{"id":175,"date":"2017-09-11T05:46:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T04:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2018-05-30T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T22:40:24","slug":"day-2-bagnoles-de-lorne-to-la-fleche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/day-2-bagnoles-de-lorne-to-la-fleche\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 Bagnoles de l&#8217;Orne to La Fleche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>78.1 miles, ascent 1459 metres, average speed 12.0 mph, riding time 6hrs 29mins.<\/p>\n<p>Left Bagnoles in misty conditions which cleared after our first climb, leaving an overcast sky to the brew stop at 14 miles. The lovely Isabel drives the brew van which is stocked with all sorts of delicious goodies as well as tea, coffee and soft drinks. We all have our own mugs with our names at the bottom so the we know who&#8217;s who when we drink!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-5.jpeg 3264w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-5-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-5-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-5-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-5-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174\" src=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-8.jpeg 3264w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-8-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-8-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-8-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-8-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>The route to the lunch stop at Sille Le Guillaume was undulating with steady climbs and long sweeping descents. As we approached lunch the sun came out &#8211; the first sighting of the trip. I had another nice surprise when our dear friends Mike and Catherine joined me at lunch and brought a present of two slices of fruit cake which went down well with my post ride beer. The route flattened out after lunch but, just so thing didn&#8217;t get too easy, quite a strong crosswind got up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173\" style=\"width: 3264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-173 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-7.jpeg 3264w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-7-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-7-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-7-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-7-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James photo bombing at the vide grenier in Verron.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Verron we had to walk through town as a large flea market was taking place. After almost 70 miles in the saddle I did think about making an offer for the saddle on the child&#8217;s bike in the photo!<\/p>\n<p>Longest day of the tour completed!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>78.1 miles, ascent 1459 metres, average speed 12.0 mph, riding time 6hrs 29mins. Left Bagnoles in misty conditions which cleared after our first climb, leaving an overcast sky to the brew stop at 14 miles. The lovely Isabel drives the brew van which is stocked with all sorts of delicious goodies as well as tea, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/day-2-bagnoles-de-lorne-to-la-fleche\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 2 Bagnoles de l&#8217;Orne to La Fleche&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-channel-to-the-med"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}