events

I decided to stop for a coffee and to eat the pastry I'd bought at the bakers.  It was a busy café in what is a small village in lots of way's.  It was very pleasant to be sitting in warm shade listening to animated french conversations whilst drinking good coffee and munching a pain aux raisans.

This photo is of the bridge that crosses the Hérault, at least I think that's the river, if you click on it the photo is back towards the village with the hills through with the river comes.

It's a nice ride, though hilly, and after a very pleasant ride, largly flat, following the river, things start to go uphill.  It was now also much hotter, so much so that if the road was straight so that I could see what little traffic might be coming I'd cycle on the left where it was shadier.

Actually at Causse de la Selle you have a choice, you can take a steeper option to follow the valley of Buèges, which I'd thought about doing but then decided not to.  In part because I was tired and am naturally lazy but in part also because I missed the turning.

There is a rollover image to this photo showing some canoists enjoying themselves.

The road takes you through St Guillem le Desert, which is meant to be a lovely site worth stopping at but it alway's seems full of tourists, at the least the twice I've cycled through and so that's what I do: cycle through.

As I go towards Lagamas after St Jean de Fos it's definately getting much more of a mediterranean feel.  This area is a bit flatter and I find my'self cycling through vineyards.

I stopped to get lunch, a very nice oxtail stew, at St André de Sangonis.  I'd gone on too far last time and ran out of water and was famished so this time I knew better.