Great camping on the Loire cycle route

 Tenting facilities in the town of Turquant campground

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Big Plans Ahead! Another European Bike Tour

Image
 The count-down is on for our next cycle tour! On Sat Aug 24th (that is tomorrow!) we leave for yet another cycle tour in Europe. This one will see us flying to Frankfurt and riding from there south towards the Alps via Bavaria, a little part of the west of Austria (Tyrol) and on into Italy, eventually ending up in Venice. Lots of similarities to our last tour two years ago, but quite a different route. We have set aside six weeks for this journey. The main goal of this tour is to cycle a route called the Via Claudia Augusta . This route starts in Donauworth, Germany (located on the River Danube) and ends either in Venice or at the Po River south of Verona (depending which fork of the road you take). The attraction here is that it follows an old Roman road that once connected the northern part of the Empire via the River Danube, with the Adriatic Sea via the River Po or the Venetian lagoon. So there's lots of history attached to it, and it takes you through a lot of beautiful scene...
Read more

At the foot of the Alps, Lechstausee (lake), Bavaria

Image
  Wednesday Sep 4th Can't believe it's September now. As I sit here outside the tent at 7.30am enjoying the view across the lake while my two riding partners are still curled up in their sleeping bags, I can't help feeling just a little daunted by the prospect of climbing through the mountains I can now see in front of me now. The view is stunning – the Alps are strung across the skyline and seem to go on for ever. Today we will reach the town of Fussen, which is right on the border with Austria and marks the gateway to the mountains. Morning view at our campground And yes, we are a party of three now! Our friend Nancy from Montreal joined us on Monday after a very complicated airline run-around. She flew into Munich and lucked out in finding a bike mechanic to help her assemble her bike. Nancy is an almost virgin bike-tourer, and this is her first experience with cycling in Europe. Kudos to her for taking a big leap in getting her new bike and all the gear and starting...
Read more

Cycling the River Po route: a suprise campground

Image
 We might not have the Romans with us anymore, but we're still riding and slowly making our way towards the Venice Lagoon. This route we have planned will take us along the Po River and eventually northwards towards the outer islands along the famous Lagoon, a distance of a couple of hundred kilometers or so. Our planned route from Ostiglia towards the Venice Lagoon We left Ostiglia and the terminus of the Via Claudia on Sunday morning and started making our way along the River Po. This is a huge, wide, slow-moving river that at first was very impressive. We saw next to no boat traffic on it - a couple of pleasure boats and one river cruise boat moored along the bank on Sunday. However, after a few miles, the path, dare I say it, became a bit boring. The cycleway was on top of the flood- control levy, and on the river side, we were often separated from the river by a wide swath of tree plantations (looked like tall skinny poplars), presumably to stabilise the soil in the flood plai...
Read more