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Too bad. We biked across, but it was well off season and almost deserted.
1 month agoThere's nothing wrong with your memory concerning geography! Impressive. Thanks for the detailed clarification.
1 month agoI lobbied for the Garmins exactly for the live tracking feature. We ended up with the Coros Dura units for the amazing battery life. We don't typically ride together. I like to leave early to beat the heat. Jacinto likes to get his money's worth out of the room, and leaves when they kick him out. I don't mind navigating on my own in the USA, but I'm too uncertain in Europe. It's a learning curve for both of us, for sure.
1 month agoIce can make all of the difference for me on a hot day.
1 month agoAl and I almost always ride the same route but rarely together unless navigation is tricky, as in through cities and bigger towns. He tells me his policy is to stop and wait in a good spot (shade, lately) if he hasn’t seen me for 5 km. There is no way I can keep up with him and it would drive him crazy to slow down to my speed.
We just started using LiveTrack on our Garmins this year—we’ve had Garmin Edge devices for 12 years. It’s nice; we each get an icon showing where the other is on the map screen. Before that, we used the Apple FindMy app when needed or communicated on WhatsApp (messages show up on the Garmin screen). I expect Wahoo has similar features.
The difficulty of obtaining ice on demand is one of the main reasons I will never do a bicycle tour in Europe.
1 month agoWe’ve been getting those when we order white or rosé wine lately. Not with water, but we usually drink that before it has time to warm up.
1 month agoWow! That’s a new one for me too!
1 month agoJacinto's right, you're basically out of the mountains now - for the next four or five days anyway, until you start climbing toward the Alps and the Italian border. A couple of corrections on your geography though, just to give you a little more context about southern France.
First, you left the Pyrenees several days ago, really ever since Lagrasse. The mountainous country you've been in ever since Carcassonne is a separate formation that covers most of the middle of southern France, the Central Massif. You're just leaving it now and dropping toward the Rhone River, one of the largest rivers in Western Europe.
And as dramatic as all these gorges are, they're not the Grand Canyon. That's further east in the foothills of the Alps but south of where you'll be going. And it's totally amazing and deserves its reputation in my opinion. We've biked it three times now, but the ride ten years ago on the quieter north rim was the best: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/geneva2015/to-castellane-traversing-the-grand-canyon-of-the-verdon/
Definitely a glider
1 month agoHi Kelly, Why no fenders? You are tempting the rain gods.
1 month agoLook like gliders
1 month agoI’d go with your opinion, Kelly!
1 month agoPretty much true - castle or small chateau. There are tons of chateaus in France.
1 month ago
I would really plan on walking the walls. Get there about a half hour before they close the gate, and take your time. Once you're in, I'm not sure how long you've got but I think it's later. By that time it shouldn't be too hot, there will likely be a breeze, and the sun should be low enough to show off the colors in the salt lagoons.
1 month ago