Been in Saint Lary since Monday night, found a public car
park on grass, on the course with a bench seat 2 metres away. Busy bustling ski
resort in the Pyrenee with sooo many restaurants and pizzeries. BB went for a run then we
walked to a pizza restaurant and got a Le Jardin Pizza for €8, along with the
next night we picked up another pizza,
margaretta for €8, will it be pizza again tonight. BB ran 7k of the final climb
for Wednesday's stage, racing a cyclist, guess who cracked first. I managed a
walk come run come walk again, not as good as I hoped I would be today , but
just kept walking for most of the day.
For €5 we were able
to catch the telecabin up to the top of St Lary 1700 mtrs to check out the finish,
took 7 minutes for us to get to the top , which is equal to 10k by road. More
restaurants and music, some camping cars but not as many as we have seen at
other hill top finished. Walked around for 30 minutes or so, the weather had
warmed up now, still not too hot at about 25ₒ. Nice chill out place, quite
pretty with all the ski chalets and river running thru town with a track on
either side to run along.
On the Wednesday, the day the tour come thru, I walked up Pla A'det just the first 2km up hill, it was crazy, walkers , cyclist, cars and trucks all fighting for space on the road and this was at 8am. Ran down back to the Centra Ville and did the days shopping of Yogurt, cheese, baguette, tomato and we did manage another Margarita Pizza that night, hate to see what the scales will tell me when I get home, will worry about it then.
In the afternoon Carrefour had a large screen TV set up, along with some tasting tents of the regions produce, some dancers and fruit carts giving away peche, apricots and nectarines. There was wine tasting and cheeses. Fois gras and Madeleine. Watched the caravan come thru, I managed to score well by going up the road where there was limited people, watched a little more TV then some photos as the riders come thru. Back to the TV for the final climb. All in all af chill out day with lots of tasty things happening around us.
Thursday morning bb off for a run along the river and for me I walked up the hill again and found a track, bad choice but anyway, climbed for ages thinking I would come to a road, but didn't , it was a rough, steep rocking track and after 20 minutes decided to turn around, had to be careful not to fall but safely made it down and then ran to the Marche for morning shopping.
We left town about 9am, got caught in a traffic jam and managed to get out of it by following a local on an alternative route, heading for Boudeau, Saint Emilion
In the afternoon Carrefour had a large screen TV set up, along with some tasting tents of the regions produce, some dancers and fruit carts giving away peche, apricots and nectarines. There was wine tasting and cheeses. Fois gras and Madeleine. Watched the caravan come thru, I managed to score well by going up the road where there was limited people, watched a little more TV then some photos as the riders come thru. Back to the TV for the final climb. All in all af chill out day with lots of tasty things happening around us.
Thursday morning bb off for a run along the river and for me I walked up the hill again and found a track, bad choice but anyway, climbed for ages thinking I would come to a road, but didn't , it was a rough, steep rocking track and after 20 minutes decided to turn around, had to be careful not to fall but safely made it down and then ran to the Marche for morning shopping.
We left town about 9am, got caught in a traffic jam and managed to get out of it by following a local on an alternative route, heading for Boudeau, Saint Emilion
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