Day 4 Portailler-sur-Saône - Chagny 140 km

140 km can be so incredibly different. Today it was relatively easy, at 4 o'clock I was ready and was at the campsite. Tent set up and dry everything I packed this morning damp and then dinner, clear stick bread and cheese, and watch a Marvel series, wonderful. Vis-a-vis from me is a French couple with whom I got into conversation. So just chill, am really so out of my life. Such a tour is always good for self-reflection. Where am I, where do I stand, where do I come from. Today was such a day. I am similar to 6 years ago when I was on the road to the Côte d'Azur, so I compared myself. What has changed compared to then everything, just everything, only the love of cycling remained. I had to smile about my former self, so inexperienced. I was allowed to pay apprenticeship money, and that again and again gladly. And when I came to the Eurovelo 6 today, the comparison to 2019 of course did not fail. My bachelor farewell ride. Also on the eurovelo 6, only the other direction, to the Black Sea. Everything has changed, then still unmarried, now soon again. Only cycling remained. I have become more relaxed, still not indifferent, fortunately, but more balanced. Sometime today I left the path of six years ago. Actually, that's not quite true. At that time I turned off in the evening at Besancon into the Jura wanted to make still kilometers and drive a shortcut instead of driving further along the channel. What came out of it? The next day there was rain and I drove 40 km in the wrong direction, Ornans instead of Ounans. Can happen in the pouring rain already confuse without sun as orientation. The end of the song (dinglish) was that I had to get totally soaked in a hotel. A day I will never forget. As I cursed at that time so I laughed today. So about 3 o'clock I left the Saône today, from here it would be another 4 days to the Mediterranean, but Lyon, Avignon and Marseille I already know, so continue on the 6 west. Canal de Centre, some can already think of where I will be tomorrow. Tomorrow I must urgently in a hotel, or the day after tomorrow. Charge batteries and wash clothes.... Oh tomorrow, who needs it, I live for today, in this sense....