Cycling Solo In The French Pyrenees.

Cycling Solo In The French Pyrenees.

On today’s ride I cycle down the mountain only to have to ride back up again. But what a ride!

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Hello there and welcome to today’s ride a bienvenue a journey in france Chris and vicky have a rather long gravel drive it’s actually three kilometers long and this little golf cart is the best way to get down to the main road it’s also rather fun Yesterday’s ride up the colder costume was pretty tough so today i’m just going to take things slightly easier chris has very kindly sorted me out with some roots which he created on strava as you can probably see chris isn’t with me today he’s busy buying building materials would you believe

So it’s it’s down to me to ride solo today and uh the route that he’s created for me is 25 kilometers down to the village of amelie libba and it’s going to be about 300 meters of climbing so pretty similar to my edmy’s lane route at home but unlike that

This is going to be 300 meters down and then 300 meters straight back up again [Applause] [Applause] As you can see the weather today is fantastic again 19 degrees and fairly sunny and i’m being a little brave wearing short kit the wind is coming from the north so that’s making it a little bit colder when i’m in the sun it’s absolutely lovely but in the shade

It does get a little bit cold so i’ve got my arm with me just in case it’s all very quiet for a thursday afternoon following a route on the crew is sometimes a little over complicated and that’s exactly what’s happened today particularly with the uh there’s a diversion due to traffic works

In the village there so i’ve taken a wrong turn but you know not to worry we’re just out to explore today and it’s a rather pleasant uh wrong turn because i get to have a look at the view of this river and the bridge i recognize this i think this is probably

Levoir belt which follows the old railway line i could be wrong the road feels like it’s just generally continuing on down and indeed when i look at the uh the altitude on my crew i can see that we are definitely losing altitude a bit Hey [Applause] just a quick stop to take in the view here on my left i’ve got a very picturesque terrace of houses and then on my right here a nice line of pink blossom no idea what the trees are I’ve just stopped to do a quick check of the map because i think i’m riding away from amelie lebanon now i am following the route but i do want to go into town have a little bit of a look around and possibly even visit a cafe i am in france

Oh no panic over looks like i am heading towards town now [Applause] It’s all starting to look a bit familiar now i was here two and a half years ago the last time i came to visit chris and vicky that was december 2019 and obviously it was on the approach to christmas and there were all the christmas decorations out but today here we are in

Early april and the temperature apparently is 25 degrees celsius that was a very nice meal in le grand cafe de paris some kind of very very nice piece of pork with a vegetable that we just could not work out what it was the the bar owner and i he looked it up

On google translate i never even heard of it in english it was some sort of root vegetable but it was very very nice and he even remembered me from the last time i was there which was two and a half years ago well that was the very pleasant little town of amelie labelle

They did have a couple of stings of climbs going out of town but i’m well on the way back to the house now and i think that’s just up all the way looks like i’m back on lavoie i came along this way this morning so it’s all looking a bit familiar

Luckily the climb back up so far isn’t too bad it’s just one or two percent well this is a bit that i don’t recognize i don’t think i’ve been on here before that was the village of al sur tech which is experiencing some traffic problems at the moment due to roadworks

And as i was going through the one-way system there at one point i had a string of about 10 cars waiting to pass me but at no point did anybody get frustrated or toot their hooter such is the way that cycling is regarded here in france as you may know

In the uk we drive on the left-hand side and over here in france they drive on the right-hand side and some of you are probably wondering how easy or how difficult it is for me to convert well it’s actually pretty easy i don’t really think about it

I’m so used to riding and driving on the right here it’s pretty much section second nature That sun’s getting warm now according to the kuru it’s 27 degrees celsius i think if it’s like this tomorrow i’ll be putting on suntan lotion fantastic [Applause] Okay there we go that’s another fantastic day of cycling here in france 26 kilometers and 247 vertical meters absolutely fantastic hopefully we’ll be going out again tomorrow the weather will be equally as lovely and it’ll just be amazing all over again thanks for watching i don’t know