Today got off to a great start. I went and visited the "prehistoric Cistine chapel"-ie the Lascaux caves. When you consider that the pyraimds in Egypt were been built around 2500 B.C. and the Poulnabrone dolmen in the burren in Clare in 4000B.C, its a bit of a treat to witness a repicla of the graffi of our great,great,great(multiplied by 250) grandparents.The walls are covered entirely with raindeer,oxen,horses,deer,mammoths as well as humans.The origional cave was painted approx 17000 years ago but because of condensation/body heat no tourists are allowed enter,so it took 20 artists 11 years to painstakingly copy the cave artwork to this other cave closeby.The next few hours were spent pedalling in the sunshine by the river Vezere with limestone cliffs at either side. All was going grand till a bang from the back tyre. A major bummer. The result was a puncture and a 1cm crack in the tyre wall. This was gonna be trouble-a puncture is not a problem,but a crack in a tyre is. I fixed the puncture and 12 kms down the road, another puncture. Its 75kms to the nearest big town and my rear tyre has one foot in the grave. I'll keep ye posted.
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