S H F bike tour 🚴🏼 🇫🇷 day 18

Provence!! Teeming with medeval walled villages and they are all made of limestone and similarly hued structures. Must have been a requirement to have a castle AND at least one church .... Usually more.  Apparently, the more the holier... Interesting 12th century city structure ...  

Today's biking wound through all of the above and more. Moored at the pretty Provençal village of Vallabregues. we hopped on our lovely orange step through bikes and off we rode up lovely and quiet roads along the Rhone River. Climbed up the little incline, of sorts, to the Abbey of St Michel de Frigulet for lunch. What a cool place to eat! Then coast down to the village of Boulbon. So fun! About 2/3rd of the group opted to ride over to the walled city of Tarascon. What did we find? Of course! A castle AND the church of St Martha. By the way, Martha is still there...in her tomb, but still there. History of this church dates back to 500 a.d. .... Too much to go into with this blog... Your homework assignment.  :D

50k day and back to our boat. Whew. 

A few of the visual pics for the day.  Do enjoy

Tomorrow, based on the website info, a bit longer day... 60k.   Piece of cake.  Check back to see if we make it!   The winds are blowing.......

Oh, PS.  I was unanimously selected to be the sweep today. It was sweet! Affectionately dubbed the "Hoover".  The best spot to be in for a 20+ group!  Gave me the opportunity to hone skills to climb a 1+ K hill at 4.2 K per hour. Easy peasy.  We have all speeded riders....