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Cruising from Viviers to Tournon
... talking and laughing as we sailed toward Touron. Then we had a cooking demonstration by our chef. We learned how to make Crepes Suzette. Good and delicious fun. A tour of the kitchen followed. It is amazing that the get all of that wonderful food out of such a small kitchen. A French lesson followed to prepare us for our home hosted dinner in Touron tonight. All 12 of us are going to the same home. The family will never be the same after our ...
Choranche Caves
... tart, apple tart and piece of dense cake which they then had to cycle with! I had stopped at the top of a hill and Dad rode up saying that he had carried the tart in his hand for quite a ways so as not to squish it, but then looked up at the hill and decided to fold it up carefully in his back pocket. Somehow it still arrived intact and we all enjoyed a sample of each partway along the ride. Afterwards, they continued on and I met up with them one more time before ...
Escargots & Grenouilles
... it in to Braeden back home. So he took a picture and sent an SMS to Braed with a picture of our meal. We later got this reply back from Braed, “Looks like you ate a swamp!”. Clearly it had had the desired effect…
We had a variety of cheeses to choose from but based on my past experience in Briançon, I decided to play it safe and went for a mild, fresh cheese. It turned out it was very mild indeed, verging on being a really ...
Into the Alps we go
... views of the countryside, the autumn colours are just starting to come out which adds to the beauty.
We stopped in a small town for lunch which was ham and cheese on bread beside a nice river, which obviously floods from time to time as there was a large painted measure on the building near the river which had a few dates and flood levels, back in the 1700's it rose 3m up the building which was a good 50m away from the river. We then Continued riding North, this time we ...
What an experience - Tour de France
... warning blaring over speakers. Then they started arriving...all the sponsors have floats and people on the float tossing stuff into the crowd - hats, key rings, frisbies, newspapers, packs of cards, beef jerkie, bottled water, more hats, T shirts....you get the idea.
That went for about 30 minutes and then another safety car - marked as 'middle of caravan safety car'. Then, you guessed it...more floats and giveaways. Then the 'end of ...