Another exciting day of racing around the beautiful scenery of Corsica. Some of the roads stuck to the side of the mountains looked a bit scary though!

I have finished my first yarn of the Tour!

This is a 3ply merino, approximately commercial 4ply / sock weight. I was so keen to take photos that it is still a little damp 🙂 I am very pleased with how it has come out and am looking forward to knitting with it, I think it will become socks, but I haven’t yet measured the metreage to check that I will have enough. I did have a bit of trouble with my second single snapping a few times as I was plying. I could definitely tell that that was the one where I was still getting back into the zone after a bit of a spinning break. I think overall though the yarn should be strong enough to knit with.

Today’s coin is an old Belgian 1 Franc for Jan Bakelants who is still in the yellow jersey, and still looking rather surprised! (apologies to Simon Gerrans today’s stage winner, I don’t have any Ozzie coins)