A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Going over the bridge out of Lussac Les Châteaux I turned left onto the route de Gouex to cycle along by the side of this river, La Vienne. I would follow it, more or less, for a couple of day's and my campsite tonight would be on its banks.
Click to see Google Street View of the turnoff just after the Bridge out of Lussac (opens a new Window).
Whilst some of the road was flat, which is what I was hoping for since it followed a river, a lot of it went up and down. Up and down quite a lot at times. The climb up to Loudon was endless for instance. Perhaps just me being a wimp, but with the heat, I was just in my lowest gear doing 4.5km/hr for what seemed like an age.
Though that's probably unfair, because, whilst it was hilly, it was mainly just great, I filmed various video bits in which I'm just rambling on about how fantastically pretty it all was.