Hello everyone! Hello to the half dozen of our old readers!, hello to you, fresh follower! These are Leon and Nelson writing to you. We’ve had a little blog affair running here a couple of years (de cuyo número no quiero acordarme) ago, starting with our bike trip from Paris to Rome and thereafter continuing […]
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Travels in pictures – part I
Popular demand (believe it or not!) made me do it: Over the course of the next few days I’m going to post the travel drawings and prints of the last few years. Today starts with my personal book of genesis, the ink drawings from 2016’s Paris – Rome tour. Next in the queue are the […]
Between Adventures & Routines
My normal life is like living on holidays. And everybody needs holidays from their normal lives. So, maybe sometimes I need holidays from my holidays? Or do I need normal holidays? Or a normal life? Or no holidays? No holidays from holidays or from life? Oh dear… Last bike trip gave me a lot of thought, […]
È fatto
For weeks have we been silent: No time to write in these hurried last days of the trip, no ideas what to write after having returned home. Yes, we are back: Nelson in Małopolska and I in Westfalen. This trip has been harder than the one we did from Münster to Kraków in 2015: Physically […]
Sono – ma no siamo – arrivato
N: 40km done so far, now I have some easy 30km, then 10–15km of shit and I’m in Arezzo. There I’ll have 100km of pure flatness so I’ll check how much time I have before sunset. Now I’m eating in a spagetteria, fabulous carbonara for 5€. How are you doing? L: Food is scarce, all […]
“Che cazzo guarda!?” – Cruising through Toscana
Last Monday was a very memorable day. What an absurdly long, mountainous, surprising, gruesome day, so exhausting that my quadriceps halved their length out of tension, my brakes boiled eggs out of heat, my water bottles expanded out of pleading for water, my sweat glands digi-evolved into fountains, and I’m going to stop with the […]
Ad break – Visit France! Visit Switzerland!
We’re awfully sorry for writing less and less; this affliction comes naturally with having just too much to cycle and to look at and too many people to talk to and drinks to down. You people keep asking us about precisely the spots we haven’t covered in detail, so here’s a quick recap of what we’ve […]
Ascent and Fuga
High atop Genova there is a grand statue of the virgin Mary, nigh as tall as the Christ of Świebodzin, looming over the faraway sea … nearly as high we had to climb to our Genovese couchsurfer, but, all of a sudden, without any effort: we are still suspicious whether it’s just been something we’ve […]
Les Invalides arrived to Turin
You will have to excuse us. The last week was kind of over-demanding. We cycled day and night, we ate quite the minimum, we slept in the floor, in the most marvellous grass that rendered every other grass un-tent-able, we crossed the Alps, we broke personal speed records, we got a Crash Course Italian Culture, […]
How to visit cities and alienate hosts
Travel styles differ so vastly. I remember well how I went to Lisboa for the first time: Several people, including but not limited to two different couchsurfing hosts, told me right away that the six days I had planned to stay were way too much. I’d get bored, the city would be too small, even […]