I never want to see another hill again. After the awesome descent into Bihac a couple of days ago, I should have realised it was coming. I was entering one of the most physically demanding parts of the trip (there are three that I’ve identified, those being the Swiss Alps, Tuscany in Italy, and the…
View MoreI was looking forward to my return to Croatia,after having spent a week sailing around the Dalmation coastline last September, island hopping from one awesome port to another. On my last visit, Croatia was seriously awesome fun, however this time around I would not necessarily be following the standard backpacker trail. Second time around, I…
View MoreRome is definitely not a pedestrian friendly city. But just how the traffic works in Italy is something of a mystery, and it took me a couple of days to adjust and figure it all out. I mean Italy in general is pretty chaotic in terms of traffic, but Rome raises the bar to a…
View MoreAnd 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…
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