Sometimes your sick, sometimes it rains, sometimes you climb.
The main square in Gigondas under grey skies Part Three of our Easter break in France, after Antibe, and Chateauvert, saw us in the shadow of Mt Ventoux, north east of Avignon, in the village of Caromb. My intent was to climb in the area of Montmirail while enjoying the countryside of Provence. The area was much busier than Contignac and Chateauvert and it was dotted with hilltop villages. It seemed that the higher you were the smaller and cuter were the towns. Ada finding somewhere to hide in Gigondas I was familiar with Mt Ventoux, as it had long been a famous climb on the big bike races like Paris-Nice and the Tour, but I was unaware of how popular cycling was in the area. There were any number of well mapped cycle routes some flat and some very hilly. We lost count of the groups we passed while driving and I wished that I had the Black Bullet (my road bike) with me. Every medium sized town seemed to have one or tw...