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Uphill tour through France
Foreword :Day 8
This morning I was Lance Armstrong leading the peleton on the road through France to Rodez! No it’s OK, I wasn’t suffering from heat stroke. I just saw the tell tale still partly decipherable graffiti road markings that told me that my man “Lance Armstrong” & 200 other athletes had cycled this very road. I put my head down & stepped up the cadence racing to my imaginary finish line. Out of breath, but exceedingly happy & content I hoisted my arms & shouted at the top of my voice “KING OF THE WORLD” beating my chest like a gorilla. Not quite the British coolness & understatement I know, but this was my tour, I was a winner & feeling good at what I was doing!
Grab a coffee and pull up an armchair. Travel with me for the next 30 minutes through one of the most scenic Countries in the World. France!
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Fast Tube by Casper Go to this link Video 1-11 to see the rest of my trip to Pamplona.
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Alastair Humphreys wrote in his first book ; Moods of Future Joys, a paragraph that sums up my feelings of the Danube River.
People would ask “Did you see Macchu Pichu, Grand Canyon,the Pyramids?” And I would say “Yes, and I also saw the Danube”
There is something tranquil, soothing even enlightening about cycling Great Rivers, it’s something that I am addicted to and would recommend to any want to be cyclist.Whether it be my old faithful Danube the Elbe or the Rhine these are the majestic Rivers that I love to cycle
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My first ever Passau Vienna trip took me 3 days. A Few trips later & I was down to 2 days.Then one day I decided, I was going to do this in one day.
My one day 345km mad dash from Passau to Vienna
So I was thinking, wouldn’t it be cool to cycle to Asia.
Vienna to Istanbul 1800km in 10 1/2 days
Every week my flight from Vienna to London would take me over this majestic River, it was then that I decided it was time that I should also cycle it.
The Rhine from its Estuary to the Source
My Virgin tour also took me along the Danube:
Basel to Vienna following my faithful Danube
Last but not least, from my business travels to Hamburg I got the following idea: