Today we said goodbye to Doug, Carman, Charles and Charles and headed off on our 5 day route to Limoux.
Our route selection was going great until we hit the rather busy D9 after crossing the Rhone at Codolet. Then we spotted a quiet back road that looked like it would follow a small river all the way in to Connaux .. So we took it!
After a while the road started to get a bit rocky and then we kept getting passed by this small car packed full of spacemen dress in bright orange! It would stop, let out an orange person and then drive another 100m and repeat! At one point our road started to disappear around a riverbend and so we asked one of the spacemen . .. he said keep going - it was a good route! Ofcourse Saturday morning in France is when all the men go hunting .. and yes, it turned out to be a good route!
We arrived in Moussac around 2pm. We had planned on going to the medieval town of Vezenobres but could not find accommodation. (Mom: we are about 10km South East of Vezenobres).
Dinner tonight was an adventure as the only place open is a pizza/bar/cafe down on the river accessible by a small path along the shore. You are greeted by honking geese and a Pirate's theme. Pizza was good and we had a nice view of the river (Gardon).
Tomorrow is a big day .. 90km + with close to 1000m of ascent .. We'll see what the GPS actually records .. It is usually less!
Thanks everyone for birthday wishes to Harold!
70km 510m
Cheers
Harold and Marion
.. Pictures to follow ...
2017-09-23-09-10-45.summary
| Trackfile | 2017-09-23-09-10-45.gpx | plot |
| Date | 2017-09-23 07:10:45 GMT |
| Time | 3:48 |
| Distance | 67.4 km |
| Ave speed | 17.7 km/h |
| Max speed | 36.3 km/h |
| Ascent | 602 m |
| Descent | 544 m |
| Slope>5% | 1.2 km |
| Slope>10% | 0.0 km |
2017-09-24-09-07-33.summary
| Trackfile | 2017-09-24-09-07-33.gpx | plot |
| Date | 2017-09-24 07:07:33 GMT |
| Time | 0:01 |
| Distance | 0.5 km |
| Ave speed | 21.3 km/h |
| Max speed | 23.6 km/h |
| Ascent | 1 m |
| Descent | 0 m |
| Slope>5% | 0.0 km |
| Slope>10% | 0.0 km |
2017-09-24-09-12-17.summary
| Trackfile | 2017-09-24-09-12-17.gpx | plot |
| Date | 2017-09-24 07:12:17 GMT |
| Time | 5:03 |
| Distance | 92.0 km |
| Ave speed | 18.2 km/h |
| Max speed | 47.6 km/h |
| Ascent | 1071 m |
| Descent | 956 m |
| Slope Max | 11.0 % @ 88.0 km |
| Slope>5% | 2.9 km |
| Slope>10% | 0.0 km |
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