Today was the hottest day of the year with temperatures in Saint Savin up to 38°c in the shade, so feeling like 45°c in the sun. “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid day sun” as the song goes, well we now have to add Australians to that. Marc Whitehead from sydney is staying in La Lantern Rouge at the moment, this morning he cycled up the Pont d’Espagne and then this afternoon he went in the full heat of the day to Lac d’Estaing. I went up also (in the van with the air-con on full blast), to take some photos and enjoy the cooler temperatures at the higher altitude.
"Look ma, no hands" Marc arrives at the summit.
Marc Whitehead
Cows at Lac d'Estaing.
I have to stop taking photos of cows, people will start to think I have some kind of fetish. They remind me of my youth in Ireland working on farms, milking and mucking out.
Arcizans-Avant. Bales of hay in the Val d'Azun
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