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Hello my name is Richard Murrer, I'm with Lionel Bernie. Hello Lionel.

And what are we doing Lionel? What's the purpose of this episode?

Well this is the return of Explore which has been on hiatus since a little bit earlier in the year.

My last episode was the interview with Roth Smith when I went down to the South Coast of England and talked to him about his very interesting lockdown project.

That was in around May June time wasn't it?

But we're back with a mini series of Explore over the next few weeks.

We are indeed. We've got certainly four episodes coming up over the next four weeks, take you through November as the winter months begin and get darker in the evenings.

Our minds can wander to exciting cycling adventures. In this episode we'll be looking at our own riding.

You and I went to the north of France recently for a pyrupe and on the day before the women's race we went out and wrecked some of the pavé didn't we?

We did. Was that a wrecky? I suppose it was, we dipped our toe in didn't we really.

It was a rattle. It was a rattle. We were scared back from the deeper waters of the pavé when we buy the severity of the cobblestones which I'd forgotten about.

The cobblestones are fair few times in the past as you'll hear but they were shaking my brain against the inside of my scarlet felt like at times.

It was my first time on the proper pavé and it was a rude awakening. It's interesting here back just how hard we found that.

It's an episode of three parts because the next two parts are my recent trip to Veneto and Apologies for my varying pronunciation of Veneto in this episode.

I was learning the correct pronunciation as I went along and then I was firmly putting my place when I got back by Daniel inevitably.

I was in Veneto for a feeling of a Puzzato's new week of races and riding. You'll hear me try a bit of gravel riding and also taking part in Puzzato's Grand Fondo later in the episode.

I should explain. During the Grand Fondo we hear quite a lot from Guy. That's Guy Franson, the head of sport at Het Newsblad, who is also the bicycle guy.

He writes a column every Saturday in Het Newsblad about all things cycling, not just the sport but cycling for kids, cycling infrastructure.

It's a very popular column. He writes the bicycle guy. That's a big part of what he does. We'll hear from Ivan Basso in that part of the podcast from Filiwa Puzzato himself as well.

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