Day 21 (June 14)



 Day of 2 shortcuts. It is 27 Kms round the peninsula on the approved route but only 12 when you cut across, 12 rather hilly Kms. But it saved us a bunch of time and got us to a little village by 12:15 which was lucky because the shop closes at 12:20 for 3 hours. We took our sandwiches to a very nice pine grove for a restful lunch. When we got back on the road again the wind had picked up and, for the first time this trip it was at our backs. We were in Marsh country, nice flat straight paths wandering through the landscape. We stopped for a bit of shade under a rare tree. We had intended to follow the route inland where it does a 30Kms semi-circle to avoid the marshes but the Frenchman who had also stopped for shade asked why don’t you go straight across there are far nicer campsites that way. So I pulled up Komoot and off we went, the downside was a little singletrack by the canal and about a mile of fairly busy road, but there was also a beer and wine store en route and with the wind on our backs we flew across the countryside to a quiet campsite and achieved a much further distance than I had calculated.

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