Paris à Velo
Cycling the 5km to our Aparthotel Home & Break in the Porte de Choisy, Place d’Italie area south east from our arrival at Notre Dame, was a slightly uphill affair but continued our initial journey on different types of the Paris cycling infrastructure. Our room was on the 6th floor with.. →
Bikepacking – who’d have thought
Almost 2 weeks ago a friend Nicola and I cycled our bikes onto a ferry to the continent for the first time, the actual culmination of July travel musings about bikepacking with my brompton – including camping, wanting to see what Paris had done with its cycling infrastructure, and spend more.. →
Last Stop Cologne
My third stay in Cologne was this time at the Campingplatz Stadt Koln, about 5k from the city centre, in a beautiful setting right on the Rhine river. The only downside was the constant background noise from the bridge adjacent carrying motorway traffic, but this was a minor niggle compared to everything.. →
Salzburg & North to Wurzburg in Germany
Salzburg – long on my list and always reinforced in my annual viewing, usually at Christmas, of The Sound of Music.
Another beautiful city where I spent 2 nights at Camping Aigen. Along with almost all the campsites visited this trip, I would.. →
Austria – Lienz & Mauterndorf
The journey down to Lienz around the Tre Cime’s mountains via Dobbiaco was straightforward, and stunning scenery all around. I didn’t stop but the latter town at just over 1200m with its lake looked definitely worth a visit.
And now I entered Austria for a proper stay for the.. →
Into the Dolomites
I had yet to decide where I would head after Verona for the remainder of the trip making my way back upto Cologne and then to the Hook of Holland to Harwich ferry. The beauty of travelling out of season in a van particularly on the continent is that in most cases booking is not necessary so one can.. →
Impressions of a 2nd First Mate
As a follower of “Life in New Lanes” since its inception, it was an honour and privilege to be invited to join in along these particular lanes in Italy for a week of cycling, walking, swimming, train / station hopping, and the opportunity to visit a long held “tick-box item”. My time as second.. →
Verona – a post of its own
It was great to also have booked the Castel San Pietro campsite just up (steeply) from the river in the centre, having got the last pitch. This was so that we could spend Friday afternoon and evening in Verona before being able to have an easy airport dropoff the next day.
Prompted by some.. →
The Cinque Terra & 1.5 days in Tuscany
1st mate no 2 and I headed off on the 200 miles or so motorway journey to Levanto on the mediterranean coast between Genoa and La Spezia, just outside the CT national park for the first 4 nights of this stay. My guest has contributed her own account which, as it is positive :), and summarises the.. →
Week 2 Lake Garda
Sommacampagna, a small town 30k or so from Cisano Lake Garda and 6k from Verona airport, was a good place to spend a couple of hours having a larger supermarket and nice cafe on the central square, waiting for the midday landing of 1st mate number 1. The results of the usual research for short-term.. →