Cycling in France - 2002

PHOTOGRAPHS
2002
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Bike race at Béziers.

Left to right (heading south): Étang de Sigean, Canal de la Robine, bike path (much better surface here than nearer Narbonne), Étang de l'Ayrolle/Mediterranean.

Col de Feuilla, in the Corbières, heading for St Jean-de-Barrou.

Looking down to Cucugnan from the Grau de Maury.

The quiet way in to Carcassonne from the south.

Canal du Midi, heading for Toulouse, just after joining the cycle path at Avignonnet.

Béziers

Lagoons

Corbières

Cucugnan

Carcassonne

Canal du Midi

Lovely view of the Pyrenees from St Gaudens.

St Bertrand-de-Comminges, approaching from the north-east.

Col d'Aspin.

Hungry native of the Col d'Aspin.

5 kms from the Tourmalet summit, just before La Mongie.

Cyclists on the coast-to-coast ride from Hendaye to the Mediterranean, at the Col du Tourmalet, looking east.

St Gaudens

St Bertrand

Col d'Aspin

Col d'Aspin

Tourmalet tunnel

Col du Tourmalet

Climbing to Saligos, above the Gorge de Luz.

The Voie Verte des Gaves: bike path on the old railway line from Pierrefitte to Lourdes.

The Voie Verte des Gaves: bike path on the old railway line from Pierrefitte to Lourdes.

Off the bike path, between Lourdes and Argelès, by the Gave de Pau.

Les Rochers, hotel at St Savin, looking south towards the pig-sty bike-shed and the Pyrenees.

Cols d'Aubisque and Soulor open: D918 near Arrens.

Gorge de Luz

Voie verte...

... des Gaves

Ibid.

St Savin

Cols ouverts

Sheep at the Col de Soulor heading north.

3 kms below the Aubisque summit, where Wim Van Est fell 30 feet in the 1951 Tour de France.

Approaching the Col d'Aubisque from the east.

Start of the descent from the Col d'Aubisque.

Eaux-Bonnes, from the Aas road.

The Basque country: Iholdy.

Col de Soulor

Van Est corner

Col d'Aubisque

Col d'Aubisque

Eaux-Bonnes

Iholdy

St Jean de Luz, bridge over the Nivelle on the N10.

Plage Marbelle, Biarritz, looking back to Spain.

Les Landes, near Arnaoutchoc.

Les Landes, near Le Porge-Océan.

Les Landes, north of Hourtin: deserted road and cycle path.

La Rochelle, north, the N137 at dawn (the cycle path goes underneath).

St Jean de Luz

Biarritz

Les Landes

Les Landes

Les Landes

La Rochelle

A few months behind the leaders at the World Championships, Plouay.

Pleyber-Christ, eastern approach.

Roscoff harbour, west.

Roscoff-on-the-Mediterranean, above the ferry terminal.

Maharajah's Well, Stoke Row (Oxfordshire).

Ewelme (Oxfordshire), from Rabbits Hill.

Plouay

Pleyber-Christ

Roscoff

Roscoff

England

England

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