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Our last day of riding
... of the SOS places and waited for Rhys to arrive. My chain was very loose again so in the warmth of the tunnel we did some bike maintenance, which we later found out from Michael is illegal and could of resulted in a large fine!
My chain fixed we continued our way through the tunnel. When we got out the other end we were greeted with blue skies and more snow. For the next 45 minutes we rode with snow all around and blue skies above – it was truly magical. ...
Beasts of Burden and Fruits of the Earth
... of tractors bearing bee hives, twisted iron tools to churn the soil, barrels of flour which were scattered to the wind and rubicund milkmaids then donkeys piloted the procession of the honoured beasts of burden including men yoked by ponderous bells, goats and cows with fanning firry headgear (which really reminded my mistress of a painting called Haymaking by Paul Gauguin which is in the Courtauld Gallery ...
Davos
... fried rice. Tanya was content to continue prepping and cleaning as needed. We all chowed down our small Asian feast and pretty soon after, we all went to bed as it had been a long day.
Sept 29:
Today was a forced rest day since it was raining out for most of the day. Rod, Tanya and Mägge set out for bike ride that morning while Megs and I stayed warm in the house. Hille was coming over to help us fix the leak in the roof of the van. I ...
Back to Stelvio pass we wind
... linked by a waterway – just awesome!
After feeling very relaxed and much better we got back on our bikes and headed for Stelvio, as you may remember we did this pass just on a month ago however I was on the back of Michaels bike as mine was a little sick.
On the way to Stelvio we had to cross Timmelsjoch pass. this road, once a mule track was built during the war by the Italians and was home to military bunkers that Mussolini ...
The beds are comfier in Austria...so far
... lane! Our last 50 km was done via GPS and it took us straight to Michael’s door, not bad for a cheap one! On riding up his driveway we were greeted by not only Michael, who was very happy to see us, but by another 3 guys who all turned out to be Australian! As it turns out Michael met one of them on his trip around Australia. These guys had hired bikes in Munich and planned to travel around the alps for 2 weeks, fancy all the Aussies getting together on the same day in ...