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The cycle trip has finished and there is a certain warm glow and smugness in achieving 8 days of exercise. This my last supper at the Hostellerie De La Bouriane, Gourdon. It is silver service and the Maître D’ is dressed in a dinner suit and is obviously the ONLY member of staff on duty,
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The last day of a great 8 days of cycling with sublime weather and routes. This final day was the longest following the valley with a few gentle climbs despite the fearsome elevation graph above. The maximum gain was only 150m. There were 2 picturesque villages ( although all the villages could be so described)
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The route was to La Roque St Christopher thence St Leon sur Vezere. Again a relatively early start with a brisk climb at the beginning, which of course meant a great descent on the return. The route for the day A fascinating education on cave dwelling in which for more than 20000 years humans and
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Another beautiful day of “doable” cycling setting out a little before 9am with crisp, cool windless weather. Here is the route map: I have a sense that almost all of these fairytale chateaus are privately owned and at least one of which I rode past, by a middle Eastern oil sheik. I don’t for one
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A delightful meal inclusive of the tour price! Eating at arguably the best restaurant in the Dordogne. The reviews in Trip Advisor certainly agreed. I dined with the 3 Canadian women who are with same cycle company and whom I met at the outset but not quite the same itinerary. Good fortune had us arriving
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To begin, here is the route; Note that at the stop over for lunch I obviously had too much Pate de Fois and had a mild degree of post prandial brain fog, so that I became disorientated and backtracked a few times . The aim of the day was to cycle to and through the
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As is my custom, early to bed and early to rise…. absolutely necessary as the midday sun all this week will drive the temperature into the low 30s. Riding leisurely through cool hills and walnut plantations. The countryside in France has a unique bouquet of sweetish new mown grass with an occasional tinge of manure
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A delightful day of cycling through one of the most picturesque villages in all of France This is the route and elevation screen grab: (Incidentally the small red dog leg was NOT as you all assume, on past performances, a lost, vaguely disoriented monument , but a genuine diversion to the Gouffre de Padirac)
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I make no apologies! I have an iPhone and food pics are the MOST common subject, followed by the dreadful “selfies”. I can honestly say I have never taken one!
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This is the second most important, not To mention popular, destination in all of France, after the iconic Mont St Michel. I believe it is also the second most important catholic pilgrim site after the Camino, as a consequence of the Chapel of Notre Dame, which houses the “black Madonna”.  The name Rocamadour derives
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