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I was quite taken with this stone figure dispatching a dragon with his spear.  Lussac was quite a pretty town.

However, not only was it pretty, but it was well cared for too.  The street furniture was high quality too.  Stainless steel posts, well designed stainless seats and barriers too.  It was also home to this very nice café where I had one of the best coffees I'd had and, just around the corner, one of the nicest bakeries I'd come across.  This was a very, very good croissant and the bread was fantastic.

I also bought some rillette and sarce from the epicerie opposite.  Sarce is, apparently, a regional speciality.  It's a terrine made from cabbage, cauliflower and other things and tastes sort of like cold bubble and squeak, but even nicer.

Going over the bridge out of Lussac Les Châteaux I turned left onto the route de Gouex to cycle along by the side of this river, La Vienne.  I would follow it, more or less, for a couple of day's and my campsite tonight would be on its banks.

Click to see Google Street View of the turnoff just after the Bridge out of Lussac (opens a new Window).

Whilst some of the road was flat, which is what I was hoping for since it followed a river, a lot of it went up and down.  Up and down quite a lot at times.  The climb up to Loudon was endless for instance.  Perhaps just me being a wimp, but with the heat, I was just in my lowest gear doing 4.5km/hr for what seemed like an age.

Though that's probably unfair, because, whilst it was hilly, it was mainly just great, I filmed various video bits in which I'm just rambling on about how fantastically pretty it all was.