Greetings from Gallician! Since Cédric’s update from Tournus, we’ve managed to put a few more miles on our bike. On Friday, Cédric and I hit the road early to make sure that we could get into Lyon at a reasonable time. The plan was to visit Cédric’s childhood friend, Olivier. This day we followed the Saône river, which was nice …
Tour de France – le vrai
*** You can translate the post into anything by selecting the language in the top right corner of the website…or learn French! Cela fait donc maintenant trois jours que nous sommes sur la route. Notre objectif est de joindre Bale à la frontière suisse, à Toulouse. Seule contrainte : on a 10 jours maxi pour 1100km minimum ! Départ donc mardi …
Via Claudia Augusta: Augsburg -> Venice by bike
The bike tour to Venice went by extraordinary quicky… as Cédric and I were looking over videos and pictures from our trip today, I found hard to believe that the 670 km (415 miles) and crossing the Alps was finished within 7 days. The first day from Augsburg to Füssen was a ride where everyone realized that this trip is …
Headed out to Venice via bike!
Now motivated by the Olympics in Rio, Cédric and I (and a few other friends – Bob, Marssie & Mike) are leaving Augsburg tomorrow and biking to Venice. The plan is a 600km (370 mile) trip, which should hopefully only take 7 days to complete. Our days will be spent crossing the Alps , including three mountain passes, with our …
Tour de Korea
Third (and last) week in Korea: time for sightseeing So, I took the opportunity to delay my flight to Sunday and go a little deeper into South-Korea and do 4 days of sightseeing. No plan until Tuesday evening and last day of work in Sacheon, but: – I am not the biggest fan of huge metropoles – particularly not when …
Cultural gap in Korea
So I have been working almost alone in Korea for two weeks, which was the first time for so long outside of western countries. I am far from understanding the Korean culture and even further from been able to generalize anything, but there are large cultural differences. I have been lucky to share many meals and drinks with some younger …