• Lake Geneva camping

    July 7, 2010 in Switzerland ⋅ 🌙 26 °C

    We are now camped in Switzerland, on the shore of lake Geneva - on the Alp side, rather than the city side. Tomorrow we mostly explore Geneva and hopfuly have time to sort any kit niggles.

    Did have some issues with my tyres today, which made one section a bit tough; the heat had melted the tar on a badly repaired section of road, the liquid tar in turn got on my front tyre, which then picked up every loose bit of gravel for the next 20Km, the effect of which was to increase the rolling resistance to the point that I had to peddle down the shallower climbs. The tyre is now in a bit of state and I'll look at replacing it tomorrow.Read more