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Today I took a break from riding and spent the day exploring the Serre Chevalier region with Leah. We took the bus into Briançon and hiked up to the old city.

This charming part of the town - the highest city in Europe at 1350m - is a walled city at the top of a hill (in Toronto it would be a mountain, but not here). We wandered the tiny streets and stopped for lunch at a café where we watched some of the Tour.

Briançon is close to Italy - so close that the menus were bilingual, Italian and French.

After lunch we headed back to where the bus dropped us off only to find that it wasn’t a bus stop! A bit of panic set in as we we had to catch the next bus or we’d be stuck in Brainçon for the next few hours. We found a marked bus stop and waited for a bus. When I attempted to board the bus the driver told me that his bus was just for packages - and looking down the aisle, every seat had a box on it.

So we went to a nearby hotel and asked the reception desk attendant for help. She called the bus line and then told us that we were at the right stop, just the wrong bus. In her thick French accent she told us to go back “where you were” before starting to giggle at how funny she sounded. For emphasis she repeated the phrase a few more times…

We eventually found the right bus and made our way back to Chantemerle in time for our wedding anniversary dinner.

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