Let's Have a Look Back...
A Systematic Review of the Tour
The tour I wote about, turned out to be a journey of great
scenic views
through a beautiful country side. It splits up into three equally
amazing
parts:
Let
us terminate the narration with some interesting pictures:
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To the right: Impressions from our way back through
the Lubéron,
a mountain range up to 4000 feet high. However, the villages around
this
area became more famous, e.g. Apt, Gordes or Rousillon.
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This time I do not write as many remarks to my diary as I used to.
Statistical
details step back against adventurous cycle trips and nights spent
talking,
drinking, smoking. Anyhow, there is one last line to be cited from my
private
photo album: «For several weeks I feel like being
on an orbit through space and time. And I know, when the braking
parachutes
will open I shall never land where I started from.»
- The cycle tour Guillestre - Col d'Izoard - Pré de Madame Carle (including hill climbing to the Refuge C.A.F. les Écrins) - Guillestre.
- The cycle tour Guillestre - Col du Grand Parpaillon - Col de Larche - Valle Varaita - Col Agnel - Guillestre.
- The trip to Castellane (by car) and the way all round the Grand Canyon du Verdon.
Let
us terminate the narration with some interesting pictures:
The needles Demoiselles Coiffées, which literally translates to «hairdressed ladies», on the banks of the Lac de Serre-Ponçon were formed by erosion. The hats are made of harder stones, sheltering the softer soil underneath from the rain.
*And so it was ...
