Shopping and bike delay
3 мая 2019 г., Германия ⋅ ⛅ 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.
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Autobahns
4 мая 2019 г., Германия ⋅ 🌧 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 мая 2019 г., Германия ⋅ ☁️ 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 мая 2019 г., Чехия ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Rode through light snow successfully. Directions from the bike’s speakers (ex Jill’s phone map app) brilliant.
Prague
7 мая 2019 г., Чехия ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Good beer, pork, coffee and cakes. Plenty of tourists too.
Prague
8 мая 2019 г., Чехия ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Castle today and a cake ....
Prague to Pilsen
9 мая 2019 г., Чехия ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Beer town. Pretty.
Pilsen to Rosenheim
10 мая 2019 г., Германия ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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To Torbole
11 мая 2019 г., Германия ⋅ ☁️ 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 -Читать далее
Mothers Day
12 мая 2019 г., Италия ⋅ 🌧 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 мая 2019 г., Италия ⋅ ⛅ 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 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Saved money today by buying perfume. Not much biking.
Smells of Grasse
14 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Motorways
15 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 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 hadЧитать далее
Big
16 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
To Toulouse before the rain
Toulouse
17 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ 🌧 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 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Quiet day. Noisy night. Now know a little about Eurovision and that’s enough. Fun party though.
Sunday in Toulouse
19 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 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 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Checked out the apartment market here. Interesting. Staying in our hosts’ mother’s house. Beautiful town.
Saint Cere
21 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Beautiful old towns today
Gently does it
22 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 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 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 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 мая 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
My navigator did a sterling job again today. Beautiful old towns and more gourmet food.
Colmar
25 мая 2019 г., Германия ⋅ 🌧 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 мая 2019 г., Германия ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Along Lake Constance today, on the German side. Overnight in Lindau.






























































































































