so, on our way to narbonne, we took an incredible bike path that took us across this uninhabited island along an old canal. the canal is mostly used for houseboats now, so it was pretty quiet.
the path started as asphalt, turned to pea gravel and eventually small boulders. reminder: we are on road bikes with 35 lb packs on the back. so, it was a bit rough on the bikes. eventually my rear tire gave up and went flat. no big deal, i'm a tire changing pro, right? after 2 inner tubes, i finally realized that our only pump was broken from the fall i took after the flat. not good. it was 6 miles from the next town. so we sat there for about 10 minutes cursing the bad luck and the failure of not getting another pump when this 70 year old comes tearing up on a mt bike. turns out he has the presta valve pump we need and we were rolling in 3 minutes. thank god for the old guy.
the path started as asphalt, turned to pea gravel and eventually small boulders. reminder: we are on road bikes with 35 lb packs on the back. so, it was a bit rough on the bikes. eventually my rear tire gave up and went flat. no big deal, i'm a tire changing pro, right? after 2 inner tubes, i finally realized that our only pump was broken from the fall i took after the flat. not good. it was 6 miles from the next town. so we sat there for about 10 minutes cursing the bad luck and the failure of not getting another pump when this 70 year old comes tearing up on a mt bike. turns out he has the presta valve pump we need and we were rolling in 3 minutes. thank god for the old guy.in narbonne, we finally transitioned to crepes from tapas. mine had some sort of chicken, tomato, veggie mix. it was excellent.
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Please, please, PLEASE tell me you nicknamed the old guy "bleu" and told him he was your "garcon". Also, did he travel with a little cooler filled with coissants and gruyere?
sorry. i was too exhausted to think of that. we do travel with little juice boxes of wine. they sell them for €1.40 per three
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