Yes, Iain, check out of your hotel , put your clobber back on in the rain and ride 25 miles.It’s better there !
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Yes, Iain, check out of your hotel , put your clobber back on in the rain and ride 25 miles.It’s better there !
Day 19
Tuesday 13 June 2023
248 miles today.
I started the day on a balcony road along Gorges du Verdon and this time I was on the north side of the lake and it seemed better, to me, than the southern route I'd used before.
I wanted to see the Roman amphitheatres at Arles and Nimes at the aqueduct at Pont du Gard.
I got within 0.3 miles of each of them I had to park / abandon and walk the rest of the way. It's 28C and humphing a heavy and full tag bag didn't appeal to me and neither did leaving them on the bike so I didn't see any of them!
Some drizzle early then warm and dry and sunny until the last 50 miles which happened to be a very wet hill climb up, over and around 3000ft. to Florac. At that height I was also in cloud so not my ideal riding conditions.
While walking about Florac (it didn't take long) I saw bikes coming in from a different direction marked from Nimes so maybe I need to check my satnav criteria.
Weather still looking changeable for the next few days here as I head along Gorges du Tarn to Millau.
Tuesday 13 June 2023
248 miles today.
I started the day on a balcony road along Gorges du Verdon and this time I was on the north side of the lake and it seemed better, to me, than the southern route I'd used before.
I wanted to see the Roman amphitheatres at Arles and Nimes at the aqueduct at Pont du Gard.
I got within 0.3 miles of each of them I had to park / abandon and walk the rest of the way. It's 28C and humphing a heavy and full tag bag didn't appeal to me and neither did leaving them on the bike so I didn't see any of them!
Some drizzle early then warm and dry and sunny until the last 50 miles which happened to be a very wet hill climb up, over and around 3000ft. to Florac. At that height I was also in cloud so not my ideal riding conditions.
While walking about Florac (it didn't take long) I saw bikes coming in from a different direction marked from Nimes so maybe I need to check my satnav criteria.
Weather still looking changeable for the next few days here as I head along Gorges du Tarn to Millau.
Any hotel recommendations for Segovia, before I get there?
The Parador is very nice but won’t be cheap for a last minute booking.
Also worth a visit if you like archaeology, is Glanum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The site dates from 600BC.
All of these places best done in the spring
There is also a campsite at Pont du Gard, almost on the river, that makes a good base for the area.
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If you mean the Del Oso.....sadly, they wouldn't for us.The Bear Hotel will do a special 6.30pm sitting for the Brit travellers
The Bear Hotel will do a special 6.30pm sitting for the Brit travellers
But why would you want to ?
It's not a 'want', it's a need...cancer meant I've lost a few internal bits and can't eat late.
Ah, that’s a bloody good reason then
Looks niceBetter weather thus morning but I'm heading west into thunderstorms later, apparently.
Lovely.
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.Did you have a close encounter with the thunderstorms?
Annoyingly, the food there was the reason I booked it(..our first time at the Hotel, my wife loves good food...I'm a meat and 2 veg bloke I'm afraid) She wouldn't go and eat on her own at 8.30pm while I frolicked in the pool tho.
Yup,great food there.
Obviously you need to eat early but I quite like the timings in northern Spain.
You can get back to the hotel at 5 ish, go shower and change and still have a couple of hours with a beer or two or large gin and tonic in this case, sat on the terrace before dinner.
In the middle of one!Looks nice.
Did you have a close encounter with the thunderstorms?
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Some photos from Andorra la villa.
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And more
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I'm now here and in San Miquel land.
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