Arles to Sete
Okay so that is the mighty Rome behind me it is Friday morning and I’m going back to Al because that’s where meeting up with Dave and then we’re going down the Mediterranean route if I go if I go if I went that way about 10K would be the Plage Napoleon which is the
Mediterranean Beach but actually I can’t be bothered I just want to get to our get some washing done I’m retracing My Steps from yesterday but hopefully the wind won’t be full on in my face few spots of damp which I can coope with uh but I’m
Going to go to the toac and the supermarket for a banana and some don’t know what else something um so I will update you later okay so Friday I just tried to hit your left when I sort of got bored but excuse me um this is my day well not my
Day 2 and 1 half hours back to Al meet up with Dave buning through bus slight head SL slash crossw I came down this road yesterday just to say that I’ve pretty much done via Rona from Leon um so job done it’s not super exciting just a bit of a slog really
Thankfully it’s not so hot it’s only about 10:30 average so got to keep headling okay so this is the first time we’re officially on Euro 8 which is the Mediterranean route so we came from Al this morning cross country head winds awful um now we’re hopefully with a bit
Of a Tailwind heading off towards the Mediterranean proper so there okay so this is the canal donon DEET no idea what that means but looks like it’s a little holiday spot for the locals oh I’ve got people cyclist coming so I go over to this side and we’ve got but like the
Temps nothing like we have in New Zealand from the hydro things anyway here’s some happy cyclist lay up so we’re off to some place 11ks away so here we are cycling down the canal r desent ah 11k to go thank God for that I think we’ve done I don’t know 30
OD maybe more 35 we just went through this Wetland into a vicious headwind which was unpleasant um and now we’ve sort of got a tail crosswind this is quite cute but frankly I’ve had 3 days cycling in a row and my legs are feeling it but this is probably the nicest
Scenery we’ve had all day if you can see it look at that there we go okay so we are in aigus dasm we’re heading for mon pelia trying not to follow the water but I just thought it was quite picturesque it’s a medieval Fort ton of boats um nice cycle
Path from the cars parked in the middle of it don’t know where we go here maybe through here yeah see we can find a sign so after mellia but our first stop is that one there 5K l d which is cool the um we had beautiful dinner last night in the middle of
The square and the medieval town it’s a medieval as 800 years ago amazing seriously and they’ve really looked after their built environment with the ramp Parts as you can see up there and the housing inside just beautiful all right I will be back later Dave has been promising the flamingos for days sorry
Sketchy and there they are they’ve got pink legs so they not pink to not enough crustation has been eaten anyway I’m happy now that I’ve seen the few guys a view we’ve got a Tailwind so ear that yes look bloody Mediterranean Sea look at that sake so beautiful
Look my God what they actual calm not much wind I don’t know what this means this is a weird sign PL son pobles to know but look stretch as far as the eye can see fan testic there we go we’ve gone all the way from Leon in the middle
Of food producing France to the Mediterranean SE perfect we right lir Lair which m one of me huh the terranean that me so I’ve said before about going around corners you don’t know what you’re going to see next well that’s what you see next Mediterranean I know I’m wanking on
About it now but it’s just beautiful just totally gorgeous great path easy riding friendly cyclus I don’t know and look look at that view here we are in the center of Miss Mel Mel look at this big old plain trees cool architecture and look this I probably bad video but hey what the
Beautiful Sunday okay we are on our way to set which will be the last stop uh last stop yeah so we will have cycled from Leon to set don’t know the C is but I’ll work it out we’re sort of I think that way is the
Coast we’re Inland a little bit before we get back to the coast [Applause] lovely cycle path look at this just bloody beautiful love you French administrators Dave let me see if I can show you Dave where is he there he is Dave’s following along behind uh yeah so it’s a beautiful day probably
Early 20s nice path no wind uh let me go about another 7K which will get us to 20 so far and then we’ll have some break and a snack we’ll catch up later okay so we’re in this cute little village population 3,2 61 we just had a break Dave and I are
Going to buy this house move here oh was beautiful there’s my shakery over there we’ve done about 21k and 21k we about another 20K to go to set when we’ll dip out the front wheel of our bikes in the Mediterranean well maybe we won’t anyway this Rel after it’s a casino
Sandwich beautiful bit of tree lined cycling hi look that that’s pretty nice so cool of Breeze little bit up and down next to the cars but not with them then we come out onto these bumps bastards tree routs any you come out and see this which is pretty damn
Nice over a bridge un expecting need to Pedal harder sorry I’m puffing look at this out we’re going I don’t know where we’re going far to I think way in the distance there look at this beautiful day funny little Cottages Bridge it’s where they come from big old off Canal fantastic feel
Well I’d love to say that we had a beautiful picturesque ride into this beautiful town of sat well actually it wasn’t like that at all we went through minor industrial units but rattled your bones of your ass Euro seems to have lost the plot on signs on the town
Having said that there is a view and I will just swap the view there we go so that is absolutely the Mediterranean and we’re on the end there Dave doing whatever and this is the town of set which I think has its nice Bots but we haven’t really found them yet uh
So so now we’ve got a place to stay I don’t know baller laan or something I thought we’ve got a cycle there but I just had something to eat and I couldn’t talk to you guys earlier because I just would have been really angry and I’m having
One cigarette no I’m smoking all the time actually but there any €150 which is like $22 fck so good and Ros is only $7 a bottle 13 12% can’t go wrong anyway so we have done so far today 42 km so to be about another 10K to the
Hotel now on the way to our hotel in baler B happen to pass by the shatow with the vineyard this looks really nice Countryside we’re on a quiet Country Road little signpost saying please cycle here it’s quite cool there’s Dave steaming off for the grapes almost ended up on the
Bushes I just want to get there and have a bear and we have 5 km to go and we have done I don’t know too many okay this is the Mediterranean B out there somewhere where where’s that whale there he is d swimming here we
Go all the way from Leon so we can swim in the Mediterranean what the actual Fu don’t drop your phone pots waterers absolutely gorgeous look at that it’s not cold the bloody swimming pool at the hotel was colder that was Bloody freezing so we found the beach we cycled about I don’t know
12K something found a nice Beach um so I’m going to put this away and then have a swim and then get the out of here okay so this is the end there’s our bikes there’s our Vel Strada place we hide the bikes from really worthwhile there’s Dave all unpacked ready of
A epic journey I would call it V for Victory V for victory v v there we go time for a beer it’s a little bit quick quicker than the metlink from Paton to well