At 8.45 AM Derk is on his way. It promises to be a hard ride: a lot of steep climbs. The weather is also far from cooperative: dark clouds and now and then heavy showers. Derk’s face shows some concerns: what to expect today? No worry, Derk makes a fine start: we’re waiting for him […]
The day starts dry, but also cold and cloudy Derk is up early to replace the cable of his intermediate Snek. The cable wasn’t running smooth yesterday and some oil didn’t give any improvement. Replacing the cable was about the biggest maintenance until now. Apart from this the propulsion cable is replaced every now and […]
Again a clouded sky, but the patches of mist swirling through the treetops on the surrounding hills are breathtaking. It just the same routine as even and Derk leaves around 8.30 AM to go to Strassbourg. De sun is shining nore and more and the circumstances are really good, apart from those hills… Even de […]
Just after 6.30 AM and what do we see? A blue sky! Short after 8.30 AM Derk has left again. After a small col that’s hardly a col the landscape changes dramatically. No more hills, only flat roads. We are called by Wim, he was yesterday already near our location and now we rendezvous at […]
Derk plans to ride all the way to Aix-les-Bain today. After a stop in Petite-Chaux to eat a couple of slices of bread, we go on to Confort, a village 30 kilometres west of Geneva. The route is breathtaking. Beautiful green forests, giant outcrops of rock, little villages in deep valleys en terrifying ravines. The […]
