Approaching
the Alps!

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483km
3980m
17km/h
10236km
Biking through the Alsace and finally getting into Switzerland. It's getting more enjoyable again, great landscapes and vineyards in the Alsace, some roads along the Rhine that I took already earlier and then approaching the Alps. It's always a view when you get a glimpse of them the first time, always makes me excited. And the beauty is surreal, Lucerne and the Vierwaldstätter See were absolutely stunning. Similarly the ascends that are slowly starting. Nothing too big yet, but they definitely make biking more exciting!
Where the 483 kilometers took me
Fri, 18. Aug 2023
63km
440m
18km/h
9816km
Eurovelo 5 - Vallée des Éclusiers in the Alsace

We’re getting there. Very tired of going along the canal, I branched out and took a different route. Day started very foggy, but with great views. And then came a super nice oute along rocks and little houses. Well canal houses, but that route was great! Btw, I hardly talk about the very details of the route and villages I’m passing. Simply because it’s so much, but will take some time to share more once I’m back.

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Sat, 19. Aug 2023
98km
630m
18km/h
9914km
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Vineyards, great views and sweet little villages. Biking through the Alsace. Definitely an area that I would like to visit again. Original plan was to get to Strasbourg, but decided for a more direct route to Colmar, eager to get to the Alps and from experience, I don’t enjoy biking bigger cities too much.

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Sun, 20. Aug 2023
95km
460m
19km/h
10009km
Eurovelo 5 - swans on the Rhine

The only stretch I did twice. Mulhouse towards the Rhine. It’s always amazing to see how the animals grow up. Saw all these baby swans along the way and now they’re already pretty big. On the evening on the campsite was a MINI gathering. With caravans that were in the according size. It’s such a shame that the cars nowadays get bigger and bigger.

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Mon, 21. Aug 2023
73km
760m
17km/h
10082km
EuroVelo 5 - The Rhine close to Basel

I’m in Switzerland! Started with a nice flat ride on the Rhine, continued to Basel and then entered the Jura with a first mountainous area. Basel. Amazing to see people swimming or floating in the river with their dry bags. Would have loved to do that! And then the whole day the question. Is it mountains or clouds. Both, but first glimpses of glaciers.

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Tue, 22. Aug 2023
90km
500m
18km/h
10172km
Eurovelo 5 - bike path along the Lake Lucerne

Absolutely beautiful day. Big mountains in sight, beautiful lake and Lucerne with an absolutely stunning cityscape. People are again swimming in the river. Biking in these semi tunnels and a breathtaking sunset. Switzerland is so expensive, but I’m ignoring this, within reason, as it’s so beautiful as well.

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Wed, 23. Aug 2023
37km
280m
17km/h
10209km
EuroVelo 5 - My Surly Disc Trucker on the Lake Lucerne

Lazy day, unplanned. But look at these landscapes! The Vierwaldstätter See is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen! Lazy, because I had to take a boat first and then a train. There were big signs that it was not advised to take the road to Sisikon by bike. I followed the advice. Along the way I met a very charming women in the woods from Fribourg. In her eighties. We talked for at least 15 minutes waiting for her friend.

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Thu, 24. Aug 2023
27km
910m
11km/h
10236km
Dramatic bike path near Fluelen

This one was a great one! From Sisikon to Urigen on the Klausenpass. Quite steep, but a lot of fun, and very beautiful. I split the Klausenpass on purpose, and was glad about it. Not late after I arrived at my hotel a big thunderstorm started. And I love passes, while exhausting, they’re almost a bit like meditation. More images the coming days.

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Mood: happy :)
Hibernating