Pre-Tri World Championships 2019
This day last year, we were enjoying a very different world where we didn’t have an inkling of the horrors to come six months later when the Covid 19 started to kill indiscriminately left right and centre.
29.08.20 Steve drove from Beaune in France to Lausanne in Switzerland last 200 km. We went to the race venue and registered for the race confirming that we were there having paid my entry fee months before hand. We took a stroll around to get a rough idea of where everything was and checked on the entry list to see who was there. Having just enjoyed my 80th birthday two weeks before, I wondered if I would be the oldest competitor as I very often am these days. The was an American woman who was a year older than me and the oldest person competing was a Japanese man, Hiromo Inado who was in the 85-90 age group… I was just a kid in comparison.
We checked out where we would have to go to check the bike in the next day before going back to the charming little hotel that Steve had chosen, in the small area of Cully about five miles out of Lausanne and nice and quiet. He chose the Auberge du Raisin it because of the restaurant and the position which was a two-minute walk to Lake Geneva/Lac Léman. It was a so beautiful there right on the lake and we thought it would be a perfect place for a short holiday another time.
The hotel itself was rather quirky which suited us down to the group and we found that we had booked a large attic room that looked out to the lake one side and also to the vineyard on the hillside on the other side. It was a nice spacious well-furnished room and even had two desks so that we didn’t have to take turns, to answer emails etc. perfect for us to simply relax, have dinner in the highly praised restaurant and take a little walk before retiring to our cosy room.
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