A Special Bike Day from the Mas des Etoiles
You absolutely don’t need to be a part of a Tour de France Team to enjoy biking here. We have an exceptional ground for having fun.
Before departure, on the Mas Parking
Basically the idea is to take 2 of our bikes and go… If you want better outfit you can rent the in Coustellet, they prepare it for you and bring them the previous evening (and pretty cheap).
For that kind of entertainment, guests come back with many stories. There is one I like : Last year we had a couple from Hong-Kong. Both were very thin and like intellectuals. They said : OK we want to have your tour around the Luberon valley and we take your bikes for the day. We just discover that they did not know how to ride a bicycle. This was very badly engaged. ( Sometimes we have guests from Hong-Kong who even have not their car driver licence – Not useful in a city like that). So we trained them, they fell on the floor several times and said : Let’s go… By four in the evening they were not back etc … Finally they came back by 6:00 PM, enchanted about what they did. They had made the whole tour. So you can.
On the secret roads of Luberon
So we give to our candidates a map with all the details and some alternatives for having lunch in a good place. It is only with small roads and unpaved stretches. Shortly they start from le Mas, Les Gros, go down to the main road Avignon -Apt, cross it, Oppede le Vieux, Menerbes, SaintHilaire Abbey (a real good spot), Lacoste, Lumières, Goult and back here. Maybe” 35 kilometers but everybody can do it in 6-7 hours !
The best in the best is the bike road ( the one which makes the entire tour of Luberon) between Oppede and Menerbes. We have an incridable extention where you can discover a a cedar forest nobody knows except the rich American who lives there. The name is ” Poudarique”. Just after, the arrival on Menerbes is unbelievebal of beauty. Menerbes stands like a large boat in the middle of the fields. It is no surprise that so many British people elected to have a house there.
