Rain??..

Well the black clouds caught up with me today and duly despatched all their rain on me.  I can't complain though as I've had a good run.  Five and a half weeks without really being rained on is pretty good going I think although there are three days riding left yet so I could be wet again!!

It started off okay this morning but then after stopping underneath the bridge I asked how I could get onto it.  Obviously this involved reaching the same height and that is when I first met the wind and rain.  I was a little reticent about crossing the bridge as it was really windy but being the adventurer I am I went for it :-)  The surprising thing was that once on it there wasn't that much wind, presumably because of the barriers either side filtering it.  In fact it didn't feel like riding across a bridge at all other than the fact that you could see how high up you were.  I then stopped to take a few more photos before heading off to Limoges.  The GPS threw a wobbler at one time and took me off the motorway only for me to rejoin it three kilometres later.  As it happened I was quite pleased in the end because it took me through Issoire where the Tour de France had been on 10th July and they had some really clever statues made with shrubs.

I'm not really glum even though I look it

The girl I asked to take the photo didn't give me chance to smile!

The rain continued to fall and so I followed Nicks' line of thinking and stopped for a lovely hot chocolate before carrying on.  I then passed a memorial in a field at the side of the road which depicts various parts of World War II.  There are two pictures, one explains the other.  I continued in the rain to Limoges where it is still raining!