Surprised you didn’t book yourselves into a room up there.

Yeah, things on road signs in the US are similarly hard to reach!

Good on navigating, weak on arithmetic?

It turns out most topics got covered. There must be a lot of duplicates (multiple shots of sort of the same thing), background info found on signs, bookmarks of town names, and other junque in my total!

That’s a long day in the saddle - 2 days in one! Blame the navigator! Great sights along the way.

My favorite when in France. You can't go wrong with a Pain aux Raisins!

It was a fine day, a Porsche day, a route barree day, a psychedelic day, a long day, and a well-documented day despite having to post it using your cell phone. (I've never been able to do that.) And now, what are you going to do with the other 81 of your 120 photos?

That reminds me of one time we were riding out of Gatwick and we thought OK that is not for only 50 but we had forgotten that in England they mesure distances in miles not kilometres ! Not good for the first day of a cycle tour

We had a clicking issue during our "Lack of Imagination" tour in 2021. This was a Bike Friday tandem, and we were running rebuilt wheels so I don't know whether this would apply to you. In our case, the clicking came from the rear wheel bearings moving within the wheel housing. The bearings were a sealed package, and are designed to be press fit into the wheel. They should not move once pressed into the wheel. In our case, they were "rocking" back and forth inside that space. You would have to remove the axle to be able to detect this, I think.

We were able to fix the problem by epoxying the bearing race into the wheel, but two tours later we suffered a catastrophic failure of the rear wheel bearings.

So my advice is to continue riding, but be prepared to have the clicking wheel inspected by a reliable bike shop when you get home. And probably replace the bearings. Depending on what bearings you have, there may be different strength bearings, so you might be able upgrade the carrying capacity. It's worth considering doing this on both bikes once you get home.

Hopefully your problem is different from ours and all of this information will prove to be a waste of time! :)

Their sandwiches aren't bad either. One of our go-to brands.

FWIW, I approve of the idea of a cheese tour, as long as it is copiously documented with a journal.

Interesting speculating on the gender of French rivers. Le Loir is masculine, but La Loire is feminine. At the risque of being risqué, I would note that Le Loir flows into La Sarthe and then into La Loire. I'm sure there's a rhyme and reason to how riiver genders are assigned. After all, it's France, the ultimate Cartesian country, right?

Got a closer look. To the right is St. Christopher with a child on his shoulders, and to the left St. George and the Dragon I guess. Fun to try to identify the saints by their attributes.
Why do Christian saints always look so sad?

Getting your vitamins!

Looks like that might be Saint Jacques in the middle.