Su had booked a place to run the Medoc Marathon on the 9th September, but due to a recurrent knee injury had not been able to train sufficiently and we had reluctantly decided not to go, although we had tickets to some of the surrounding events. and a booking for our camper van on the campsite.
However, our good friends Mark Bernstein and his partner Linda were visiting Bordeaux for a conference, from Cambridge, USA. The conference was in the first part of the week after the Marathon, and they would be free to explore Bordeaux's culinary delights thereafter.
It seemed too good an opportunity. We caught a ferry across, a train to Paris, cycled across Paris and got a TGV down to Bordeaux. We cycled to a campsite on the outskirts of Bordeaux that night then on to Pauillac the next day, where we already had a booking on the crowded campsite. We joined in the Marathon party for a couple of days, then cycled on round the Gironde estuary, getting back late in the following week to take a Air B&B apartment to spend a long weekend with Mark and Linda.
We were camping.
We were riding:
- Hugh - Dawes Super Galaxy
- Su - Roberts Audax
Between 5th and 14th September 2017
Total Distance 296 km
Climbed and Descended 1502m
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