Chez Tante Alice
Travel Blogs from Durbuy
The long boring road to Luxembourg
... and into the heat.
Unlike previous trips I have loaded the bike in a way that I only need to bring my top box and right side pannier into the room with me, all other luggage stays on the bike.
Unlike yesterdays trip from Edinburgh to Newcastle where the roads were full of grit the roads today were extremely dry. There was a bit of rain in the air but I somehow avoided it all the way. Let’s hope thats a sign of the weather to come over the next few ...
Medieval Village of Monschau Germany
... to see and experience, including a high speed bobsled coaster down the mountain...maybe next time. The town is full of delightful little shops...bakeries, souvenirs, textiles, antiques..you name it! We went into a bakery cafe and had some old fashioned apple strudel that was almost as good as my mother used to make and that is high praise! There are just so many things to see and do around here and we are thankful that we get to at least sample a ...
Castles and crossing the Ardennes
... moron. He insisted that he couldn’t get a quarter-inch bump out of the wheel and gave me back the wheel. Say what?! This is a bike shop, no? I am supposed to pay you so I can ride on a wheel that has a ridiculous bump in the rim? I honestly couldn’t believe that the guy was actually refusing to complete the job. Luckily, I had a spoke wrench with me, so after an hour of messing around with the wheel on the sidewalk in ...
The endless road
... off a local found my wheels running down the hard shoulder of the motorway. Cars beeped and toar passed at terrifying speeds as I tried to look for a way to escape. After a while the hard shoulder disappeared into the bank and i was forced to heave Allan over the barrier and push him through the bushes. The hills dragged for another 20kms as I walked down the thorny thicket, ...
Caindo na primeira eurotrip
Urrul, fim de semana bora para a Bélgica! A primeira trip com a galera é sempre mais emocionante, não?! Você sempre vai acabar calculando mal o tempo de deslocamento e terá que correr atrás ajeitar mala, perder o ônibus, ter que pegar táxi... e sempre terá uma coisa que você vai esquecer de levar, como o cartão de memória da câmera. Pois é, fiquei mendigando foto e fiquei ...
Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Free parking