Table of Contents

Stage 1 Orange to Châteauneuf du Pape 28km
Stage 2 Châteauneuf du Pape to St. Martin d'Ardèche 54km
Stage 3 St. Martin d'Ardèche to Les Mazes 44km
Stage 4 Les Mazes to Vals les Bains 44km

Stage 5 Vals les Bains to Le Gerbier de Jonc 39km

Stage 6 Le Gerbier de Jonc to Goudet 54km

Stage 7 Goudet to Le Puy en Velay 33km

Stage 8 Le Puy en Velay to Le Pertuiset 79km

Stage 9 Le Pertuiset to Neulise 77km

Stage 10 Neulise to Marcigny 74km

Stage 11 Marcigny to Gannay sur Loire 82km

Stage 12 Gannay sur Loire to Nevers 57km

Stage 13 Nevers to Sancerre 67km

Stage 14 Sancerre to Briare le Canal 50km

Stage 15 Briare le Canal to St. Benoît sur Loire 51km

Stage 16 St. Benoît sur Loire to St. Ay sur Loire 59km

Stage 17 St. Ay sur Loire to Blois 65km

Stage 18 Blois to Montlouis sur Loire 68km

Stage 19 Montlouis sur Loire to Montsoreau 86km

Stage 20 Montsoreau to Angers 71km

Stage 21 Angers to Drain 78km

Stage 22 Drain to Savenay 81km

Stage 23 Savenay to St. Nazaire 30km

About the Author

John Higginson has been a long-distance fell walker for many years. Having been a keen cyclist in his youth, he took up long-distance cycling in Europe a few years after he retired from the post of headmaster of a Cheshire primary school. He is now a writer and lecturer. He and his wife, Andrea, who have ridden both south to north and east to west across France, the length of the medieval pilgrimage route from Le Puy-en-Velay in France to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, and the Danube Cycleway from Donaueschingen to Budapest, spent many years touring in the Loire valley before embarking on this book which describes the route and its myriad places of interest. John Higginson has also written The Way of St James - Le Puy to Santiago, a Cyclists' Guide (Cicerone, 1999) and The Danube Cycleway - Donaueschingen to Budapest (Cicerone, 2003).