not ideal... The happier part of the story was that we then caught up with Will and Paul again! But we got separated slightly and Mum and I turned down a path with a slightly obscured signpost and we didn't think the others had seen it. Sure enough they hadn't but by some incredible coincidence we all bumped into eachother again at a pub and had a beer. Happy days. After that we pressed on a bit to Mauron, where it turns out there was no food shop and no campsite. By this time it was getting a bit late so we cycled on a few kilometres to St Lery and camped in a completely deserted but very lovely campsite there.

Day 3 - Day 3 started with a navigational nightmare as we had to find a) the voies vertes and b) a food shop (both absolutely starving). We managed to find a food shop and then spent hours and hours trying to find the voies vertes. We cycled down the same bit of road 8 times.. At one point we were on a bridge and we could see it below, and then we were below it and we could see it above. When we finally found the path it was absolutely gorgeous. We had lunch with Sue and Julian Goater which was REALLY nice, and then they used their local knowledge to take us on to the right road. We carried on along the road, past "the most beautiful village in the world", tried to find a campsite and failed so ended up wild camping in the natural park (v v against the rules #rebelz).

Day 4 - We cycled to St Nazaire for breakfast and then over a v scary bridge which we're pretty sure you're supposed to spend 20 euros on a taxi over. The view was lovely though. We're now riding along the Vélocéan, which is lovely so far. Having a madeline in St Michel as I write this..