last day of cycling in France). Motivation was a little hard to find as the clouds came in and we headed off from Agde. With a strong headwind and rain coming down, the morning’s coffee stop couldn’t come soon enough. And when it did come, we didn’t want to leave as the rain had a distinctly horizontal look to it! So we didn't for quite some time.
Battling on through the conditions was made harder when Dave managed to get the 1st puncture of the trip, followed a few miles later by the 2nd! Excellent teamwork got him back cycling quickly and this enabled a change of scenery as we cycled through Perpignan. A quick stop in a lovely coffee shop to shelter from yet more rain gave us the energy we needed to make the final small climb up to the border with Spain. We were all delighted with the decision that we’d made the previous evening to do the extra 20 miles to help today's ride, as this had been 90 very tough miles today!
We stayed in the beautiful town of Céret, where the only restaurant was a “poncy” one (according to Uncle Bazoit). Gladly, the service was wonderful, the wine fantastic and the food even better. Four tired cyclists went to bed to prepare themselves for the final assault… spurred on by a beautiful sangria made on our insistence. We were all ready to finish this bad boy off now.
https://www.strava.com/activities/308803778 (Sinéad)
https://www.strava.com/activities/308807915 (David)
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