Trips & stuff about cycling
Longer trips & journey by-cycle
After some rest at the lake, I had to continue. Mostly because a family of French "yoman" was invading the place and all other "normal" (sorry) people had to leave. I said some thing…until I checked some of their tatoos… … Read More »
It is hot, humid and I’m in vacation! But doing the Europark alone, would not be funny as with others. Sounds good, doesn’t? Check the signs! :o) Allemansweier: to early for a rest, and to cloudy( other side of the … Read More »
Hail, rain, storm, thunder…happy to have chosen not to use the tent! No cell phone services anymore – keeping on WLAN… http://youtu.be/t_zBl8wxnI8 – Posted using BlogPress Location:Hauptstraße,Niederhausen,Germany
Check the link:http://youtu.be/BAsmrGmTQkk Cheers, Georges – Posted using BlogPress
I’m not yet acclimated to the temperature changes between last week (15-20 Celsius) and today: 34 in the shadow, more in the sun. And due to the rain of the last months, it’s crazy humide! Two different ways of cycling … Read More »
Today morning started nice with breakfast at Nicole&Dinos place… and soon, André arrived and gave me moral assistance for the first 46km 🙂 We followed the Rhine until Fessenheim where we ate lunch at McDonalds 5star kitchen. I was just … Read More »
Stange, yesterday’s last post seems not to have arrived! Everything’s fine, thanks to Chantal and Markus who cycled with me from Liestal to Basel, where I need some fuel, as I was drained! Thanks for bringing it downstairs! 🙂 And … Read More »
Just arrived at the higher Hauenstein “Pass”… And I’m wondering, if there will be a higher pass.. 🙂 – Posted using BlogPress Location:Bachtalenstrasse,Langenbruck,Switzerland
Beside low power in the legs, everything seems to be ok…What a nice weather!!! 30 degrees, gentle wind and the first stop for lunch: the next step will be passing the Jura… – Posted using BlogPress Location:Aeussere Klus,Oensingen,Switzerland
It has begun…🙂 – Posted using BlogPress
Last year’s journey was mainly from Palermo back home…. For 2013, I decided to extend the journey to the north and trying to cross Germany by bike. Same “rule” as last year: every cent spent/saved will be transferred to the … Read More »
Hi all The time is running… today’s first test with the trailer and the bike set tup the first mile stone. And it is decided: I will try to continue 2012’s journey from Palermo to the north I try to … Read More »
And finally the summary of the numbers… Spent to www.redcross.ch: 1’500 Swiss Francs
A long way through the beautiful Italy full of contrast: [codepeople-post-map cat=”7″]
Today’s journey was known… I had once cycled the other way from Bern to Visp (VS) and done the Grimsel-Pass in the past. The questions was more: How fit are my legs today? And the more important one: how much … Read More »
So, today will be the last day in Italy. I’ve set quite clearly my challenge for today: Pass the Simplon and then go into the direction of Ulrichen (to the Grimsel).When leaving Domodossola, I just took the direction of the … Read More »
After a nice breakfast, the way was quite easy: the same as I had taken some week ago – just the other way round. Since some days I had calculated it more than one time: I needed to be today … Read More »
When leaving Sestri Levante, I had assumed to have the mountains behind me. The wind was not working against me. And soon I understood I should check the map again: there was not one hill to Genova, just many. Always … Read More »
The morning started easily. After yesterdays 155km, my body was slow. But it started nicely: I met again Adim (later his sons) and we had breakfast together. Those are moments when you just don’t think of pedalling…After some long search … Read More »
Todays target was set to arrive at Pisa… But it was more a wish then a target…If I would arrive, it would be late and Saturday evening. I needed a barbier: as long as it is possible (haven’t found a … Read More »
Hard day… The main wind direction was from 9 to 1… Also mostly from the front. Then the qvia Aurelia which is not an Autostrada/Autobahn was more dangerous as cycling on real Autostrada, as the safety line was sometimes missing. … Read More »
Four times… Four times the wrong way! One because I had the map bad in mind. One because a guy told me the road would continue along the beach to the next village. Twice because of Google:-it send me to … Read More »
A little summary, as my first goals are now reached:-reaching Genova in 2 cycling days-sleeping on the deck of the ferry-reaching one of the western points if Sicily/Italy: Marsala-Agrigento-sleeping on the Etna-joining Etna sud and north by bike-reaching Calabria by … Read More »
The crater view from the south:The site of Pompeii is at the end of the long line… So far and so close!Were it starts to be interesting: one of the touristic guy at the top (south part) gave me the … Read More »
Just to say it was a long day. Finally found a hotel after being on the Vesuvio. Yes, after Pompei, it was the next target (quite predictable, wasn’t?). Picts and more later, 120km in Neapel slumps nearly kills one. If … Read More »
Quite short trip with a lot of traffic… Not the ferry to home: A full suspension bike helps: ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Prima Traversa Dante,Trecase,Italy
Pompeii was a dream as child, as I read about it. And as for Agrigento, I wanted to have my baby with me – just to to prevent it to be stolen. A discussion with the small minded guards started…(mother … Read More »
Salerno… Well, some picts speak more than words:***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Via Fossa della Monaca,Trecase,Italy
Today, the start was one hour earlier…the hotel crystal was quite good. Eboli did not charmed me. Or I did not really search for. Guest on board: New York? 😉 ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Traversa Santa Lucia,Salerno,Italy
So, here some missing text and pictures from the trip to Eboli. First I forgot to mention: after about 30min of cycling I had a chat with a french guy going the other way: from Avignon to Agrigento where his … Read More »
What I forgot to writecabout the costal region travelled the last 160km is that it seems to be the wedding zone as every few kilometre you’ll find a hotel with special arrangement and a shop for wedding clothes… Either whole … Read More »
Today, I had three targets: >100km-find un barbiere-oil the chainLast one was easy but needed since the chain was running for 1000 km without one drop of oil and sand from Palermo and the lava powder & wind on the … Read More »
The end of the day was longer: one closed hotel followed the other. Todays program (and of the others) is to make some kilometres in order to reach my goal, which is still far over 1000km… Anyway, the 2nd part … Read More »
The rest day was good and needed. Just the restaurant Uguai or so was not needed: expensive, not much and not specialy good. On top of it, the boss was one of those “I-think-to-be-best-but-I-am-a-looser-and-dressed-like-a-I-think-to-be-a-trendsetter” which is generally not my taste. … Read More »
For the unbeliever among you: I collected that little present before sleeping two days ago on the Etna and wanted to check how long the pressure holds. Still unchanged over 2.5 bar! Normally, I should be able to remove it. … Read More »
Today was also the day I would leave the wonderful island. Frankly, I would have prefer to have my day off at the hotel Schuler in Taormina. But as the point with the ferry to Calabria was not really clarified, … Read More »
For the unbeliever among you: I collected that little present before sleeping two days ago on the Etna and wanted to check how long the pressure holds. Still unchanged over 2.5 bar! Normally, I should be able to remove it. … Read More »
I finally arrived in Taormina were the big search for an hotel or B&B started. First for cycler: I wouldn’t be to much afraid of cycling up: the road is not that steep. I would even say I was quite … Read More »
To avoid over loading the other post:Baby:Hope not to be below one of those:Some body did a bad cleaning 😉Bike-skiing:Click here to see the draft of the video(sorry: I can’t import now the video from the digicam :o)) And other … Read More »
(I’m getting behind as one post don’t want to be uploaded) Waking up was easy: the sun shine on the biwak was nicely warm…So what would I do? Go down the same way as with Dino? First I went to … Read More »
So after later checkout, I first had to had a breakfast near the university. I heard from two German tourist that the Etna would be closed. But that was one of my targets…Than I lost more than an hour to … Read More »
The talisman is on the way to Schlieren..Beside the inner city center and the cemetery, Catania is definitively nothing for me. To loud, to trashy, not clean at all an suffering from diesel engines…R.I.P.: impressionante!Unfortunately, my next plan will not … Read More »
Long day today…But what a positive day today. May be the reason why I could “not” stop. As long as I had tail wind, I wanted to enjoy it. And then there was no more place to stay: I needed … Read More »
All the way I was thinking of an ice cream in Gela to say Gelati amo like a creative mixture of I like ice cream in Gela. Sorry: no real gelateria open and a near 3rd world city: I ve … Read More »
Crazy how much garlic that stuff has… Dracula, you don’t have any chances! 🙂***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Licata,Italy
I just like those days… And they are so contrary to the last days. I should not pronounce it: it’s really fine! Waking up with enough and good sleep, have a good conversation while breakfast with two Italian coffee (you … Read More »
As the bike was now ready again, the touristic part started: to the valley of the temples. In fact, the temples sit on a hill… But there is a valley between hill and Agrigento. Here some picts:Many people/cars passed here … Read More »
The hands are now washed….***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Via Passeggiata Archeologica,Agrigento,Italy
***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Via Passeggiata Archeologica,Agrigento,Italy
The morning was a bit different to an usual rest day: I had to hurry to find a special shop which solve my issue. And shops closes in the afternoon on Saturdays…The guy from the B&B helped me out finding … Read More »
Before: While: After: 10€ for both! Never have been shaved that good, no burning, no bleeding. That (older) man knows his art!(ok I paid the double as it was soo good!) ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Salita Giambertoni,Agrigento,Italy
Arriving in Agrigento: the direct way looks to much like a highway (and it is high)So I took the way through Rotary Park:House in rockDiner: @:View from B&B:(double bed for myself… :-)) Bed & Breakfast: L’antica via Location:Via Caruana,Agrigento,Italy
The room, the very good diner and breakfast at a good place: if you pass by, I would consider it(and go there again) ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Menfi sicily italy
So, after about 25km of one leg cycling and walking, I arrived at Menfi, where I met the cyclist Phillipo. He worked in Lucerne at the time I was born and moved then to Germany. So his help was even … Read More »
We will see…***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Castelvetrano,Italy
Let’s start!Something like the moreWestern point of Sicily: In Mazala I went into an internet coffea to check what was wrong with the gps: worse a the day before thought. I’ve lost all the Wednesday cycling. Will put it manually … Read More »
Unfortunately I did not see that the backlight of the Garmin was on, so that after 7hours, 87km and about 1600 pos. meters the batterie drained. Therefor my guess for today: 130km and about 1800pos meters. The second part of … Read More »
So, today the tour starts by leaving Palermo in direction if Marsala…I’ve tried some country side which was a beautiful (or better lucky) idea: some spot are just great! Ok, some ups and downs to train the body, but the … Read More »
So, finally after some reading, sightseeing and other stuff on the ferry I arrived at Palermo and could have a secret heaven (and haven) to stay for the evening and night. Many thanks Dino! Four year has passed like hours … Read More »
The disadvantage of a Digicam: no direct posting. So I imported some picts to the iPad… Brig: Traffic light – cannot be in Switzerland 😉 The mediterranean sea and Genova: The path/trail down… Sorry, no time for experiments. Being late, … Read More »
Nothing spectacular for most readers but my 2nd personal highlight: after the ride to Genova in two days, now I reached my 2nd target: sleeping outside under a star sky… MEGA *smile* Well, sleep is an elastic word: I think … Read More »
118km3940kcal1101m up1215m down8hours @14.5km/hMax speed: 60km/h ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges
Novi Ligure… Direction of Gavi: lots of small hill up and downs The fortress of Gavi: Direction of the pass: I took the pass: beautiful, quite and a little steeper in the end but feasible, even with 85km in the … Read More »
…the shopping people?…the salt-living one?…the french speaking guy on the bike who needs a showert?…Mr. Aldi (sorry, insiders only)? :o) ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges
*lol* ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges
Mixe of sunshine and clouds… It was time to wear suncream! ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Pieve del Cairo,Italy
No, I already had one… And a warm one! 🙂 ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Via Belluschi,Mortara,Italy
Good bed (just loud neighbours) and first Cafè 🙂 Now lets start: Genoa is waiting… ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Via Belluschi,Mortara,Italy
The region of Novara is very agricultural… Rice production beside the road, some corn. Because of the humidity, I decided not to use the biwak bag: even it has a mosquito net, I rather pass that one.. Back in Switzerland? … Read More »
Sooo schöne Farbe gewesen… 🙂DDlG ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges
🙂 ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Momo / Italy
Ganz speziell für Brigitte, Renate, Harald, Chris, Volker und Achim… 🙂 Leider leicht verregnet, doch immer noch da! 🙂 ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Lago de Orta
Halb nass, halb trocken… ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Via Quarantadue Martiri,Verbania,Italy
Not really sure…🙁 But I have a sim card and network! Lets put the rain jacket and trousers… ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Via Quarantadue Martiri,Verbania,Italy
And the dear Lonza is still there: greetings to all customers! 😉 ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Gliserallee,Brig,Switzerland
Lötschberg tunel… Next stop in Brig and change to Domodossola. Hopefully the weather is better south of the alps! 🙂 ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Gewerbestrasse,Reichenbach im Kandertal,Switzerland
It has begun….Just between some rain shower I could cycle dry to the station. That was a quite short-sleep-night! ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges Location:Moosbühlstrasse,Moosseedorf,Switzerland
Everything is finally set up… The bike is packed! One night to sleep and ready to go! ***By Georgeshttp://tiny.cc/Georges
That year, after spending money to Ian’s project across Africa, I wanted to bind my travelling to the Red Cross, as they do great work in Africa but also in Italy (earthquakes a decade ago) or Switzerland. And as I … Read More »
… Before starting on Sunday morning. Since that time there is no need for a flight to be bought, 800 CHF will go to the Swiss Red Cross. Additionally, I’ll spend 10 cents per kilometre… Who is on board? The … Read More »
The easiest way would to do it from west to east or so…… My choice is from south to north. The idea: taking the ferry in Genova to Palermo and then cycling home… Possible? No idea… Let’s try it!http://crossing-italy.blogspot.ch/And as … Read More »
Here the garmin-Track and the numbers: Just to mention: – Gemmipass: you should carry your bike down because of the sign there and any “driving mistake” will have SERIOUS consequences! Be warned – sorry. Carry your bike – or at … Read More »
By the way: less expensive to use the car train(9CHF) the the regular one (9.80CHF + price for the bike)
*** Sent by mobile Phone Georges Froidevaux Brechbühler AG Steinwiesenstrasse 3 CH-8952 Schlieren Phone: +41 44 732 31 31 +41 44 732 31 49 (direct) Fax: +41 44 732 61 41 georgesfroidevaux@brechbuehler.ch http://www.brechbuehler.chSome drops…
*** Sent by mobile Phone Georges Froidevaux Brechbühler AG Steinwiesenstrasse 3 CH-8952 Schlieren Phone: +41 44 732 31 31 +41 44 732 31 49 (direct) Fax: +41 44 732 61 41 georgesfroidevaux@brechbuehler.ch http://www.brechbuehler.ch
Let's start a beautiful day!
Summer is not over!🙂Cheers, Georges
The summer isn’t finish yet and the mountains are calling. I’ve done the quite the same ride some years ago, without blogging it: I had nearly no pictures. Time change, let’s hope for a nice day! 🙂 Cheers, GeorgesP.S.: Trying … Read More »
Here the numbers: and where we did ride: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741606 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741520 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741474 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741436 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741424 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741392 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741350 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741308 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741282 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741269 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/104741253 Cheers, Dino & Georges
Und im Norden ist es besseres Wetter!
… nach 400km angekommen!Und erst jetzt regnet es!:-)))
Ruhig, gute Qualität, freundlich, super Küche…. Top top top!:-))) (wir wollen fast nicht weg)
Geschlafen auf 2690m im Rifugio Cassana. Sehr gut gegessen und tief geschlafen. Das Haus wird von einer Familie mit 4 Kinder betrieben. Highlife in den Bergen. Dann ging es nach dem Frühstück wiedere los Richtung Berninapass. Bis bald. P.S. Georges … Read More »
…. from the Engadin:-) Cheers, G.
Gestartet heute Morgen bei unsicherem Wetter.Petrus meinte es gut und begleitet uns immer mit Sonne.Jetzt wird gecheckt wie es weitergeht, eine Cola getrunken und weiter geht 's
…es gibt auch dumme Rinder in Davos!😉
Eine Brille.Und weil die Gläser so dunkel sind und er nix sieht hat er 2x gegen Georges in Schach verloren.Es lag sicher an der Brille 🙁
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Nach der Dusche ein wenig Relaxen… Um dann ins Dörfle zu gehen und eine neue Sonnenbrille zu besorgen… Tja, Dino's Augenschutz wollte wohl weiterhin die schöne Aussicht geniessen!🙂
Die Route führte heute von Lenzerheide über Arosa nach Davos.Zugegeben sind wir von Lenzerheide aus mit der Seilbahn gefahren weil es sonst von der Zeit knapp geworden wäre (im Nachhinein mussten wir fesstellen dass es doch gereicht hätte).Es war trotzdem … Read More »
… in Arosa! Coffee Break! 🙂
Trails und Landschaft die begeistern.
Heute wenig biken und viel Laufen.Das gehört dazu.Die Aussicht war einmalig.Auf dem Kamm eines Berges zu laufen ist ein Erlebnis.
Es geht nun immer höher.
Chur zur Alp nach knapp 1000 Höhenmeter berghoch: wunderbare Aussicht! 🙂
Da er fast nie Fotos von sich hat werde ich nun eine Georges Fotosession fü ihn posten. Dino
Some people need more than a shower to be clean… Dino und seine dreckigen Handschuhe im Gesicht… Die Rheinschlucht ist super, wie auch die gestrige Trails!
:-))))))))
After a short night, we are in the train towards the alps!Cheers….
Dear all, some weeks passed since the last news from the project “every drops count for the WWF”. Here now the amount that has been address directly to the WWF: Sub-total: 2’366.00 CHF… but there is more! As I wrote … Read More »
Here we are with the next project: crossing the alps – or part of it – in one week with my friend Dino… Looking for it! Cheers…http://crossing-the-alps.blogspot.com/
Some months ago, Dino and I decided to have a bike week again – as we have had in Sicily. That was before my blogging-time… So we gathered some information. One of the first idea was to cycle to Nice. … Read More »
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… the 3201km from Melbourne to Cairns and the 3201 CHF spent to the WWF would not have been possible or not have been as it was thanks to a lot of people, I’d like to thank a lot here: … Read More »
…or why do something easy if you can take the challeng, e.g. like staying at home?😉 Distance: 3,200.69 km Elevation Gain: 10,346 m Time: 161:59:45 h:m:s Calories: 99,738 C Avg HR: 124 bpm Max HR: 192 bpm Avg Distance: 114.31 … Read More »
The End…. the night was very nice: no car or truck noise, just the wind blowing in the banana tree just at my right. Knowing that that would be to 99% now my last day of riding into Cairns was … Read More »
Not a too long day and highest road of Queensland… As usual, it is difficult to sleep long on camping park: others gets early up and don’t seem to really care about others. The night was a little better… I … Read More »
“Must be” stop and first goal reached. The wind had changed already in the morning (strong and more from the front). Due to the humidity of the night, I had to wait until the tent was dry because it looked … Read More »
Nice “Crest”… This was the third night in the row of bad sleeping – only few hours – still mainly due to personal stuff. After a little breakfast at the restaurant with lot of coffea, I had a talk about … Read More »
My first accident…Because the emotional issues at home are/were not solved, I had again a bad night with waking up to often and bad dreamings. When it started to light up, I decided not wait anymore, so I stood up … Read More »
After a bad night due to some emotional issues at home – yep, not everything is best as well when you are travelling – the wake up was early: I still was at the ugly caravan park of Hughenden.Anyway. I … Read More »
Just enjoying the warm temperature (33°C) and the light wind…. Cheers, Georges
Hi Again… Sorry, it was a bad day… with only few positive points. It started with the first fog I had in Australia. Quite special.. and therefor I got up late and started late as well as I had to … Read More »
Hi all The night was quite good, even some late arrivers making some noise. After the repetivive matinal proceedure, I started on the road. Great morning: the wind was pushing me quie good towards Winton. I had decided to check … Read More »
Back on the road…What a nice pleasure to sleep again in a real bed. Even I woke up at 3 in the morning and could not good sleep again, I had slept well and stood up at 7h15 for breadfast. … Read More »
What a day full of up and downs!Yesterday night, after writing the blog and during preparing my dinner, the sky was just beautiful. Unfortunately not on the pictures: Dark blue sky full of rain, dark brown earth and in between … Read More »
Not perfect wind…but not bad Today I changed my way: first get out of the tent and then have breakfast. It seems that I could save some time as I was on the bike already at 8h50 (ok, I woke … Read More »
One tire less… Yesterday’s resting day was good.. I felt much better when standing today morning. Even the garbage people did empty the container between 6h45 and 7h15… what a nice morning.But then I could have breakfast at the Windorah … Read More »
The message of the my muscles from the last two days was clear: we need rest.So today, I spend some good time with doing some laundry and setting up the wireless internet for the local pub… Look forward for tomorrow… … Read More »
After the nice sleep in the middle of “no-where”, I as usually had some breakfast and packed everything together.I went back on the road with the some bad feeling: my legs had no power… my bottom was feeling not well … Read More »
Real bushman-pushbiker! I slept not so good and wake up at three in the morning, trying to sleep agsin. In the morning the worker staying at the hotel started really early and with no thought about other still sleeping. After … Read More »
What a good day… when you start with a goood breakfast and the wind is helping you! Ok, the very first moment was not sooo funny: As I had washed my clothes yesterday evening, I had put them outside of … Read More »
The last day was quite hard – today would be worse. The first 15 kilometers were again sand and I had to push once again (just 30m). And the wind was again blowing from north. Then the underground switched to … Read More »
The day started for me quite late with packing every thing, buy some rice, cookies and others stuff for the next days and having a big breakfast at TJ’s, as I could put my tent for free on their camp … Read More »
After the last days I need a day off for resting my “two engines” (two legs), do some repair at the bike (want to be sure the cut in tire is sealed and swap front and back tires) and plan … Read More »
What a horrible and nice day.Today was one of the hardest day up to now. I started as usual with some breakfast and packing all the stuff together. Everything went well. Some guys from Telstra, the other and better fone … Read More »
Hi all!Don’t ask me why, I couldn’t sleep well that night. May be because I had to much to think about and to do on the internet while it was possible to do? Any way, I went quite late to … Read More »
Hi all, fortunately, I stood up in a quite good mood – especially regarding yesterday when I was really tired. So drove back the 1.5km to the main road and enjoyed the bitum instead of the dirt road. Quite a … Read More »
Hi all, after yesterday’s “Day off” for my muscle I started early again: it was not clear if we (the bike rider and me) would get breakfast or not.So after standing up (to early due to time saving changes), I … Read More »
Hi all, I spent the day to let my muscles and bottom some rest. After yesterday’s 172km, it was time to have break.So writing some blogs, washing some clothes and meeting new people: A groupe of 7 motocross bikers arrived … Read More »
I first woke up at 4h30… jet-lagged. So after some checks on the internet, I went as sleep again, waking up very late: 10h30! 🙂 So the day would be short… I took the B75 to the north… watching at … Read More »
Hi allJust arrived in Australia that morning, built up the bike and bought an Australian number @ Freddie’s Tele Choice Shop:-) in Sunbury (VIC) Thanks for the help!I’ll be reachable under:+61 (0)401780050Cheers, Georges Sent by mobile phone http://www.georges-bike-trips.blogspot.com/
Arrived in Dubai my wrench tool was taken: they “scan” you just after disembargment, not right before going on the plane. Hanni and me walked around, trying to find ourself in between all the different gates and shops and enjoyed … Read More »
With some delay…Friday, 25th in the evening I started with the “usual” sad part: saying goodbye to my beloved ones and going to the airport.Before boarding the plane, I saw that I had forgotten to let the wrench tools at … Read More »
… and I just need to test it a little bit.Here the picture: Let’s go for the first ride… 😉
Hi all time is passing fast; the start of the journey is nearing. Since I took the decision to cross Australia by bike, some changes happened: – Australia was visited by strong storms and big fires. – North African country … Read More »
Dear all,now the first months of my partial work are over, I had to think about what to do with my extra vacation and decided to full fill one of my other dream: crossing Australia by bicycle after I travelled … Read More »
Hi folks,jep, now the flight to and back Melbourne are booked. Just need the one to get back to Melbourne from where I will finish my journey. And that is my for now unsolved question: where should I stop? One … Read More »
As the day “only” train we could take (to have some backup if something would not work correctly with the SNCF) was quite early, we were not really able to enjoy the market in Bourg-en-Bresse. And after about 4 hours … Read More »
Before leaving Besançon we went down again to the “old city” and had a fine coffee and some croissants. As we did want to follow the long turns of the River Doubs, we choose the more direct way over the … Read More »
For our last tandem week of that season 2010 and before I have start working again, we wanted to bike around the Jura – the mountain in the north of Switzerland.Starting from home towards mainly Zurich where we could sleep … Read More »
When we ate breakfast at the hotel, we asked about the street. Fränzi was happy to hear that it would be flat… I was expecting the same as in Chile: flat for people driving in cars is never flat for … Read More »
Day-off and recovering…Best place to eat, very good prices; top, fast and friendly service:Le Royal 33 Rue Granges, 25000 Besançon+33 3 81 82 22 23 :-)) Cheers, Georges
When we started today morning we saw that we would do a lot km again…So following the Canal Rhin-Rhône, we started to count the numbers of sluice or watergate (écluses, Schleusen) that were decreasing. On the way, we met Joseph … Read More »
Easy riding along the rivers and channel between Rhine and Mulhouse. Very nice, just some negative points: 1) quite cold (missing sun beams)2) two tubes to be changed (one puncture and one valve falling out from the tube)3) and in … Read More »
Today morning, we stand some earlier than yesterday with a clear goal: reaching Dino’s house near Basel by the end of the day. We had two solutions: following the rivers Aare and Rhine or cutting over a hill. We choose … Read More »
Today was resting day:->Sleeping out->Nice breakfast (unfortunately, Marianne had to work)->Trip to Zurich to meet Rocket-g. and listening to his dia-show from south america->Back to Hausen and eating with Marianne, Urs and Astrid 🙂
Great trip, first taste about “Trans Alp” bike tours…..THANK YOU André 😉http://georges-around-mont-blanc.blogspot.com/
Finally my last vacation trip with Fränzi for that year has begun, as I will be back to work soon. The last Tandem vacation where always with the trailer. That time I wanted to try if it is possible to … Read More »
Monday, I decided to try another little trip: my first “real” Transalp by Mountain Bike. I had read that some guys had cycled around the Mont-Blanc in four days, following about the TMB-Track (Tour du Mont-Blanc) that lots of people … Read More »
Dear all,now that I have reach main target behind me, it is already time to think a little bit ahead: I will have to come back!Saturday, 15th of May 2010 I organize an “apéro” with drinks and small stuff to … Read More »
Dear all, everything gets to its end… after a looong week in New York with Franziska, we finally came back to “reality” and landed with over 4 hours of delay in Zurich. I really cannot recommend to anyone of flying … Read More »
At that time, my digicam had no built-in GPS. To make it fit with the feature of bycycle.ch, I’ve add it them manually. Therefore, location can vary between 5m and 50km. Enjoy…[codepeople-post-map cat=”9″]
Hi all, for the one of you who are addicted (or interested) in numbers, here an overview of my trip: Distance: 3,329.51 km Time: 259:46:54 h:m:s (including waiting at traffic lights, etc) Calories: 181,749 kCal (or minus 7 kg on … Read More »
Now getting to the end my time in south america I would like to thanks a lot people, mainly those who stayed in touch during my travel, especially:Fränzi, my better half! And the kids for supporting her…Maman for her great … Read More »
As I did not slept well during the night, Wednesday was an easy going and lazy day: after buying some food around, I stayed at the hostal and enjoyed doing nothing.Thursday was first dedicated to some cleaning (bike, tent etc) … Read More »
For today, I had in mind to leave as early as possible: I ha the feeling that the wind could get an issue on the way to Arica. The guy from the hostal said, the wind would only rise in … Read More »
After the leaving of the Carabiñeros, I could finally sleep… And woke up today morning well, even the night was cold (-4C). Due to condensation, the tent was a little humid and I needed to wait until packing it. So … Read More »
Yesterday nights few rain drops have changed my plan… As I wanted to leave early to get quite far today, I needed to have a dry tent, as I didn’t wanted to pack it while still wet. So I left … Read More »
As I woke up a little bit earlier than the other, I started to clean yesterday’s dishes. And as I finished, we could start with breakfast. Yan made again a reaaaaal coffea, which definitively better taste than Nescafé (which is … Read More »
Fortunatley, the rain stopped quite rapidly yesterday night. Despite it, the tent was wet and I needed to wait until packing it. During all yesterday, one thing disturbed me especially in that beautifull part of the national parc: all the … Read More »
I sarted the day with cold müesli, as I didn’t want to start the oven in the tent. Then I finally got up and looked around Of course, the most interesting was to see how warm the therms were. Well, … Read More »
Jaime and me where waken up a first time by a noisy dog and the carabiñeros’ car that was started and used about 90 minutes later and a second time by another carabiñeros coming for Jaime: he had another service … Read More »
I woke up as usual around 8am and packed everything after having breakfast. The road was in direction of the pass and just a little less steep as some passages from yesterday: from 5 to 15%. I arrived at the … Read More »
The day started as the last one ended: children crying, freezing, drink tea, eat Llama for breakfast (with egg and bread) and then I prepared myself to leave. During the breakfast the house tennant which is as well working in … Read More »
Dear all, as take the opportunity to say that I am alive… But I don’t have the connection with the phone and the pictures. You will need some more time until you can read what happened the last week. The … Read More »
Today was not really productive in terms of kilometers. After short night and quite long ride (55km with a long pent) my body was tired and the sand on some parts did not help.After only 12km I passed by a … Read More »
As usal now for me in Chile, I woke up at about 8h: who can have a “party” can cycle…;-)Sergio and another guy had already left, Prudencio was finishing is night shift. He told me to take breakfast. After packing … Read More »
Todays goal was easy: joining the station from the cabiñeros, as I had heard that I was only 20 minutes away – by car. So after breakfast, drying the sleeping back and the other stuff from every morning I left … Read More »
Now that I’ve reached my goal – I still can’t believe it – it was time to leave and follow the Andes to the north. There was three ways: -go back to Ollagüe (steep and bad road down, loosing to … Read More »
Please… Don’t do it! Sorry for those words, I just want to avoid any reader thinking: “let’s do the same!” Today was much different then all the others, with not only one risky part. So if you think you are … Read More »
After the longer walk from yesterday I wanted to give some rest to my body (legs, lung and feets) as there was not used to such a day. And waanted hust to enjoy the view of the mountains, checking some … Read More »
During the night, the pain was not decreasing, so I decided to take some of the Diamox I did get from Manfred and Birgit.When I woke up (I could sleep!), the headache was gone…and I could go for a little … Read More »
Yesterday after sending the last emails I finally headed in direction of Amincha and the place where RocketGeronimo had let some water for me with a beautifull weather!Amincha is the rest of the pueblo from the time people were needing … Read More »
Today morning I am packing the bicycle again since 8 days once again. Yesterday evening, I heard in the news about the 6.3 earthquake (or seisme as they tell here) about 180km south of Ollagüe. Here, I did not feel … Read More »
Well, yes, I’m still living! 🙂 After arriving in Ollagüe I needed some time for different points, mainly finding a solution for getting to Calama and getting to money. From Ascotán the solution would be much easier… here in Ollagüe, … Read More »
For those who havn’t read the blog from start: I had some troubles with the first trailer and lost some nerves about it.When I then bought the other one (Bob Ibex), I wrote an email to extrawheel, the constructor of … Read More »
….then I looked down and saw a strange dark line near the seat post. Hmmm what’s that? I had to stop and looked closer and started to laugh: the frame has a little fracture! My logic told me to lower … Read More »
I woke up when the merchandise train to Bolivia passsed in front of the guards house at seven o’clock. It was anyway time to stand up and get breakfast with Luis and the others.I left the Carabiñeros at about 10am, … Read More »
Today was set as a lazy day, as I had to recover from the last one. The plan was easy: cycling to Ascotan, find a restaurant, charge the main battery and call home.The view on volcan San Pedro showed some … Read More »
Today I started with the rest of yesterday: 1) I had made to much spaghetti (or better: my stomach refused as much food as the other days) and 2) I had to fix one of the fixation made of tissue … Read More »
I know, we already had that title. Why not reusing it if it match absolutely? So in the night I woke up and wanted to know the time. As I don’t have a watch, I thought I could use the … Read More »
I knew I would wake up early as all tourist were going to see the fumaroles of El Tatio. So I was woken up at 5h30, which wasn’t a big issue.The plan for today was easy: enjoy, rest and don’t … Read More »
Yes! No luck again! Well.. Stupid Georges thought there was no Stan’s liquid more enough so I had to find way to bring it in. It was not possible by inflating and having liquid so I had the genial idea … Read More »
The day started with a good breakfast to finish my eating rest: choricos (spicy saussages) in the pan, then cutted in slices and covered by goat cheese. Beside that, tomatoes and avogados (or paltas as I’m now telling tbem: Chile!). … Read More »
The tourist guide from San Pedro de Atacama has a nice page. Copyright by them!
As per tommorow I will head to the north and don’t know when I have internet again, that will be the last entry for a while.Todays goal was to find and book a hotel for Franziska and me in New … Read More »
Today I had the valle de la luna on my target as I wanted to see it before leaving definitively San Pedro.The Valle is a geologic speciality in the west of San Pedro. It is quite desertic and gets special … Read More »
Sorry, today was a boring day…writting email and other administrative stuff! Nothing special! Gud n8
Todays highlight was the Laguna Miscanti on the way back. Just amazingly nice. On the way back we had a look at the special chruch of Socaire.After we had to drive back to SPdA where we ate something and Gérard … Read More »
Geysir of El Tatio? Well when we heard that, we thought of "bpschhhh" for 4-6 meters…. We know for sure that there is a gap between think and is!The geysirs are all less than one meter and more bublling water … Read More »
…just to say that I’m alive. Still having a great time with Gérard and will fill up the blog when time is adequate. Cheers, Georges
Friday was for me the relaxing day: Rocket Geronimo had not seen the Chucicamata mine and we wanted to see the church of Chiu Chiu which was on the way back to El Tatio, where we wanted to camp. So … Read More »
Ok, I make it short: no, I was not able to get on top of it.Not because my breathe was not enough..but my head started to ache at 5000m around. I could fight against it up to 5400 to 5500m … Read More »
Today was dedicated to packing and buying food for the next days.When Gérard arrived, I had to submit him the proposition to keep the car longer and see some of the scenes I had see before. He called the agency, … Read More »
Dear all, Just to say that I am still alive and sorry for the missing inputs like story and pictures, they are “nearly” ready. After the first tour, I created for myself a tour to more than 4700m, all by … Read More »
I woke quite early and ate spaghetti for breakfast. May be because of the pasta or because of the altitude of the last days: I was like doped or felt like that. I was drivinmg between 18 and 20 km/h … Read More »
Today was the longest ride up to now: 147km…even with a lot of downhill. It started when I stopped by the mine and learnt the were searching for Ferrum…(Fe, Eisen) or its oxid. They were drilling down to check the … Read More »
When I woke up today, the car of the French was still there. So I had breakfast and put everything back on the bicycle. At 10h15 I went in direction of the car as it was anyway on my road. … Read More »
When I woke today up, the thermometer showed a minimum of -4°C in the front part of the tent. The ride was mixed between cycling and walking. The road is not in good condition and I guess since long not … Read More »
Today was in direction of the mountains. I continued on the old road 23 following more or less the diverted river the Chilean had brought into a tube. After a few kilometer appeared on the right the old village of … Read More »
Today morning, Gérard and me woke up quite early and went out to ge some bread, eggs and ham to make breakfast.While I was then packing everything into the trailer and 18 liters of aqua on the bike*, Gérard returned … Read More »
After getting back my sleep over night back, I headed to the ferreteria (where you buy all stuff to build anything. I was still looking for some nails for the tent (yes, Tobias: your idea is really good) and a … Read More »
Today morning we stood up quite early to be at the border before the new tour tourists arrive. So we left at 5h15 after the driver had to find some stuff for his car.The ride was quite bumpy and we … Read More »
Because the hostal was stil quite loud (full of Brasillian) I moved to the other one. But for that I needed to wait for 12h as I could not enter before. So I went to the cabiñeros to ask if … Read More »
And mostly dedicated to train fans….…and Giorgio feeling like on the Titanic on the roof of the moving car! 😉
As I can “only” send 10 picts per blog entry….here some more. Hope you are enjoying it!🙂
Today was a special day: thanks to Richard who was willing to drive on the Salar de Uyuni even there was 5-10cm of water, we were allowed to see a marvellous scenery: there was no horizont, as everything was mirroring … Read More »
That night was quite hard…. In the evening before I was glad to get a little bit out of the “hostal” to the fresh air: it reduces my headache, I guess due to the altitude as I never experienced that … Read More »
(pictures to be added from other camera)Today I wake up much earlier then usual on the trip: 6h45! 😉The night before, I had stored my bike and trailer in the backyard of the hostal so I just needed to take … Read More »
Since I rested for about four days in San Pedro de Atacama – mainly waiting for the very late TNT delivery of documents – I did not touch the bicycle. So I had two goals for today: getting the ticket … Read More »
(sorry, my email box is not sending messages anymore, so I had to create a new account) After the nice evening came a terrible night were I stay awake in a bed that was like a banana: soft, uncomfortable and … Read More »
First I have to agree with Catalina and Georges: approaching San Pedro is marvelous, beautiful etc! But first I had nice 18km downhill with 5-7%. I’m so happy not to have chosen the way back! I had several stops to … Read More »
My goal for today was to move in direction of San Pedro de Atacama from where I plan to do some shorter trip to get used to the altitude and not to join San Peedro directly. The height lines showed … Read More »
The turistica of the evening before (I hope I’ve learnt the lesson about icecream) was gone very rapidely. Unfortunately it had started in the restaurant while Catalina, Georges and me were discuting. So I made of list of what needed … Read More »
Everyone who wants to see the mine needs to be registered in advance. And that is one of the major problem by bicycle, you never know when you arrive at your destination (wind, road etc). And there are no visits … Read More »
As I had put the tent in the shadow of the reservoir of water, the sun did not wake me up as usual at 8:00 so I could sleep one more hour. The sun did as well not warm the … Read More »
Today I’ve learnt, that the wind takes some time to travel from the cost and reach the desert. And the difference is again great:10-20km/h against vs 20-30 with the wind. And because I had the feeling to be glued on … Read More »
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