Day 15 Thu 26/05 - Nasty Toothache Shorten the Ride in La Clusaz

Today Disatnce : 38.9 km      Total: 817.6 km                                                     Today Temp : 18 - 28°c                                                                                       Today Spending : 5.22 euro    Total: 175.22 euro                                                  Time on Bike : 3 hr  26 min                                                                             Today Ave Speed: 11.3 kmh     Max: 52.5 kmh                                                   Today Ave Climb: 3%      Max: 11%                                                                 Trip Altitude : 851 m    Max: 1141 m

What a bad day for me caused by a nasty toothache which came all of a sudden when I was pedalling up a steep climb. The pain came on and off and I had to signal Ivan/Annie to make a stop, after taken 2 tablets of activefast panadol, and rested at the bus stop for about 40 mins, I managed to continue but my body strenght is very low,I needed a longer rest to recover and hence we started to look for the nearest campsite, but was closed when we arrived at the gate, but the owner was kind enough to let us stay and charged 5 euro each once I told him my toothache problem. The sky started to look urgly as we quickly set up our tents under rain and cook our dinner at the reception corridor.My toothache has somehow subside and hopefully it stay that way till the end of my trip.

Day 14 Wed 25/05 - Rest Day in Annecy

Today Temp : 20 - 34°c                                                                                    Today Spending : 21 euro    Total: 170 euro

Today is our 1st well earned rest day after 10 consecutive days of non stop hard pedalling, and todate we had covered close to 800 km from paris to this southern scenic lakeview of Annecy city,ahead of us will be the Great Alps,as we can see from the bottom at the valley, our campsite is at the hillslope 2 km from the lake, so we still need to cycle to the town and it feel so much relieved without the load.By pushing our bikes, we walked thru the narrow streets of old town where many tourists frequent,lots of shops selling souvineirs, restaurants by the roadside nicely dress table with white cloths and fork n spoon well arranged.We also saw a few chinese restaurants but very pricey, I were searching for internet cafe and found one but very costly at 3 euro per hour.Spent 3 hr so that is 9 euro with out any discount.Managed only 6 days of journals, at least there is some news since leaving Paris to all my blog followers that meng is still strong and full of fire.

Day 13 Tue 24/05 - Paid Camping in Annecy

Today Disatnce : 49.9 km     Total: 778.7 km                                                  Today Temp : 20 - 34°c                                                                                   Today Spending : 5.5 euro    Total: 148.87 euro                                                    Time on Bike : 3 hr  41 min                                                                               Today Ave Speed: 13.5 kmh   Max: 49 kmh                                                   Today Ave Climb: 3%    Max: 13%                                                                   Trip Altitude : 647 m     Max: 457 m

A very short ride started at 9.40am  to Annecy but by no means is easy as the terrain is mostly uphill thru the mountain Clergeon at 1025m. The 1st 12 km following the river valley up to Motz and then passing thru the mountain of vel du Fier of D14, we ride thru 2 very short tunnels and some beautiful views of gorges,when reaching the outskirt of Annecy,we mistakenly went into the highway where we were honk by the speeding cars,we quickly turn into the next exit and asked our ways out to the Annecy town centre.This is a very touristic big city with a very beautiful lake of Lac d' Annecy, it will hold the Olumpic game in 2018. We found a cheap campingsite about 2km away from the more expensive lake camp,located on a hill slope for 5.5 euro per pax, surprisingly cheap cos' we heard that it will be doublely more than what we had paid in others campsites.After setting our tents,we went for a short ride thru the town and took some very nice lakeside pictures.