Bergerac

Short drive of 100k from Saint Lary to Bergerac, in the rain. Pulled into Decathlon and checked out the merchandise and made my first purchase for this trip in the store, a black vest with a couple of pockets, nice and warm. Was hopeful the rain would ease up, but it didn't so BB back and forth doing his run, fitted in 30 minutes but running, back to the car when the thunder came, back out again and so on. Decided to find a place to park for the day which had a get away out to the highway. Parked the car and bb again off for his run. I didn't notice but he did, some shift guys walking past our car. I set off to the Arrivee, found out it was 5k away, so tried to put a bit of pace on for my walk. Was the weirdest of finishes, twisting and turning, no wonder there was a crash in the final 2k. So busy, at least 10 deep and impossible to move , took some photos, then heard the thunder again, this was my sign to start heading back. It come down in bucket loads, had a rain jacket on but it wasn't doing much to help. The caravan came past and I tried to grab some decent photos, but failed. Managed to score some goodies although I wasn't even trying. Stood at the round about just before the 5k when the riders come thru. Was standing on the wrong side of the TV camera, although I may have made it on TV as they had the camera pointed my way thru the round a bout. Back to the car and stripped all the wet clothing off.

Made our way to Perigueux for the TT tomorrow, found it hard to find a place to park near the course for an early get away for the drive to Paris tomorrow. Nothing was working so change of plan, started heading to Paris, drove for an hour or so. Pulled into a Aire, only to find it was fantastic, great place for our final sleep in the car