There is a long stretch to the next campingsite and today is forecast hot, 30degC by afternoon
Happily there is a b&b with excellent reviews for evening food. Betsy books us hopefully we are in better hands than our last attempt.
It is a fairly busy road all the way to Chalindrey about 14km but we don’t hang about. It is the quickest route out of the furnace that open fields become by midday. We leave our pitch we looked down on from the old artillery tower about 8am and are buzzed by cars coming to work in the zone around Langres. There’s a fountain come chapel come lavoir just outside Chalindrey. And the town is celebrating the end of WW1.
We have coffees or beer it is a bit early at 11 visit the supermarket for tomorrow lunch and press on past the pigeonier (marked pig on the map) in increasing temperature to the Pont de Archots. The map suggests a wooded stream an excellent place to while away a couple of hours until we may be welcome. Damselflys seem not mind our joining them around the water in which tiny minnows live.
A land worth fighting over.??