A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Tuesday 19th July. La Bastide Puylaurent to Les Vans: 45km, avg 20.1km/hr, max 49.3km/hr, 2.14hrs riding.
Out of La Bastide I took the D4 then turned off onto the D151, a tiny, curving, swooping little lane that takes you on what is, more or less, discounting the odd 50m bit of uphill, 40 odd km of descent. It's fantastic.
It's a long descent but because the tarmac is sometimes a little worn and the curves tight and blind you can't really let rip so my max speed isn't that high. Nonetheless I wasn't hanging around. In part because I was keen to get a phone signal, there was none for most of the descent, in order to book a table for lunch at La Feuille de Chou, a restaurant I'd been to before in Les Vans. I'd decided today was going to be a short day and I'd stay in a hotel too, perhaps even swim in the pool if the weather brightened up. Which it didn't by the way.
It sort of reminds of the Lakes this shot.