Featured Touring A Trip To The Vosges

It's working out well mate. If you ever get the opportunity to visit, do - the area is stunning!

 

Cheers Hubert - we already had a good sampling of the blanc d'Alsace, delicious indeed! We'll certainly give the cheeses a go, too!

 

As we had thunderstorms and torrential rain in the morning we decided it was not to be a biking day. So we did some shopping, had the car fixed (indicators stopped to function) and waited for a weather window. When that came about we took the dog to some waterfalls to play about a bit.

After that we visited a church built by Le Corbusier in 1955, which is on UNESCO's world heritage list. Unfortunately the most impressive side was in scaffolds.

 

And now...

 

I'm sure it wasn't!

 

We did a nice loop today, some bigger and some very small roads. On the way we scaled the Ballon d’Alsace, a 1247 metres pass.

At the top (views obscured by the locals)

Todays loop.

A bit cold today, but dry.

 

The dog has found her soulmate...

 

Some bits were pretty twisty, and quite a few hairpins. The mrs did enjoy most of it, but had a bit of a scare when she had a little skid on some loose gravel. She recovered quickly though!

 

Yep that's mine...

 

A 120 mile trip today, the mrs is knackered! beautiful weather and dry roads.

We conquered the "Grand Ballon" today, and lots of hairpins.

A few shots:


Whilst en route my "Nemo" key ring opted for freedom (it flew past the mrs' helmet ), so that had to be replaced. For obvious reasons @brown mouse it had to be grey...

Then on we went back to our digs.

Part of our route - slightly twisty...

The entire loop.

And then went out with the wee dog.