Hello folks,
Our Wednesday ride was one of our
longer rides in Provence. We rode to the Gorges de Nesque. France
has a few gorges like Nesque that are cut into limestone by ancient
rivers. The colors of the rocks change with the layers, kind of like
the Grand Canyon in a different color scheme.
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| No worries about trucks, they won't fit through the hole. |
We started off in the mouth of the
canyon and rode up for about twenty kilometers. It was a slight
uphill, but the scenery kept getting better and better as we rode
further into the canyon. The very best views were where the road
reached its highest point, which happened to be right around lunch
time, so we had a picnic and enjoyed the view.
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| Not a bad spot for a picnic lunch |
Our ride back was a slight downhill for
about 20km, but the downhill was enough that we didn't have to pedal
much. Unfortunately, there were several more kilometers to go when
we got to the bottom of the hill.
This was probably the most scenic of
all of our rides so far. We are talking about what ride we want to
do tomorrow, there is an outside chance that we could repeat today's
ride. We are down to only two riding days left.
Time for bed now. Hope you are all
doing well.
There are more pictures at this PicasaLink
Stephen and Linda
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