Day 75 - Foix

The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain ... so the story goes or in our case the mid Pyrenees in France with Foix having it's fair share of precipitation on this Sunday.

With cycling off the agenda we spent a good hour in the morning wandering around town trying to find a cafe that serves breakfast. Anyone that has ever been to Europe would know that you have more chance of finding gold than finding anything open on a Sunday and even Maccas are hard to find.

After finallly ending up back at our Hotel we stetted in for a leisurely breakfast with our restaurant beautifully siutateded over the main river in Foix

Streets of Foix

The days highlight was our drive to nearby Labouiche site of the longest navigable underground river in Europe. Near hystseria (claustrophobia) gripped the group getting in though as a man made entrance to the underground river consisted of an incredibly narrow spiral rock staircase that had the girls at one point racing back to the surface and the boys (Kev excluded) sweating with indecison about whether to continue

Finally we all made it on to the subterranaen boat for a pleasant 70 min ride through the low roofed caverns marvelling at this beautful site. The moment was spoilt by two ignorant french people who in scenes from the Blair Witch decided to use their videos cameras and non stop. The standard of filming was so poor that even Steven Speilberg couldnt edit it to a watchable outcome

Despite the guides instruction not to film they continued until we collectively threatened to deck them - Aussie diplomacy!

A journey back to town saw us take in a beaut intimate retaurant for dinner where Linton and self made the mistake of sampling the local wine of the region including a magnificent smooth merlot type from mixed grapes that after two bottles had Linton singing with the local guitarist and me seeing triple.

A great way to spend a lazy Sunday withyout cycling - look out tommorrow as we tackle the Pyrenees or at laest the flat bits!

Kim looking down at Foix