An Irish Interval in My Midlife Gap Year – Part 2: 8 – 12 October 2015
Elizabeth Thursday 8 October I’m enjoying another quiet day in the Irish countryside. I’m writing emails to friends I might visit in the States, while chatting and hanging out with my…
An Irish Interval in My Midlife Gap Year – Part 1: 3 – 7 October 2015
It’s my 132nd travelling day and I awake in Dublin. Saturday 3 October 2015 Dublin is overcast and cool this morning. I wake at 8 am and have breakfast. When…
BERLIN! And a flight to Ireland (30 September to 2 October 2015)
We rejoin our story on day 129 of my mid-life gap year. Wednesday 30 September 2015 I wake in Berlin to diffuse autumn sunshine and breakfast in the sparse kitchen…
From Zurich to Mainz and Berlin (27 – 29 September 2015)
Sunday 27 September 2015 I feel less than certain about everything. I feel like I am in a miasma in the middle of my mid-life gap year. I’m worrying that…
Riding in Switzerland: From Brugg to Zurich for my day near Christoph
We re-join our story on the morning of my 123rd day on the road. I am in Brugg, Switzerland and poised to ride to Zurich in time for the Zurich…
Riding in Germany & Switzerland: Cruising towards Zurich Wrapped in Anxiety
Monday 21 September 2015: Bad Bellingen to Bad Säckingen At the beginning of my ride, back in June, there were farmers selling cherries and strawberries, they were rolling hay in…
Riding in Germany: Cruising along the Rhine from Strasbourg to Bad Bellingen
I awake on day 117 of my mid-life gap-year in a hotel room in Strasbourg, France and keen to get to Germany. Friday 18 September 2015, Strasbourg to Ottenheim Admittedly,…
Ticket in Hand I’m off to Zurich for a Crazy Perfect Beautiful Finish to My European Bicycle Ride (17 September 2015)
Something I posted on my other blog explaining why I’m now headed to Zurich (and Ireland again) and why that’s really just perfect. Ticket in Hand I’m off to Zurich…
Riding in France: Reims to Châlons-en-Champagne and a train to Strasbourg
We arrive on the 114th morning of my mid-life gap-year as I awake at Hotel de la Cathedrale in Reims, France. Tuesday 15 September 2015 I wake to an overcast…
Riding in France: Two days of problem-solving in Reims
We arrive on the 112th morning of my mid-life gap-year as I awake at Hotel de la Cathedrale in Reims, France. Sunday 13 September 2015, Reims The past few days…