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3rd October 2016
Mt. Biking: Gijou to Lacaune-les-Bains via Gijounet
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Weather: sunny and warm
Max Speed: 26.96 (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 16 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

Monday 3rd October – Bike **** Gijou to Lacaune-les-Bains via Gijounet on the ‘Little Train Green Road’ – sunny and warm – 15.16 miles, 3 hrs 15 mins out, 26.96 max.

We slept well and although the sun didn’t really make it through the trees to us we still did our exercises outside. After breakfast we set out on the Voie Verte from where we are parked just outside Gijounet to Lacaune-les-Bains. It was a really nice route even if it was a gradual uphill push all the way there!! There were lovely views from the embankments then cutting through deep rock and over two viaducts and two tunnels!! We took our torch for the tunnels but we didn’t need it as it wasn’t that long! When we got nearer to Lacaune the voie verte suddenly disappeared and turned into a rough track for the rest of the way – again uphill when the road seemed to be going downhill! We came down on the far side of town and skirted round the most famous bit – leaving it until last in the sadly lack lustre town which used to be a thriving spa town :( We didn’t want to visit the museum of chacuterie which is just as well because as usual it was shut! We headed for the fountain which was even mentioned in our book on the Languadoc and is described as follows: ‘Tiny statues of four well-endowed men on top of the Fontaine des Pisseurs in front of the towns old open air stone wash house demonstrate the diuretic qualities of Lacaune water’!! Well one thing was for sure the men were absolutely miniscule and so high up it was difficult to make out what they were at all!! There was also a drunk sitting next to it which added to the sad atmosphere so we got the hell out of there and back to the beautiful countryside. We returned via the road which was steeply up out of the town but then mostly downhill all the way back to Gijounet. We decided to cross over the river bridge and climb up into the village to eat our lunch and this was far more our cup of tea – very beautiful old buildings, very quiet and nobody there! Whizzed back down the hill and completed the last bit of the circuit back to the van where we had just missed the herding of a group of very noisy cows with cow bells on! They had just gone into the field down the hill. We packed up and headed up into the woods above Lacaune, following the signs for a Col hoping to find somewhere to stay the night without having to drive too far but there wasn’t anything suitable so we headed down to Lac de Reviege and although it took nearly a full circuit of the lake we did find a good spot with a view across the lake :) Had a walk along the beach and collected some apples which Mag stewed up for our dessert:)

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