The route for today passed through the towns of Tauriac, Liourdres, Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (coffee stop), Argentat; Saint Martin la Méanne, Mariellac-la-Croisille, ending in Egletons. Altogether we did 95km, including around 8km riding around looking for a hotel in Egletons.

The nicest part of the journey was a long stretch alongside the Dordogne river this morning, from Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne to Argentat. It was shaded and the reflections in the river were beautiful. Especially of the old houses in the river when we left Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne. We also saw a few parties setting off to canoe on the river which looked lovely. There are many camping grounds here alongside the river too.

We did a supermarket and bakery stop at Argentat, as we knew things would be closed later due to it being Sunday (good thinking as it turned out).

The hill climb out of the river valley onto the plateau after Argentat was long and tiring (about 6km). The plateau road took us through forests and a few more hills. The towns we passed through up here were all very quiet, being a Sunday afternoon.

Our destination, Egletons, is a larger town but was also quiet. The first hotel we located was all closed up (though seemed operational). We spent ages riding round and round looking for another hotel or bed and breakfast. The town seems to be a bit off the tourist route and not doing that well as there were a few businesses closed or for sale. We were almost ready to drive on when we found another hotel/restaurant, also closed up but with a phone number on the door. The owner arrived in a few minutes to open up, saying he had only closed up the restaurant an hour earlier. It seems we are the only guests.