1. Rude awakening
Every single morning is the same routine, the legs are heavy from the ride of the day before and the moustache fights hard against Mother Nature to get out of the tent. This can sometimes lead to impressive feats of artistic gymnasitcs that would not look out of place in the Olympic Games.

2. Breakfast
The most important meal of the day, especially if you intend to ride 100km. So treat yourself to a chocolatine (and forget the horrendous “pain au chocolat” named version of this sweet treat), a glass of orange juice and enjoy!

3. Shaving
A moustache needs careful care, leaving us with no other choice than trimming every morning with a razor blade.

6. Walking
Ok, let’s get this straight: if we are sometimes walking on the steepest parts of the hills, it’s not because we are weak, quite the opposite actually! It’s because we want to make sure all the muscles of our lower limbs work in diverse ways.

7. Hydration
It’s important to stay hydrated in this summer heat, especially after climbing, so we pause to have a pit stop for hydration or find a grocery store along the road to fuel up with vitamins.

8. Descending
The best part of the climbing is the descent; when you finally get to go down. But let’s remain cautious here, any long descent leads to an equally long climb.

11. Vaut Deux
What’s better for digestion than a game of pétanque made in Jura ? This game is called “vaut deux”, an age-old game with, let’s put it this way, quite a peculiar rule: the team who loses, buys the drinks for the winners.

12. Apéro
Considering our low skills in the “vaut deux” game, we ended up being the ones buying the drinks quite often…

13. Meeting our animal friends
Not sure if it is a direct effect of the apéro, but our moustaches soon afterwards started talking to animals on the road.

16. Arrival and visit to the village
End of the ride for the day, we make it to the entrance of one of those 20 most beautiful villages in France. The village is often perched as it was built during the Middle Ages. We climb the last little hill to reach the very top of the village and stroll around its little streets. Most of the time, we are pleased to share this visit with a native of this place to learn about its history and tricks. Because who else than a native to give you a tour?

17. The Interview
The chaps with a moustache have many different skills, being reporters is one of them. In some villages, we meet up with local craftsmen who share with us about their job, which is also their passion, in front of our camera.

18. Setting Up Camp
The sunset is approaching, we need to hurry up, pitch the tents and the camp before it's dark. Except when we have a bed in the village for the night.