LuLu!

We woke up at Salbris, put together bikes and headed to the B du B town( hard to spell) to watch the finish of stage . We got there just in time to see the final group finish and a sense for the craziness surrounding the Tour. After walking around a bit, we chose to go for a ride. Upon leaving town we went straight up hill for what seemed like forever and finally made the Col du Polmiere. We decided to come back and camp after our ride. Needless to say, Scott reconned a great place to eat and had them promise to stay open until our return. After killing ourselves getting back to town, we finally made it back and had a great French-mountain-roadhouse experience having an amazing dinner of soup, bread and fromage. We ingratiated ourselves so much to the proprietor, he insisted we stay in his outside eating area - then he proceeded to stay up all night singing and banging dishes! He is a bear of a man named Lu Lu, and he is our best French mountain cafe owner friend (even though we barely understood anything he said).

A lot has happened between our Lu Lu encounter, but it is still a benchmark experience that we have fallen back on when we get bored driving between stages (however, the French countryside is anything but boring)- Fongu!