Day 12 – Mimizan to Tarnos – Flat and Quick

Day 12
Thurs 10th September
Kms travelled; 1250
Kms to go: 70

We leave a little later at first light as we don’t want to tackle the busy road outside in the dark.

It is freezing! Well 6° and our hands are cold….slowly we thaw out

The ocean is on our right which we catch glimpses of during the day…we pass surfing communities with people from all over the world.

The cycle track is glorious mainly through forests but the tracks are varied, windy, undulating not like the monotonous straight unending tracks of a few days ago. BUT this comes at a price, they are packed, alot of folk whizzing past on electric bikes.

We have elevensies at a cross roads, it’s beginning to get warmer.

Late afternoon we pass the affluent town of Capbreton, there’s a touristy street selling everything so we stop for a beer before navigating a bit of a treacherous route to our forest accommodation by the sea via Labene. We are by the sea and there is a swimming pool but we can only think of dinner, our very early start tomorrow and our assent on the Pyrannes…argh!!!