I’ll have to start a new category I think, since this one is neither cycling nor ’self propelled’. But it is France and beautiful and we did do a little tiny hike…so it goes in the blog.
Last weekend we did a 3-day motorcycle trip north into the Massif Central. This is an area of ancient [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Conques
Posted in France, Medieval Stuff, Walking, tagged camino de santiago, chemin de st jacques, conques, massif central, way of st. james on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
EuroVelo
Posted in Cycling, Rest of Europe, tagged eurail pass, european cyclists federation, eurovelo on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Think of it as a Eurail Pass without the $500 price tag, the long, sweaty queues at train stations, and the arse blisters you’ll get from sitting down so much!
EuroVelo is a project organized by the European Cyclists Federation. It is (or will be) a system of 12 long-distant routes that crisscross Europe, signposted the [...]
Flashback #13 – Camino de Santiago, Spain – 2001
Posted in Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Medieval Stuff, Rest of Europe, Spain, Walking, tagged camino de santiago, pamplona, pelegrino, pigrim, puente la reina, santiago de compostela, st james on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As I begin to write this entry I find it more than a little curious that I now live in a town with a pilgrim’s church and refuge, albeit not in Spain and not on the route we walked 8 years ago. There are many roads that lead to Santiago, and we are on just [...]
2009 Tour de France Team Time Trial Route – Montpellier, July 7
Posted in Cycling, France, Languedoc, Racing, tagged july 7 2009, lance armstrong, Montpellier, team time trial, tour de france on June 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sorry for those of you totally not interested in the Tour de France, but I’ve been getting a few hits recently on my previous maps of the Team Time Trial route and figured I should make sure it is right. This is the latest, and has been updated to show the true route. I got [...]
Along the Littoral
Posted in Cycling, France, Languedoc, Medieval Stuff, tagged agde, littoral, Montpellier, sete on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finally a genuine bike-ride entry! My camera came back to life this morning and I had enough croissant / pain au chocolat-fueled motivation to head out for a long ride. I decided to go along the coast towards Spain, something I had surprisingly never done before. This is a bike path (I had maybe 50% [...]
Mt. Ventoux and Back Again
Posted in Cycling, France, Languedoc, Racing, tagged dauphine libere, mt ventoux. provence, simpson, tour de france on June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today I took the day off work and travelled over to Provence to see a cycling race. That was my intention at least. The reality was a little less straight forward.
I bought a motorcycle last week to get me a little further afield than my usual 50 km radius of Montpellier, and intended to ride [...]
Tour de France Team Time Trial Route – Montpellier – July 7, 2009
Posted in Cycling, France, Languedoc, tagged 2009, Montpellier, team time trial, tour de france on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is an update of a map I made (and route I rode) a few months ago. The route is not official, other than the towns it goes through. I think it’ll be pretty close to this though.
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