Awoke late...was it the red wine, the floc de Gascogne or beer or combination, result like a sleeping tablet. Found out that wine straight from the vineyard does not have any sulphites...yeah! Mountain biking uphill to feed and stroke friends cat. On a 29er with no front chain rings v dificile. Obviously a tricky off road descent -? Must have been when a 7 year old makes it and you fall off... That it's time to do more or retire. Planning next stage of trip alm...

Left Colin and Teresa around 10.30 am on the 20 th for B de B and old friends Patrick Claire Sophie and Thomas. The roads were full if very slow camper vans and very fast cyclists. It was similar weather to the day before a kind of mountain mist with a coolness that ate into your bones after a while. Good to be on the bike again and feel the wind in my hair and burble of the GS. The cols where we were watching the tour the day before were now empty that is ap...

So many highlights of another great day at the Tour. Early start walking in the mountain mist! Lots of layers was order of the day, but nice and cool for the 7 km walk uphill, legs quite stiff from yesterdays 12 km. The mountain mist was in and while it started to seep into our layers the coolness was a welcome break from yesterdays heat. When we got to the col and the cafe we met a Scottish couple of paragliders. Judith was 31 st in British championships (over...

Watching the tour on the col de peresourde! It's a big event this year loads of Aussies. Caravan has started to come through... No freebies yet...

Started off the day by doing a 6 km walk uphill in 30 degrees. Tempted by a tempoary village bar on the way but answered to the sensible voice! What a day realised that most of the previous tours had mostly cycled to the viewing point and never been to a major climb. This was going to be a different experience the last climb of the day and literally thousands of people and many were camping at the roadside in tents, cars and vans. The caravan was interesting b...