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    21. august 2016
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    Bike time

    25. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ 🌙 25 °C

    I have found the Parrotts, reunited with Illy and met Bernadette.
    We have set up bikes tonight...

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    train to Ilanz

    26. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    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 special    Les mer

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    high in the hills

    26. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    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 photo    Les mer

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    dont take your touring bike on mtb track

    27. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    We started with fresh bakery treats for breakfast...
    Sheril got a new wheel and we started out for Chur
    Group A- Sherelle and Jan headed on the train and had their own misadventures (but will leave it to them to share that story)
    Group B- Bern, Dave, Illy and me set out on our bikes
    It wasn't the best start with us heading off on the wrong road and also taking a MTB path which was scary/fun/time consuming/energy sapping
    Oopsies... We made it to Castrisch in a very unspectacular time    Les mer

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    up up and away

    27. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Castritch 722m to Valendas at 810m...
    Epic hills to rival the feeling of SB (lemons), straddie (Em), or Frog flats (overland)...
    Amazing Amazing views

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    chur chur chur

    27. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    And eventually we got to Chur and meet up with girls and listened to tales from their day....
    So ended up as 37km today with all our detours
    Late night Dutch blitz (Bek holds victory)

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    Igis this is done

    28. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Set out from Chur (all six of us) after an early-ish start... And all went to plan until Sherils pedal went caput near Igis (it was all a bit Dan Brown on the MTB)
    So Sherelle and Dave headed back to catch the train to Buchs and the lucky 4 continued on our journeyLes mer

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    down in a flasch

    28. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    Then we enjoyed the descent to Flasch, and riding on the river path.
    Illy and I went to dip our feet in which ended up as a swim in freezing Rhine!

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    home to Haag

    28. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    And then powered on to Haag with a brief stop over in Liechtenstein, and met up with mildly intoxicated Sheril and Dave...

    Nice day out... We did just over 55km today!

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    storm chasing

    29. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ 🌧 18 °C

    It was Jan, Bern and me heading out early on our bikes today. Sheril and Dave went to the bike shop, and Illy needed a rest day...
    The dark clouds were looming... and as we decided to pull over under the eaves of a barn to don our wet weather gear the skies opened up... The lovely owner ran over from her house to unlock the barn and let us in...and we enjoyed watching the lightning showLes mer

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    riding the storm

    29. august 2016, Sveits ⋅ 🌧 19 °C

    We got back on our bikes and it just kept raining. I was soaked through and had water pooling in my shoes...

    Most of todays riding was on path on the side of the canal... But we greeted the Rhine near the end...Les mer

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    mighty shall fall

    29. august 2016, Østerrike ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    And so we powered across the border to Austria and on to Bregenz....
    I had a fall trying to jump a kerb, and Jan may have fallen from a stand still at lights which prompted the nearby ambulance to check she was ok...

    We realised earlier in the day that I did not have offline maps of Austria on my phone which meant that we had no easy way to find the accomodation. We ended up using the coordinates and it was like ultimate caching...
    We found the others at the accomodation...all is good with Sherils bike...
    We did 58km today

    Illy, Sheril and I went and had a swim in Lake Constance (Bodensee) which was lovely cause I am a little bit sore in the legs and shoulders (my bum is doing good though)    Les mer

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