Posted in Cycling, France, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Switzerland, tagged lake geneva, lausanne on September 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today we left Switzerland in style by hopping on one of the many bicycle-friendly boats the ply the waters of Lake Geneva. Here are the sayonara shots of Lausanne.
And one of the many little ports we stopped at on our trip across.
And finally, France. Nearly everyone got off the boat with us at Yvoire, and [...]
Posted in Cycling, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Rest of Europe, Switzerland, tagged camping du lac, interlaken, lausanne, montreux, spiez on September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My secret plan for this trip was to cycle all the way back to Montpellier from our starting point in Strasbourg, a near impossibility given the terrain-distance-time combination. Day 9 helped.
The night before we stayed at a great little campsite near Interlaken (http://www.campingdulac.ch/), equipped with an Internet/reading room – a first for me. Since it [...]
Posted in Cycling, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Rest of Europe, Switzerland, tagged brunigpass, statter see on September 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Switzerland is a great place to ride a bike. It’s also a decent place to chuck a bike onto public transport and make some pedal-free miles! That’s what we did today – planned and unplanned – as it turned out. We started off with a ferry across Statter See, actually part of National Cycle Route [...]
Posted in Cycling, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Rest of Europe, Switzerland, tagged einseideln, etzel pass, pilgrimage, zurich on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We knew we had a tough day ahead of us, but the gradients of some of the roads in Switzerland are just stupid. The Etzel Pass, done on a stomach full of breakfast, was 20% in some places – more than I have ever heard of on the Tour de France. Really, you just come [...]
Posted in Cycling, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Rest of Europe, Switzerland, tagged obersee, sargans, walensee on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mrs. Collenberg offered to take us down the road and show us where we could hook up with the cycling path to Rapperswil, and finally towards the Alps. This little grandma hauled her mountain bike out of the garage with unusual confidence, climbed on it and tore down the road, with Shoko and I panting [...]
Posted in Cycling, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Rest of Europe, Switzerland, tagged liechtenstein, rhine, sargans on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We rode through 3 countries today and one was not even intended. We hooked left near the eastern end of Lake Constance, crossed another covered bridge to take a break and have an apple, only to be greeted by this sign.
So, I’ve been to Austria! But most of the day was in Switzerland, where you [...]
Posted in Cycling, Germany, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Rest of Europe, tagged Konstanz, lake constance, Meersburg on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning we started riding on a river that, if we had the time, would take us through 10 countries and dump us into the Black Sea. Apparently there is a cycling path a good part of the way – at least through Germany and Austria – and it seems to be quite a popular [...]
Posted in Cycling, Germany, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Rest of Europe, tagged black forest, donaueschingen, germany, pfohren on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning we headed out of Steinach on one of the many excellent, traffic-free bike paths to be found in Germany. The signposting was not always the greatest (especially when compared with Switzerland), but they were plentiful and always went our way!
This path, and a series of others, led us to Schiltach, a joyful little [...]
Posted in Cycling, France, Germany, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, Rest of Europe, tagged alsace, black forest, germany, lahr, rhine rhone canal, strasbourg on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I really don’t have a good idea of a name for this trip, so I’ll just go with the one above. It was in Central Europe and we did a loop of sorts. I thought of ‘Germany Runs on Pig’, but that would be plagiarism, and then what about Switzerland? What does it run on? [...]
Posted in Asia / Australia, Cycling, France, Longer Trips and Flashbacks, North America, Rest of Europe, tagged cycling around the world on July 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hey, did I ever tell you my dream? I want to cycle around the world before my time is up. I used to think I’d do it in one go, but don’t know if that’s all that realistic now. Don’t know if I even want to do it that way – I’m more an ‘inch [...]
