The day starts cold and stays cold for some time. A thick layer of clouds covers the sky and the surrounding mountains. From time to time rain falls steadily down. The start isn’t in Voix, like the ‘real’ Tour does, but 71 kilometres along the stage. From Voix the terrain is flat and boring. Since […]
Derk is dropped at 21 kilometres of the official start and begins his stage at 10.45 AM. Like yesterday Derk skips the first flat kilometres and wins time by doing so. It’s important that Derk finishes today’s stage, because the start of tomorrow is at a completely different location. Because the first kilometres of today […]
Today Derk is dropped at 10.36 AM directly east of Pau. The real mountains are behind us, which doesn’t mean the climbing is over. The landscape is less extreme and mostly agricultural. In the village of St. Michel, some 75 kilometres from Pau, we have the first break. After two weeks we know Derk isn’t […]
At ten minutes to ten Derk leaves for a new day of rowing. Again quite a lot of ascending, but also less hard than Derk is used to. After tomorrow the mountains are finally behind us. Not much to tell further, just a nice ride. Good news about the painful foot of Derk: it is […]
We escape the bloody camping after a not-so-bad night and go for another day of rowing. But, again, not much news to tell. Some technical data: 206,65 km total, average 26,6 km/h, maximum 82,8 km/h, trip time: 7 hours and 45 minutes. The evening is much more interesting. Because we’ve cleared the mountains and because […]
Day 13 – Voix – Pla d’Adet / 135 km 
Day 15 – Pau – Vernet / 191 km 
Day 16 – Castelsarrasin – Tulle / 206 km 
Day 17 – Brive la Gaillarde – Neris les Bains / 207 km