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It was a nice gentle start to the day. Everybody was up in good time, the sun was shining from a cloudless sky and we only had to walk a short distance from the monastery to the main hotel for a good breakfast. I wish the honey dew melon was…

The road up yesterday was so steep that John walked down it so Mark and I gave him a head start before we rolled down. The first stop was at the supermarket for bananas and pot noodles and then we set off on the 10km climb to the top of…

There don’t seem to be enough hours in the day to ride, translate for two visitors all day and sort photos etc. This stage was an easy ride up the Inn valley to Innsbruck. The ride up the Brenner pass is not considered to be good for cyclists due to…

We were packed and ready to roll by about 10. The plan was to take the S-Bahn across Munich to Sauerlach, thus avoiding the city, and ride from there to Jenbach. We called in at Rewe for bananas and made it to the station in time for our train. Twenty…

I did sleep well after an evening in town and still managed to be up shortly after 6 to catch the bus to the station. John was due to land at 7:15 so I wanted to be there in good time but nearly didn’t make it because, when my train…

It is the same trio as last year but this time in Europe. I will travel to Munich tomorrow and will be joined on Wednesday morning by John and Mark from Wisconsin and Idaho respectively. We will spend the day at a hotel in Hallbergmoos and use the time there…

Today was the last chance for some exercise before setting off on what will be about twenty four hours of travelling. John and I left his place and rode through the northern part of town to collect his son-in-law, Ben, who lives close to Lake Butte des Morts on a…

Today was John’s day to show me his farm with the various crops and the farm buildings where he used to live with his parents and then get the jet skis. He has a large shed full of farm machinery together with a pickup truck and a trailer loaded with…

Today’s ride was a sightseeing tour around the outskirts of Oshkosh. It is flat around here and the 95m of climbing are the sum of all the bridges we cycled over. It must be as flat as Skegness and today was even windier. We set off north for a few…

Today we still had several hours of driving ahead of us to get to John’s home in Oshkosh but we had ideas about including some points of interest. The first idea was to go for a bike ride along the side of the Mississippi river after crossing it into Wisconsin…