{"id":268,"date":"2017-09-19T16:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2018-05-30T23:39:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T22:39:18","slug":"day-10-vallon-pont-darc-to-vaison-le-romaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/day-10-vallon-pont-darc-to-vaison-le-romaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 10 Vallon Pont D’Arc to Vaison La Romaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

69 miles (should have been 57), ascent 1347metres, average speed 10.0 mph, elapsed time 5hrs 56mins.<\/p>\n

A bit of a nightmare today when I missed a turn and did an extra 12 miles before lunch. Other than that, another excellent day! Left Vallon Pont D’Arc then had an almost immediate 2 mile steep climb up to the rim of the gorge.<\/p>\n

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View Point at Col du Serre du Tourre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were numerous view points along the way giving great views of the gorge.<\/p>\n

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The Ardeche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We crossed the Rhone at Pont St Espirit and had a clear view of Mont Ventoux.<\/p>\n

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The River Rhone at Pont St Espirit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mont Ventoux – tomorrow’s challenge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After lunch (a late one for me after my navigating problem) rode into some intense Cote du Rhone wine growing country.Grape picking was under way both mechanically and manually.<\/p>\n

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Liz and Janet hitching a ride on a grape harvester!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"At afternoon coffee stop the weather became warmer – more like I had been expecting – and I cycled to Vaison in short sleeves.<\/p>\n

A good day inspite of my diversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

69 miles (should have been 57), ascent 1347metres, average speed 10.0 mph, elapsed time 5hrs 56mins. A bit of a nightmare today when I missed a turn and did an extra 12 miles before lunch. Other than that, another excellent day! Left Vallon Pont D’Arc then had an almost immediate 2 mile steep climb up … Continue reading “Day 10 Vallon Pont D’Arc to Vaison La Romaine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-channel-to-the-med"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}