Day 3. Grèzes to Entraygues-sur-Truyère

Le Lot

Another quite long day in terms of distance, but I was hoping for an easier ride as there was only one hilly section between the Célé and Lot valleys. Les seemed to have made something of a recovery and we started with a long downhill to join the route that I had taken last year by the river Célé, then a flat ride along the valley to Figeac and a coffee in the covered market at the heart of the old town. Les had been suffering a bit from cold legs in the cool of early morning, so we stopped off at to the local bike shop for him to invest in an rather expensive pair of leg-warmers. If only we had realised that cold weather was not going to be a problem on this trip...

Then we took things slowly on the two climbs up to Montredon where a picnic table and water tap was a convenient place for lunch at the high point of the day before the descent down to the Lot valley at Pont d’Agrès. I remember the road along the Lot valley to Espalion as one of the highlights of last year’s ride and it was just as good this time; in fact even better as restoration of the medieval bridge over the Truyère into Entraygues was now complete and the 3km déviation was no longer needed.

We found our B&B in an old house in town, arranged in traditional style with a rather austere exterior and rooms round an internal courtyard with open stairs, so it was a surprise to find that our hosts were an expat British couple from Bedford.

Distance today 85 km
Total distance 225 km