Unremarkable:)

Hi Steve and Dodie,
This year we are flying to Frankfurt and then we will be staying with our our German friends for a few days. Our bike is waiting for us with our friends.
We are riding from Koblenz south along the Rhine. We are very excited because this year we are going to attend the annual Spezi bike show in Germersheim, Every year in April thousands of velo fanatics get together to share their passion for bikes at the Spezi bike show. This is the world's largest bike show celebrating recumbents, trikes, folding bikes, tandems, velomobiles, cargo bikes, electric bikes and hand built human powered vehicles. We are looking forward to test riding a variety of bikes . We have never been in Germany this early to attend the Spezi ( special) bike show. After the show we are riding south to Strasbourg, Mulhouse,Besancon, Lyon, Arles,and on to Barcelona. We will take a ferry from Barcelona to Sardinia. After riding in Sardinia we will take a ferry to Livorno and ride through Northern Italy to Grado or Udine. From there we will ride the Alpe Adria route over the Alps to Salzburg and then back to our friend's farm near Limburg on the Lahn.
All of our journals from Crazy Guy have been transferred to Cycle Blaze. However, our most recent journal that was posted on Bicycle Life( Topic Wise) could not be transferred by Jeff . We have had to move the whole journal manually to Cycle Blaze. It has been a massive job.
We have been enjoying reading your most recent journal.
All the best,
Barry and Mary Ellen

Day by day progress record of Grampies Tour de France by piano44
https://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=ihxkfwxcoodlexyq

Does the TV work ?

Hi again Barry and Mary Ellen,

Can you refresh us on the trip planned to begin in two weeks?

Wet or not, what a great photo!

Yes, with this one Jeanette could sit beside you. It's called a "Sociable". But since it's a tadpole you could not fit a Rohloff.

Unfortunately Cycleblaze has no native mapping function. So I made the map in Google Maps (actually, My Maps), took a screen shot, and just imported it here as a picture. It means people can not zoom if they need context or detail. I could have given a link to My Maps, but that would mean a new window would open for viewing a map and people would then have to return here.

Ah, you're right. Still we have not run into any flooded paths. In Paris the Seine remains high as well.

You should not think that just because we have the sate and schnitzel, plus the black leather sofas, that there is no hardship in this trip. For example, it turns out that the large screen TV in the photo did not work!

Where are the tent ? the gas stove, the noddles, tap with the cold water, the showers ?

Nice trike !

Hi Steve,
I was wondering how you imported the map into your journal. We start our trip in two more weeks.
All the best,
Barry Bartlett

Maybe a good think you didn't see too much of it! The water looks really high.

Thanks Doug. Next stop is the medieval city of Maastricht!