ITALY | Sunday, 4 Nov 2007 | Views [555]
Patti: I am just doing a quick update before we do a walking tour of Siena today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY; MAX!!!! Glad to hear from you , Dad. the update was much appreciated. We spent the last 5 days at a small campground in Tuscany, just getting rejuvenated.... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
ITALY | Tuesday, 30 Oct 2007 | Views [893] | Comments [2]
AMY: OMG, the drivers in Rome are nuts. The streets do not have defined lanes and people drive like it. Sometimes there are 4 lanes of traffic and sometimes everyone melds into 2 with no real pattern or logic. However, we did manage to navigate ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
FRANCE | Thursday, 25 Oct 2007 | Views [644] | Comments [2]
Patti: We are now in the French Riviera. They get 300 days of sunshine per year bit since arrving yesterday, we haven't hit one of those days. It is actually raining right now, but the weather is warm. We took 3 days to drive here from Paris, which was ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
FRANCE | Thursday, 25 Oct 2007 | Views [731] | Comments [2]
Did this one a couple of days ago but didn't get a chance to upload it until today. Amy: There is something comforting about staying in one place for a few days. I am not sure if it is knowing where you are going to sleep, the ability to ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
FRANCE | Sunday, 21 Oct 2007 | Views [716] | Comments [2]
Amy: Just a quick update. We spent yesterday touring the Notre Dame and the Louvre Museum. It was a cloudy and cool day but it did not rain. The Louvre was amazing, not just because of the amazing works of art but the building itself is a work of ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
FRANCE | Sunday, 21 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery
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FRANCE | Saturday, 20 Oct 2007 | Views [654]
Patti: Riding a bike in Paris is amazing! We spent the day yesterday doing so and had a blast. It helped that it was another warm, sunny day. Our accommodations are in a suburb about 7 km from the actual road port into Paris. We have a cycle route ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
FRANCE | Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 | Views [674] | Comments [2]
Amy: It is hard to describe the feeling I had when I had my first sighting of the Eiffel tower. We were probably only 10 or 15 km’s away when it appeared on the skyline as we rounded the corner on one of our few descents of the day. It has been ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
FRANCE | Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery
After Dieppe
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FRANCE | Sunday, 14 Oct 2007 | Views [677] | Comments [4]
Our OBSERVATIONS / QUESTIONS / THOUGHTS When did smelling my clothes become a part of my daily dressing routine? How do Patti’s little chicken legs power her up the hills so fast ? France bathrooms: why no toilet seat and no toilet ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
FRANCE | Sunday, 14 Oct 2007 | Views [1196] | Comments [1]
Amy: When did hills become a part of our daily ride ? We left Dieppe this morning and headed towards Paris. The first 50K of our ride was a long gradual climb on a great designated bike trail. I guess I shouldn’t have complained about the ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
FRANCE | Saturday, 13 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery
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FRANCE | Saturday, 13 Oct 2007 | Views [592]
Amy: We have learned a lot about the role Canadian Soldiers played in the war. On this date, 5,000 Canadian soldiers attacked German positions in and around Dieppe. The sole intention of the attack was to determine the feasibility of taking a port ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
FRANCE | Monday, 8 Oct 2007 | Views [680] | Comments [4]
Patti: We took yesterday as a bit of down day as we had just ridden a 100 km ride the previous day. It was all on flat land along the north sea coast of Belgium and then into the northern part of France. Aside from losing our way in a couple of towns ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
BELGIUM | Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | Views [747] | Comments [4]
Amy: We survived our all nighter in Luxembourg City. We hung out at the music sites until about 1am and then managed to hang out in the lobby of the Hostel until morning. We felt the hostel would be safer then the train station. In the morning we ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
BELGIUM | Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | Views [690]
Patti: At this moment Amy and I are both in recovery mode. A few days ago when we were sharing a hostel room in Luxembourg with a couple from Slovakia, the woman kindly spread her germs and with the day of rain we rode in 2 days ago, one of us was bound ... Read more >
Tags: Health
LUXEMBOURG | Sunday, 30 Sep 2007 | Views [752] | Comments [3]
Amy: We decided to stick around Luxembourg to take in the premier of the World Me You Zik festival. The hostel in the city was full for the weekend so we took a bus out to the nearest hostel in Bourlingster. The drive out was beautiful. We came back ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
LUXEMBOURG | Friday, 28 Sep 2007 | Views [548] | Comments [3]
Patti: Luxembourg City is a beautiful place. I'm sure it would be even more beautiful if it wasn't raining. My makeshift bike repair seems to be working fine so we did another 60 km ride to get here yesterday. Lots of hills, again. You'd think we would ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
GERMANY | Tuesday, 25 Sep 2007 | Views [728]
Amy: We left Trier and rode a long 75K to Vianden in Luxembourgh. It seems as soon as we entered into Luxembourgh the terrain changed dramatically. The old style German villages are gone and towns seem alot further apart. Not to mention the hills.... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
GERMANY | Sunday, 23 Sep 2007 | Views [827] | Comments [4]
Amy: It has been a few days and a few Km's since we last had internet access. We are in Trier Germany and have ridden over 400 Km's on our bikes so far. I think my legs have forgiven me as they have not been sore since we took a day off, tired but ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
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