Today was largely about water, the rain and the canal. The route followed the ‘Canal Brest a Nantes’ which, not surprisingly, runs between the port towns of Brest and Nantes.
The canal was completed in 1836 and is 385 kilometres in length. It is still open and the section I followed today looks mostly navigable by boat although I didn’t see a single boat in the canal all day!
There were however a lot (I lost count) of pretty lock keepers cottages every couple of kilometres, mostly renovated and lived in by the look of them. The canal has 152 locks and there was a cottage by all but one of the ones I passed today.
The route was achingly beautiful from start to finish and with mostly easy cycling made it a good day after a tough one yesterday.
That looks so lovely!
Hi Carolyn, it was beautiful and Day 3 was even better!