This was my final day before I passed Marseille and arrived at the waters of the Mediterranean Sea in Cassis. Still very hot, but I only had 32 miles / 51 km to cycle. Very hard to avoid the motorway but it is possible although you have to climb for this privilege. Still the relatively short distance meant that I had plenty of time to stop for lunch. See here, see short video below.
You are finally rewarded when just before Cassis there is a very fast downhill descent into the Town’s outskirts and of course there is the very steep hill down to the water’s edge itself.
The weather today was almost unbearably hot and very humid and sure enough there was rain just before I got into Cassis. Also passed another of the many very sad ‘shrines’ to young men who have died on their motorcycles on the roads of France. They are, almost invariably young men, under 25 who are killed either by motorists or perhaps simply by losing control whilst going too fast.
Here I am at the waters edge:
The rest of the photos I took are available here.
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