However, time finally came to leave and so we loaded up whilst Bob made us bacon butties for the road and we set off about 11ish, heading west via Mont Ventoux (the famous Tour de France mountain). We stopped off at Tom Simpson’s memorial and were a bit underwhelmed, no doubt we’d have felt differently if we’d actually cycled up the mountain! SPOT
N609 took the climb in its stride, but on the way down the conversation/scenario went like this:
Anne: “What’s that smell?”
Mike: “Brakes.”
Anne: “Our brakes?”
Mike: “Yes.”
Pause of a couple of minutes.
Anne: “I don’t like this brake smell, can we stop?”
Mike: “Alright.”
We pull over and hop out to find the brakes smoking, Anne is mortified and starts apologising to the Land Rover, Mike thinks it’s funny and takes a picture and says it’s OK as he packed a spare set of pads (I don't think you can actually see any smoke in the picture below, but the brakes were definitely about to burst into flames...).
We thought it prudent to let the brakes cool for a while before continuing our descent, and no permanent damage seems to have been done.
We’ve found a buyer for a Camel Trophy 90 if anyone has one for sale - a bit randomly a bloke came over to us in the supermarket car park in Serres and asked us if we knew of one as he wants one for his father.
Avignon was our overnight stop where we camped next to two UK registered 110s that we’re on their way to Tunisia with Atlas Overland. Wayne and Anne owned the black TD5 and were from Doncaster, with Wayne having grown up in the same village as Andrew Davies - small world. SPOT
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