Mont Ventoux

Mont Ventoux is one of the stages of the tour de France and is popular with keen cyclists wanting to take on the challenge. We decided NOT to do it on the ebikes... wise decision as it lookedRead more
Mont Ventoux is one of the stages of the tour de France and is popular with keen cyclists wanting to take on the challenge. We decided NOT to do it on the ebikes... wise decision as it lookedRead more
Best day of the week today. Glorious sunshine, so headed out on the bikes. The track was busy with weekend cyclists. Just went halfway round, stopping off at various villages, and ended in Tallories,Read more
Gorges du Fier is one-off the finest examples of erosion by running water. During heavy rain, the water can rise up to 26m per hour. Some of the pictures show the repairs after flooding in 2019. ThenRead more
Another crap day weather wise, so had morning coffee in the van. Drove to Tallories, other side of the lake. It was still raining, so we walked up to the 35m metre waterfalls of the cascade deRead more
After a cloudy uncertain start to my birthday and realising I am now 66, we decided to risk the 27-mile round the lake cycle ride. About 80% of the ride is off-road on special cycle tracks.
Well, it p****d it down most of last night and up to 1.00pm today. Then we had a bit of sunshine. The town was really nice and is known as the French Venice.
Travelled to Lake Annecy today heading south towards Italy.booked on a nice site for 2 nights, but may stay longer. There are great views across the lake over to the mountains. Weather started to rainRead more
Cycled from site in Santenay along the voie vert, which is an old railway to Nolay about 7km it was only a short distance, i found another route that took us high into the hills with some goodRead more