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Travel Blogs from Les Orres
Briançon
... along the way. We decided to find a sunny spot to enjoy a café and headed back towards the sunny side of the ramparts. Anoop was busy taking photos and somewhere in there he missed* our signalling that we were heading right. We got to the café, ordered and went to the washroom and he still hadn’t showed up. I headed off in search of him and spotted him further down the hill; after flagging him we returned to the café in time for ...
Col d'Izoard
... the way. Within 2-3 hrs, we were all up at the pass and I was glad that it was done because my legs were hurting that day. I had thought the rest of the loop back to the campsite was downhill and therefore easy, but I was mistaken. As I mentioned earlier, the ascent was only about 22 km so we still had another 60 km back to the campsite. Please don’t mistake the brevity of this paragraph to be proportional to the difficulty of the ride as that was definitely not ...
The half way point
Awoke today to our first grey day. Not so bad, we have had two and a half weeks of perfect weather. Left our very pleasant country hotel this morning in misty conditions. The hotel owners had a lovely big kelpie cross that wanted me to throw a stick for him this morning . He just stood there patiently with the stick in his mouth waiting for me to say the right commands for him, in French. It was a frustrating experience for both us!, Our touring took us up into ...
Gap
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Voir la descente du Galibier :
http://vimeo.com/48761785?action=share& amp;ref=nf
et celle du Télégraphe :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasEM3Tq rIg&feature=share
Filmées par Franck avec sa caméra embarquée à l'avant. Sympa. :)
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Three Passes
Barcelonnette is nestled in the bottom of a valley and all routes out are up. There are several mountain passes in every direction but the forecast was not great and the only clear prediction was South East. Just as well that was the way I was going.
La Bonette is 2802m high and the highest point in this area. John Hermann (hereafter known as JH) recommends a circuitous route of about 200km which takes in 3 high passes. I set off about 10am and ...
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