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Headed north through beautiful countryside and villages

I see a Blackberry crumble coming on later

It was 39c on Tuesday so left it till Wednesday as it was cooler .....only 38c Left home heading to Rocamadour to start section 25 of the French TET

From here I turned SW to head home

Woke up to a heavy mist , decamped fast and was riding before 8.00 , crazy 38c yesterday and 21c that morning but did climb to 29c actually comfortable riding

Got to Tulle and joined the TET section 4 , found a campsite with a bar

Destination Tulle , stopped for some grub on the way

Pushed on through this rural hell

You knew this was coming didn't you. Fancy cod n chips now.

Did you know that the Portuguese invented frying in batter? And then took it to Japan, who made a big thing of it. After a few centuries some twat came up with frying candy bars.

Managed to get through 106F temps today After making another run to the dump to empty my truck in the morning, I'll be tending to assembling my wife's new Etrike that just showed up today....

Superb Phil, those villages look so typical of your part of France. The trails are just fantastic although those steep climbs in that sort of heat must make you sweat a bit . I can't tell you how much I'm missing riding in France this year. Roll on 2025 .

then for desert, deep fried Mars Bar.

The Gorleston cliff top gala this weekend so hopefully get there in-between the normal showers https://clifftopfestival.info MotoGP and maybe a bit more sheds if I can be arsed, getting bored of it now. Mandis having her hair done this morn so I'm thinking of a walk.

No me neither, I would do it on my Donk aka DR650

Couple of videos

I suddenly don't need to go anymore!

Coming from a man so handsome only stainless steel mirrors can withstand his beauty

It's the only way.

Feel pretty fortunate to have seen him race Live @ Washougal back before he broke his back....he's like a few other top riders, knows only 1 speed....FAST 4ward!!

I just showed Ersilia , that's one of her favourites as well

Thrown in the deep end tonight but it turned out ok. Had a message in the week as there was a Lifeboat event on the quay. 200 years celebration. Anyway my group was asked to sing a few songs after the Vicar did her bit. We rocked up to a packed town quay, bit more of an event than just a few songs. Went well so all good in the end. After there was a band called Johnny and the Lips. Apparently Johnny was the wizened up old bass player who was in the Commitments from the film. Brilliant band all the same, brass section and all. Shame I had to come home to go to work. Working Sunday night as well but don’t have any other plans yet.

Hake fillets, marinated in mild and lemon and gently fried in egg and flour batter, with cold “russian” salad. My mum’s cooking, the sort of stuff I used to hate as a kid but now love.

Codfish with chickpeas, with plenty of coriander. Very much a southern Portuguese/Lisbon thing.

Very cool. Don’t think you would want to do that on a big bike, even with good tires, though?

Everything is better deep fried in batter.

Think.......I will be doing the same as the previous weekend, with a bit of Moto GP viewing thrown in.

you'll need more than a day .. you ugly fucker

i have one

I have a mate who follows Marillion all over Europe, he's probably seen them over 100 times.

Looks like some great areas to ride there Phil...

With that size of rack, you could have a topbox that would even make Pete jealous...

great pics ...

No reason. I just looked up on google what the English name for the Portuguese “pescada” is, and it came up as hake. I suppose codfish and cod are the same thing, but I always think of codfish for some reason. All the cod you see in my food or all over Portugal is preserved salted, like in Italy or Croacia. Bacalhau in Portuguese or Baccala in Italian. An entire fish, when you buy it whole looks like this, big ones being 3kg to 6kg like this:

He kicks ass! Amazing to see.

Try it deep fried in batter.

Doggie walking tomorrow , then some beers later . Probably not as many as Fred though

Some Wish You Were Here vibes?

Only thing i know i'll be doing this weekend is going to my mates 60th birthday party he was my best man when i got married. So probably have a lay in tomorrow get up and spend the rest of the day making myself pretty, then get pissed and spend Sunday recovering saying to myself never again.