A Cycle Round the Lac de Saint-Pardoux
15/09/18 – 16/09/18 We spent the next day driving and with a couple of hundred more miles under our belts and the temperatures slowly rising into the low thirties we… Read more »
Category: Cycling
We Passed Our MOT
15/08/18 – 23/08/18 We took Bertie back to Tedburn St Mary and the accommodating and helpful MC services to have various repairs done to get through the MOT. As well… Read more »
Two Descend on Dorset
08/08/18 – 14/08/18 Enid Blyton, author of the Famous Five books (amongst many others), was a great lover of the Dorset countryside, particularly the Isle of Purbeck and it’s main… Read more »
Champagne For Everyone
17/06/18 I’ve mentioned before that my French geography is not great, so it came as a bit of a surprise to me when I realised that we were on the… Read more »
A Long Ride to Another Lake
16/06/18 We moved onwards through France with a long drive north, including a diversion around Bourg-en-Bresse that left us doing some old fashioned paper map reading as the sat nav… Read more »
A Cycle Round Lake Annecy
15/06/18 Lake Annecy is a justifiably popular tourist destination, a beautiful glacial lake surrounded by mountains and cliffs in the Haute-Savoie region of France. I have to admit to being… Read more »
Gran Paradiso Part 2: Ibex on the Slopes of the Big One
07/06/18 – 10/06/18 These blog posts may get a bit samey…visit a valley in the Aosta region, cycle a bit, walk a bit, see some marmots etc etc. if they… Read more »
Gran Paradiso Part 1: Cogne and Lillaz
03/06/18 – 06/06/18 South of the Aosta Valley is an offshoot of the Alps, Italy’s first national park. It is named after its highest peak – Gran Paradiso – the… Read more »
Valle d’Aosta. Perfect Peace in Torgnon
28/05/18 – 30/05/18 We had finally arrived in the Valle d’Aosta, the most westerly of Italy’s alpine regions which has borders with Switzerland and France. In fact French is an… Read more »
Back in Tuscany
22/05/18 After the Monte Sibillini we were planning to head for the Apuan Alps, a small offshoot of the Apennines that sits behind the coast of northern Tuscany. It was… Read more »
Avoiding the Zona Rossi of the Sibillini
19/05/18 – 20/05/18 In search of a sosta we left the beautiful Piano Grande (I keep wanting to call it the Grand Piano, but that’s something else entirely), driving the… Read more »
A Final Jaunt in the Gran Sasso
14/05/18 – 15/05/18 Yesterday we had walked up to Prati di Tivo, today we drove up. The large car park which had been full of ‘macchine’ was now nearly empty… Read more »
In the Shadow of the Gran Sasso at Fonte Cerreto
09/05/18 – 10/05/18 We made our way from L’Aquila up through the foothills of the Gran Sasso national park, climbing up on the major road (A24) that chugged almost imperceptibly… Read more »
Three Gorges in the Majella National Park
04/05/18 – 07/05/18 When we were planning our time in the Majella national park we had looked at various maps and options for walking and cycling. Ambitiously we thought we… Read more »
The Day we didn’t get to the Forest
01/05/18 During yesterday evening we searched for a spot to park in the famous forests in the central Gargano. We found parking spots, but they were off road and deeply… Read more »
Camping Again near Gallipoli
26/04/18 – 28/04/18 We chose Camping Torre Sabea as our campsite to give us time and space to solve our mosquito problem. We ended up staying for three nights at… Read more »
Camping Behaviour in Sant’ Andrea
20/04/18 – 22/04/18 Sometimes writing a blog that’s a couple of weeks in the past is a bit of a slog. Take today for instance, we have had a big… Read more »
Beeping Italians
19/04/18 Our parking spot to the south of San Cataldo had been noisier than we expected. We thought we had chosen a good place as far from the town as… Read more »
Finding Feral Trulli
13/04/18 – 15/04/18 The Valle d’Itria is a wide shallow depression that runs from north-west to south-east through the limestone heart of Puglia, roughly between the latitudes of Bari and… Read more »
A Chorus of Frogs and Owls
04/04/18 When we got on our bikes the following morning it was with the intention of heading east and exploring the nearby WWF nature reserve. But first of all we… Read more »