Hot Days on the Riverside: From Flaach to Basel to Montbéliard
Elizabeth Sunday 28 June 2015: Flaasch to Basel My heart is thumping GOOD MORNING as I climb out of Flaach to the clamber and clang of church bells. It’s 9:45 am…
Travel
The Rhine Delta and Konstanz to Flaach- 26th & 27th June 2015 (Days 33 &34)
Friday 26 June 2015: The Rhine Delta to Konstanz The day is stunning and summery as I ride along the Rhine Delta toward Lake Constance (or the Bodensee as it’s…
The Rhine and Lake Constance … I’ve heard of those – 25 June (Day 32)
Aldi is called Hoffer in Austria and before leaving Bludenz I get an Austrian SIM card here for less that EUR 2. Sarah and Tobi had helped me research my…
Climbing to Austria (Days 26 – 29, 19 – 22 June 2015)
Friday 19 June In Meran I seem to have left behind the last of the immigrants – everyone has been white and mostly German-speaking since I left that city for…
Visiting the Missing – The Merano Jewish Museum & Synagogue (Day 25 – 18 June 2015)
Thursday 18 June My tourist map shows a Jewish Museum. One of my goals for this trip is to explore my Jewishness and look our European history more squarely in…
On the Divide: The Cities of Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol (Bolzano/Bozen & Merano/Meran)
Days 22 – 24 (15 – 17 June 2015) Monday 15 June – From Rovereto to Bolzano I wake to the sound of the nearby church bells striking seven and…
The Warm Embrace of Friendship Renewed – Firenze (Days 17 – 19; 10 – 12 June)
10 June 2015 – Wednesday It rains while I am on the train to Florence. A pelting rain slanting into the Tuscan landscape of green hills, fields of crops and…
Into the Mass Tourism Beast I Go – Cinque Terre and Pisa (Days 15 & 16 – 8 & 9 June)
Travelling solo, and not being inclined to wear obviously branded clothing, I think people are a little confused by me. It’s a thing I notice on the train to Cinque…
The Ligurian Coast – Hot, Hilly, Beautiful (Day 14 – 7 June)
Wednesday 10 June: I catch up, then I fall behind, I catch up, then I fall behind. I’m struggling to find the right balance of riding, seeing the places I’m…
Genoa: No expectations, thoroughly delighted (5th – 6th June, Days 11 – 12)
“The Most Serene Republic of Genoa ruled the Mediterranean waves during the 12th to the 13th centuries, before deferring to the superior power of Piedmont. Its crusading noblemen once established…