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Pictured here: the Ludwig XV breakfast on the lovely terrace at Schlosscafe Lorettoberg (everything big in Germany is named after a prince or an emperor). Not pictured: pistachio ice cream, long walks on the Dreisam, beers at Forest Restaurant St Ottilien, and a generally awesome couple of days hanging out with my friends Jennifer &Continue reading “Freiburg”

On our last day of riding we covered nearly as many miles as the previous one (about 40), but the riding was much easier due to the mostly flat coastal profile and the blessed lack of headwind. Mont Saint-Michel accompanied us for much of the day, growing more distant until we finally lost him aroundContinue reading “Normandy Bike Tour: Fin”

This was the longest and hardest day of the tour but also in many ways the best, riding-wise. As usual on our way out of Granville, we were on a bit busier roads for a while (though I must say the vast majority of drivers we encountered on this tour were very respectful, and IContinue reading “Normandy Bike Tour: Part 6”

We ended up with a beautiful room at Hôtel du Manoir Cunningham, a cross-timbered 17th-century mansion converted into an inn, so we were determined to make the most of our morning there. We biked into Saint Servann (originally another town, now glommed onto Saint-Malo) for croissants and coffee and brought them back to eat onContinue reading “Normandy Bike Tour: Part 5”

This was our final day on Guernsey, transitioning back to (where else?) Saint-Malo. Although clouds threatened in the morning, the weather continued to hold for us. We started the day out a bit cheekily with tea and Hob Nobs on a little rock point on the north shore of the island you can’t reach atContinue reading “Normandy Bike Tour, Part 4”

I guess I’m doing this day-by-day: that wasn’t really my plan…but once I got into writing these posts, I realized we did more than I thought, and I don’t like writing realllllllly long travel posts. So, day 3, ahem…. We started with a nice Full English breakfast at Longfrie and then embarked on our planContinue reading “Normandy Bike Tour, Part 3”

Before we caught the ferry from Saint-Malo to Guernsey, we absolutely had to get kouign-amann, so we trecked back to the intra-muros and stopped at a cute boulangerie we had seen the night before. To be honest, I was kind of let down by the kouign-amann I ate in Brittany. I think I just didn’tContinue reading “Normandy Bike Tour, Part 2”