{"id":190,"date":"2017-09-13T20:20:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2018-05-30T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T22:40:09","slug":"day-4-loche-to-crozant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/day-4-loche-to-crozant\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4. Loche to Crozant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>71.57 miles, ascent 1241 metres, average speed 12.3 mph, elapsed time 5hrs 47 mins. No wifi yesterday so no blogging and now I am having difficulty remembering what happened!!<\/p>\n<p>The morning was cool with a clear sky when we left Loche at about 8:45. The route was mostly flat up to our first stop in Le Tranger on the banks of the Indre river &#8211; a picturesque location.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-408\" style=\"width: 3264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-408 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4065.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4065.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4065-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4065-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4065-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4065-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mick and Pauline crossing the river Indre after morning brew stop at Le Tranger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">\u00a0The route stayed relatively flat until our picnic lunch at Moebecq \u00a0after 37 miles. We crossed the river Creuse several times and followed the route of the Vallee de la Creuse for the rest of the day, frequently climbing out and descending back in to the valley.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-196 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-17-e1506286859213.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-17-e1506286859213.jpeg 3024w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-17-e1506286859213-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-17-e1506286859213-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-17-e1506286859213-1200x1600.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-195\" src=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-16.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2707\" height=\"1862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-16.jpeg 2707w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-16-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-16-768x528.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-16-1024x704.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-16-1200x825.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-194 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-15-e1506286916431.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-15-e1506286916431.jpeg 2448w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-15-e1506286916431-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-15-e1506286916431-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-15-e1506286916431-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>We arrived in Crozant about 4pm and enjoyed a couple of well earned beers before moving on to the Hotel du Lac. In the evening we enjoyed an excellent meal and helped to celebrate Simon and Liz&#8217;s Silver Wedding Anniversary!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>71.57 miles, ascent 1241 metres, average speed 12.3 mph, elapsed time 5hrs 47 mins. No wifi yesterday so no blogging and now I am having difficulty remembering what happened!! The morning was cool with a clear sky when we left Loche at about 8:45. The route was mostly flat up to our first stop in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/day-4-loche-to-crozant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 4. Loche to Crozant&#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-190","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\/190","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=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}