Day 12

Left the bnb after a reasonable breakfast - Isabelle very friendly but a shabby cluttered place ! Cracked on using our cycle app Komoot as we decided to leave the Velo Franchette before La Rochelle and head south Really good route on small undulating roads across open countryside between vines and sunflowers Also identified a few fields of Sorghum growing 

Stopped for coffee in a lovely little town called St Jeans d’abbey -27 miles before coffee was pretty good going but we knew we had a long trip and the afternoons are really hot. We stopped for a picnic lunch in the shade of a church then the going got tough in the heat - finally arrived in Pons where we are staying in an appartment above Cafe de Don John in the main square and heading there for dinner 

Total -56 hard miles 

Hotel de Ville - coffee stop

Cafe du Don John

Leaving after breakfast - our host in the middle

Steve after lunch !