Ah France,

Ill apologise for the brevity of this post now. They dont use qwerty keyboards here; and i am delirious for a beer and something to eat:  From now on q is a:

rode through col dizoqrd qnd on to guillestre; sqw the tour go through guillestre qnd then rode bqck qround to serre chevqlier:  stqying qt the Hotel plein sud in serre chevqlier:

for the bike geeks; the col dizqoqrd waz fqntqstic:  20 k of climbing with a grqde thqt zent from 6% to 9% to 11% and eventuqlly q posted 12%!.  qn hour qnd 45 minutes of climbing on tilt much of the time

Wonderful.