The Fold Up Bike Trip

Day 4
Tuesday 16.06.09   Ruffillac to Revel (nr Carcassonne)        200m

The room smell faintly of cigarette smoke, even tho there has been a ban for 2 years. I wake at 5.00 am. The meal from the night before has settled like a stone in my stomach. A trip to the loo sorts me out and I get back to sleep for another couple of hours.

On the road for 9.00 am, I’ve decided to get a bit closer to Carcassonne today. Cahors is on the way – never been, but I’ve drunk a lot of their wine! Lovely ride thru the back roads via Gourdon to Cahors. Its so nice to be travelling in the sun. Next I aim for Albi – “what’s it all about Albi”? – Heading south on the D680, V. Nice. Stop for lunch in a tiny place called Caussade. At last! Sitting outside in the sun!

A sign across the road says ‘St Antonin de Noble, Ancient Cite’. Its sort of on the way so I head towards it. It turns out to be a stunning journey over high hills covered in trees and vines. Suddenly I round a corner and am confronted by a fabulous gorge, a natural amphitheatre. I drop down into the gorge around long sweeping bends. I’m thinking that you would pay good money for this kind of ride at Alton Towers, back home. Then it’s thru the Ancient Cite (old village), 25 degrees, bright sunshine and I stop to take it all in. Where? A little 10 house village called Paradis, Mmmm!

I finally arrive at a town called Revel, not far from where I will stay with Judith tomorrow night. I arrive at a Municipal camp site and manage to get pitched up as it starts to spit with rain, still I’m sitting under my new tarp, snug as a bug, very ‘Ray Mears’ :)

Later that same evening ...... 8.00 pm
Having cooked and eaten one of my ‘meals in a bag’ I decide to go and investigate the Revel nightlife. It takes about 10 mins to walk to the town centre. Its pretty ...... DEAD. There are bars but they are shut. The only thing open is a bakers shop that also sells wine so I stock up, just in case. There must be somewhere open but I can’t see it. Oh well, I may as well go back to the campsite. There will be no revelling in Revel tonight.

Its 8.45 and I am back doing the solo party thing, The birds are singing, the weather has cheered up and all is well. Now, where’s me book?

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