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    • TravelerTour de France 2010
      Day 9

      Messy dinner

      July 9, 2010 in France ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

      After we passed through the Col de Terramont we turned south, toward the route of this year's Tour de France. We joined it on the climb to the Col de la Ramaz just above the viliage of Messy. This is about two fifths of the way up the approach that would be used for le Tour, as we had retained some of the height from our previous climbs.

      As soon as we joined le Tour route, we encountered a ‘king of the mountains’ bike sculpture and jersey that had been put out by local fans. We paused shortly after for a dinner of sandwiches, before taking on the steep upper section of the pass.      Read more

    • TravelerTour de France 2010
      Day 11

      Le Tour Stage 8

      July 11, 2010 in France ⋅ 🌧 21 °C

      After delivering Welsh cakes to our new friends, we joined the Ajax group for their climb from Sommand up to the top of Col de la Ramaz; Dan attacked off the front at the end, beating Ajax to the summit, and claiming the King of the mountains points for Cwm Carn.

      Today is stage 8 for the riders of Le Tour de France, which we were aiming to get a good view from our spot on the Col de la Ramaz. A little after 10:00, we packed up the tent and headed to the side of the road to, on the increasinly crowded col. We prepared some lunch, dosed a litte and generally waited around for a couple of hours.

      Around an hour and a half before the tour passes through, a caravan of vehicles passes through, throwing out free goods (water, hats, cakes, jerseys etc). We managed to grab a few hats, a bootle opener, some water and some madelines. The tour did eventually come through and we managed to take a few snaps of the main groups

      After the tour had passed, we grabbed our already packed bikes and headed down to Morzine.      Read more

    • TravelerTour de France 2010
      Day 10

      Col de la Ramaz

      July 10, 2010 in France ⋅ 🌙 16 °C

      Col de la Ramez is a grade 1 climb, which is the hardest graded climb, 5 being the lowest. It was not the easiest thing in the world, and not particularly relaxing considering that this is supposed to be a holiday!

      The whole climb was alrady camped out with Tour fans, almost 48 hours before the tour was due to come through. Many of them greeted us with traditional cheers of "Alez Alez!". When we reached the top of the climb the sun had set, but the night was warm and clear, so we put down our ground sheet and slept under the stars, which were very bright, considering the proximity of Geneva.

      Come the morning we found we were surrounded by cows - which hadn't been nearby the previous night (the cows roam quite free up here in the alps). Although alpine cows are pretty placid, it was quite intimidating to wake looking up, at these towering animals with crushing, dinner-plate size hoves. Worse still, the cows had eaten our baguette! The loss of the baguette was partiularly tragic as we had brought it up well over kilometer in altitude since we bought it, so we had been through a lot together.

      We'll be on this Col for another night, so we relocated from our 'cowboy camp' spot, to the opposite field and have pitched the tent on a grassy area about 50 metres away from the road; hopfully when the tour comes through tomorrow, we won't get our things crushed.

      There are hundreds of people camped out on the mountain (although 99% are in camper vans, a few are in tents, but we've seen only three other cycle tourers).      Read more

    • TravelerTour de France 2010
      Day 10

      Sommand

      July 10, 2010 in France ⋅ 🌙 22 °C

      We took a trip down into Sommand this morning, and spied a campervan flying a Welsh dragon, and a St David's cross. Turned out they were from Cardiff and members of Cardiff Ajax cycling club (arch rivals of my cycling club - Cwm Carn Paragon), and invited us to sit down, gave us tea and some cake!

      We ended up spending the morning with them, talking about various things. They had four huskies, beautiful dogs, which are pets but they also use them to pull their bikes along - apparently it is a sport called Canix (short for cainine cross), its popular in europe but not so much in the UK.

      We popped back up to our tent on the Ramaz for Later, when we went up to the roadside to prepare lunch (niocci, with sausages) and were given shots of schnaps by a French man who seemed to appreciate the effort we were going to to watch le tour. A nap followed.

      The rest of the 10th is for relaxation, as is most of tomorrow as the tour is expected to come through at around 4pm, we will be standing on the top waving the flags in hope of being seen-on-TV! Once the tour goesthrough though, the race is on for us as we need to chase them down to Morzine.

      On the 11th Dan started the day keeping his promise of making Welsh cakes for the Welsh folk camped in Sommand. We made the Welsh cakes at the side of the road on the Ramaz, and some of the French tour watchers sampled the cakes declaring Dan to be "a chef", much to his delight. Once the cakes were done we put them in our empty pan-au-chocolate box and rode down to the defacto Welsh enclave in Somand.

      Shortly after we rode down 16 Cardiff Ajax riders rode up the hill, and were fed the Welsh cakes. We chatted, Dan (in his Cwm Carn Paragon kit) managed to sneak into one of the Ajax team photos.      Read more

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    Mieussy, Mussiacum, Мєссі

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