11 April Lunas-Murat sur Vebre 28 kilometres

Another wet day through the pine, chestnut, oak and beech forests of the Haut Languedoc. Lots of clear trout streams and waterfalls tumbling down steep hillsides, cowslips and violets. But this was the day when we began to question whether this really was fun - plodding through the persistent rain and low cloud that blotted out the views - wet and cold.