Today we finished another epic 5 hour drive this time into the middle of one of the Pyrenees national parks where we are staying 2 nights. Highlights on the way included the tallest something bridge in Europe (the blah blah), driving the route that the tour de France had just completed that day, and coming around a corner to find half a pasture of cows hanging out in the middle of the road. The family who run this b&b are an English family with 2 gorgeous ki...

Time to redeem. Today's schedule was a huge windy drive through a national park to reach an area known as gorges du tarn. A stretch of tiny villages that follow the tarn river through the Cevennes national park. All amazing places in their own right however, one of the more famous of these villages was Castelbouc, a tiny village set into the cliff face. The photos explain how this works better than I can, it was simply breathtaking. After hours of windy roads and...

After great luck and many amazing days of the trip so far I guess there is always going to be a day that goes to s***. Well today was that day. It all started with a built up expectation of the the city of Avignon that for many reasons failed for us. The savior of the day was to be our last minute splurge accommodation at a nearby country club that as we sadly discovered is very different to Australian country clubs. Grrrrr. Epic rule book, extra 30 euro for line...

Today we left Shannon & Freddie's in aix les bains and drove about 350kms south to provence, where we stopped in at old towns such as Valensole, and saw the lavender fields in the national park du verdon. Most of the day was taken up by driving but we did manage to head up into the mountains and see some amazing views of the huge gorge, which is the largest canyon in Europe! After a quick swim in the huge manmade lake at the bottom of the gorge, we trekked t...

Bonsoir! We're writing this while waiting for the train back from Culoz, a tiny town on the route of the 10th leg of the... Tour de France!! We hiked out of town a bit up the mountain for a good vantage point which gave us almost a full exhilarating minute of riders before it was all over! Unfortunately we couldn't spot Cadel as he was tucked in amongst a bunch of other riders, but it was an awesome atmosphere as all the camera cars and motorbikes cruised past a...