22/23 March 2018 Tournon sur Rhone

Been waiting for a cycle for a few days but been too windy but Thursday morning seemed OK. Had a short cycle round the valley head then headed south towards Valence. Big mistake! After about 18 kms we were going quite well and realised we were obviously wind assisted. So we turned, wow, awesome were only two of the words that came to mind. The rest were blown away as soon as we thought of them. Took a lot of energy to get back as we were travelling into a 27 km hour gusting to 34 km hour.

Friday we were going to catch up with laundry but unusually the machine was broken – a first, they are usually pretty good. Had a good walkabout in the Hills again.

While on this site it has been good watching how the 2 rivers react (The Doux and the Rhone) they both meet at the campsite. When the dirty water in the Rhone is fast flowing no water flows from the Doux until it builds up enough volume and weight then it pushes out into the Rhone usually at different places, it also slows the speed of the water in the Rhone for a while, then the process starts again in a different way, amazing!