The Hotel De Ville (City hall) in every French town is emblazoned with the National moto of France: Liberte, Egalite, […]
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Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond
I love bicycle touring and have ridden from Melbourne to Darwin, Melbourne to Adelaide, Melbourne to Cooktown, Pert to Melbourne and toured around Victoria and Tasmania. In 2015 I rode around the world! In 2017 6000kms half way around Australia then another 4000kms Helsinki to Athens via Scandinavia. Where to next?
Chasing the Tour
We cycled easily out of Bordeaux to Sauveterre. The first 65 kms in near-perfect conditions was via the Roger Lapebie […]
Summer cycle touring: Atlantic Coast France.
Cycling touring is living in the eternal now. We are aware of everything and nothing, time becomes abstract, but matters […]
Remembrance of things past
We have ridden across France, East to West, for over 1200 kilometres from Port du Rhin to the City of […]
Bicycles & Baguettes, just singing in the rain!
When I first met Therese back in the 80’s she was the lead singer in a punk band named Quixotic […]
It’s always clearing
We got beaten up by the weather! There was not a cycle tourer alive in France this last month whose […]
Cycling, in nature’s garden, is a life of small pleasures.
Home on wheels is our fully packed bicycles. Pedalling forward, into an unknown future, we are ready for all that […]
My Monet moment in France
Cycling the Canal du Rhone au Rhin, I’m aware of the water lilies. Actively looking for the resident loud squelching […]
Pilgrims progress
It was Englishman John Bunyan’s book Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come, first published in […]
War & Peace
We holed up in Strasbourg for a couple of days waiting out the rain while walking this amazing City that […]
Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond 