Saumur to Les Ponts-de-Cé


Got another earlyish start this morning (breakfast at 8:00, the earliest possible, on the road after getting breakfast by 9). Whenever there's a breakfast buffet available, we do it, it's usually pretty reasonable, and there's usually a few healthier choices. This morning there was corn flakes, but no cold milk to pour into them. Cold milk is usually hard to find at these breakfast buffets, often people use yogurt. So I used the hot milk that's always available in the coffee machines.
It was noticeably much more humid today, after the heavy thunderstorms and hail last night. There were a lot of  roads with traffic today, and not as many dedicated bike paths, unfortunately. That makes it a little bit stressful, being close to the cars.
The older houses have changed, from being made of what looks like white limestone, to a funny thin dark stone laid together with mortar. That just happened in about the last 15 km of the bike ride, all of a sudden the houses changed.
I had messaged the bed and breakfast that were staying at tonight, to see if we could come early (most of the time it's 5:00 p.m.) and they said that was fine, so we arrived around 1:30.
Had a very interesting discussion with a fellow biker that we met at a picnic area. He was setting up to actually make a big meal, using a cooking stove, he had pasta and some ground beef he was going to make. We started chatting, he was very interested in American politics. I told him some of my thoughts, and that he needed to not just listen to  mainstream news sources, but also some alternative news sources, and suggested Tucker Carlson, at which he grimaced. He was firmly in the MSNBC camp. But a friendly guy.
After relaxing in the bed and breakfast for a while, we got a few groceries to for lunch tomorrow, because on Sunday nothing is open.

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