One sees the world differently when biking

March 30th - Departure from home

Here we are. Pascal and I are setting off to cross the whole of Italy by bike, a bike trip like that we wanted to do for a long time. With the kids away for a while, and after some sad losses last year, we decided to fulfil one of our dreams and enjoy every moment before we’re too old or unable.

We've been planning this for quite some time - Pascal did most of it actually :-) New bikes, new equipment, even Pascal built the covers for the bikes (Anouk was contributing by doing the sewing!). Such covers are mandatory to take bikes on the train. Plan is to leave from Brindisi by bike on March 31st and go back home biking. We will be going down there today by Train Geneva-Milan-Brindisi with a night train. We will bike approximately 2300 KM until the Lac the Paladru near Chambéry in France, to attend a big Party by Cécile and Boud with many of our friends on the last days, early May. This will give us something to look for when we will be wondering why we are doing this.

We know how we leave today, we don't know How we will be at the end 🤪 let's see!

The journey is the destination.