And Tuscany too, but that doesn’t alliterate. After seeing Malf and Dan off, with promises to potentially catch up in Turkey, or if not then back in Oz one day, who would have thought that I’d actually managed to sneak in a few hours with them in Florence the very next day? A marvellous cycling…
View MoreThe change of scenery I have witnessed in the past 24 hours has been astonishing. I left Geneva on the train to Nice, and with the mountains a distant memory, fields of sunflowers, olive groves and the occasional vineyard opened up before me. The difference couldn’t be more profound. I definitely feel like I’ve left…
View MoreI was very much looking forward to visiting the Italian Riviera – it was one of the top priorities on my list of places to visit, simply because it looked like such an amazing location. Cinque Terre literally translates from Italian into “five towns” and what makes the area so significant is the way that…
View MoreI had hedged my bets about whether a possible couch surfing opportunity in Fribourg would come good. Staying in Bern with Peter for a night meant that I would miss it if it did, not that it mattered anymore.When I left the next morning heading towards Montreux, I did actually cycle through Fribourg and stayed…
View MoreI left Interlaken this morning and decided that I wasn’t going to be a hero and cycle over the challenging mountain pass with all my luggage in the 33 degree heat. I’d have been pushing the proverbial uphill to cycle 148km in one day, through the Swiss Alps. My longest day so far has been…
View MoreTo get to Interlaken, I cycled over the Brunigpass. Camping at the foot of the mountains last night was a stroke of genius, because it was one hell of a climb uphill! This was probably the hottest day in Switzerland yet (possibly even in all my travels to date) and it was a scorching, humid…
View MoreOk I’m gonna give it to ‘em, I’ve had enough. And I’m probably being completely racist and stereotypical here, BUT what the hell is it with Asians and 5am early starts?
View MoreI think Liechtenstein has it in for me, after the comments I made about it being a small and boring country. I reluctantly camped just outside of Vaduz last night, not wanting to wander into Switzerland until the next day. I was still feeling a bit homesick and had found a campsite and a McDonald’s,…
View MoreWe drove into Liechtenstein a few hours ago, and I said goodbye to Hannah and James. They’ve left me to take the rental car back to Munich, and they fly home tonight. I think the buggers plan on hitting the Hoffbrau Haus beer hall before they jump on the plane. Wish I was there too,…
View MoreWell if you thought night trains were bad, you should steer well away from the night buses! At least they are safer and generally nicer, but for comfort they rank at the bottom of the pile. Thankfully the three of us managed to snatch the whole back seat so we were able to stretch out…
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