Day 0: Nice to Calvi: 175km, 0m, 5hr

Huge storm during the night with massive crashes of thunder. Lets hope that's it for the week.


















It wasn't actually raining when we left the hotel after breakfast (checking out and leaving our bags for later) so we didn't take rain gear. We wandered around the citadel mound through the old town and street markets, including the flower market, and bought me a pair of swimming trunks that I had forgotten to pack, and Stoker bought a sun visor being an optimist. Put foot into the sea but no swimming!




Looks bad weather over Corsica!
Got more overcast and started to spot with rain, so we went back through markets and bought umbrellas that we immediately put to use when walked up over the citadel where we eat a peach for lunch looking at the view. On the way down, by the port, we spotted Kevin & Gaby and saw where the Bike Adventures van was.

Then back to the hotel to pick up bags where we saw a semi-lycraed couple doing same - we introduced ourselves 'Bike Adventures I presume?' and went together down to the van where we packed away our bags and put pedals on the tandem and re-aligned handlebars. Not much point in trying to get names for faces at this early stage, so as we had an hour to wait before boarding, went to a nearby cafe for coffee. But they had a nice menu du jour so this ...














Turned into this .....















We endered up eating and drinking for the full hour and got back to find everyone waiting for us. They'll just have to get used to the tandem being last!














In the queue we were next to a Danish couple who had cycled from Denmark and were going to Greece - they had done 2600km so far, were staying in hotels, and hadn't done any touring before. They looked very fit and thin, averaging 50km per day. No rain they said.





The ferry was huge, and we started off on deck to see us depart. We then found some uncomfortable seats and read/dozed for the 5 hour trip. The cafeteria coffee was luke warm, but the beer was cold.






Cavli looked a picturesque town, we started off wheeling all the bikes up the hill to start off in the square, following the van. The tandem chains were loose and with the back pedalling jammed and came off, so we lost sight of the others, but they did wait for us later. The hotel was only about 1km along the seafront. We went for a wander back along to the port, and sat and had a drink thinking this wasn't too bad so far!