Tag: Rain
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Dramatic weather along the Elbe
The view on today’s ride along the Elbe was not so dramatic as yesterday. But the day still generated some drama with a thunderstorm that caught me a bit after the halfway point. If there was a thunderstorm warning issued this morning for the afternoon, I must’ve missed it. But as I was riding, the…
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Feeling better! Into Prague tomorrow?
It rained most of the night as I slept in my hotel room and I woke to gray skies and drizzle. Well, I had been expecting that! One of the few cool things about the place I was staying is there were three supermarkets within one minute of the hotel, so I made myself some…
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Up to the Danube, on a rainy day!
A couple summers ago Chris and I rode the EV6, also known as the Great Rivers Route, from Brittany to Slovakia, and today I retraced a bit of that same route although I was on the other side of the Danube that Chris and I rode.  It rained during the night at my campsite,…
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Rest day with torrents of rain!
I have ridden a little over 200 miles in the past 4 days, and my body needs a rest. In addition, torrential rains were forecast for last night and today, so I booked two nights in an agrotourismo just feet off the path I am riding on. I learned that the haze in the air…
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A short day in wind and rain: St. Michel-Chef-Chef to Les Moutiers-en-Retz
Today’s forecast was for strong wind from the WSW, up to 30MPH steady, accompanied by rain. So, we decided to make it a short day, fighting the headwind in the morning and then enjoying a bit of tailwind in the afternoon but avoiding going too far. We ended up staying in the small town of…
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Into Nantes and out again
Our bikes spent the night in the garbage room in Lorient, and then they (and we) took the train from Lorient to Nantes. We stayed in a place near the train station that was in kind of sketchy area, but it was inexpensive. I guess we are cheap. We had visited Nantes last year, but…
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Sunscreen?? Non!
It’s been grey, cool and wet since we’ve arrived in Brittany, which was sort of unexpected after being subjected to all the news stories about Europe being in a historic heat wave! We’ve been staying in hotels and AirBnb’s for most of our days in Brittany, avoiding camping in the rain. Yesterday, we left Pont…
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While Europe bakes, cool temperatures and rain!
Normally, when we are riding, we want warm, dry weather. But we can’t complain about cool, wet conditions when so much of the world is roasting. I’m sure we’ll get enough hot and dry weather in Spain so we are enjoying our cool wet Brittany weather while we have it. In these past couple days,…
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Views of clouds and rain
Others have told us that the views are fabulous heading south from Fox Glacier, and we had high hopes. The weather forecast yesterday predicted sunny and clear weather all day today, but we woke to clouds covering the skies, and headed out with hopes for clearing weather during the day. The earliest part of the…
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A visit to Hobbiton, and more rain
We ended yesterday with a really nice meal in Matamata, at a small Mediterranean restaurant. As is typical for us, we had a couple appetizers and one main course. As appetizers, Chris had grilled mussels, which neither of us had had (really good) and I had pan seared Haloumi over a tasty mix of chickpeas,…