Assessment: Costs / Benefits

Regarding the budget, it is very simple: without the bike and the equipments, we have lived with about 10 euros per day per person.
So 80 euros for 8 days of bikes for the accommodation (camping when not want to camp wild) and the food.

Personally (I, Guillaume D) I learned a lot from this trip by bicycle.
Firstly, we learn much about his body and abuse that we inflicted to him.

But I learned what freedom or LIBERTAD!


True freedom is to be free as air and nature.
Spend his days outside and enjoy and learn to admire the world around us.
It is only accountable to anyone and have no time and all kinds of demands of everyday life to meet.

The must of freedom is especially not knowing the morning where we will sleep at night!
So for all this learning I urge everyone to do this kind of trip to be more open to the world.

Especially in the case of this trip, the course is very easy and secure.

The Loire by bike

30th June 2008: Orléans - Blois
Three young students are going out of Orleans by the Southern for a trip of 500 miles to the Atlantic Ocean.

Crossing a bridge on Meung Loire Loire, 20 km from Orleans.

Crossing a second bridge in Beaugency.

Arrival at Blois to 20h10 after a lengthy detour to the castle of Chambord.
Rolled 90 km instead of 60 originally planned.

Note Bene: take screw in case of unscrewing the carrier ...

Pictures by Popelin P.

1st July 2008: Blois - Tours

Departure from the campsite where we slept in fraud (practical and discreet arrive by bike)

Breakfast at Blois and a sobering discovery of hot chocolate prepared with water.


Pizzeria stop before the "Château de Chaumont". Very hot day and swim in the Loire near fishermen.

Check-in Tours with 150 km on the clock this time and swimming in the pool of Tours.


2nd July 2008: Tours - Saumur

Step through beautiful villages along the Loire, which makes us the hillsides along the Loire.

240 km on the clock and overnight camping on an island before Saumur after multiple punctures due to improper repairs ...













3rd July 2008: Saumur- Angers (Ponts de Cé)

Explosion at the Crash Bandicoot a new tube after going into a shop to repair bikes.

Day terrible head wind in the fields, which increases the pain.

Arrival at Camping Cé at 19h where we take the giant pool temperature invigorating.
Melon lentils and sausages on the menu, thanks to supply in a Super U crossed on the road.





4th July 2008: Ponts de Cé - Nantes

Big step of 106 km in the program.

Lunch at the grocery cooperative in the small village bus restaurant that we have not attempted due to budget non-extensible.

We followed the family "folledingue" in the middle of trails,who went of 30 km to hours to all day.

Discover steep paths not practicable cycling which leads to some friction.
Overnight camping in a providential (because we were short of water and tired) to 10 km from Nantes


5th July 2008: Nantes - Saint-Brevin l'Océan

Crossing from Nantes and leaving the city by the industrial zone.
Then last crossing of the Loire by the Coueron's tray. Pancake breakfast in a restaurant and very cheap departure with belly heavy.

The road along the canal from the Lower Loire, which is a haven of peace.
It is found in the countryside amidst the horses and storks, but the rest is short-lived due to a terrible head wind that expresses clearly the approach of the ocean.

Arrival around 17h in Saint Brevin rolled and 580 km from the start after a few detours.