Edwards fell in love with this pooch, so much so that he let him try his teeth on for size.
We rode over the Pyrenees today on some lovely roads starting in Lourdes. Yes that is the place where you can dunk your head in a bottle of Perrier and cure everything from genital herpes (I have heard) to the big C. Only problem of course is that it is all bollox, sorry if you are religious but I find it very disturbing all the ill kids there with adults promising they are going to get better. And let me tell you, it was Easter Monday so the place was packed with nutters.
Random picture from the web, we escaped before we got "converted".
We then traveled to Viella and stoped for a coffee. We were sitting outside a small hotel enjoying a coffee when the church bells went off over our heads. To say we were surprised would be a bit of an understatement, Edwards launched back from his seating position and sent our coffee flying with it.
Then off to Bagnares-de-bigorre where we stopped for a bite to eat and were served by a lad with a very broad French accent, until he realized we were from England and then he proceeded to talk to us from in and equally broad Southhampton,l accident. Turns out he had been in France since the age of 10.
We ordered chicken by weight choosing 300g each, Southhampton bloke looked surprised, he was not expecting two such slender individuals to be able to put that much away (cough).
We passed though the Freddie tunnel from France to Spain. We have named it the Freddie tunnel as neither Williams or Edwards could remember what it was called but it basically came out near Aines, we had to que at the entrants to the tunnel for about 10 minutes so we decided to act like British kids for the entertainment of the French and Spanish car drivers by having a snow ball fight and making snow angles. The latter was a mistake as we got snow inside all our motorbike clothing and even higher speed runs would not get them dry.
The crowds entertainment ceased and kids were quickly put back in their cars when edwards started writing his name in the snow in "yellow" ink.
If you look closely in the background you can see Edwards doing his thunderbirds impression.
We suspect the top speed may be a touch inaccurate !
Anyway, back to the Casa Dueso our lodging for the night. Thank god for google translate that is all I can say. The proprietor was so impressed that she promptly downloaded it herself and took every opportunity to use it.
Happy days
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