Average speed: 12.2 mph
Max speed: 34.5 mph
Time in saddle: 9 hours 20 min.
What a day. Over nine hours of peddling and with a few stops on route meant we left at 8.30am and got back at 8.00pm !
This was the second hardest day of the week, the day the Tourmalet was conquered being the toughest.
Thought I would post a couple of photos of a tractor and a caravan spotted on route. For all those that have read my previous blog will know how much I like spotting them.
The cols were long, but not quite as steep today. Lessons learnt on route today were as follows;
1. Don't follow the Yanks, this time when they went wrong, nobody followed them. Meaning only they had to do an extra 10 miles.
2. Old ladies in restaurants will deny having any form of stamp for the on route card unless you buy a drink. We didn't, she denied having the stammer. Others enjoyed her cokes and got their card stamped. Surprised the place was open at all, most of France seems to be shut once more. Or as the Yanks seem to think, abandoned!
3. When you go downhill from the mountain top and here something fall off your bike, remember not too get too worried next time.
4. Dead boars in the middle of the road don't smell good.
5. Reaching what we thought was civilisation once more, one of the Yanks thought he would stroll over the road for his McDonalds fix at 10pm. Sadly, like the rest of France, SHUT !
Last day Friday, with just 50 miles to do and a swim in the sea. Feeling good, but maybe wearing my best pants as no swimming trucks have been purchased. Maybe I should purchase some budgie smugglers and do my Daniel Craig impression coming out of the Med.
Aureviour until tomorrow.
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