Day 11 - Brenne to the Limousin

Slight rain today, going south via Douadic (see http://www.jewishtraces.org/rubriques/?keyRubrique=le_camp_de_douadic) to Le Blanc and Belabre. The small road going south from here is very lonely indeed, as far as Lussac les Eglises. Small panic close to there when the engine suddenly revved to the maximum and could not be controlled. Fortunately, I was not going downhill, relying on engine braking, because that all that really works, at the time. It turned out the the throttle linkage had unscrewed itself, so it was easily repaired.
After Magnac, having left the Brenne the landscape becomes much more hilly and wooded, with many small dairly farms. There are many steep hills, fortunately marked on the map enably me to navigate around the worst ones. I refuelled in Cieux and, as usual, the tractor and the voyage attracted interest. I stpped in the var park there and one oldish guy drove in specially for a chat. He knew a lot about Fergusons, and we discussed engines; he also, as is now common, was kind enough to point out that the rear tyres are rotating in the wrong direction.
I estimate I have about another 250km to go, which should make a Saturday morning arrival possible - nothing going wrong meanwhile. The weather forecast for tomorrow is bad.