Same routine for us again, and no rain! This was most welcome. We all headed off in different directions to do a bit more exploring, I managed to encounter a rather impassable cattle grid, and then a uncrossable river, this meant I had to cut my ride shorter than I had hoped, but I did go and explore the ruins of an old castle, which would have been a prime piece of Real Estate in it's day, the view from it was quite spectacular.
After a second ride, we checked out all the roads through the village on foot, just to do a bit of exploring to see how it all looked. After discovering what looked like a church to our English cartographers eyes, was actually a shrine, we decided to check out all the different types of shrines we could see in the adjacent areas on our maps, they were very useful as way markers during the Saturday ride.
We headed back to the barracks to prepare ourselves for the delights of a Team GB meal out at a local restaurant providing us with local dishes, it was an absolutely amazing meal. It started with an offer of beer, clearly a good start to a night, then on to homemade goats cheese and pâté with various breads. We were moved on to another homemade cheese with a bit of salad garnish and ham, next was pumpkin soup, possibly, no, definitely the best soup I have ever had. The main was either a choice of stag, or fish which is only found in some areas of deep water in the Alps and in Scotland (I believe), I chose stag, and it was certainly a taste sensation, and I was suitably stuffed. Yet I still had to manage to ice cream with a blackcurrant sauce, oh such a difficult life I lead! It was a very wholesome and scrumptious meal, and all certainly seemed to enjoy it, and it was nice to get to chat to the rest of the team.
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