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BikeAbout Log

At 6:00 PM June 7, 1998
Sunrise (local): 6:03 a.m. Sunset (local): 9:21 p.m.	Weather 75°F
Traveled Since Last Dispatch 105 mi / 169 km Cumulative Total 5665 mi / 9122 km	Lat: 43° 34' 08" N Lon: 4° 11' 29" E Elev: 0 ft / 0 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Aigues-Mortes
Where We're Staying: Hotel L'Escale
Places We Visited: Arles (Cathédrale Saint Trophime, Cryptoportica [subterranean galleries], Arènes [Coliseum, or Arena]), Camargue, Aigues-Mortes
Featured Site: the Camargue
Person of the Day: King Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: meat pierrade (meat cooked on heated stones); Breakfast: none; Lunch: lots of croissants and pains au chocolat, baguettes, fruit; Dinner: soup, paté de campagne, melon au porto, salad, beef and turkey pierrade; Olive count: 2295
Word of the Day: "Bon appétit" means "Enjoy your meal" in French. We have heard this at the beginning of, and often during, almost every meal we have eaten in France!
Tech Fact of the Day: midges, the scourge of the Camargue: Flat Count (Cumulative): 44; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 33


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