Trans Europa Day 54 – Aups to Salon-de-Provence – 111km

It started pouring at around 4am and it was still raining when it was time to decamp.

I really do not enjoy packing up a wet tent but c’est la vie! Although it was wet, the riding was a lot more comfortable than under a strong sun and I decided to ride today with Daniel who was quite happy to lead the way with me providing back up navigation.Heading away from the coast and into Provence, the scenery and topography changed.

The rain had virtually stopped by lunch at around 60km so off with the rain jacket and on with the sunglasses. Although the rain had stopped, we managed to cycle downhill through a swarm of little insects and got covered in dead black bugs! We found a nice cake shop in a little village and partook of the local fare.

 

Camping tonight at Nostradamus Camp. Salon-de-Provence is where Nostradamus lived in his later life and there is apparently a museum there which was not directly on the route so not visited. He probably predicted that a group of cyclists would be coming through and ignoring him.. Nostradamus

I discovered today that riding in wet shorts creates new saddle sores not unlike a chinese burn...

 

Dinner of spaghetti sort of bolognese and birthday cake was arranged at the Camp restaurant to celebrate the eve of Jan’s 30^th birthday. Although there were some late afternoon showers it remained dry throughout the night as did I :)