CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Le Bugue it runs 357 km to Le Bugue; allow about 5 h 00 of riding. On the way it passes Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux and back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
There is a fish in the cliff. It is about a metre long, carved into the ceiling of a small rock shelter in the Gorge d'Enfer, a short, steep-sided valley that opens onto the Vézère near Les Eyzies, and it has been there for roughly twenty-five thousand years. The carver made use of the natural shape of the rock, shaping the outline of a salmon in relief, with the head, an open mouth with its hooked jaw, and the gills. The fish was found in the early twentieth century, and it remains one of the oldest known sculptures of its kind in Europe.
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Abri du Poisson is where the day begins. Next is Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion.
Saint-Émilion is a wine village that looks like a stage set, with steep, cobbled lanes tumbling down a limestone hillside, golden stone houses, and a bell tower rising above the rooftops. The UNESCO listing covers not just the village but its whole jurisdiction, eight parishes of vineyards around it, recognising a landscape in which vines have been cultivated since Roman times. The village grew around the hermitage of Émilion, a Breton monk who lived in a cave here in the eighth century, and its most remarkable monument is the monolithic church, carved out of the rock beneath the bell tower.
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Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion comes up about 137 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bordeaux.
Bordeaux makes a confident start or finish to a ride, and you feel it the moment you come along the left bank of the Garonne: a curved river front of honey-coloured eighteenth-century facades that runs for kilometres, the Place de la Bourse at its centre, and the shallow Miroir d'eau in front of it reflecting the whole thing back at the sky. The crescent bend of the river gave the city its old nickname, the Port of the Moon.
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about 180 km into the recorded legs you reach Bordeaux. Next is back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion write-up.
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back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion, late in the day. Next is Abri du Poisson.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abri du Poisson write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abri du Poisson. That is the ride.
Abri du Poisson → Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion → Bordeaux is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bordeaux → back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion → Abri du Poisson is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.