Day 12 Provence to French Alps

A travelling day today with an early start to make it to Vaison la Romaine to watch Stage 15 of the Tour de France start. The riders took the opportunity for another ride through the spectacular Provence countryside. Pierre had the challenge of getting the bus as close as possible to the centre of the village through road closures. Don't ask how but he managed to get a sticker for the bus that gave us priority access to inside the road closures and parked about 2 metres from the start line.

From there it was absolute chaos as the crowd of tens of thousands of people pushing to get to the front of the barricades in about 36 deg heat. The team buses piled up, rolled out the awnings and set to the warm up bikes. 

Back on the bus for a long drive to Chantemerle in the French Alps. The majestic scenery was outstanding. Our hotel was in a ski village in the Serre Chevalier region. It was a lot cooler in the Apls than down in Provence and the Pyrenees.

Au revoir 

Sharon