After a mega snore last night I packed and went along to breakfast. Great spread and uber friendly folks. How can some folks make running a hotel look so easy? Whilst others make it seem so hard.
The day seemed very tough, it was hot and ‘close’ so progress was slow. The villages are very pretty with half timbered houses and seemingly undiscovered, given the number of properties in desperate need of renovation. The lac du der was lovely and I’m sure my twitcher friends would be in heaven there. I now have another favourite French word – Quitéude
The harvesting is now in it’s closing days but I did stop to take some pics of this obviously new New Holland Combine CX8070 in action (Yours for £155,000).
In a moment of serendipity I took a wrong turn coming into Chaumont and stumbled upon the most magnificent railway viaduct ever, built in 1857. It’s twice the length of the Ribblesdale viaduct built in 1874 and 20 metres higher. And to cap it all a slow moving goods train was crossing 🙂 It also has a most gorgeous pedestrian crossing half way up.
Sally has been digging around in my archives and discovered that exactly 4 years ago I had ridden the 647 miles to Dole in only 8 days this time in the 9 days I’ve been riding I’ve only done 551 miles 🙁 The big difference is THE WRETCHED PANNIERS!
Here is the Strava for today.
And the pictures here.
How brilliant you saw this amazing viaduct , It has 50 arches and since June 2012 it now lights up at night …. Sometimes you have to take wrong turnings to come across such splendour.
I have a photo too, not as good as yours, mine was from a moving coach!! We stayed in Chaumont (overnight stop) when we were heading to Monaco in May .
That’s the advantage of biking. You can stop anywhere to take pics 🙂
The viaduct looks amazing 🙂 but your forgetting another big difference to this ride, last time it was for 10 days this time its for 5 MONTHS.. I think the camping stuff maybe could go but that is all…….
I’m not really sure where all the extra stuff is from. Will do a big sort out in Les Gets.