Day 5 Collioure to Quillan

It's late, I'm tired, I have to get to bed.  This is short and sweet--I'll come back and edit maybe on the next rest day.  Today we started heading back west towards Biarritz over 8 days of riding.  It was VERY windy today--the wind chill was sometimes a bit much, and it provided a few scares on some descents, but overall it was not as bad as I'd feared it might be when we first set out.  At least it was DRY!

Wind most of the day 'til we got over the final pass and headed into Quillan.

SO, for now, here are a bunch of pictures, and the Relive.cc map thingy:

Relive.cc Day 5 Collioure to Quillan

I'll add some descriptions later on. . . .

Old castles, fortresses, chateaus everywhere.

Jeff Dux, left, Paul Randall.

Chris Dacey, leading, followed by Allan Reeves and Nico Frias.

L-R Rob Bower, Nico Frias, Gordon Cavanagh.

Me in the red, and Gordon Cavanagh.

Paul Randall, San Ramon, CA

Jeff Dux, left, and Nico Frias.

L-R Chris Dacey (Boulder), Allan Reeves (Mill Valley, CA), Nico Frias (Mill Valley)

Our 5th and 6th night stays:  Hotel mas des Citronniers, Collioure, France

Our hotel at the end of the day in Quillan, France:  Hotel la Chaumiere, Quillan, France

This was our first layover day--we spent nights 5 and 6 here.