Category: France
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Carcassonne!
Having survived the eBike trip along the canals and said goodbye to our guide, Norbert, and our travel companions, Randy and Deb, we settled into our hotel. The next morning we left our luggage in…
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France eBike Day 7: Into Carcassonne
The final riding day — all the way to Carcassonne, and another scorcher predicted. Early start again. We arranged that Norbert would meet us at a patisserie most of the way there and we’d take…
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France eBike Day 6: Toulouse to the Canal du Midi
Another hot day on the canal, with sunflowers and locks along the way. Our snack: the last of the hazelnut sausage we’d picked up at the Auvillar market two days earlier. We reached the point…
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France eBike Day 5: Moissac to Toulouse
Christophe and Jean-Claude laid out a spectacular breakfast in the garden early in the morning — so gracious. Then we set off for Toulouse. It was going to be a very hot day with 76 km…
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France eBike Day 4: Agen to Moissac
Our host Stéphane at the Château des Jacobins arrived very early so we could enjoy breakfast before departing at a civilized hour. Incredibly gracious. Ben also took a moment to photograph our room, which was…
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France eBike Day 3: Château Marith to Agen
Day three was more canal riding, with the occasional village steeple and lock along the way. A small detour took us into Vianne, a medieval village with nearly all of its walls intact. We stopped…
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France eBike Day 2: Les Esseintes to Château Marith
We had an amazing breakfast on the patio and then Kathy and I set off just after Deb and Randy — and immediately forgot our helmets. Fortunately the wind nearly blew my hat off, so…
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France eBike Day 1: Latresne to Les Esseintes
We had seven days of hot but beautiful riding. Much of the route followed the canals: the Canal de Garonne from Bordeaux to Toulouse, and the Canal du Midi from Toulouse to Carcassonne. That gave…
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A Trip to France: Bordeaux
We wanted to do a bike tour and looked around, settling on a self-guided tour from Bordeaux to Carcassonne, run by Freewheeling Adventures out of Canada, with whom we’d done several trips before. We had…
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Sunday at the Abbey
An abbey, a concert, a tasting of Pablo's beers, and a vegetable tart for dinner — last day in France before packing for Barcelona.