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Adam & Chopper

Day Nine

Today is a 54k ride into Cannes. By 12.30, we had already done 40k.

Pedalling out towards Valboonne we ended up on the Peleton Express with the fastest riders on the ride. 50km/hr on the flat for about 10k. Flying along like a fast red snake cooking through the Gorge. A fantastic peleton. Technically it was very hard through the turns.

In a true peleton, you take one minute at the front cutting the air for the others. After about a minute you wave your chicken wing pull to alert that you are peeling off before peeling off to the side and then dropping to the back. We ride so close that one mistake from any one of the riders will crash thewhole peleton. The Pro-rider loved it – said it was a great peleton.

A tough climb to the top. As we waited for the others to arrive a massive water fight broke out at the fountain!

We dropped into Biot and this is where we are now. Adam is having shandy and Chopper is on his second Beer.

Calling in the final blog before Cannes whilst waiting for our pizza and waiting for the final descent into Cannes...!

Adam is having a Thong pizza.

Chops has ordered chorizo.

Oh – a leggy girl is just passing and everyone is looking round – Chopper has done a full 180º!

Last night after 170km, the receptionist who greeted us was tall, skinny, leggy, beautiful and had a massive bust! It was really too much and we quickly realised that we needed to get Chopper into Cannes fast!

Chopper: “Adam is looking more & more handsome every day...”

Gotta go ...Pizza is here...

Day Eight

Quite up & down.

The Gorge is enormous! It is impossible to describe the scale. As you ride along the edge it is almost 1km deep in places. Last year we saw nothing of it as we were riding through a massive thunderstorm but this year it was perfect weather and the gorge was all there to see. There are lakes of astonishing colour on the way up - extreme cyan, extreme green... beautiful views.

We all kept singing, “because you’re gorgeous, I’ll do anything for you...” Today we were very sore and very slow and are at the back with the slower riders, helping them. We rolled them in at the end of the day; ten hours in the saddle feeling very sore and still suffering after the exhaustion of Venoux!

If you climb up above Grasse, you are on a Mediterranean plain. From there, you can see all over the flower fields and the sea gleaming in the distance 20k away. Later we met up with Adrian Mote – Firefly No1. We left the girls and descended through the sunshine with the smell of the flowers all around like demons. We rolled in, grabbed a beer and jumped in the pool!

Got cleaned up and had a lovely dinner:

Chick Pea Salad

Grilled Salmon (first fish of the ride)

Chocolate Brownie

and some Rosé ...

and some more Rosé ...

and even more Rosé ...

So the blog was forgotten!