And I'll be a free man on Monday

I love it when a plan comes together! And today we were supposed to get to villaines la juhel , a distance of 57 k. And so it proved. The going was more hilly than yesterday, and on one ascent into carrouges I was thinking of getting off the bike. It was only the sign "Bar" at the top of the hill that kept me going, and when I got there the place was shut! There's a trend there. Yesterday our fine hotel restaurent was shut on sunday evening and la patronne told us that all the restaurents in argentan were likely to be shut too ( gallic shrug ). We ended up walking 2 k and eating at a motorway service station, Tonight our friendly budget hotel's restaurent is shut too ( shrug: well its a monday ) and they were not sure if anywhere else in town would be open. Its such a small place I guess they are being polite and everything else in town is definately shut too. Ah well. Tant pis as the french probably don't say. Philip and I can live on our reserves. K * with apologies to Ewan McColl