Banging out the Kilometres.

Is this my destiny?

Usual get up packed and riding by 07.00. I had Italy on my mind and the route was set into the Garmin. But on observation there was way more elevation on the route than most of my other days. Well I just ride what’s in front of me.

Provence is beautiful, rolling hills, lavender covered fields with a pungency to die for. I was riding through heaven. Except for those abysmal French drivers of course.

The route twisted and turned I intermittently saw signs for Eurovelo 8 but to follow them would be so mentally taxing looking for the signs I just rode on past.

Stopping at a boulongerie for my maybe 4th breakfast the woman said get to the coast it’s flat from there on. I believed her but I did not deviate from my original route plan.

Finally I smelt the sea and my legs quickened with the excitement. Cannes is the first place I hit and what a shit place that is, tacky stores, shitty high rise flats that you wouldn’t pay 5 grand for its just bleh. On and into Antibes….. no better. In Nice I followed 2 triathletes and got a good pull but they turned off and as I followed the road and didn’t look at my Garmin I got horrendously lost in a maze of apartment roads. I had to back track to find the route.

Monaco high rise flats!

Then a full on gun for the finish line at the Italian border. Menton I quite liked as a town. The last in France where I bought this small yacht.

Then Ciao Italia. I just kept on the same road and as I stopped to look for a campsite I saw this.

I rode in and signed up for 2 nights.

Now this coastline between Cannes and Menton (a bit like the Amalfi coast) is beautiful but as with many georgeous routes they have been desecrated by apartments, tacky shops, tourists (yes I know I am one), and cars and more cars and motorbikes and mopeds screeching howling continuously all day and night, if that’s your idea of luxury 😏. There are so so many better places to go. Luckily this has not been my destination it’s just a road on my way somewhere else.

A day off for me today. Just over 1000km in the last 7 days. So feeling a little pooped.