It depends who you talk to but on the return to the boat this evening we had reports that the temperature in Mannheim reached 39c or 40c. What we can attest to is that it was like biking into a furnace.  Mannheim reported the hottest temperature today in all of Germany. Unpleasant riding conditions are … More July 2 Mannheim to Heidelberg Return

Only a 27k bike ride today from Speyer to Mannheim. Very minimal elevation especially as we are going down stream. Today, Jen was able to join us on the bike ride. We thought we would see how she faired as we didn’t want all the abrasions on her leg to re-open. She has been a … More July 1 Canada 🇨🇦 Day – Speyer to Mannheim

27k bike ride today in 34c heat so we were not looking forward to that. It ended up with Al, Fraser and Di only riding today as Jen fell off her bike 50 meters before the end of our bike ride yesterday taking a healthy chunk of skin off her left leg plus parts of … More June 30 Germersheim to Speyer

Today was our first official biking day though it was only 17k which was a gentle ease into it. What was not so gentle was the weather. We have got caught up in Europe’s heatwave and today we experienced a high of 33c which was just slightly ugly weather. There was one lucky break in … More June 29 Strasbourg to Germersheim

Celebration day for us today – it is 22 years since we moved to Canada and we are celebrating it in Europe, as you do. Today was about catching up with washing etc and making sure that we have all of our Bessarabia item to get us through this bike ride comfortably. Being creatures of … More June 28 Strasbourg to MS Olympia

Today was about enjoying Strasbourg and the sites it has to offer. It is so very easy to be a photographer here as every which way you turn, is a photo just wanting to be taken. We started with a very leisurely breakfast after struggling to make a decision as to which café to eat … More 27 June – Strasbourg

It has been a long time in coming but we finally have half of the Motley Crew together in Calgary who left this morning towards our destination of Strasbourg where we should rendezvous with the other half of the team…..hopefully!! Fras and Di are making their way to Montreal and then to Paris where they … More June 25 and June 26 Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦 to Strasbourg, France 🇫🇷

All good intentions were that we would blog on a weekly basis whilst we were in Phoenix but things just seemed to get away from us. Hence, we will just do a quick summary of our time whilst there. Our accommodation this time was great thanks to Linda and Gabby who we rented off. They … More Homewood Bound – Phoenix to Calgary – 1st April

Well, we have accomplished our first ten days at Venture Out. It has taken us a week to settle in as there are a lot of “life administration” tasks to be carried out as being in a +55 park which is full of old people, there is a sh%#t load of registration forms to complete. … More Venture Out, Disneyland for Retirees – 12th December

We made it, finally. Seventeen (17) days in total. We crossed from New Mexico to Arizona at 11.00am and had plain sailing all the way. Phoenix is a huge city with seven land freeways and crazy speeds. We are going to do our utmost to not drive on the I60 which is a racetrack. So … More Lordsburg, New Mexico to Disneyland for Retirees, Mesa, Arizona – 2nd December