It's over and done with

Packed up the tent for the last time on Saturday morning and had a leisurely half hour cycle into Nice Airport, packed up the bikes and had a trouble free journey back to Glasgow via Gatwick with all of our remaining luggage, including the bikes, coming off the baggage carousel iat Glasgow in jig time.

It has been another great trip, the shorter distances certainly allowed us more time to see the sights, however many of the days were still pretty hard work due to the hills, heat and wind, our total distance for the trip was 420 miles with over 30,000 ft  of climbing.

http://www.strava.com/routes/959874

Once again we found many of the rural areas more interesting and welcoming than the major tourist attractions such as Avignon, Cannes and Monaco.  These latter places were all well worth visiting but, for us, they are not the highlights of the trip. For me the highlight was the Pont du Gard, the sheer scale and precision of the engineering and surveying required to build that aqueduct 2000 years ago is breathtaking.  For Sandra the highlight was Mont Ventoux and I have to agree that it was pretty special climbing that huge mountain with all the cycling history that surrounds it.

Our missing bags were delivered safe and  well tonight so that just leaves one remaining issue to resolve....

Where next?