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Sep 282011
Aug 152011
I somehow managed to write a bazillion entries about our trip to France without posting a single actual handcycling photo, so here you go:
Last day of the tour. Sunday was another short riding day for me, but very fun. The intent was to ride from the hotel to Vitrac, about 9 km, where we would would canoe down the Dordogne to La Roque Gageac. Once again I skipped the steep climb out of Sarlat by taking the van [...]
Saturday was a free day with “optional bike ride”. Of our gung-ho group, I was the only one who noticed the “optional” keyword. Moulin de la Tour So everyone rode off and I got in the van and we drove to Moulin de la Tour, a 16th century walnut mill on the Enéa River. The [...]
Friday was probably my favorite cycling day (except for the rainy bit at the end). We bicycled from Rocamadour to Sarlat, and once we got to the river, it was pretty flat. But first, ducks! La Ferme des Campagnes La Ferme des Campagnes is a duck farm near Rocamadour. Here ducks are raised for 3 [...]
Le Gouffre de Padirac The big event for the Thursday was visiting the giant cave of Padirac. There are very few pictures, I’m afraid, as photography isn’t permitted in the cavern. The Legend The Devil and Saint Martin The devil formed the Gouffre with the kick of his heel to challenge Saint Martin. If the [...]
Each day included both bicycling and one or more attractions—some organized, some not. Almost all the photos in this post are courtesy of our friends Allen and Claudia (thank you!); I was too scatterbrained to take very many pictures. La Ferme de Gernes On the first day’s ride, we had a stop arranged at La [...]
You may remember that I had planned to ship the handcycle back to the US via FedEx at the end of the tour, because we couldn’t rent a large enough car to get it back to the airport. I may have also mentioned that complicating things was the fact that Monday, the day before our [...]
Jun 162011
I’ve never been on an organized tour before, but certainly one of the great advantages of this one was the excellence of the restaurants and meals chosen by the tour leaders. Accessibility was not as high a priority for restaurants as it was for hotels, but the meals were really good. I think the philosophy [...]
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