September 1, 2019
Moissac
A lovely leisurely day
We walked into the central square for dinner and ate our meal to the accompaniment of live jazz singing. The square was buzzing on a Saturday evening
The weather forecast was for much cooler weather today - only reaching about 25 degrees - and we had a short day. This meant we had a leisurely departure. It was back on the canal that we had travelled yesterday for the first 12km into Montech. We went into the town and found a cafe then along came another coffee seeking pair of cycle tourists. Pierre and Marie were from Toulouse and just taking the weekend to have a trip. I think we must look rather queer because people keep wanting to take photos of us, perhaps its the lights on the front of our helmets which make them look like miners helmets. They also seem to find it rather extraordinary that we started our journey in Munich, a 10 day trip seems about as long as the people we have met are taking. In Montech there was a wonderful little market, not one of those huge overwhelming ones and not an article of cheap clothing in sight. There was just beautiful fresh produce. The whole little village was out in force and Zimmer frames were certainly to the for.
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Leaving Montech, once we managed to find our way out of the boat yard, we just dawdled along enjoying the country around us, there was no hurry we didn’t have to beat the heat. Today we saw three ocean going yachts, they had their masts down to get under bridges and were using the canal to get from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, a different journey for them if they are some of those brave people who sail in small boats around the world
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Just before reaching Moissac there is a long bridge which takes the canal over the Tarn River. These always fascinate me, it must have been a tremendous engineering feat to build them. Into Moissac and it was easy to find our lovely hotel. Check in wasn’t until 3pm so we dropped our baggage and bikes and went off. The restaurants were in the old part of the town by the abbey. Ken had a Marine Salad and I had a Gourmant Salad, this seemed to include every different part of a duck except the feathers. Ken is saying he felt that at the moment we a living the healthiest possible life style we could. I intend to agree apart from one thing I think there is too much wine involved - K says we need the fluid!
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About 16 years ago when we were a walking from Le Puy to Santiago de Compostella we stayed in a convent and the beauty of the Abbey we remember well. A Benedictine and Cluniac Monastry it had a very difficult early history being subject to Moorish raids. The present building seem to date from about the 10th century. Beautiful inside the most outstanding feature however is the Romanesque sculpture around the entrance. We loved to see it again
Today's ride: 40 km (25 miles)
Total: 1,706 km (1,059 miles)
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