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Friday 23 October 2015

Today is bike ride time so we first buy a ham and salad baguette for a picnic lunch. Collect our bikes which come as part of the deal on the holiday rental and step out to test out our no doubt soon-to-be very sore rear ends. A funny moment when Gail comments on a sign in the hallway giving quidelines  and rules on evacuation. Too late by a few days given our currently troublesome digestive systems!

Very busy in town and initially along the lake foreshore (school holidays ) but this moderates a little as we move away from the built-up area. We have decided to cycle to the Bout du Lac at the southern end and this will no doubt test as it is close to 40 kms round trip and we have not been cycling for many months. Fortunately, on the western shore of the lake we are on a designated cycle track the whole way and the weather is being kind to us even with a slightly chilly wind.

We arrive unscathed at Bout du Lac and eventually park ourselves on the waterfront to enjoy our gourmet picnic lunch. Note the word “eventually” as on arrival we ( actually it should be ‘I’ ) try to get our bikes through a turnstile to get on to the beach without noticing that bikes are prohibited. The inevitable happens when I manage to get mine through with great difficulty but G gets stuck. I help her extricate herself from the stile  and she heads off confident that she had seen another access to the water. This turns out to be a dead-end so she goes back and I also have to do another limbo dance to get my bike and myself out through the stile. We eventually ( that word again ) come to an entrance where there is row of bike racks where we can safely leave our trusty steeds.

The trip back to Annecy is made somewhat tougher by the headwind which has sprung up but we arrive back in town very happy with our day’s work.

Home cooked dinner tonight accompanied by nice red wine from St Emilion and then off to bed to rest our sore backsides not to mention calves and quads.

Cheers

The Obese Ferret.