What else does a person need, when a week of BMX en Mountainbike fun turns out to also be an investment in the future. What else do I need but a beautifull place to stay close the Carpentras at the foot of the Mont Ventoux, with good company and some excellent instruction to improve my skills.
Fair enough, it was cold, bitterly cold because of the wind. I think that the windchill added up to about minus 10 C. in the evening and we were not amused. Especially when the fuel heaters stopped working in the middle of the night only to wake up to a frostbitten landscape.
But heck, we were enjoying ourselves!! We had the apartment to ourselves, there was a friend to guide and teach us some of the difficult BMX-techniques and we had a trainer who joined us for a mountainbike trip.
It was only a short trip, but....the learning curve was all the bigger and all the more rewarding, because I went down a short and very steep track, thanks to some coaching. I was over the moon; never had I done a thing like this before. One simple remark (and of course two guys who were freezing their bunns off, so they just wanted me to get the heck down and trust the bike and myself) and it went smooth like a hot knife through butter. Just like that. The second one was even better, over a small bridge of sand and earth, to turn down through yellow and ocre sand and to end up under that same ocre bridge, in an old ocre and sand pit and mine. There in the south of France; one of those spots you see in bike-videos, where you want to go but can't find.......well I was there.
And it was fantastic.
Take a look, go have fun there and enjoy!
http://www.ventouxaventure.com/
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