Posted in Cycling, France, Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Switzerland, tagged lake geneva, lausanne on September 23, 2009 | 3 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, Europe (ex. France), Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Switzerland, tagged camping du lac, interlaken, lausanne, montreux, spiez on September 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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, Europe (ex. France), Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Switzerland, tagged brunigpass, statter see on September 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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, Europe (ex. France), Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Switzerland, tagged einseideln, etzel pass, pilgrimage, zurich on September 20, 2009 | 1 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, Europe (ex. France), Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Switzerland, tagged obersee, sargans, walensee on September 19, 2009 | 1 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, Europe (ex. France), Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Switzerland, tagged liechtenstein, rhine, sargans on September 18, 2009 | 1 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 Belgium, Cycling, Europe (ex. France), France, Germany, Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Luxembourg, Medieval Stuff, Netherlands, Roman Leftovers, Switzerland, tagged amsterdam, belgium, camino de santiago, des bosch, erdinger, germany, luxembourg, moselle river, rhine, speyer, switzerland, trier, windmill, zurich on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I think I can say this without it being a total lie. One stupidly drunken night in Tokyo led to a guy named Nigel to try and cycle (and nearly succeed) from England to Japan. Nigel and I had gone to the Pink Cow to see a slide show of this very trip by a [...]
