Rhine Ride

August - September 2016

“ A 39-day adventure by Beks

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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 21, 2016, 1:00pm · ☀️ 21 °C Altitude: 6 m
  Australia Queensland Redland Cleveland Cleveland Point -27.5095, 153.289227°30’34” S 153°17’21” E
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Day 1
Prep time
August 21, 2016 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Packing, repacking and general list making
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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 24, 2016, 5:00pm · ⛅ 16 °C Altitude: 2 m
  Australia Queensland Brisbane Brisbane Airport -27.39487, 153.1209527°23’42” S 153°7’15” E
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Day 4
waiting
August 24, 2016 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Pack is done
And now we play the waiting game
Bike is in!
Ash Prakash Meh... hungry hungry hippos?
8/23/16Reply
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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 25, 2016, 6:15am · ⛅ 29 °C Altitude: 4 m
  United Arab Emirates Dubai AL Twar Second Dubai International Airport 25.24572, 55.3699125°14’45” N 55°22’12” E
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Day 5
dubai
August 25, 2016 in the United Arab Emirates ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Just chilling for couple hours after uneventful flight
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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 25, 2016, 9:00am · ☀️ 18 °C Altitude: 458 m
  Switzerland Thurgau Sulgen 47.53955, 9.204447°32’22” N 9°12’16” E
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Day 5
in the air
August 25, 2016 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
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I am on the plane...trying to sleep but bored...
Traveler This is the Rhine...
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Traveler Over Iran
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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 25, 2016, 2:50pm · ☀️ 29 °C Altitude: 417 m
  Switzerland Zurich Zürich (Kreis 1) / Rathaus Niederdorf 47.37317, 8.5433447°22’23” N 8°32’36” E
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Day 5
zurich
August 25, 2016 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Bike and I have made it to sunny Zurich
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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 25, 2016, 8:36pm · 🌙 25 °C Altitude: 417 m
  Switzerland Zurich Zürich (Kreis 1) / Rathaus Niederdorf 47.37318, 8.5433947°22’23” N 8°32’36” E
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Day 5
Bike time
August 25, 2016 in Switzerland ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
I have found the Parrotts, reunited with Illy and met Bernadette.
We have set up bikes tonight...
Ash Prakash Yay! What a day!!!
8/26/16Reply
Ash Prakash Is the deal you buy Dave a beer for every part he has to put together for you? How'd it go?
8/26/16Reply
Traveler We were a cohesive team with bike set up... all contributing with our talents... With the skills to pay the bills (well to earn some deserved beers)
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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 26, 2016, 9:00am · ☀️ 21 °C Altitude: 702 m
  Switzerland Canton Grisons Ilanz 46.77493, 9.2044846°46’30” N 9°12’16” E
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Day 6
train to Ilanz
August 26, 2016 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
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morning started with Sheril cracking a soft boiled egg on her forehead...definite highlight...imagine sitting at a nice restaurant and then unexpectedly having egg yolk covering everything...gross but funny
Then we had a train journey to ilanz where we dropped off our gear

I am without words to describe the views today- spectacular rolling mountains, aqua coloured streams set against a clear blue sky
(possibly due to some spontaneous loud singing we discovered Ilona has yet to experience the wonder that is The Sound of Music)

Train travel had us hustling to get our fully loaded bikes to the connecting service but it was achieved by creating delays (and it seems the Swiss are quite pedantic about keeping to a very tight schedule)!
Sheril ripped open her thumb on moving the bikes (which is the pic)...the Sharon Strzelecki pose is 'cause she is specialRead more
Traveler Zurich
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Ianthe Gibson Oh Sherelle!
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Ash Prakash Ooooh pretty
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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 26, 2016, 6:00pm · ☀️ 19 °C Altitude: 2,043 m
  Switzerland Canton Grisons Tujetsch Tschamut Oberalp Pass 46.65849, 8.672546°39’31” N 8°40’21” E
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Day 6
high in the hills
August 26, 2016 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
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Up to Oberalpass by train...
And then ride down Alpine road with Sheril Joy and Illy (olds were not up for this section)

Easily the coolest thing I have done on a bike to date! I was on the brakes whole descent and couldn't slow enough, there was hairpin turn upon hairpin turn, we went from 2044m at oberalpass down to tschamut at 1450m in about 5km.

Once we got off the road and on to some gravel Sherelle took a fall (on to her bad shoulder!) just after Disentis.. her bike was not good (trip to mechanic tomoz) so we caught train at Sumvitg back to Ilanz... So only 26km on the bike!

Today was cows in the fields with bells ringing, smells of freshly cut hay and mountains upon mountains as far as the eye can see

In terms of risk management concerns I honestly thought the Alpine descent would be craziest thing for today but no...we rode our bikes through an active rifle range! So so so scary... I have video but no photoRead more
Ianthe Gibson Stunning
8/26/16Reply
Deborah Hennessey wow
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Deborah Hennessey Gorgeous
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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 26, 2016, 7:30pm · ☀️ 22 °C Altitude: 980 m
  Switzerland Canton Grisons Sumvitg Cumpadials 46.72397, 8.9311146°43’26” N 8°55’52” E
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Day 6
last train out of sumvitg
August 26, 2016 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
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Ianthe Gibson Beautiful pic
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Traveler Rhine Ride
- Aug 26, 2016, 9:30pm · 🌙 21 °C Altitude: 702 m
  Switzerland Canton Grisons Ilanz 46.77494, 9.2044446°46’30” N 9°12’16” E
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Day 6
Ilanz
August 26, 2016 in Switzerland ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
Beers and Italian as reward for today's effort... Dinner at 9.30pm as not dark until 8.30 ish
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