What a wet day - it definitely started to turn for the worst last night! After such a beautiful day the rain started to come in on Tuesday night and the locals called for it to be here tomorrow. When you open the shutters and this is what you see you've got to hang up the helmet for the day.
Food - a tough one today, a typical hotel b/fast, nothing special, a sandwich for lunch, typical french-fair then a hotel meal tonite which was a-okay ... hmm nothing to report of that much note.
Weather - one word summed it up - WET and cold. It was 5C at the top of Col de Lautaret. Those poor bastards who had ridden up there! We ran into a dutchie who was coming down of Col du Galibier, he was wearing a blue long sleeve jersey but you couldn’t tell where the jersey ended and the tips of his fingers! The poor guy was absolutely freezing!! Thank goodness there are two bars at Col de Lautaret that could warm him, and the other 15 cyclists that were up there waiting for the weather to clear before heading down.
Car - The trucks that go from Col de Lautaret to Le Bourg-d'Oisan. They are keeping up with cars and they’re fuel tankers ... in the rain! Conversation - the conversations with Missuer Gillard over breakfast, talk about a personable guy. He couldn’t wait for the chess and scrabble guys to come in over the next week to spice up life around Vaujany. First was Running with the Bulls now a chess comp!
Animal - The camel that was in Allemond, it is part of the circus which is in town, what is a camel doing at a circus!? Plus the poor old guy was standing in the pouring rain all day ... enough with the rain (skip the next two points if you're over the weather report of this blog).
What else of note: The weather was just awful!
Parting thought of the day/blog: um the weather! Well the pix on the left is of the heavens opening but soon after it was wet again!
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