We had a very gentle ride up into the hills, barely getting above 45/50mph. At least that way I could keep Grizzly in sight, well most of the time.
After about 90 minutes we pulled into a village, Florac, for our brekkie. In the square there was the finishing line for what appeared to be a hill running competition. Just as we arrived, the first guy came over the line. We only saw 2 more come in!
We got some pastries and a coffee My cappuccino was a bit over the top, literally.
This was Super Sunday, an absolute brilliant ride from start to finish. I love riding in France. The roads today have been so smooth, there's barely been a bump. Such a contrast to Italy. The weather once again played its part and in the main not too hot, 26-27 degrees.
On one series of twisties, we came around a right hander to be confronted by two police motorcyclists, one of whom waved us over. We weren't doing anything wrong, they were just doing a tyre condition spot check.
At one point a threatening cloud appeared. Despite it being 27 degrees, it started to rain, all 5 big spots of it! 🤣
We only had one stop today, the Garabit Viaduct built by Gustave Eiffel. The road to a viewing point twists under it twice, so you get more than one perspective. It's quite impressive and that same orangey colour as the Eiffel Tower. We stopped to take some photos and watched a pair of red kites soaring overhead.
Continuing on, we stopped at a supermarket to grab a drink and I took the opportunity to do my shopping for the tour.
I only have room for one bottle in my pannier bag. ☹️
We had another fuel stop to make before our destination. When we got to the garage, a Total one, the fuel was €2.23 per litre. We searched Google maps and found a Carrefour one 500m up the road. Theirs, €1.99. I saved €4.50.
Fuelled up again we enjoyed the last 15 mile run into Bort-les-Orgues and to our hotel, Le Rider. How appropriate, eh?
Parking across the street in the tourist railway car park, which looks closed down, until on closer inspection, I saw the station is still in operation, just not Sunday. The rolling stock is a right mess, as you'll see in the photos.
This old bus like thing was the most interesting.
I took a walk into the town, trying to suss out where we might eat later. Nothing was open and it was hard to see if/when they would be. The town had some interesting things such as an octagonal building in the square and quite a large church.
Back at the hotel, I checked out some of the eateries I'd seen on Google maps. It can be unreliable, for opening times especially but it seemed a Vietnamese restaurant would be open, an all you can eat buffet! So that's where we ate, and ate and ate! Oh, and drank Vietnamese beers too.
Above, breaded frogs legs. Grizzly wouldn't have one until I said I'd call him out in the blog, the words, f*****g wus came to mind. He had one.
We walked out of there full to the gills. Maybe a small salad tomorrow 🤔
The Dordogne river runs behind the hotel. There's no aircon in the room, so our windows are open. Meaning we have the sound of the running water to lull us to sleep. Hopefully there's no mozzies about or I'll suffer.
Tomorrow we continue our journey north, overnighting in Nevers, another place I've nevers been to. 🤣
Four more sleeps till tour end.
Bonne nuit.
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