A day off the bike looking at the Palais de
Papes – Avignon was the home of the Popes for a number of years in the 14th
Century. They built some incredible
buildings, although curiously, no cathedral.
Or if they did, it’s long gone.
A long lunch set us up well for a nap and a
bit of bike packing, while Ted checked out some museums. We had a quick early meal in the bohemian
part of town before catching the most spectacular light show back at the
Palais. It was just incredible and no
photos can do justice to it. You had to
be there. So glad we didn’t miss that. But here's a photo not doing it justice anyway.
This morning (Tuesday) Camilla headed off
to London to write a conference paper and Ted to Sydney via Rome. I’m writing this on a multi-stage train trip
to Verona tonight and Trento, Italy in the morning. I’m in Trento for 5 days for the UCI World
Cycling Tour Finals. You know, the one I qualified for and got the UCI medal. J
And that Christian and Mark can now do next
year if they want to having got their own UCI medals at Amy’s Gran Fondo down
in Lorne on the weekend.
Travelling with a bicycle in a bag on
trains is relatively easy – except for all the stairs you have to drag the bag
up and down ever so gently. Lucky I work
out, that’s all I can say. It's been worth having some upper body strength.
Still on the scale of things, the train travel across 3 countries and with multiple connections is actually relatively easy. But I
am glad the bag has wheels.
Spent a nice morning looking around Verona and now I'm in Trento, have rebuilt the bike without snapping the headset bolts this time and it's plugged in, charging (that still makes me laugh). Racing cobblestones tomorrow evening. If you never see another blog, it's because I died on the cobblestones.
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