So the last morning we had a smaller group-- Merrell, David, Ted, Jill, and Karen with several more of the trip folks. This was to be our "cool down"... Which is true if a 2.6 km climb is how you cool down! Most of the group scampered up as 2.6 is "like a piece of fun" , and I made it to the top with a walk and ride approach. We were traversing some of the most visually stunning countryside imaginable, and started at 7:45 so had a more diffuse and lovely light. The countryside was planted in grapes and sunflowers. We even saw a field being harvested by hand!
Most of us then headed to Bedoin, a town at the foothills of Mont Ventoux that "exists for the bicyclers ." ( quotes are the guides ) we rode a "false flat" for several kilometers.... And that news delighted me in retrospect as it was discouraging to work so hard on what looked flat but was a gradual uphill. The end point was a bike shop where many Mont Ventoux items were purchased.
Then it was a speedy return to the hotel for petit dejeuner, showers, ATM, aurevoir to Alex and Dom, and on the bus to Avignon.
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