Lyon to Port Saint Louis, EV17
It’s a little bit quick quicker than the metaling from patony to Wellington here we go here we go we’re right by the river ran that’s Dave by the way and we finally got here and we’re just going to cycle down until we I know what do you reckon do we need a
Beer or I don’t know we pull off our bikes yeah okay all right Here Comes Dave day two after half an hours of riding there we go he’s looking the professional on the viona which is really well signposted and everything there we go totally adorable piece of Countryside near the
Town of bay ba IX few geese or something look this Countryside would you gorgeous we’ve already done 38 C and we got about another 25 to a eus budget it’s freaking hot not super hot but we have a tail W so that’s pretty good the tracks are just
Amazing never get with one hand with pennies oh okay so I made it to Aon on a train no conductor so no ticket which is good and I’m just waiting for my uh the reception to open so I thought I’d cycle around the ramp Parts um which are these things so I’ll
Do a bit of video on that as I cycle around trying not to fall off it’s about 31° I think but there’s a cool breeze which is good and there’s a thunderstorm coming tomorrow but I have a room for a couple of nights so I’m pretty happy with that
Almost think it was smart of me I still have no idea what happens at roundabouts or Crossings cars come from any sort of bloody Direction Dave and I have been um uh just getting off at roundabouts and pushing our bikes around cuz it’s just too [Applause] crazy
Beautiful this is uh the pope moved here he must have gotten kicked out of Rome at some point I’ll find out more later I guess but anyway I’ll do some more in a bit holy crap well it’s uh Tuesday God knows what day anyway um I’ve done 22k I’m heading towards
Owl I’m just going to go through that where is that that little village it’s freaking hot I started about qu to 10 so pretty good I’m just under a that’s a big train bridge they know how to do infrastructure for sure so I’m heading for Al so I’ve got to stop in
Boair which is about maybe 20 K away and then I have lunch there and then it’s another 17K to and I’m going to stay for a couple of nights cuz the weather tomorrow is shitty I just have to take a couple of minutes of this stretch because
This is how well they look after cyclist and France look this is just freaking amazing look at that Tron beautiful smooth T seal some good track next door but this is beautiful so easy it looks slightly down hill so of 10K to O I just passed under the raway bridge
It sounds like a train but I can’t really stop to show you I I just passed it by some cyclist cute little village Vineyards sunshine I don’t know it’s tough I’ve got that 9k to B here where I’m going to stop for lunch have a good break and then
It’s I think it’s about 17K to our there we go cycling in France okay can’t see anything going to see if I can keep this going as we go through this tunnel it looks like it’s an old uh railroad track look at that how cool is
That when you come up to the lights they come on I think maybe they don’t whoa how cool is that what the John Key this is what you imagin when you decided on the great rides a t when he first came into power and he did that Railway thing no not Railway
Cycling cycle parts the Hall of New Zealand then they all should look like that oh okay so it’s I don’t know 2:00 in the afternoon stinking bloody hot I just stopped to um check that I was on the right track and I am heading towards
Our so I bed room for a couple of nights cuz it looks like we going to be doing um I don’t know about 58k or something um today so I’m just going to give my leg a rest and um oh looks like it’s beautiful little town anyway so no drummer I’m not
In a rush cuz I don’t need to be back in Avenue until uh Saturday morning or Friday night really anyway I’m going to spin it around all in the middle the middle of Vats I think fruit trees God knows what and it is bloody H I hadn’t realized the um effect of the
Heat when you’re cycling anyway I’ll update you later okay it is 3:30 3:20 I don’t know I’ve got about 8ks to go to the hotel I’m pretty bat actually now we’re to Olive country which is quite interesting just crossed over little canal with a my people fishing
So it’s been stinking hot riding across these Open Fields now we’re coming into some shade which is good very good I must admit I’m a bit but j s Tre fatig I am very tired but it’s not far just find it quite interesting if you said to me at the beginning of the
Day Rob you’re going to do 58 K today I would have got no I’m never going to do that uh but clearly I can without even know okay Thursday morning off to the Mediterranean that’s my hotel in the background about 40K I think and then I don’t know what but Mediterranean here we
Come well I’m about 30 Cas in and this has been pretty typical of what I’ve been cycling on it’s just endless thank goodness there’s these little trees uh on each side cuz that sheld us from the window a bit cuz it’s sort of cross SL headwind which is pretty
Annoying but just breaking it up into 15K slots really um and in a case like this you just got to like put your head down and bloody pedal there’s no