Sea slog

Now we were fighting the winds, the fading light and our fading strength. The way to the cycle route had a section of straight road along the canal, which turned out to be a hard gravel path. For 8 kms, we rattled over it till we got to the cycle path. We had to complete the better part of the last hour in the dark using Schopper's lights.

Finally, at nearly 10 pm we pulled in to a hotel in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône. The end of the Rhone in the Mediterranean. What a slog it was to get to the sea.

Today, we floated and gloated over the tailwinds, and then hit an impasse at the highway, and fought the same winds on the way back. We're rather beat up from the day, having covered 93 km today. Kiran is, quite amazingly, still in good spirits.

We reached the Mediterranean. But not in the way we had expected. Oh well.

Then we found out that the way out of here with bicycles is only with another challenge, and quite early tomorrow morning. Sleep will not be our succor tonight.Read more