Day 36 Heading North we travelled through Gorges du Verdon which is a 25km long and 700 meter deep river canyon, regarded as Europe's most beautiful canyon. Travelling from the South along the left bank we stopped several times for photo opportunities. Continuing North West we reached the small commune of Moustiers-Saint-Marie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moustie rs-Sainte-Marie For centuries this has been the centre of faience (tin glazed Pottery). A natural...

Day 35 It was a late start at 9am today as we only had 114km to travel. We headed West from Nice to Grasse, the centre of the French Perfume industry. We spent an hour and a half touring the International Perfumery Museum Grasse. Have you ever though how they get the various scents to combine in the bottle ? What the difference is between Perfume, Toilet water etc..? Well all of these questions were answered and I now know far more about the art of perfumery. htt...

Day 34 Today was La Fête nationale or Bastile Day France's most important national holiday. The city was alive with people many displaying their French patriotism with red, whit and blue attire of face decoration. After breakfast Gregory Senior and I set off on a 2 hour Segway tour of Nice. We were motivated by the hill terrain and the desire to have a spin on this unique vehicle. Both Gregory and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience both from the site seeing...

Day 33 We had 232 km to ride today to the Cote d' Azur, the beautiful "Blue Coast" of the Mediterranean. Heading South from Briancon we crossed Col d'Lzoard, 2360 meters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_d%2 7Izoard Then continued South to Saint Veran where we turned left to Guillestre befor heading South for our second pass of the day. col de Vars, 2108 meters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_de_ Vars We then continued South across Col de la Bonette, 2715 m...

Day 32 Today we travel 297 km to the highest town in Europe (1326 meters) and Lois XIV deemed it a strategic town in France's defence against the Austrians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian&# 231;on lois XIV commissioned Vauban to construct a fort to protect the citadel and also France from the Austrians. Vauban constructed a star shaped fort around the small city. The star shape being chosen because any attackers of the wall would be in crossfire from two s...