YoYo

Day: 7
Route: Collonges - Pont d'Ain
Distance: 50 miles
Height: 3321ft ascent
Time in saddle: 4hrs 07mins
When we were not going up, we were going down. When we finished going down, we went up again. There was nothing flat about today, but whilst the climbs were hard, the downs were great fun on smaller, winding, quiet roads, passing fields of happy sunflowers:

So fun in fact we'd completed 47 of our 50 hilly miles before lunch. As a result we stopped in a little village for a menu du jour (4 course lunch that remarkably had something Sam could eat, washed down with wine, water and coffee, all the the princely sum of €13). Luckily there were only ~3 downhill miles from lunch to our stop for the evening.

We spent the afternoon watching team Sky's remaining hope fall out the back of the peleton before enjoying a picnic tea by the river. Bliss.