I just thought I would spice it up a bit, I can’t compete with @chizel - and don’t worry this is the only cultural bit - back to bikes, roads etc in 2 days.
It's your gig mate, you gotta do it your way.. ( but more pics would be good!!) Hope ya having a blast.
Firminy to Provence - I have truly been MULTISTRADED!!!!! Start with the N88 sweeping curves that are mesmerising and plenty of bikes coming the other way - a good sign! Then it gets tighter and twister through the forests of the ardeche - swap to SPORT mode to get the overtakes done ... then .... OMG hit a road that’s on the side of a mountain the D120 is real twisty - real buttock clenching stuff, remembered to get off the side of the bike to get around the corners!! The occasional narrow 2 lane twisty bit - my first time going around campers, cars and caravans while banked over, trail braking and punching out of corners
Pic is the D120 Part 2 - it was a pretty amazing ride and I had to remember my old track skills of looking through the corner not at anything else ..... then it was time for a short blast on the peage .. Fast!! and then smaller road which was so bumpy even at 20 mph ...the GPS mount now needs tightening up - then up a bloody goat track so steep I was in 1st absolutely shitting myself !! Then some gravel .... so EVERY road today - and I am really bonding with my bike - good old “lucky” More pics tomorrow - time for wine !
Plenty of twists n turns through the towns This is the road along the Durance river, which supplies most of the drinking water to Marseille and is a big hydro electric scheme Bumpy as ....!!! Might need new fillings
Stopped to take a pic -typical road around here - wasn’t game to stop on the steep and gravelly ones though. “Lucky” managed It all in its stride
And then you go out exploring and .... this happens, you find a gem of a place which serves ice cold beer and a great salad in the shade .... “pull up to the cafe baby”
I thought it would be tricky but you can do a long weekend- I took the overnight ferry from Portsmouth which is under 2 hours from LDN get on at 9:30pm - sleep - wake up and ride off in St Malo at 8:30 on a Saturday 3 hours later you are in La Rochelle which is far enough to get some good weather, food and wine as well as roads. Then back Monday evening. There are NO AVERAGE SPEED cameras anywhere!!!
