Shopping and bike delay
2019年5月3日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Went to Austria this morning to fill up Philipp’s car with diesel (20c cheaper there).
Toured the city, shops, power plant (50MW) and locks on the Danube, side by side.
Then to the bike dealerもっと詳しく
Autobahns
2019年5月4日, ドイツ ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Picked up the bike then both car and bike to Munich to pick up Jill at the airport.
A few light showers then back to Passau.
Cars zip past even when you are doing 140 mph.
Passau Bierfest
2019年5月5日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Quick tour of Passau and St Stephens (The Dome) with the 3rd biggest organ in the world. Makes me feel insignificant. Then a meal, send off for Phillip family afternoon tea then packing.
Cesky Krumlov
2019年5月6日, チェコ共和国 ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Rode through light snow successfully. Directions from the bike’s speakers (ex Jill’s phone map app) brilliant.
Prague
2019年5月7日, チェコ共和国 ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Good beer, pork, coffee and cakes. Plenty of tourists too.
Prague
2019年5月8日, チェコ共和国 ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Castle today and a cake ....
Prague to Pilsen
2019年5月9日, チェコ共和国 ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Beer town. Pretty.
Pilsen to Rosenheim
2019年5月10日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Time to do some kilometres before it rains. However we did have a few showers going through a national park and forests. Took a long cut from the cafe in Zwiesel. Too busy to take photos.
I do knowもっと詳しく
To Torbole
2019年5月11日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Germany to the Austria border and up the mountains and down again into Italy. Relatively steep and long descent at 110kph. Dangerous. Corten steel type barriers. Jill found this lake village -もっと詳しく
Mothers Day
2019年5月12日, イタリア ⋅ 🌧 6 °C
Rode alongside the lake at 50kph mostly through the very picturesque and tourist populated east side of the lake - Lago de Guarda. Then to Asti to sleep.
Grapes and tunnels
2019年5月13日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
To Menton (near Monaco). Vines on very steep slopes, then tunnels to France then waterfront hotel. Some slow sections but pretty and warmer.
Grasse
2019年5月14日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Saved money today by buying perfume. Not much biking.
Smells of Grasse
2019年5月14日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Motorways
2019年5月15日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Several kilometres today to get us closer to Toulouse. Nearly lost a credit card in the toll booth. Held up many cars until a maintenance man came. Next section didn’t receive a toll ticket then hadもっと詳しく
Big
2019年5月16日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
To Toulouse before the rain
Toulouse
2019年5月17日, フランス ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
First to the bike shops - 5 or so all lined up together. Then the big machines. Later another lovely welcoming dinner.
Eurovision
2019年5月18日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Quiet day. Noisy night. Now know a little about Eurovision and that’s enough. Fun party though.
Sunday in Toulouse
2019年5月19日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
We were treated to a tasty Morrocan lunch in the Toulouse city centre by our 4 hosts. Yum. Then a walk around town.
Montauban
2019年5月20日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Checked out the apartment market here. Interesting. Staying in our hosts’ mother’s house. Beautiful town.
Saint Cere
2019年5月21日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Beautiful old towns today
Gently does it
2019年5月22日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Short ride to to lunch then lodgings. Also checked country road speed limit and it is 80, (erk) although many don’t obey it. 110 for divided (almost) motorways and 130 for motorways.
Food
2019年5月23日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Breakfast, a few km, lunch at Saint Etiene, a few more km to make up 300 and gourmet dinner at where-ever we are now.
Eguisheim in Alsace, NE France
2019年5月24日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
My navigator did a sterling job again today. Beautiful old towns and more gourmet food.






























































































































