Hotel Regina Vichy
4 Avenue Termale Vichy, Auvergne, France
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Bully, Beaujolais and Big Bellies
... Wine-coloured liquid begins pouring from fingers and, with such a clean cut, it is sometimes hard to stem the flow.
Despite the occasional discomforts during the four hours or so of work per day, life during the vendages is far from unpleasant. Two hours after a huge but simple breakfast consisting of bowls of coffee or tea and as much bread, jam and butter as you want, coffee and brioche appears around 10am. We stop, chat, try to wipe our sticky fingers on ...
High on a hill stood a campsite......
... place for Quali (F1) she would go along with it!
A few hours later, and a large number of French roadworks and deviations we arrived at the top of a mountain! An interesting campsite, bought by a Dutchman 8 years ago, and would love to say updated and modernised – but not! He seemed to be into doing any number of diy jobs but never finishing any of them. Half finished blow-up pool (don’t ask how you half finish this, but he ...
Nice lazy day
Little to report today beyond the meagreness of the hotel breakfast (which meant I had to go straight out to get another one from a café) and that I spent several hours in a Cyber Gaming Café updating this blog while surrounded by a crowd of crazy gamers, playing across networks and screaming at each other and their screens ... but I guess it keeps them off the street ;)
This is what a rest day should feel like - just chilling out, updating the blog, catching ...
Mountains on the Horizon
... the square scoffing and watching the world go by. A old chap chatted with me for a bit and of course mentioned the weather: "il fait chaud", he said, and he was right, as the day got hotter and hotter.
Change of tactics today as I was riding on the D2009, a major route downgraded from the N9. I figured that being a weekend I wouldn't see too many big trucks. And the plan worked well because I was on a smooth surface and travelling ...
Getting further North now
Thursday 21 April
Fairly leisurely start to the day, with a supermarket visit at coffee time. Then an amazing journey through the mountains, wooded valleys, steep zig-zag passes, big plateaux. Lunch by the river. Eventually hit the free A75 ...


