Description

The Monts du Lyonnais are just 20kms west of Lyon, but are “worlds away” from France’s second city. Not particularly high - never much over 1000m - they are not the Alps. But they do provide some particularly attractive all- year cycling on byways, green lanes, old roads, and single-track paths. It took a while before I “got used to” the IGN series of maps. What looked like hedges, field or parish boundaries to someone brought up on a diet of Ordnance Survey, were, in fact, a huge network of non-paved “roads” to explore. On top of this the whole region is encircled by one of the Grande Randonnee (GR) routes - the Tour des Monts du Lyonnais.