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Switzerland 7: Hospental to Chur

Posted on 26 June 202413 July 2024 by Rob Ainsley

After a day off yesterday, today’s challenge was the enjoyable ascent of Oberalppass, one of the few alpine cols to sport a lighthouse. Yes, it’s 230 miles from the nearest sea, at Genoa, but as you know the Swiss are very keen on safety. It was another lovely sunny day, with memories of earlier torrential…

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Switzerland 5: Interlaken to Hospental

Posted on 24 June 202413 July 2024 by Rob Ainsley

Q: What name is given to a cyclable road that crosses a mountain saddle at high altitude? A: Pass! Yes, today it was down to real business: two of the four big passes between us and the End of the End to End, namely Grimselpass and Furkapass. After those will come Oberalppass and Albulapass, but…

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(Switzerland 4: Interlaken–Grosse Scheidegg–Interlaken)

Posted on 23 June 20249 July 2024 by Rob Ainsley

No progress on our End to End today, by design: we’re staying in Interlaken again tonight and did the Grosse Scheidegg loop, one of Switzerland’s best day rides. Central to its appeal is the middle eight miles over the 1960m / 6,440ft col between Schwarzhorn and Wetterhorn, which is car-, but not postbus- or horn-,…

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Switzerland 3: Fribourg to Interlaken

Posted on 22 June 20248 July 2024 by Rob Ainsley

A day short on miles (51), modest on elevation (3,600ft), but long on precipitation (6.5 cats and 4.3 dogs). Yes: rain had been forecast for the whole day, and for once the forecast was spot-on. Still, we at least kept positive, if not at all dry. My Ortlieb panniers, like me, are old, battered and…

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Switzerland 2: Lausanne to Fribourg

Posted on 21 June 20247 July 2024 by Rob Ainsley

UEFA, WTO, IOC: this French, western part of Switzerland is home to the HQs of various globally important abbreviations. Something, no doubt, to do with its stability, neutrality, and ability to satisfy expense accounts. Yesterday we passed the Union of European Football Associations, sporting a giant football alerting us to the current Euros, and the…

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Switzerland 1: (Chancy to) Geneva to Lausanne

Posted on 20 June 20247 July 2024 by Rob Ainsley

We’re cycling across Switzerland, land of milk and money, from west to east. That is, from the French border, at the splendidly-named Chancy near Geneva, across its mountainscapes right across to where it meets Austria at Martina. We’ll have the chancy to use our French, German, Italian and Romansh, and to spend ten days and…

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Denmark 6: Aalborg to Skagen

Posted on 27 May 20244 June 2024 by Rob Ainsley

The last day, all the way from the Fourth City, or perhaps the Forth City, up to the farthest-flung strand, literally, of Denmark. But quite not all the way for me. Like a surgeon in a faulty lift, my left ankle was not operating at the right level. So I thought it best to leave…

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Denmark 5: Sevel to Aalborg

Posted on 26 May 202430 May 2024 by Rob Ainsley

The longest day of the trip for Nigel, at 80 miles; the shortest day of the trip for me, as cycling any non-trivial distance on my damaged ankle was out of the question. I was pretty down about it all, though at least sitting on the train from Vinderup to Aalborg, I could stay dry…

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Denmark 4: Aarhus to Sevel

Posted on 25 May 202430 May 2024 by Rob Ainsley

It had to happen eventually: an injury on an End to End. Twenty-odd miles out of Aarhus I realised that my sore ankle tendon was getting worse. So bad that I decided to get the train for the remainder of today’s route: there was no way I’d make another fifty miles without further damage. My…

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Denmark 3: Kolding to Aarhus

Posted on 24 May 202430 May 2024 by Rob Ainsley

A long, sunny day of gently rolling green farmland that took us to the very highest point in Denmark: the lofty summit of Møllehøj, at over 1700m, or 5,577ft. Oh, sorry, I mean 170m, or 557ft. Yes, that’s as far up as the country gets. In fact, not counting comedy micronations such as the Vatican,…

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