We said our goodbyes to David and Sundara and headed off from Ventenac to the Basque, 425km drive, we decided to go via the tolls and wow can you eat of the km's on these autoroutes, cruising along at 130km it wasn't long before we had cruised past Toulouse and was 1/2 way there. Pau was a stopping point to check out the city as we had been told it was really nice. Now before you all call it Pau it is pronounced PO and that's not poo either. Pau is ...

622km's cycled in 10 days - We made it Team ROD&JACQ - what an achievement. We talked about this in 2011, set the goal and now have achieved it. It was a tough days cycling, windy & hot. We had to cycle from our friends place in Ventenac to Narbonne, this was a fast right without all our stuff only 45 minutes - machines!! We hooked onto the Canal Robine in Narbonne which would take us all the way to the Med, we were really excited - the track was great an...

OMG - today was the day that could end touring by bike!!!! We left Carcasonne full of enthusiasm for the ride to David  & Sundara's - friends of ours that be helpx'ed for in 2011. He was hard to work out the exact distance with the map but I figured is was around 54km's. We'll this is not a bike path this is a rutted, bumpy, skinny goat track!!! It took ages, bump, bump, bang, argh that hurt the butt, no room for riders to pass each other, som...

We woke to a cloudy day and I did say to Rod I feel like just wandering along today at no great pace. We had breakfast at the market - it was a huge and great market, we bought food for a picnic along the way. Only 42km's today - we know its a rough track to Carcasonne so it will be slow. We started off slowly and still we passed a few cyclists on the track struggling along with their skinny wheels, yipeee for our 29er's we said they just roll over the...

We headed off this morning thinking our ride would be a walk in the park..... It turned out to be a tougher day than expected and a few more km's too. It ended up 59km's, the Canal du Midi is a bit confusing at times and no signage!! Seems weird as it is a lot busier with all a cyclist out of Toulouse. Our stay at Lidotel, a weird looking place was great, The shower was like a capsule with the toilet in there too, everytime Rod went in he said he was ...