From home to Villach, Austria
2023年9月5日, オーストリア ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Après des semaines de préparatifs, la difficile décision est prise -- c'est Maisie qui viendra et Freya reste à la maison, payant sa jeunesse et quelques vibrations.
Le grand jour, 5 septembre auもっと詳しく
18 percent!
2023年9月6日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
1000m of climbing for the first day was never going to be a doddle. However, we had not reckoned on a long 18% climb whilst contending with the roar of gang after gang of motorcycles, usually passingもっと詳しく
Over Vrsic
2023年9月7日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Une belle soirée au gîte Slovène (goulash de chevreuil) et nous voici fin prêts pour la fin de l'ascension de col de Vršič (prononcer Verchitz à cause des petits accents). Sublime dans laもっと詳しく
Clear waters
2023年9月8日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
The Soca river runs from the Vrsic pass down to the Adriatic. Its beautifully clear and peppered with small gorges and potholed canyons. This morning we continue along the river, still fast but wider,もっと詳しく
The Karst house
2023年9月9日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
En route vers la Croatie nous longeons l'Italie et les grandes villes de Gorizia et Trieste, magnifiques mais compliquées à vélo. Nous traversons le Karst, région calcaire célèbre pour sesもっと詳しく
Skocjan Karst Caves
2023年9月10日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
The Skocjan caves are a UNESCO monument and are …. Huge. The tour took us over 3 hours: the first 1.5 hours in a guided group and deep underground; the last optional 1.5 hours was on our own. It wasもっと詳しく
Finally into Hvratska!
2023年9月13日, クロアチア ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Encore émerveillés par les caves de Skocjan, nous passons par les collines et la vallée de la Reka -- la rivière souterraine des caves karstiques, celle dont la crue a mis un point final au projetもっと詳しく
There be Bears
2023年9月16日, クロアチア ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Alain really wants to see a bear and we are in bear country. Woods, bees, honey, wilderness and more woods. Alice would like to see a bear on condition it is heading in the opposite direction. We haveもっと詳しく
War, war, war
2023年9月16日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Today we are particularly struck by just how much of the time we spend passing signs of war. This holiday we started with the cold war, then WW1 prisoners of war and then both WW1 and WW2 fronts. Ourもっと詳しく
Plitvice I -- lower lakes
2023年9月17日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
The Plitvice lakes national park is described by the guidebook as being as if Croatia had put all of its waterfalls in just one place. It seems a reasonable summary. It is spectacular with numerousもっと詳しく
Plitvice II — La nature
2023年9月17日, クロアチア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Créée en 1961 dans une région déjà sauvage, la réserve nous offre bien des plaisirs. La région des Alpes Dinariques est une des mieux arrosées d'Europe, la vegetation est opulente. On y trouveもっと詳しく
Plitvice III -- upper lakes
2023年9月17日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We spent a day off the bikes and exploring the national park on foot. It is equipped with board walks, lakeside paths and boats. The waters are crystal clear and a beautiful turquoise.
Bosnia
2023年9月18日, ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Nez-à-nez avec une superbe mosquée et son minaret au troisième virage! Nous sommes arrivés en pays musulman.
La visite de Bihac et de ses monuments révèle une longue histoire depuis l'empireもっと詳しく
Una river valley
2023年9月19日, ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Our excuse for including Bosnia on our route, aside from « acquiring » another country, was to visit the Una river national park. A slight miss-reckoning however is that this park also hasもっと詳しく
Playing by the rules
2023年9月20日, ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The Bosnia guide book instructs that we must register with the police via our accommodation before we leave. Our first camp site was in retrospect not legal . So the next night we stayed in “the”もっと詳しく
Drvar
2023年9月20日, ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Après avoir avalé 30km de plateau calcaire nous descendons sur une ville qui s'etend sur la plaine vallonnée: Drvar (prononcer Drevar). Des maisons parsemées, souvent de brique creuse sans crépi,もっと詳しく
Back over the border
2023年9月20日, クロアチア ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
The border between Bosnia and Croatia is, as of Jan 2023, the border of the Schengen area. Its not allowed to cross in the middle of nowhere and the comments from other cyclists suggests heavyもっと詳しく
Krka
2023年9月21日, クロアチア ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
The Krka National Park follows the gorge of the river Krka. Its been inhabited for quite some time.
The Romans were here, and built an amphitheatre as well as various military camps. There are alsoもっと詳しく
Sibenik
2023年9月22日, クロアチア ⋅ 🌬 28 °C
Sibenik is one of the great Venitian settlements of Dalmatia. We start by climbing to Saint Michael’s fortress to admire the site. The place is protected by an extraordinary labyrinth of islandsもっと詳しく
Along the Dalmatian coast
2023年9月23日, クロアチア ⋅ 🌧 21 °C
Après une journée de repos et de gros orages, nous reprenons la route vers Split de bon matin. La colline derrière la villa a brûlé l'été passé et sur notre gauche c'est la désolation. Côtéもっと詳しく
Trogir
2023年9月24日, クロアチア ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
(English translation below)
Trogir remonte aux anciens grecs qui l'appelaient "mont du bouc". Petite ile bien protégée entre la côte et une grande ile, elle était une forteresse idéale pour lesもっと詳しく
Split
2023年9月25日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
A night and a morning in Split.
Split is a large city with a well-preserved centre built inside the walls of the immense palace of roman emperor Diocletian (ca 300 AD). The quality of romanもっと詳しく
Tent with a view
2023年9月25日〜29日, クロアチア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
We land on Hvar in Stari Grad, the north harbour, at 17h30. The light is superb. After a short ride along the only flat area of the island, among old dry stone walls, vineyards, and olive treeもっと詳しく
Korcula island
2023年9月30日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Our next Dalmatian island is Korcula. We arrive at sunset by catamaran and stay in a small apartment overlooking the sea. It is getting harder to find places to stay, even with the ongoing warm andもっと詳しく
The walls of Ston and Mali Ston
2023年10月1日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Back from Korcula, we camp on the continent. Small incident: we run out of fuel for the stove, just as we cook our first ground beef in ages. Ahem, we ponder on how to get just 0.8 litres of petrolもっと詳しく



























































































































































































































































