As it was our fist bike ride in a long time we decided to rent bikes for only 4 hours; to rent a bike for 4 hours is 1 Euro, to rent for the day (from 7 am to 7 pm) it is 2 Euros.
These bikes are for tourists and they are great just to get around the city; for long distance not that good, they are heavy and have only 3 gears. I would have preferred to rent a VTC bike (velo tout chemain) but the rental place did not have any left. The VTT (velo tout terrain) and VTC have to be rented for a long period of time, and apparently all the bike are already rented!
Montpellier has many bikes lanes; it is nice and comfortable to get from our place to the sea, we are on the bike lane, not in traffic at all. It took us a bit more than an hour to bike from Montpellier to Carnon. We biked into the city, it is a very typical Mediterranean sea resort with many hotels, restaurants and coffee shops. However this Thursday the resort looks deserted, it is too early in the season, also a chilly day by “Montpellier” standards.
In our way back we stopped at Carrefour for groceries; we like Carrefour, it is a big, big store with lots of choices of food, vegetable, bakery, wine, beer and everything else we can think of. We end up by buying much more than we wanted too (hey, everything was too yummy) so Mark had to take most of the heavy stuff on his bike (good work out for him)
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