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Blog 6
I am going to keep this blog short. i might do another blog when i am in a better frame of mind.
Right, today was my last cycle. a 100k cycle mostly downhill peddle to Toulouse. 100k, is now, no problem. However i didn't count on the HEADWINDS i have just experienced. I will say it again so you get the message.....HEADWINDS. Since i left Nimes 5 days ago the vast part of each days ride has encountered HEADWINDS. Now since that fateful ride in ...
Blog 5
... obviously normally there are hills and mountains etc in the way, but not this time. it was at this point i was glad i had chosen not to do a mountain stage on my little tour, i was exhausted and i had just climbed a little bump in comparison to those beasts.
soon after this the ride changed......for the worse. All day i had been looking forward to the last 30k, it was a gentle downhill, a good way to finish a long *********** the saddle. Oh no, that is not what the ...
Discovering Nimes
Nimes (pronounced Nim) has 2000 years of history when it was the capital city of Roman Gaul and therefore has some incredible Roman ruins and preserved buildings and is quite a picturesque city.
We began at the Jardins de la Fontaine, 18th century formal gardens constructed around a spring discovered by the Romans. Inside the gardens is a roman ruin of the Temple of Diana and on the mount, is the octagonal ruin of the Tour Magne - once a part of the roman walls and ...
Amazing Millau Viaduct
On our way east across the south of France, we stopped at the Millau Viaduct. It was built between 2002 and 2004 and is an amazing construction, a technical feat. It is 2,460 metres in length and a record height of 343 metres. It has 7 concrete piers ...
Roman Influence and Good bye France
... the calendar has turned to October it is closed. Still very impressive to walk across something so old and still standing. Down at the bottom we could have gone for a swim if the weather was hot, do you think the Romans wore speedos?
Van Gogh was known to hang around Arles so we walked the streets looking for his museum, too many little streets with too ...