Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne restday
We did not need a restday but given the weather forecast was really bad for Sunday we planned to have one anyway. Also because we still have some days left and from tomorrow on the weather looks good so why cycle in the rain 🌧, not able to enjoy the view, if we can have a perfect day later? So we slept in till like nine which is really late for us, in general. Not that we actually slept all those hours as our apartment appeared to be above a hangout for the local youth and every ten seconds some kind of annoying beep went off. We went to investigate the source of the beep this morning but couldn’t find it. Maybe it’s all in our heads.
So we walked to the grocery store to get breakfast and to a bakery a little further down since they did not have croissants 🥐 in the supermarket. Mas her rule is, when in France 🇫🇷, eat croissants 🥐, so we had to go find some. It was raining a bit and it was almost cold, we loved it! Back at the apartment we had some good breakfast and watched a few episodes of Friends. The perfect recipe 🧾for a rainy Sunday. After some time we went to get coffee ☕️and to use the wifi of yesterday’s bar at Hotel des Sports, which has quickly become our favorite. We needed to complete our new route and look for campgrounds ⛺️ or hotels 🏨 between here and Flumet. Mas got it her way, or actually Suuz found this cute cheap hotel just near the top of a mountain 🏔, Mas just wanted to cycle the mountain. Cute cheap hotel 🏨won so we are going up a mountain 🏔again the day after tomorrow. We are also going up a mountain tomorrow, but that one had already been decided.
Around one o’clock the dude of the bar send us away cause everything, and with everything we mean everything, closes around 12.30 for the rest of the day. Okay everything except for the bar with the expensive not so great lunch we had yesterday. The whole town was dead. We thought everything would open again around four-ish, well it didn’t. So after yesterday’s burger incident all of you know where we went for lunch. It was a 1.5km walk, which was pretty nice. And they had wifi, also nice. The food, Suuz loved it, Mas not so much, but she did like to see Suuz so happymeal 🍔🍟🥤. We spend our afternoon at the big yellow M, played games, posted stories and had a nice walk back.
In the apartment Suuz baked pancakes 🥞 for tomorrow’s breakfast and lunch on the mountain 🏔. Afterwards we went down for a beer 🍻in the only thing that was open. The lady wasn’t very nice and seemed unable to count. When Mas went to pay 💶 she yelled ‘huit, huit’ and held up seven fingers. So she gave her seven euros 💶, although she kept on yelling ‘huit, huit’. We can count to ten in French so we figured something was not right, but fingers is international eh.
Anyway, once back up we had a leftover dinner of fried rice 🍛 while watching the final stage of Le Tour the France. The event that completely upended our last days on the bike 🚲. We packed our bags, went to bed 🛌and lay awake cause of being cold (Suuz), being hot (Mas) and because of that horrible beeping. Back on the bike tomorrow for our last four days. Very exciting! And sad.
