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Ottawa, Canada ‐ Sep 5, 2019

Ottawa

Back home! We had a great trip! We learned so much about the possibilities, expections and logistics of international travel. Although we had expected and planned to be on the trip for 3 months travel...
Prague, Czech Republic ‐ Aug 30, 2019

+5

Prague (day 03)

35 Years Ago She Said Yes

+18

Prague (day 02)

Prague (day 04)

Our last full day of the trip in Europe. It rained most of the night and continued off and on in the morning. We had a bite to eat at a nearby restaurant, packed up and headed to the airport where we...

Prague (day 03)

With today, being such a special day for us, we decided to enjoy the city at our own pace and not participate with other groups or rush through any museums, etc. We arrived in the city about 11 am and...

35 Years Ago She Said Yes

Thirty -five years ago we started this adventure. We have been fortunate to have had so manyy good things happen in our life. The past 35 have been wonderful and I can't wait to seewhat our future bri...

Prague (day 02)

We went into the the city early to join a walking tour that we had previously booked. This tour was of the old city and the tour guide, Amanda, is from Toronto!! John poked fun at her Maple Leaf's hat...

Prague

This is day 2 of our travels to Prague. After a nice breakfast at the hotel, we took some time to plan our next few days and our flight home. We left the hotel only at 11:30 and took the highways all...
Bruck an der Leitha, Austria

Bruck an der Leitha

This was a travel day en route to Prague. We knew we would have to likely do this trip in 2 days but we never thought it would take so long. Due to a mix of lots of traffic, road construction and very...
Belgrade, Serbia ‐ Aug 28, 2019

+10

Belgrade (day 2)

+6

Belgrade (day 2)

Last night we booked a small group tour to an area of the country that we had been looking forward to seeing by bike. This is the "Iron Gates Gorges" in a national park. So we were picked up at our ho...

Belgrade

We arrived at our hotel in Belgrade in late afternoon. Too late to go on a walking tour so we took advice and a map from the hotel staff, downloaded an online self-guided walking tour and set off on f...
Budapest, Hungary ‐ Aug 23, 2019

+3

Budapest (Day 03)

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Budapest (Day 02)

+9

Budapest Day 01)

Budapest (Day 03)

We went to the majestic Parliament buildings this morning. We walked around the outside and took lots of pictures of the richly decorated building. This is the 3rd largest parliament in the world and...

Budapest (Day 02)

We started our sightseeing on the Pest side today with our first stop at Heroes' Square. This is a huge open area with a tall (36 m) column memorial in the middle, surrounded by statuess of Hungarian...

Budapest (Day 01)

Ahhh Budapest!! What a lovely city!! We decided to explore this beautiful city by the Hop On Hop Off bus. We have a 72 hour ticket so hoping we will have enough time to see it all!! We stayed on the B...
Bratislava, Slovakia ‐ Aug 22, 2019

+20

Bratislava (day 2)

After another delicious breakfast at the hotel, we packed up, put our stuff in the car and set off to explore some more sites in Bratislava. This included St. Martin's church again because the inside...

Bratislava

Once we arrived in Bratislava yesterday and settled into our downtown hotel, we headed off the tourist office to plan our 2 days here. We bought a 48 hour Bratislava card which gave of a whole lot of...
Hainburg an der Donau, Austria

Hainburg

En route to Bratislava, we stopped in the smaller city of Hainburg which is surrounded by a 2.5 km stone wall, 3 city gates and 15 defensive towers. It was a well fortified city and protected it for y...
Vienna ‐ Aug 18, 2019

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Vienna (day 3)

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Vienna (day 2)

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Vienna (day 3)

We went into Vienna about noon today. Walked around the city centre again and to the Museum Quarter for a few more pictures. The streets are very busy with shoppers and tourists. We enjoyed some stree...

Vienna (day 2)

We decided to take advantage of the Hop On Hop Off tickets we purchased yesterday and set off for the city. The bus was quite enjoyable as the audio recording told us some of the history of the city a...

Vienna

Our first day in Vienna! We took the subway to the old city centre and found the tourism office first thing. With our questions answered and a plan for the next 3 days we set off on foot to see the ca...
Spitz

+5
Melk ‐ Aug 16, 2019

+7

Melk (Abbey)

From our research for this trip, the Melk Abbey came up time and time again as a recommended site to visit. We'd now say that this recommendation is accurate! It is in a nice spot perched above the ol...

Melk

Our first stop today was the little city of Enns, one of Austria's oldest cities. The main square is lovely and colourful with a city tower in the middle built in the 16th century. We walked around, v...
Granz
Weins
Grein
Leitzing
Enns
Linz
Schlögen

Schlogen
Passau, Germany ‐ Aug 15, 2019

+6

Passau

To start our day, we drove into Passau to tour the city. We walked out to the furthest point, passed the many river cruise ships, to view the point where the 3 rivers (Danube, Inns and Ilz) join into...
Schalding links der Donau ‐ Aug 14, 2019
Straubing
Rain
Wörth an der Donau
Regensburg ‐ Aug 13, 2019

+5

Regensburg

Regensburg is the most northerly point reached by the Danube and as such, played an important role in transport and trading between Italy and central Europe, with the first bridge (built 1146) built o...
Kelheim
Weltenburg

+7

Weltenburg

It rained most of the night so we packed up everything wet, hoping that tonight's stay will be drier. We drove into Inglostadt and looked around the old city. Lots of interesting historic sights to se...
Bad Gögging
Neustadt a.d.Donau
Manching
Ingolstadt ‐ Aug 12, 2019

+4

Ingolstadt

We picked up our new "German bike" this morning, an Opel Insignia. Whether by bike or car it is a challenge to find our way through any larger centre. What should have taken us 10 minutes, at most, to...
Neuburg an der Donau
Donauwörth
Dillingen a.d.Donau
Günzburg
Ulm

Ulm Day 3

Today was really a day to kick back and explore some more of Ulm. First, however, John cleaned up the bikes, disassembled them and put them in the bike bags that we brought to transport them in. The h...

Ulm update

Just a note to fill you in on the saga of the broken rim. John spent this morning walking around town and visited 6 more bike shops trying to find a replacement rim. Unfortunately, he could not find a...

Ulm

After a few inquiries, we decided to take the 14:15 train to Ulm. This is a much larger city of 170k people so we think our chances of getting a new wheel rim for John's bike seem greater than the sma...
Hausen im Tal ‐ Aug 8, 2019

34 km

+5

Hausen

After a delicious buffet breakfast at the hotel, we decided to take advantage of the hotel's hospitality and left our gear in an unused dining room while we went ti explore Tuttlingen some more. After...
Tuttlingen ‐ Aug 7, 2019

54 km

+7

Tuttlingen

Well we made it to the Danube. But between the jigs and the reels it ended up being a 54 km ride. The day started off overcast and cool, great for riding. However, about15 kms in the sky became much d...
Eckartsbrunn
Aach
Beuren an der Aach
Singen
Markelfingen ‐ Aug 6, 2019

Markelfingen

Cloudy and and coolish morning. We knew we wouldn't be riding too far today so slept later than usual. We headed off for Lake Contance area. Our ride was tough in spots with steep hills going through...
Konstanz

+2

Konstanz

It stormed most of the night with thunder, lightening and lots of rain. We took advantage of the buffet breakfast at the campsite and headed on the train for Konstanz (Contance in English). We were to...
Radolfzell

28 km
Hemmenhofen
Stein am Rhein, Switzerland

69 km

Stein am Rhein

Alot of rolling hills today so it was more challenging to ride. We biked in and out of Germany and Switzerland all day. There is a customs but there are no guards and no check in points, only a sign t...
Schaffhausen
Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany

70 km

Waldshut

A nice sunny day. We were able to enjoy the views of Basel early that morning. Bike path took us right beside the Rhine. Very pretty expecially the views on the Swiss side. On the German side we were...
Laufenburg (Baden)
Bad Säckingen

Bad Sackingen
Basel, Switzerland

Basel

We decided that we wanted to explore Basel and didn't want our loaded bikes to deal with while touring around the city. So we booked another night at the campground. We started into the city on our bi...
Huningue, France

43 km

Huningue

We decided to have a shorter day's ride today given that we pushed it yesterday. So, a later start at about 10:30. We seem to have the most directional trouble either entering or leaving the larger ce...
Kembs ‐ Aug 5, 2019
Mulhouse ‐ Jul 31, 2019

95 km

Mulhouse

We've had internet access issues so a few days passed without updates. Back online now (Aug 5). We knew we may have a big day (July 31) of riding ahead of us so we got up early and were away by 8 am....
Montbéliard
Pays de Clerval

75 km

Pays de Clerval

We had the best "petit dejeuner" yet at the hotel. The hotel staff let us leave our bags in their back office and our bikes were tucked away in a shed across the street, leaving us to go exploring Bes...
Baume-les-Dames
Besançon

68 km

+4

Besancon

Besancon

Ride today was mostly again along the canals which made for easy going. We did notice a significant change in the local topography. Mostly forested hills and rocky outcrops. The farmland appeared to b...
Orchamps
Rochefort-sur-Nenon
Dole ‐ Jul 28, 2019

54 km

+8

Dole day 2

Rest day!! Triathalon just around the corner from our campground started bright and early so we could hear the starting groups take off. Laundry and trying to dry things out took a bit of time. Left t...

Dole

Rain, thunder and lightening during the night again. However, clear with some cloud in the morning when we got up. We decided to move on to Dole for a rest day, a much bigger city. Again, mostly flat...
Choisey
Damparis
Saint-Jean-de-Losne

Saint-jean-de-Losne
Pagny-la-Ville
Lechâtelet

Lechatelet
Seurre
Charnay-lès-Chalon
Saunières
Verdun-sur-le-Doubs ‐ Jul 26, 2019

61 km

Verdun-sur-le-Doubs

Thunderstorm during the night. First rain we've had since we left! Up early, packed and away by 8 am. Nice morning for a bike ride - cool and shaded along the canals again.Along tbe canal we saw a Can...
Chauvort
Allerey-sur-Saône
Gergy
Sassenay
Crissey
Chalon-sur-Saône

Chalon -sur-Saone
Santenay ‐ Jul 25, 2019

41 km

Satenay

Another early morning to avoid the heat. Rode along the highway again to avoid some unnecessary trips to the country side. Very little traffic again. We passed more fishermen than cars passed us. Join...
Montceau-Lès-Mines
Génelard
Palinges

52 km

Palinges

Started out early to avoid the forecast 40+ temps that day. Easy riding through some some nice countryside. Had to take an unexpected detour to to bridge construction. This led us along a "heavy traff...
Paray-le-Monial
Digoin ‐ Jul 23, 2019

67 km

Digoin

Today was our last complete day on the Loire River. We left early towards the city of Bournbon-Lancy. This section (first 15 km) was described in our travel guide as gentle rolling hills. I'm not conv...
Bourbon-Lancy
Cronat ‐ Jul 22, 2019

47 km

Cronat

We decided to do something a little different this morning. After learning of the hot temperatures this week, we got up at 5:30 am and got on the road by 6:45 am after a quick croissant and banana. It...
Fleury-sur-Loire
Nevers ‐ Jul 20, 2019

73 km

+6

Nevers day 2

Rest day!! Time to spend doing laundry, washing and tuning up bikes and charging up our electronics. There is a very pleasant lounge for us to hang out in with all the free coffee and tea we want. Wal...

Nevers

We got a pretty early start at 8:30. Followed the canal system for most of the day. The bike path went right beside the canal and was flat the whole way. Stopped at the Guetin Aquaduct passing high ov...
Cuffy
La-Charité-sur-Loire

51 km

+4

La Charite -sur-Loire

La Charite-sur-Loire

Overcast day to start and not too hot. We started off on the opposite side of the river from the official route. It was a really pretty ride right beside the water and lots of shady trees. Beautiful h...
Sancerre
Bannay
Belleville-sur-Loire
Bonny-sur-Loire
Briare ‐ Jul 18, 2019

58 km

+3

Briare

First stop this morning was just across the river at Sully-sur-Loire. The Chateau is touted as one of the prettiest on the Loire. Indeed it is very pretty with a moat and a few turrets!! Again, mostly...
Gien
Saint-Gondon
Lion-en-Sullias
Sully-sur-Loire

Sully -sur-Loire
Saint-Père-sur-Loire ‐ Jul 17, 2019
Germigny-des-Prés

61 km

Germigny-des-Pres

Germigny-des-Pres

We decided not to go into Orleans as the bike route does not go into the city and we didn't want to have to deal with the traffic with fully loaded bikes and no map. Will leave Orleans for another tim...
Châteauneuf-sur-Loire
Jargeau
Orléans
Meung-sur-Loire
Beaugency

58 km

+3

Beaugency

An early start on a cool morning. Very little wind made the riding easy. Took an alternate route to the village of Saint-Dye-sur-Loire. There we met up with the main route. Had a quick break , time fo...
Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire
Blois

40 km

Blois

We got an earlier start today. Quite a few hills leaving Amboise for about 12 km. Pushed the bike up a few! Then, we were into gentle downhill slopes for the rest of the day. Went through lots of farm...
Chailles
Candé-sur-Beuvron ‐ Jul 15, 2019
Chaumont-sur-Loire
Mosnes
Amboise

47 km

+2

Amboise

A well deserved rest day! Slept in and then Judy did laundry while John cleaned the bikes. Walked into town. This is France's national holiday so we were expecting some extra activities or something s...
Montlouis-sur-Loire
Tours

+2

Tours

A nice ride into the large city of Tours. The route goes through the main street of town on a designated bike lane. We found the tourist office and then went on a short ride/walk to the old quarter. M...
Savonnières ‐ Jul 12, 2019

46 km

Savonnieres

Savonnieres

We took advantage of the campsite's "petit dejeuner" this morning before we departed; fresh OJ, coffee, croissant and baquette from the village bakery- very good. We've noticed that it is a common occ...
Rigny-Ussé
Moulin de l'Arceau
Le Neman
Avoine
Savigny-en-Véron ‐ Jul 11, 2019

62 km

+5

Savigny-en-Veron

Savigny-en-Veron

We have good intentions of getting on the road early but will have to get better at that...we were on the road only at 9:30 today. Went through lots of farmland and quite a few hills. Needless to say,...
Candes-Saint-Martin
Montsoreau
Souzay-Champigny
Saumur
Gennes-Val-de-Loire ‐ Jul 10, 2019

67 km

+2

Along the way to Gennes-Val-de-Loire

Left Rochefort fairly early, and started out towards Angers. Nice trip to the city, shaded most of the way along the river. Went into the downtown core of Angers. Great bike lanes to follow. Stopped a...
Angers
Rochefort-sur-Loire ‐ Jul 9, 2019

66 km

Rochefort sur Loire

Long day for us. Started out early and followed the signs on the right side of the road, only after about 5km did we realize we had no idea where we were. So we backtracked and found out that sometime...
Oudon ‐ Jul 8, 2019

25 km

+5

Oudon

Planned a short day of cycling. Left around 1030 am. Bike path smooth asphalt to start. Then turned to single track dirt. However, followed the Loire with beautiful views through farmland. Arrived at...
Nantes ‐ Jul 6, 2019

3rd leg of trip

+2

City of Nantes

City of Nantes

Nantes is the home to Les Machines which takes their inspiration from nature, creating "living machines". Walked around the city some more and saw some of the artwork displays happening throughout the...

Arrived in Nantes.

Bikes and gear intact. Checked into hotel and headed to the downtown area to change John's phone to a France number and data. Lovely old city with lots of interesting architecture, restaurants, bistro...
Lisbon, Portugal ‐ Jul 5, 2019

2nd leg of trip
Montreal, Canada

First leg of trip

Leg1
Ottawa, Canada ‐ Jul 5, 2019

+2

Departure

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