Four Ticks

When we started the blog we said the aims were sea, mountains, beach and hopefully the Tour de France. 3 ticks so far and today was the day we had the chance to make it 4.

First we called in to see some friends over the border into France. This meant we crossed over on the side-road instead of the motorway which was an experience!

Amongst various goods on offer at discounted dates (booze, fags etc.) there were lots of pretty girls sat on chairs at the side of the road. Apparantly they do a roaring trade as it's a major European truck stop and the Police show no interest whatsoever.

We moved on to our friends house in the hills which turned out to be massive.

Their daughter was more than happy to be photo'd with Dunny the dog.

Next back on the trip and on the back-roads we hit some major traffic. The spider-sense started tingling. Could this be the TDF? The advantage of a bike is you can get around queues and soon we got to the front.

The crowd were all set (pictured from my vantage point on a window ledge).

Then they all came flying through. You can pick out one of the Shleck brothers.

Fantastic - but it was over so quickly. At least we were at the front of the queue to get away......

Next the Millau bridge.