Mas de Panis

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On my first night I stayed at the Hôtel all seasons Bordeaux Saint Jean which is 200 metres away from Bordeaux Saint Jean SNCF Gare (Train Station).  It was previously called the Kyriad. On the second night, at La Réole, I stayed at a wonderful guest house called Les Galantes where owners Fréderique et Jean [...]

Hill cycling certainly has its ups and down but so too does canal cycling.  The one of the few ‘downs’ of canal cycling is that you have to pedal continuously to keep up – no downhills for one to make a ones average speed whilst having a breather.  Both hill cycling and canal cycling are [...]

Today I cycled the reverse of my normal 47 km route.  I expected to do it in 2 hours and 40 minutes (cycling time) which is what I did. You will see that the average en route temperature today was 30,1C.  Fairly hot but, fortunately, not humid.  And it was windy at places – particularly along [...]

This afternoon I took the Peugeot 807 to Mas de Barrasquet in Saint Jean de Laur as Geoff and Sandy Cook arrive there tomorrow and will need it to cart their troops around. I needed a reason to get on the bicycle and I have previously, on one occasion only, done the bicycle ride from [...]

I achieved two best times on this ride: 56 minutes 55 seconds for the 16.95 km, and 3.6 km uphill at an average of 9.9 kph

Yesterday’s ride took me 58 minutes and 12 seconds and today took me 58 minutes and 00 seconds. The 3.6 km Caylus hill took me 22 minutes and 12 seconds yesterday and 22 minutes and 15 seconds today:

When I first cycled this 17km ride in May 2010 it took me 1 hour and 38 minutes. My previous Garmin recorded rides were on: 21 July 2010: 1 hour 5 minutes 21 seconds ……..averaging 17.5 kph 29 July 2010: 1 hour 4 minutes 41 seconds ……..averaging 15.7 kph The Caylus hill of 3.6 km [...]