What a great day. The expected rain never materialised and it turned into a really nice sunny day. As per usual, riding in France can be a very enjoyable experience. It's so easy to find yourself on a road with barely any traffic, allowing you to bowl along at a steady 50mph. Even slowing for the villages with their 30kph sections is bearable. Weather helps obviously.
One thing non bikers won't appreciate is the interaction one has with your surroundings, sounds but particularly smells. Sure, they aren't always nice, when the farmers are muckspreading but like today, when we were riding through wine country, the smell from the vines was extraordinary and a sure sign harvest was due. Indeed, we saw a number of tractors towing their wagons full of grapes. And I never knew there were so many wine houses!
It's interesting too to see the landscape change. From the arid to the green and rocky, as we moved east and into the alpine region. At one point I looked over to my right and could see clouds below me in the distance. I had no idea we had climbed so high.
Once we'd arrived at our hotel and unpacked, I carried out some maintenance on Ginny. I'd already done the tyre pressures in the morning but now I checked the coolant level and the oil. Coolant was fine, oil was about halfway down the dipstick, so I topped her up. I'd only been back to the room for a couple of minutes when it started to rain. It rained steadily for a while but had stopped by the time we went for dinner across the road. I got my beer tonight, as the place had a good selection of artisan beers. 😁 I had something called Glaciale. Nice it was too.
We've decided or is it just me, that we'll go to Lidl and get some stuff for brekkie tomorrow. Someone will be missing his cereal!
Forecast looks like it could rain, maybe even thundery. Fingers crossed.
Till then.
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