September 30, 2023
Geneva to Seyssel
Being a chocaholic, I had seen these stores everywhere in Geneva called Laderach's chocolate, so I finally tried some and omg, it is fantastic. How can chocolate taste so different? Elixar of the gods.
Last night, we decided to go for a walk before dinner, and ended up finding a people watching spot along the Rhone, just up from Lac Leman.
It slowly fills up with really interesting people. This couple had a spirited conversation even when he got on the phone. And then those socks just cried out for a photo.
After we had a drink and decided to order some food, the patio had really filled up. One waitress, about 60 people. Sheesh! You can see her scurrying to get someone's order.
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So we decided to get out earlier this morning as we knew there would be significant uphill (~600m) today. Saturday morning (0900) in Geneva was fairly busy, and there were bike lanes most places, but often between the cars and the trams/buses. Yikes! I took this pic really quickly at a stoplight.
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After about 10 km of bike lanes on roads, we finally "get out of town" and see some green fields and proper lanes. Stress levels go down in concert with noise levels from cars whizzing by.
Eventually we do get away from the roads. Today's ride, although enjoyable, was dominated by roads. Probably 50% of today was on roads with no bike lane and significant traffic.
There was a stretch through a dark forest which was beautiful - in spite of the steep climb in the middle of it. Somewhere here we passed into France but we never saw the border sign.
We pass this cute town with umbrellas strung up, so I stop to ask this fellow you see below why they have it. My French is much better speaking than listening (Marjory would say my English has the same issue), but he said it was for a concert they were having and....that's all I got.
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We climbed and climbed for probably 10km with some steep down grades sprinkled in. We got to be quite high above the Rhone as you can see below.
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Did you see the castle /fort built into the west bank of the Rhone a few km’s later?
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Shortly after this, we climbed some more. Eventually we got on a very quiet D road which only had occasional cars and was quite pretty.
The final leg of about 8km is almost all downhill, and quite fun with big loops and bisecting little villages - one had a large wedding ongoing and we rode ride through the crowd. Marjory is much more comfortable climbing than descending, so I had lots of time to read email after these descents.
We get on a bike trail as we enter Seyssel, turn a corner and see our destination across the water. How pretty!
Tomorrow we are on to St Genix-dur-Gulers.
Today's ride: 53 km (33 miles)
Total: 381 km (237 miles)
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