Last night, after dinner was cleaned up, photos were processed, and we were closed up in the tent preparing to sleep, an enormous storm broke loose. Perhaps to make up for all the missed storming in the day, the rain fell heavier and faster than we’ve ever witnessed on this trip and lightning lit the […]
One of the great things about the campsite that we are currently staying in is the super-easy access to public transportation into Venice. This allows us to camp outside of the busy and bicycle-unfriendly city, while still being able to enjoy it with a 15 or 20 minute bus ride. Today we took advantage of […]
After the busy, dull ride yesterday, it was refreshing to roll out of camp to blue skies and very quiet farmland. The silence would have been almost perfect except for our new constant companion as of late- a headwind. With the gusts whistling by, we made slightly slow, but pretty good time. With no traffic […]
Let’s face it – we are really bad at bicycle touring. Between being a little bit too type A to sit still for 5 minutes, nervous about offending people, or unable to communicate (gesturing aside) from a majority of the population outside the large cities, this has been a stretch for us. We keep thinking […]
Before we had even been in Verona for a full hour yesterday, and actually before I had ever laid eyes on our campsite, Ben had already suggested that we stay another day and check it out. The very little bit of the city we had seen while dodging traffic yesterday was lovely and another day […]
We woke up to the steady drizzle in our drafty room this morning, glad to be indoors. The temperature has dropped significantly since our first arrival in Switzerland to a high of something in the neighborhood of 50* Fahrenheit and a really chilly overnight low. The weather was steady and inclement, as expected. People keep […]
As we fell asleep to the sound of pouring alpine rain last night, I felt my usual annoyance at the weather. We knew today was slated to have the same nasty weather and we didn’t feel much like being stuck at our campground for another day. Rain riding was looking likely and I wasn’t excited. […]
I was excited today to finally get back into the Alps. While even the site of them makes Bree a little nervous, the route we have chosen through Switzerland should have few to no hills. First, though, we had to ride along the coast of Lake Geneva. The ride along the coast was fairly quiet, […]
There was quite the production in our campground last night, complete with a couple of really drunk guys getting in a shouting match sometime around midnight and we think, ultimately getting kicked out of the campground all together. Either way, since our walls are nylon, we got a late start on bedtime. Once awake, I […]
Having been somewhat disappointed with our lack of pictures from the old part of Annecy yesterday evening, the first order of business as we rolled out of our campsite this morning was to roll through the old town in hopes that we might get some pictures that I could live with. When we arrived to […]
As I listened to the rain last night, I couldn’t help but feel the usual anxiety I do with rain as we travel. I don’t want to be wet, I don’t want to be cold. I don’t want the wind to blow. Of course, for the first time in basically our entire trip, we were […]
Wanting to spend a little more time with the Oudet family and explore the region a little more, we planned for a “real” French lunch on the shore of Lac D’Aiguebelette, per Edouard’s suggestion. We have thus far not experienced much in the way of true French cuisine, as we keep our budget low and […]