Featured Touring A Trip To The Vosges

The bikes are all loaded up and ready for departure tomorrow morning. It'll be the first biking trip for the mrs., and as she did not want to do miles and miles of motorway we opted to trailer them. We rented a "gite" for ten days, from where we'll do day trips.

Bikes loaded

This will be my view in the rear view mirror tomorrow...


I'll keep those interested updated of our adventures here.

 

Cheers Andy!

 

Cheers Dougie, the forecast seems favourable!

 

We have arrived!

Bikes parked in the garage.

We parked outside our gite with a beer! (The dig is hiding under the table... )

 

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Cheers mate! "The dig" was a typo...

 

The Vosges are a mountain range in north eastern France, bordering switserland and germany. Very pretty area with great riding roads!

 

A shortish, leisurely ride this morning so the mrs. can get used to her bike. Low speeds, easy roads. She did very well! It was only 60-ish miles, but that took us about two hours. Little roads, lots of bends. We even climbed a little col (pass). Jefta (the mrs.) found it was very mentally tiring. I commend her though - only about the 8th time on this new to her bike, that's got to be a steep learning curve!

Little stop in a village.

Along the way.

A couple screenshots off my rear camera.

All in all a great first ride. Excellent for building confidence.

 

"Ze dig" is happy, too...

 

Cheers Steve. It's been great up until now. The weather's a bit crappy today, but the forecast for the rest of the week is favourable!