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Length of Stage 193 km
Altitude to climb 1'972 m
Wunderlistrasse 6:10
a.m. - we are ready to leave. Ten minutes later we arrive at the
main station to board the train to Geneva, and only three hours
later, after an excellent breakfast, we get into the bike shoes
in front of the „Gare Centrale". We already know how to
best get out of the City - direction Salève - shall we climb up
again? But we decide against it, bike along the Mountain and
collect altitude meters instead. We bike on small roads with
almost no traffic and cross the Col de la Croix, which is
followed by a long descent to Frangy. Here we don’t get the
right road directly, which means we have a steep hill as a
detour. We don’t mind, we are on vacation and reach Seyssel
in time for lunch. On a beautiful terrace overlooking the Rhône
we enjoy our break. We travel on along the River, pass a
beautiful lake and are in no time in Yenne. Here we have to climb
up an unexpected hill, call it Regalo and continue on a little
street to Le Pont Beauvoisin. The Bidons get a refill before we
bike through a nice part of the National Park of Chartreuse, by
means of 500 Meters uphill. On Top the effort is well rewarded
with a magnificent view in the Massiv Chartreuse. The next rest
we enjoy in St. Laurent du Pont where our bike computers tell us
we have only 20 kilometers more to go while the map reads 50 km.
We bike on, over the Col de la Placette and now have a very long
descent into the Isere valley: will we reach our destination?
Another detour makes the decision for us: near Grenoble
(Seyssinet) we have to look for a sleeping place, and for dinner
we eat pizza from the counter. It was a gorgeous day, but one
should know how to calculate distances.
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