Last Day on the Moselle – Nancy to Fontenoy-le-Chateau

As well as the hotel being very close to the main square it was also very close to the river so a nice easy start to the day and it continued like that for the whole day – just lovely pleasant cycling.

The hardest part of today was making sure I didn’t run over any lizzards – it was grey first thing but when the sun got up later on in the day there was loads of lizzards scurrying across the path and some of them were tiny, not much more than an inch long – as far as I’m aware I managed to avoid them all.

The other advantage to this route is there were a number of campsites nearby and there was signs to them from the cycle path. I had a campsite in mind for the end of the day but it was slightly off route and it was big with a pool with slides and a park, which is great if you’ve got kids but not what I was really looking for. Luckily as came into Fontenoy-le-Chateau there was a sign for a wee campsite, only 2km away but 2km uphill – good decision though – lovely little campsite, great toasty warm showers – only cost £10.60 including the tin of coke that I’d bought and had a lovely wee decked area with a bar and restaurant and one of the campers I’d met at the Metz campsite 2 nights ago, and had also stayed in Nancy the night before was there – he had obviously cycled significantly faster than me as already had his tent up and was on to his 2nd beer. Another cyclist who I’d passed earlier also arrived and the 3 of us had a lovely evening and I got some tips for the next day.