St. Jean de Losne to Beyond Besançon - 100km 60mi
We awoke in our rain resistant caravan which was rather pleasant. A heavy mist hung over the place so a start in the dry was delightful.... after a bit of packing Chef Paul got cracking on a 6 egg omelette!
Paul made best use of the 3burner hob to help dry his soggy shoes..... Before I could utter the words, "this shoes looks a little precarious above the cooker and might......"..... the shies fell down making an unholy mess of Paul's morning libation of lemon, honey and chopped ginger!! OMG! What a mess, but it had great memory potential!
The omelette started a flipping good day as Paul sent the omelette hugh in the air at tge correct angular rotation to land squarely back in the frying pan! Paul felt better for that.... later flipping for our dinner were not quite as sucessful, for did not result in any loss if food, so only ⁹/10 fir dinner presentation!!
A day in The Jura....And a bit of a tough ride today at that!!.... one that Paul made tougher by being a truly law abiding, instruction following citizen of the world!!
To Paul..... Route Barrée means the route is closed.... to a Canadain it means, push the boundaries to be sure there are some!! And there wasn't so today I won!! Paul took a much more convoluted route that was hilly around his diversion!! Doug's strategy of 'wing it and see what happens' paid off .... as you know by now this strategy doesn't always pay off!!!
So 'Who Dares may Win' may, that's my old motto, and I did get to catch a ride in the draft of two 70+ year olds! The leader, easily 75 was 'motoring' along at a steady 25kph, behing him was a c. 73yr old on a 1 manpower very light weight road bike. I slipped straight into their slip stream and carried 25kph for almost 30mins.... at which time I was thirsty and exhausted!! So I let the eBiker head of into the distance and the road was lost 10mins before!!💪🤭🤙
The early rain and mist soon cleared by 1030 and the tiwn of Dole. The town/city of Dole was most beautiful indeed and we spent about 90minutes there soaking in the sights and the coffee and patisseries! After Dole we made for St. Vit up a great big hill to buy our lunch!🤦♂️
Mostly canal tow paths until the Barree sign that Paul adhered to and I ignored.... while Paul got dinner stuff in Besançon, I followed the 'closed route and ultimately met Paul at the campsite for Devilled mackerel and a fine Bourgeous Chardonnay! This cycling stuff need 3 VERY square meals a day to be sustainable!
Being a long day of almost 100km/60mi.... it's by from us!
Doug&Paul
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