Arriving here was amazing, I enjoy this place and there’s plenty of nice cycling around, the give a go we went up the Col du Coq with Sylvain and Vincent; we did sweat a bit..
then enjoying a nice time in our Pti VélO dans la Tête; that’s an exprience not explainable, not writable… btw, I’m off to do more! sorry! I don’t forget about the pics page and stuff the gaps in the previous days, but I can’t stick the screen the time I need to! sorry!
see you!
I made it with my friend Sylvain! Leaving the Jura for the Ain, which is really NOT flat, a great cycling day, and arriving to the nice Alps capital… end of a trip? beginnig of an other one?
We’ll see all that, first go for a check of the bike!
and going at Koust’s place!
amazing time but I will need to take a while sittting on the computer to catch up with evrything I delayed online…
see you soon 🙂 🙂 🙂
quicly hitting the road..
and since a couple of days moreover!
SORRY for those who come and take a look at this page, and find it NOT up to date: I’m not as efficient and reliable as I expected! although I carry a laptop, few chances on the road to hook up a network, few to refill the battery.. and in Holland I met Xavier, from CouchSurfing, we then spent a full week together and it’s been rather crazy, some cycling (from Dordrecht to Belgium, through Maastricht over to Luxemburg from north to south, back in Belgium and France up to Metz) but not at a very high speed nor daily distance, but a lot of fun, a lot of dumpster diving, , some local pubs and plenty of people met with good fun along the way, one “fete de la musique” the 21st in Thionville; it was awsome!
Sorry too for those who’d like some more pictures, this website is limited at 50Mb, so I will set up a Picasa page with the mictures of this trip in one week or so…
thanks, see you all!
F 🙂
and since a couple of days moreover!
SORRY for those who come and take a look at this page, and find it NOT up to date: I’m not as efficient and reliable as I expected! although I carry a laptop, few chances on the road to hook up a network, few to refill the battery.. and in Holland I met Xavier, from CouchSurfing, we then spent a full week together and it’s been rather crazy, some cycling (from Dordrecht to Belgium, through Maastricht over to Luxemburg from north to south, back in Belgium and France up to Metz) but not at a very high speed nor daily distance, but a lot of fun, a lot of dumpster diving, , some local pubs and plenty of people met with good fun along the way, one “fete de la musique” the 21st in Thionville; it was awsome!
Sorry too for those who’d like some more pictures, this website is limited at 50Mb, so I will set up a Picasa page with the mictures of this trip in one week or so…
thanks, see you all!
F 🙂
After quite a few days spent here rather quickly, I eventually met Xavier and he was here since even longer, itchy to get back onto the road, so we’re heading south today, as the time is definitely too short for my first expected route (no stop in MUenster, shorter trip in Germany) ; so the next plan is B-Lux-F-D-F.
we’ll now experience to fact to be 2 on the road and see how it works…
Holland is such a country where you can feel kind of ‘stack’ and the time flies even faster than somewhere else… I landed up in Dordrecht, south Holland( zuid ) and got to meet Xavier, a CSer I was meant to meet earlier, plus her host I was been told about since days, and an other Finnish Cser; arriving on festival time it was just great and afterwards we’ve been out and stuff, pretty tired since the precedent time; 130km (80 headwinds), a 06H30 wakeup in Dam, an exhausting time in Dam, and 3 previous days waking up at 05H30, 05H00 an 06H30.. mais C cool, donc apres bonne soirée, days of in south Dordrecht, chill out here and around, and about to go out in the city to see all that..
Leaving Amsterdam fairly early (08H00 on the bike), after a long night out (so a 2hish sleep..) and heading towards Utrecht to meet Peter, a GREAT biketraveller… then along the Rhin river, very nice piece of ride, tring to use a bit the drafts (draught?) we had to split at some point cause he was heading towards Eindodoven. He was a very interesting man, travelling with very few stuff, sometimes even 2 panniers are enough, he has a rather basic moutain bike and went far… for a long time and on tight budget… to Dordrecht through the great historic mills…
not too early! but once I’lll move, it’s gonna be an active day! mabe not so much km cycling, but more “capital” stuff and getting to know plenty of people!
It was an active day… visiting most of the places in the old city during a couple of hours in the afternoon, then met up again with Eelco to go the his friends place for a dinner (light) afterwards we had to meet other friends in a park , having a sort of birthday party, quite funny people. then back again to home, but still a bit of wandering around the streets and coffe shops at night, with loads of peolpe everywher; such an active city this capital! amazing!