When I read the message to Amanda, I think we both knew that cycling in France was something that had to be done. We’ve both become interested in Le Tour de France, and I was itching to ride some singletrack in the Alps. I had even considered racing in the “Mountain of Hell Bike Race” in Les 2 Alpes, which starts at the top of the mountain on a glacier, and ends 30km away in a field.
Then of course there were our friends we met through warmshowers.org, Emmanuel & Nawal, who stayed with us in Vancouver before setting out across Canada. Some emails were exchanged with them, and a route fleshed out. Hopefully we will get to ride bikes with them for a few days!
Our plan has slowly morphed into a cross-continent ride (North/South) from Amsterdam to Barcelona. While we may not end up cycling all of it, we hope to cycle most of it, creating new memories and meeting new people along the way!
Amanda and I rode into Belgium today. Just as we were getting setup at our campsite in Antwerp the heavens opened and have not let up. Very high winds (a few other tents blew away) and lots and lots of rain. I will post more…
Andrew writes: Jet lag struck again last night. We were exhausted from riding all day so fell asleep quite quickly when we called it a night at 2200hrs. Did you know the big church in Gouda can be heard from the campsite 5pm away and…
Andrew writes:Jet lag – what a wonderful thing! Amanda and I passed out from exhaustion and inebriation about 8pm on Saturday night and there we were wide awake at 1am. We organized our things for the next day and watched some TV to pass the…
Amanda writes: Today we rode 20 km from the airport to the hotel. Yahoo – we arrived at the land of cheese. After getting the bikes together at the Airport we headed out. We did have some directions but they were not really helpful. We…
Just a quick note to say that we made it. Going to do some bike repairs and check out what Amsterdam has to offer and will post more later. So much to see and do, so little time! – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad…