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Avenue Verte Day 3: We reach Dieppe and take the ferry to England

The final 55 miles in France, weighed down by a large can of cassoulet.

It’s our last day on the Avenue Verte in France. We have 55 miles to bicycle from Gournay-en-Bray to Dieppe, there’s a climb with a 7% grade, we’re now carrying a heavy can of cassoulet au confit du canard for someone in England, and we need to make the 6 p.m. ferry across the English Channel.

Can we do it without stressing?

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Biking the Loire: 5 day trips from Tours

Saumur, Villandry, Chinon, Chenonceau and more.

It took us more than an hour to get out of Saumur, a town of 26,000 along the Loire River in France.

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