Cycling in France Summer 2009 - Part 2

These images come from a short stretch of greenway that I rode recently between Parentis en Born and Biscarosse Plage in the department (administrative district) of Les Landes, south-west France. The website AF3V gives the whole length of this Voie Verte du Littoral (in les Landes) as 162 km and the continuation of this path northwards into the department of the Gironde another 141 km, not to mention a 70 km greenway linking these two, which encircles the Arcachon Basin. That's a lorra greenway! I know from experience of riding bits of these paths this year and in the past that much of them is tarmacked.

Pics show from top to bottom: cyclists on the canal stretch between Le Lac de Cazeau and the le Petit Etang de Biscarosse; footbridge over the canal; Cazeau Lake and picnic tables; lady cyclist almost at the top of a steep hill; traditional transport of the Landes; greenway crossing a road in Biscarosse; section parallel to main road.

For further information, go to
http://www.af3v.org/-Fiche-VVV-.html?voie=82
http://www.af3v.org/-Fiche-VVV-.html?voie=20 and click on Photos (two of my pics are already on this, from an earlier year)
Also there are two very good brochures which can be ordered from the Tourist Offices of the two departments.