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The pavement along the canal starts right at an autoroute stop called "
Aire de Service Port-Lauragais Sud" along the A61 west of Castelnaudry. The closest train station is Avignonet-Lauragais, which is about 1km to the west of where the pavement starts. From the train station, you can just ride down to the canal and it will be obvious. If you're going to take the train to Toulouse, you can ignore this info. :) The towpath is paved all the way to at least La Réole. I haven't explored farther west than that. Good luck and have fun!
We used this ferry in 2019, heading towards Angers. Looking at my journal photo, we had a much easier crossing. The river was higher, so less of a slope to haul the bikes up, and we could watch the loaded ferry as it came towards us and copy what those cyclists did. Love reading your journal!
2 years agoHi Kevin - it looks like you and Sunyoung are getting down into our neighborhood. We live 20km south of Carcassonne. If you need help over the next week or two, please feel free to call on us. Rxfrasier@gmail.com
I’m enjoying your journal ! You two are far tougher than we are.
I'm not really much on fungus ID, but those really look like shaggy mane mushrooms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprinus_comatus
To find Typical restaurantsin Lyon : google : bouchons lyonnais unfortunately they serve meat. Worth to see anyway.
2 years agoI think they called my bluff, because they want an upload of travel tickets and to know dates for entering and leaving France. I was thinking to use them as the way to get the EU wide pass.
2 years agoTricia, yes, we were expecting it. The web site https://en.lavoiebleue.com/ gave us hope that the route would have been improved by now. They did have provisional signage posted. That's the easy part. Now they actually have to smooth out the trail.
2 years agoThat's it! You may receive your pass right away if you submit it during business hours.
2 years agoAh, I think I found it! https://www.demarches-simplifiees.fr/commencer/passe-sanitaire-etrangers?locale=en
2 years agoHey Kevin, I need to take you back to the beginning of September. You mentioned that the French government had opened an online portal for the Pass Sanitaire. Can you steer me to that portal? Did they ever reply to your online request?
2 years agoThis did make we smile a bit - the first time we rode from Macon to Lyon we started of on the supposed track beside the river ☹️ However when we located to the road all was fine.
2 years agoBeautiful bridge. It’s designed by Santiago Calatrava, the Spanish architect. We’ve admired a few of his dramatic bridges in northern Spain, but didn’t realize there was one in France also.
2 years agoThat sounds awesome! Looks like the tunnel closed at the end of September. The tunnel bypass sounds like a doozy. We'll probably take the V50 Saône River path for a flatter experience. As I keep saying and trying to convince myself, there's always next time!
2 years agoThere is an absolutely wonderful trail from Châlon to Marcon through Cluny. Just after Cluny it goes through the Tunnel de Bois Clair. This is closed from about mid to late October (to protect the bats!) but you can go over
Macon is lovely you have to ride on roads from there to Lyon but they are fine we have done it twice and we are very adverse to busy roads. A dis rip toon is in my journal Three Reasons for Riding Across Europe. Good luck
Tricia
Thanks for confirming the location of start of pavement! We have Intercités tickets from Sète to Carcasssone and another set on TER to Avignonet. There was a direct TER but only at 6:30am!
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