Shopping and bike delay
3 mei 2019, Duitsland ⋅ ⛅ 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 dealerMeer informatie
Autobahns
4 mei 2019, Duitsland ⋅ 🌧 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
5 mei 2019, Duitsland ⋅ ☁️ 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
6 mei 2019, Tsjechië ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Rode through light snow successfully. Directions from the bike’s speakers (ex Jill’s phone map app) brilliant.
Prague
7 mei 2019, Tsjechië ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Good beer, pork, coffee and cakes. Plenty of tourists too.
Prague
8 mei 2019, Tsjechië ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Castle today and a cake ....
Prague to Pilsen
9 mei 2019, Tsjechië ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Beer town. Pretty.
Pilsen to Rosenheim
10 mei 2019, Duitsland ⋅ ☁️ 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 knowMeer informatie
To Torbole
11 mei 2019, Duitsland ⋅ ☁️ 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 -Meer informatie
Mothers Day
12 mei 2019, Italië ⋅ 🌧 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
13 mei 2019, Italië ⋅ ⛅ 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
14 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Saved money today by buying perfume. Not much biking.
Smells of Grasse
14 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Motorways
15 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ☀️ 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 hadMeer informatie
Big
16 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
To Toulouse before the rain
Toulouse
17 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
First to the bike shops - 5 or so all lined up together. Then the big machines. Later another lovely welcoming dinner.
Eurovision
18 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Quiet day. Noisy night. Now know a little about Eurovision and that’s enough. Fun party though.
Sunday in Toulouse
19 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ☁️ 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
20 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Checked out the apartment market here. Interesting. Staying in our hosts’ mother’s house. Beautiful town.
Saint Cere
21 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Beautiful old towns today
Gently does it
22 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ☀️ 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
23 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ☀️ 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
24 mei 2019, Frankrijk ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
My navigator did a sterling job again today. Beautiful old towns and more gourmet food.
Colmar
25 mei 2019, Duitsland ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
A pre breakfast ride up the Grand Ballon for me, a hill climb in The Tour, then to Colmar (little Venice) and then into Germany.
Lindau
26 mei 2019, Duitsland ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Along Lake Constance today, on the German side. Overnight in Lindau.






























































































































