La Garbure
Travel Blogs from Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Basel& through Switzerland
We were up early, had breakfast & were off the ship by 8.00am. A cold, dark & drizzly morning with a promise of snow. Sure enough as we started clear Basel in the coach we ran into flurries of snow. A novelty for most of us from the Southern Hemisphere. By the time we reached Gruyeres there was quite a bit of snow lying around & lots of us got snap happy. The process of making cheese was well presented & we ended ...
Basel& through Switzerland
We were up early, had breakfast & were off the ship by 8.00am. A cold, dark & drizzly morning with a promise of snow. Sure enough as we started clear Basel in the coach we ran into flurries of snow. A novelty for most of us from the Southern Hemisphere. By the time we reached Gruyeres there was quite a bit of snow lying around & lots of us got snap happy. The process of making cheese was well presented & we ended ...
Blog 6
I am going to keep this blog short. i might do another blog when i am in a better frame of mind.
Right, today was my last cycle. a 100k cycle mostly downhill peddle to Toulouse. 100k, is now, no problem. However i didn't count on the HEADWINDS i have just experienced. I will say it again so you get the message.....HEADWINDS. Since i left Nimes 5 days ago the vast part of each days ride has encountered HEADWINDS. Now since that fateful ride in ...
Blog 5
... in the sky had in store for me. as soon as i turned due east, wham bam i was hit by a terrifically strong headwind, not quite of Hurricane Sandy proportions, but given my tiredness it felt like this. so i struggled on hoping it would die down....it didn't. i progressivley got more and more and more annoyed with the situation. i had been on time to make it for 5 (before light fades) but the wind meant i had little chance. Towards the end of the ride as i was swearing and cursing ...
Sur le pont davigon!!!
... ici!!! je vais deposer mes trucs chez lui; son frere vient nous rejoindre et on sen va au pont du Gare, ca ete construit au milieu du premier siecle, vous imaginez?!?! cest malade, cetait un aqueduc! et pas loin, il y avait des olivier datant de lan 908. ouff cest pas jeune jeune! oh et appareme,nt que cest pas bon des olives directement comme ca a voir la face des deux freres qui recrachent! ...