Wowee. I haven't been as diligent with the posting on the blog as I would have liked to be, but it has been a fairly full on experience, so haven't had the creative panache I need to blog reasonably (or, maybe I just drank too much wine before I got to an Internet connection... Believe what you will). So much has happened again since the last blog.
I enjoyed Grenoble, I didn't really smash the exploring as I wanted to recoup a bit after the cycle tour and travel, regardless I did hit the col d'Port at 1300m on the bike (in the rain) and visit the Chartreuse monastery. I think the monks would have had lots of Devine moments drinking Chartreuse cause the stuff is like pure gasoline, whatever it does it must be good as the monastery was beautiful (in a creepy, quiet sort of way). I also got out and savored a bit of salsa at a local salsa bar... (salsa in France? Simply cause it was the closest thing to my hotel when it was raining).
With the help of my good mate Thommo, I made it to Oz-En-Oisans which is a little station at 1200m in the Alpes. here is where i'll be for the next 7 days, 3 of which are now past. In those 3 days, I've ridden up Alpe d'Huez twice, the first in 1hr 07mins and the next with dad on the Tour stage day, which meant it was done for the experience. I have had zoo many highlights on this trip, but todays stage (well, the ride up mostly) is definitely at the top of the list. We defended from Oz station to the valley and rode to the summit... It was complete madness with cars, busses, motorhomes, motorbikes, people music, singing, dancing etc. We rode the closed road for the stage and got to the summit before catching the chairlift back to the chalet to shower, eat, rest and jump back on the chairlift to the top of Alp d'Huez to watch Cadel have a very, very solid effort to stay in contention of the gneral classification. Totally awesome day, I can't wait for the tt tomorrow.
I would like to do col d'Galibier tomorrow at 2600m,similar to the way the pro peleton rode it today, through col d'Telegraph. If the weather is right, I will, if it's not, it will be snowing at the top of Galibier and that ain't my scene :-)
Anyhow, this section of the trip so far has been at least as good as any other bit... Hopefully I can continue to ride the wave all the way to Paris and home to wifey.
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