Monthly Archives: August 2012

After a lovely swim in the lake and a meal, Peter & I slept in his tent. At 1 a.m. we were awakened by the rain, which went on all night. This meant that all was wet in the morning, … Continue reading →

Today should have been my free day, but Peter decided to come and visit me, arriving yesterday afternoon and leaving tomorrow morning, so it seemed better and nicer to have my day off with him. So I cycled to Geneva … Continue reading →

Today I actually got away shortly after 9. First it was all downhill then flat, although again a bit of a disappointment at not being beside the lake much. It was very varied , but got harder towards the end. … Continue reading →

After the beautiful run down the Aare, today was not nice. I did see quite a bit of Lake Bieler, but when I left that it was all on concrete roads between fields in the blazing sun. It reminded me … Continue reading →

I have been unsuccessfully trying to get away by 9 each day. “Today I willl manage it”, but I had forgotten – today is the 13th. I am not normally supersticious and in factI didn’t even realise it was the … Continue reading →

Washing line (before it rained)

Today I completed my journey to Solothurn, where I looked for Nicole, who would normally have hosted me last night. Unfortumately we weren’t able to connect, but there was an event going on right near her house so I had … Continue reading →

Isa accompanied me for about 10 kilometres to show me the way back to the route 5. She had hardly left me when I went wrong for the first time because of bad signpostng due to road works. Then it … Continue reading →

Today started badly as I followed the instructions of trhe warden and took the wrong cycle route, then spent some time searching in thre next town. This meant about 5 uneccesary kilometres. After I finallly got on the 5, I … Continue reading →