15.06.2026 Day 6 - Le Crotoy-Quiberville-sur-Mer. White cliffs, climbs and the first warm day.

I didn't know, but also Normandie has white cliffs, like Dover. Beautiful but long ride with again quite some steep hills. Coming to the camping, it was 27 degrees. But they have a pool!

Started around 9 after good hotel breakfast. Coming to Saint-Valerie-sur-Somme, there are interesting locks. This is the real outlet of the Somme.

Locks in Saint-Valerie-sur-Somme

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... and flowers along the road. It doesn't get boring.

Passing Le Hourdel, right across Le Crotoy at the other side of the bay. Coffee in Cayeux-sur-Mer, easy ride so far. Reserved a camping here after yesterday's experience.

Then it gets hard, 100m right up, see altitude map. From here, partly headwind, partly side. Agriculture fields on this plateau, before steep downhill to Mers-les-Bains. Always a pitty when the downhill is on steep and narrow roads so you have to brake a lot and dissipate your potential energy.

In this area there are several stretches of white cliffs. I thought they were unique in Dover, but clearly not.

White cliffs south of Le Treport

20 minutes after taking this picture I was on top of the cliffs, 120 meter higher.

They build them here too. Impressive construction work. See similar from Lithuania last year.

In Dieppe the EV 4 GPX track leads you the ferry to England, so it is completely wrong here. Use tracking with OrganicMaps, Komoot or similar to find the cycle bridge.

Yes, now I am on the Eurovelo, the Central Europe route, running from Bretagne to Kyiv. Left EV 12 in Calais, it continues in the UK.

After Dieppe there are two more climbs. The first of these has a great viewpoint, nice spot for a last break. 

Met a guy on the camping who does 120-140km per day. He is 75 years old! No need to stop it seems. But 100 is enough for me, more than some days. 670m up and 650j down today.

Started at the red spot and finished at the blue arrow

105 km that took me 8:30 hours (6:30 active cycling). Total distance 550 km