Day 27 Nancy to Ligny en Barrois

When we were planning this ride a year or more ago we decided to aim for about 75 km per day -- in the past the aim was 100 km per day - quite doable however it has you arriving at the accommodation late afternoon and doesn't leave very much spare time to have a wander around the village/town or just chill.

We have ridden 27 days now and covered 2,092 km's which as it just happens to turn out is 77 km per day on average - that's not bad budgetting is it? and on average we have climbed only 542 metres - most equivalent NZ rides I do tend to average about the 1,000 meters climbing each day.

We followed the canal and then the Moselle River before we left the waterway system in one area and rode across to pick up with another waterway system.

We have passed some very large industrial sites that had an agricultural look about them (silos and the like) - very hard to tell exactly what they are processing/producing as the brands are ones we don't have - sometime when I have some spare time I might research and find out what it is they do produce.

Lunch spots were thin on the ground today as we kept well away from towns of larger villages which meant that our usual food stop had to be a Baguette vending machine that dispensed a very nice baguette for $1.80 NZ, We broke it on into thirds and as I had a few cocktail tomatoes I was able to create  Tomato roll. 
I then sat on the steps of the church and had my roll. 

At last night's forward planning session we could see that we are a little ahead of ourselves and then Peter suggested we spend a bit more time in the "Champagne" region and that's what we are going to do over the next two to three days - not that I am a wine/Champagne drinker however I can still appreciate the vineyards and wineries that we will no doubt ride past/visit on our way to Paris.







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