I mean, you don’t need to tell them. Just order something else :)

Edit: actually i think you should give an ice cold glass of rosé a try though. If it really isn’t for you pour it secretly into the lavender pot.

Yes, i actually rode it yesterday.

And hundreds of road cyclists too, busiest mountain i have ridden.

Don’t forget the pastis ;)

I was on my way with the plan to recreate this photo i took in septmeber some years ago, just with flowering lavender this time:

When i got there, turns out at this spot the lavender field is no more, haha. Photos taken at Col de Soubeyrand.

There was a lavender field a bit higher up, but it was not flowering much yet, i guess too high up.

I am in La Motte Chalancon now, heading north, barkeeper tells me if i cycle past the next mountain, i will have left the Provence.

I thought you’d be talking about letting kids climb up high into trees, going into the city on their own, let them hang out at the skatepark without supervision, stuff like that.

But no, it’s about computers and kids not being able to see goatse. Lol. That’s lemmy i guess.

There’s a cool video from this train in 1902:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ud1aZFE0fU

Thanks, yeah it had been stuck on my mind since they said it and i saw it. A meme really.

View towards it cycling around it on a trip a few years ago. Beautiful mountain, haha.

They did not think i was actually going to ride mont ventoux back then, and i wasn’t, they just knew it from tour de france. At that point i had never ridden any mountain and did not plan to do so either. It was on that trip though that i started to be interested in cycling mountains.

Maybe it doesn’t translate, just an inside joke with my coworkers.

Awesome, love seeing families on tour.

Hope you guys get to keep it fun too after rough start!

I am still having a blast, but i am also starting to look forward to get back home again. Guess in ten days / two weeks i’ll be home. But there’s still some good stuff coming up for me and i am in crazy good shape right now, having been cycling mountains basically every day for two months now, that makes it a lot of fun.

Love wood pigeons and their coo.

Those sage fields seem to be compagnion fields for the lavender which is also currently flowering. Lavender smell is more intense i think, looks really great with the violet and rose fields.

Oh man that looks already like it’s going to be a fun time! Big group!

The mountains are the foothills of montagne de lure, south of sisteron. Not so sure if you can see those from digne, maybe the lure proper.

I am pretty sure this is the same plant that i saw on plateau valensole, and a google search tells me it would be salvia sclarea.

Anyway thank you all, definitely some salvia.

I usually like reading stories where shit happens the best ;)

It is in Provence, France

Awesome, again good luck, good weather and have fun!

So clicking on this link of plactagonic’s topic got me thinking. One, my reply still has not federated, but that should fix itself once i will edit my reply to something better.

But there’s also the problem of only being able to link to the topic on a certain instance only, so people clicking the link won’t even be able to add a reply unless they are on that same instance by chance. And as time goes by, it will become harder and harder to find the actual topic on other instances. So i am wondering if it is even a good idea to link to topics from the sidebar. I was thinking to add more faq type topics, but to me this seems to be a very clumsy process now.

Good luck :)

When are you going to start, like today?

Kept keeping track of subscribers to the community (and some other cyclung communities), pretty crazy how it grew in the last quarter. I reckon adding “bikepacking” to the community name helped a lot to make it easier to find.

(I got these numbers from lemmy.world, might look different on other instances)

@plactagonic@sopuli.xyz created this topic about tips and tricks about for your area, i will add this as a ressource to the sidebar when i’m back home at my desktop, please add stuff that you think fits.

Love it, it’s funny.