A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
13th July, 67km, avg 14.7km/hr, max 49.3km/hr, 4:34 hrs
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I had an early start, this first photo, taken as I rolled out of the campsite gates, is timed at 5:59am. It's not a particularly good photo, taken against the sun with my phone, but it was so beautiful I had to try. Golden sunlight shafting through a break on the ridge opposite, silhouetting the trees and just starting to light up the sunflowers. Mist still lingering.
There comes a point in France where sunflowers are more and more common, like spotting the first palm tree when I'm in Spain, they seem emblematic, naturally enough, of warmth and ease.