A day to stay at home...

Valnece was pretty unremarkable or at least the bit where I was anyway.  It looked the sort of place you thought twice about going out after dark but luckily Blackie was in a garage safe and sound.  I left on Saturday morning.  It was decision time, whether to go to Amsterdam to see Take That, travel across France via the Dordogne or head south again.  Take That were struck off pretty much straight away as the weather was so bad up there.  After weighing everything up I decided to head south as I wasn't that far away.  Big mistake because the rest of France had also chosen that option!!  I spent hour after hour filtering through traffic, I would then get so far ahead and stop as I was so hot and then start filtering past some of the same traffic again.  Eventually I got to the south after riding for nearly seven hours.  I found the first campsite I could, got the tent up and chilled.  One thing I did do on the way was stop by the Rhone.  There were lots of people rowing as well as huge barges transporting all sorts of goods.  It is supposed to be quite a difficult river to travel on according to a book I read, it's certainly big enough!  I took some pictures of some of the barges or at least I thought I did cos they are not on the camera now.
So here is a bit of wildlife and a couple of pictures from when I arrived in the south. Nothing that remarkable I'm afraid but after the Alps I think I'll struggle to top them.

I'm staying here until Wednesday morning when I will be heading up to Limoges and so other than to tell Chris that I have had my haircut there is probably going to be nothing to report until then.  I hope everyone is well and thanks for reading my blog and either posting comments or texting me.  It means a lot.

Robert