Monday, June 29, 2009

Parrot Scratching Bottom Of Cage

We enjoy the (Irish) crack!! Deciding

We can say what we wish, but the muscles are going well!
After two weeks of roads we arrived yesterday in Galway City in the footsteps of Fabio ... The first 200 terminals
Brittany have been a good warm up and then, yes, cyclo-touring is not the preserve of large knurled good, clean shaven!
Our pleasure increases with the miles, especially as we discover in Ireland, a country rich in scenery, ou il faudra revenir tellememt il y a de choses a voire.

Nous nous organisons ainsi: on s'arrete le soir dans une ferme et demandons un petit bout de pres pour planter la tente. C'est pratique et ca permet de rencontrer des gens accueillant, pour qui cela parait tout naturel (effet velo ou esprit irelandais?) . Jusqu'ici aucun probleme! Nous av ons meme eu le droit a l'Irish












Breakfast dans 2 fermes: jelly beans, cornflakes, tea, bacon, sausages, and toats with marmelade....Trop appreciable pour commencer la journee et une tres bonne occasion de discuter du pays avec les agriculteurs.

Notre Cliffs of Moher to the day has begun with this terrible news: Jacko's dead! So we bought the newspaper, what better tribute to eat cheddar''singing''I'm bad to the cliffs!?

our stove makes us good service: even if he must make a reservation of timber in the day and although it blackens the pop ote is tea and porridge every morning at the Cowboy (Indian horse, a soup). We are very pleased so far, despite the time it takes us. We tested the dried dung, wood and peat wet, no problem!
Tent Vaude to 200 euros (!) We have some concerns: the sheet of the soil is not very tight which makes us fear worse.
The harder it is to leave the organization early and to do more km in the day. This is the dilema between taking the time to look and move forward. There are also the everyday ailments: mosquitoes, ticks and face hordes of biting midges in squads of men in ambush outside the tent!
Apart from that we have been serious until last night, where we enjoyed our first pint of Guinness, followed by a fish and chips (yes, Jane!)
The green Ireland is''super'' , small plots, quiet cows, horses everywhere, cottages, small roads that wind along wooded hills ... All this is a treat for the eyes and the rhythms of the bike makes good appreciate it.
We let some news before arriving in Newcastle before mid July. Meanwhile
wear you well and thank you for all your messages!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Ptch New Hussyfan Hotfile

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We have always wanted one and other travel. Like everyone else we've done a few days the tourists right or left, but the holiday does not satisfy us completely. We were not trying to make a concentrated full of exoticism for a change. Gradually the choice of cyclo-touring has become our little heads and we started thinking about this trip as an adventure on as nous souhaitions vivre. Le vélo en effet est parfait pour vagabonder, découvrir en prenant le temps d'observer et bien sûre pour aller à la rencontre des gens.
Discret et avançant à la force de ses muscles, le voyageur à deux roues n'impose pas sa présence d'emblée, mais s'insinue progressivement dans le paysage, en prenant la mesure de l'effort accomplit pour le contempler. C'est ainsi, pensons nous que le voyage parvient à griser nos neurones, aiguiser nos sens, à nous ouvrir aux autres...
La décision de partir fut aussi longue à prendre que nos préparatifs furent courts. Mais tout ce fourbis accumulé en un temps record permet de laisser une petite place à l'imprévu, who fail to pepper our debut ...!! Nothing is so graph: no time and even less space to go.
Charpentier and cartographer, to 29 months we let our work aside to rub shoulders with the great northern areas, before a permanent settlement that prevents us from achieving this escapade. But for that he had put some money aside anyway, and yes, it was necessary to provide a minimum! Here's basically what we chose, based on the budget and after going through numerous web sites of all kinds of travelers, magazines, adventure stories.
The book of Françoise and Claude Herve, recalling their 14 years of travel around the world by bike, was for us the starting point of our dream of cyclo travelers and a reference for many important details. You can find a link to their website below cons ...