{"id":296,"date":"2017-09-20T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:28:47","slug":"day-12-sault-to-moustier-ste-marie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/day-12-sault-to-moustier-ste-marie\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12 Sault to Moustier Ste Marie"},"content":{"rendered":"

70.48 miles, ascent 1451 metres, average speed 12.5 mph, elapsed time 5 hrs 39 mins.<\/p>\n

Had a great celebratory meal last night with everyone in high spirits. The patron of the hotel made a special gateau, very light and delicious.\"\"What a difference a day makes! We woke to a cloudless \u00a0blue sky with a clear view of the tower at summit of Ventoux, something we couldn’t see yesterday even from the top. The route out to our first brew stop at Banon was a gradual climb interspersed with some \u00a0welcome downhills. The road was lined with fields of lavender, most of which, unfortunately, had been harvested. Even at 8 miles out, looking back, Ventoux still dominated the horizon.\"\"By the time we reached our picnic lunch at La Brillanne the sun had warmed up nicely and it was time to shed the leggings and arm warmers and put on some sun screen.This day had been a long time coming!\"\"There was a long downhill section after lunch and with the warm sun on our backs we made good progress to the afternoon break at Valensole after 52 miles. Most of the day’s climbing was now to come with a long section of “false flat” where the road appears to be downhill but actually goes up, most demoralising. Our destination of Moustier Sainte Marie is set into the hillside and is very picturesque.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

70.48 miles, ascent 1451 metres, average speed 12.5 mph, elapsed time 5 hrs 39 mins. Had a great celebratory meal last night with everyone in high spirits. The patron of the hotel made a special gateau, very light and delicious.What a difference a day makes! We woke to a cloudless \u00a0blue sky with a clear … Continue reading “Day 12 Sault to Moustier Ste Marie”<\/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-296","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\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}