Velo Francette GPX Route

The Vélo Francette runs 630km from the Normandy coast at Ouistreham to La Rochelle on the Atlantic. I rode the whole thing, loaded, over six days, and filmed every one of them. Here you’ll find the free GPX file for each day, split exactly as I rode it, from the D-Day coast through the hills of the Suisse Normande, along the rivers to Saumur, and down through the marshes to the sea. Every route is the one I actually followed, with the campsites, the boulangeries and the wrong turns marked, so you get the honest version, not the brochure. Grab the day you need, or the full set, and ride it better than I did.

Instructions

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Day One Ouistreham to Domfront

Day 1 of bikepacking the Vélo Francette, from the D-Day coast at Ouistreham through Caen and into the hills of the Suisse Normande to Domfront. The “gentle river route” turned out to be anything but, ending in dead legs, an empty bottle, and one deeply regretted hot dog.

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