Fine and sunny, 12-28deg. No riding. Beaut day to be out wandering around this interesting NE French city. It was worth every dump in the path to reach Metz, the place is magnifique, to say the least. It has a 3,000 year history and lucky for us they kept plenty of parks, gardens and open spaces when it was planned and built 100s of years ago. Being fairly close to the German border it has also changed countries several times. We started at the 13th century St St...

Fine and sunny, 14-25deg, 72km, av. 15.5km/h, tot. 990 km. Great brekky in the motel again and cycled away at 8:00am. Soon onto a lovely sealed canal path, which wasn't to last unfortunately. After 10km it became a Le French Le s*** goat-track. We expected more between two major tourist cities in the middle of the Moselle Region and in the Land of the Le Tour de France. It wasn't till the 52km mark that we picked up a decent path again. However we stayed positive...

Fine and brilliant sunshine all day, 12-27deg, 83km, av. 16.3km/h, (tot. 920km). Weather wise it was a perfect day. We left Sarrebourg at 8:00am after a good in-house brekky, and arrived at Nancy at 2:30pm. Ibis Motel to Ibis Motel. A well-signed, smooth, cycle path greeted us first up and this lead us to a lake-side path. The lake is used to 'run' the nearby canal, which, we imagine would be tricky to manage considering the amount of water each lock uses each ti...

Cloudy with a shower or two 11-20deg, 80km, av. 16.1km/h, (tot. 837km). Light rain for the first 5km getting out of Strasbourg then fine with sunny periods. The hotel at Sarrebourg was an absolute gem, with aircon (so you can close the window to keep the noise of the drunks (who don't have inside voices) and the soccer hoons out) lovely room, friendly and welcoming staff and a superb breakfast. Lucky we had fueled up as it was a fairly tough day due to the head w...

Cloudy but fine with a few patches of sunshine, 15-19deg, 73km, av. 18.5km/h (tot 757km). Despite the aircon not working in our A$136 (not incl breakfast) a night Mercure Motel room we managed to get a good nights sleep and were up and away by 7:55am. We were on a canal path within 3km and that is where we stayed all day. The first canal, Colmar Canal is not navigable by boat on the section we rode so it's now just used for recreational fishing and as an irrigati...