Route 4
A pelota champion
“Leave your bikes in the trinquet, ” we were told on reaching our hotel on the square in St Palais, one of the main…
The Via Lemovicensis is the pilgrimage road from Vézelay to Compostela via Limoges, Périgueux and St-Jean-Pied-de-Port. We did the French part of the route in reverse, for a better chance of a following wind, stopping at La Charité-sur-Loire (having cycled from Vézelay to the Loire on a previous trip). We used Eurostar and direct TGVs via Paris to get to the start and back from the end of the ride, which gave us a view of France at its most quiet and countrified in the Basque Country, Béarn, Armagnac, the Dordogne, the Lot, the Limousin and the Berry; with stops for pelota, foie gras, Limoges porcelain and George Sand.
Route 4 map: Biarritz to BurgundyOpen the map in Google My Maps
Information:
Aquitaine: www.tourisme-aquitaine.fr
Limousin: www.crt-limousin.fr
Centre: www.visaloire.com
Burgundy: www.crt-bourgogne.fr
Trains: www.eurostar.co.uk; www.raileurope.co.uk
270 out of 360 degrees achieved
St Jean Pied de Port
St Jean le Vieux
Labastide d’Armagnac
In the Pays d’Albret (Andiran)
Nérac
