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...

Awoke tired after a big couple of days. Again camping de delivered and several black coffees later and a large jambon roll felt more alive. Packed and left in what I thought was a reasonable time. Colin had called me the night before to say the roads would be closed at 4 pm, so no time to loiter. Rode the lake road (back to the motorway which was now completed towards Jaca and riding on new bitumen road with big mountains looming on my left, with bigger ones i...

A very smooth ferry crossing with a good sleep. The Ferry was full of bikers and trikes going to the moto piston rally at Faro Portugal. Although they looked threatening(wearing colours, tattoos and badges) we all have a shared passion for motorbikes and chatted to some at brekky. Even got my photo taken with a club mascot when they heard my name they just had to. Aiming for stress free travel only went to car deck when finally called - after all why wait for ov...