Day 13: Prayssac to Cahors: A lot of Walnut trees, a lot of river bends

August 15, 2014

Track 05 LC 28 km

Perfect day, no traffic, no rain, no wind, temperature no more than high 20°C. Enough sun to keep us warm when going downhill. The GPS tracks did help us " a lot ". Sometime the signage are missing.

Cahors appears to be an old city with very narrow streets, may be to stand the heat of very hot summers, which was not the case this year. So we are very fortunate to have such a cool weather to reach the town and to leave it by tomorrow ...

Waving good bye to Gerrie, Ruod and their dog Bruce in Prayssac. Great people, nice B & B, peaceful place.

Bias village on Lot. Lots of old houses for sale

The village road was very steep and the Rohloff combine with a a low chain ring diameter of 30 sprockets was perfect for climbing at sometime less than 1 km/h allowing to take pictures of the local cobblestones

These pretty roses are not there for decoration but act has a warning for grape disease. They will declare it first and allow preventive treatment on grapes.

15 of August celebration in the small chapel before Luzech

French word for this device is Travail. Popi at work

Coffee break. Philippe will not miss one

Douelle quiet village asleep during the day and about to wake up at night

Descending to Cahors. We were lucky to enter the town on 15 of August, hardly any traffic compared to working days

Philippe and Michel, Valentré bridge in Cahors

Philippe did a great job for making all the Hotel and B&B reservations. Specially the one in Cahors, being right in the middle of the town.

The two trikes made it through the left door Hotel service entrance

Our trikes parked in hotel corridor coin des Halles

See, a store adjacent to our hotel called Les Popines

The old medieval part of Cahors is black an oppressive with narrow roads. Even possible to shake hands from across the street, building to building. Looks like the town has been designed to provide shade to stand hot summers. Not easy to shot picture there.

Today's ride: 46 km (29 miles)
Total: 821 km (510 miles)

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