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!
Andrew writes: Woke up at 10am. Had a nice email from Emmanuel and Nawal who confirmed they will come visit on Saturday. Amanda seems fascinated with this guy across the street who is always naked on his couch watching his laptop. Moving truck and cool…
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Andrew writes: It all started off innocently enough with Amanda wanting to go out for beers. Our bike tour guide had given us a list of good places to go, and so we chose one of them – La Academie du Biere. We hopped on…
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Tuesday August 2, 2011 Amanda writes: No more tracking mileage as we are now on rental bikes in Paris. We did our bike tour for four hours which was nice. I’m glad we did our own tour last night to orient ourselves with the City….
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Monday August 1, 2011Toulouse to Paris4.4 km of riding27.18 in the saddle Andrew writes:Ungodly wakeup time today of 6am, in order to ensure we caught our 715am train. We made it with 35 mins to spare and had time for coffee and breakfast. We bumped…
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Amanda’s random thoughts and memories. One of my great memories is riding on a stretch of road that was a fairly big climb. It was one of the days leading to the Alps so the hills were getting bigger. Andrew and Emmanuel were up further…
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