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It's a rough life....somebody's got to live it.
As many of you know, I won this trip to France via a contest at work, for which I focused greatly on, and while many of you may be envious, I assure you that this secondary trip to France so soon after my first did not come without consequences. While two months ago I was at peak physical appearance, the pastry, duck confit, foie gras, frites …
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
... had newt-like creatures that are translucent. They are an endangered species and only exist naturally in some caves in Hungary. The ones we were looking at were bred in a laboratory. We continued on our tour and went up to the “cathedral” room because of its tall ceiling. They had set up a sound and light show which was kind of strange for a cave, but interesting nonetheless. They lit up different parts of the cave at different times and also had music ...
Escargots & Grenouilles
... pottery being sold that I would have loved to pick up but resisted due to its fragility. We picked up fresh figs that looked really juicy and they proved to be delicious. When we got to one end of the street, there were a couple of bike shops and Rod had been looking for a new riding shorts so he went in to peruse. I went to a different bike store and happened upon a Mt. Ventoux shirt that was very clever and so I just had to get it (I hadn’t ...
Into the Alps we go
... we discovered it was on the dangerous roads website therefore a must to ride in the morning.
29/8/12
Had a very early wake up call from dogs once again, many barking at each other which was most irritating, however it did get us up early thus we had our earliest start, 8.30am.
We aimed for Gorges Du Nan which was that 'dangerous road', it was a nice ride, had a small sun shower so we pulled over and put on our wet weather gear however the rain only lasted a ...