Since 2019, for a variety of global and personal reasons, our touring has been limited to a few (very) short local tours and one short copy-cat tour in Austria.  However we have followed many other Cycle Blazers over this time as they've toured through amazing parts of the world. For us this was a mixture of vicarious pleasure and envy.

Now our time has come. Tomorrow we jet off to Paris where will spend a few days acclimatizing, having a CBMU (you’ll have to figure out that acronym for yourself) and probably visiting more than a few pâtisseries, before we start cycling south at Annecy.

Our planned route is shown below (and a shout out to Keith Spangler for explaining to me how to make one of these multi-leg Event Maps).  As with all plans though, this one has already met its first revision. Despite the excellent advice we got from Susan Carpenter regarding getting trains out of Paris, with bikes,  to points beyond ... in our case Geneva, we were unable to book both ourselves and our bikes  to Geneva on the 21st of April. We could get to Lyon and then on to Annecy however, so that's what we're doing. Our 'Original Plan' Day 1 Geneva to Annecy ride is now on the cutting room floor.

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