Our first full day Dijon and we took off to the local market. It's huge!!!!!
Came home with duck thighs, baby potatoes, asparages and some local cheeses and wines for tonight's dinner.
After shopping and an expresso, I donned the lycra for a ride to discover the Dijon Velodrome. Getting there alone is like racing a track race with F-graders. Cars, buses, other cyclists and motor bikes everywhere, but it all seems to happen with a calmness I have never experienced in Melbourne. I've had bogans in utes throw cans and assorted food at me on Beach Rd but here, drivers treat you with respect like you are actually part of the overall traffic.
Mind you, I do use my peripheral vision constantly.
The Dijon Velodrome is a marvelous structure if you just imagine what it was like 1 or 2 decades ago. The honour board showing the past records up to 2003 are impressive. I chucked the bike over the fence to ride a few laps but there is broken glass in one spot that stopped my progress.
Sue and I took the time to sit in the mid arvo and have a couple of relaxing drinks in the 1/2 circle "square" facing the Palais des Ducs while little children chased pigeons feeding.
The city is quite vibrant at this time of day and the teenagers are getting out of classes.
If Paris is the city of love, Dijon is the city of young lust as you see many students entwined on street corners.
Good reading Leon. What is the population of Dijon.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for reading my blog - I've been keeping up with local news by reading yours every other day while away. Good to hear about Shane. He was just a boy of 14 when you and I were on the come-back trail. Isn't it great to see his maturity. I look forward to seeing rainbow rings around him as a senior elite rider soon.
Dijon has a population of 150,000 plus and gets a bit scary when driving with the steering wheel on the other side and is designed a bit like Sydney with crooked streets and one way streets.
Enjoying the challenge though.
My next blog will describe my experience of finding the Dijon Velodrome.
We leave Dijon for Lyon (another Velodrome) on Monday via Autun, Bourge en Bresse and Vienne n
over 3 days and then two nights in Lyon.
We then drop off the car and hit the TGV train to Paris for a week.
Keep well and I'll catch up for a coffee on my return.
Best regards
Leon
Yes suprise suprise I read your grog, sorry frog Doe! BLOG lol
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Have a safe Flight home Please send Flight details So I can alert Customs (Mates in low places) Tell sue she will be fine Your Bike will get in But YOU well no gaurentees
Regards
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Leon, Just the photo of the duck breast had me yearning, in oz we cannot get those big duck breasts off the foie gras ducks. Then the photo of the scallops - it says it all. What a life. Safe travels to you both.
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