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Arette – free of charge

First campsite.  Camping Arette apparently.  Tonights concoction is chicken with some slurp of some kind.  One big bowl of mushed up veg.  Great practice for when we have no teeth.

The campsite was full of mod cons.  Well, cons anyway.

Full swing.  This is a picture of professionals at work.  Live and learn people, live and learn.

This is Taylux after a boiling shower.  I didn’t tell him what he looked like!  Lobster face.

Sooty waxing lyrical about something or other.  Nobody was listening by this time anyway.

 

 

Packing up and time to leave.  I was first ’cause I was up early of course.

 

 

The owner was nowhere in sight.  Some builders told us he had gone into hospital.  So we left a note saying we had stayed a night and my phone number.  Eh?  Why mine?  Oh well.  Showers were crap anyway.

 

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Packing has started!

This is Mick’s idea of packing for the Tricolore Tour.  Ho ho.

Tricolore Tour is so called because :

  1. We are going to France
  2. There are three of us

Bike cleaned, adventure bits now almost all fitted, new textile suit ordered. Passport, tickets, money.  Passport, tickets, money.  What time is it?  7 weeks to go.

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The weather is clearing

We are approaching Graz here and we are getting dizzy with excitement.  Percy is even taking artistic pictures of fountains!

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Crash!

Alice was hit from behind – small bump but the driver scarpered.

Here is a pic of the car from my rear facing camera…

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Unfortunately a badly broken front brake leaver…

 

Although there is anger, stress and worry, Percy pulled out a spare lever from his bag!  Genius.  So her bike was fixed in 15 mins.  After a coffee, it was almost (and I mean almost) forgotten.

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Off to Graz

Found the hotel and all good.  Except for Bill causing the fire alarm to go off because of excessive use of deodorant!  I’m serious.  He set off the sensor in his room and the fire dept turned up when the alarm was set off.  Unreal.

He puts on three layers of spray – Apparently he doesn’t like to risk sweating!

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BIG waterfall

Ended up at Krimml and as the weather was alright, we headed up to the waterfall. Astounding.

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The thing is, Alice said it was a steady walk to the top.  Nothing strenuous or anything.  When climbing up the path to tho top I kept looking round for Sherpa Tensing.  Then on the way back I needed crampons, not a pair of trainers!

But at least I got some exercise. 🙂

Mixed grill back in the hotel and a ‘few’ beers soon calmed my nerves.

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Stupid Weather

Can’t believe it.  Just as we crossed the Austrian Alps, the skies opened up and dumped a load of wet stuff on us.  Couldn’t see any of the mountains hardly.  Grrrr.

Holed up in Innsbruck now and after a meal in a beerkeller and a crap nights sleep we are off to Krimini (?) tomorrow to see the waterfall.  Like that’s going to happen.  Weather is bad tomorrow too.

Still, all looks fine for the racing at the weekend.

Roll on Rossi!

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Puncture Girl

Alice got a puncture.  Went down fast, it did.  But Percy and I couldn’t wait to utilise the “Stop and Go” puncture repair tyre plugger kit I’d brought along.  Alice just wanted a new girlie tyre.

The Stop and Go stemmed the leak enough to ride it.  But off we went in search of tyres.  A bit of running around but we came across a place that had tyres and were actually helpful (!) and all was fixed during a coffee.

A Monster about to be surgically operated on…

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The cause….

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No wonder we were only able to stem the leak!  This was found inside the tyre.