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Bullay (E - F)🇫🇷 🇱🇺 🇩🇪

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Bullay   (E - F)🇫🇷 🇱🇺 🇩🇪 Distance today : 160 miles Total distance : 1525 miles An easy day today, passing thru Luxembourg on our way to Germany, motorways most of the time.  We could have punched it to the bike rally in Cologne, Germany but that would have ment arriving a day early and without our host, Rob who was coming over from Kent in the UK. Rob has been going to this rally for over 20 years or more and I think its not been very often he's invited anybody else. So, we needed a comfortable stop over on the way.  The little town of Bullay on the river Mosel is twinned with the little town of Alf directly opposite on the other side of the river. I'd been past Bullay some years ago and remember the distinctive bridge crossing the river, a Dopplestock-Brücke, double decker bridge. It was Germanys first bridge of it's sort, built in 1875, destroyed burning WWII as it was a major military supple route then rebuilt as you see it today. It...
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Villey le Sac (E - F) 🇫🇷

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Villey le Sac 🇫🇷 Today's mileage : 342 miles Total mileage : 1365 miles We need'ent have set our alarms for 6am....the weather did the job for us. Another storm, this time full blown. Paul thought I was already out of my tent and shining a torch on his tent. He had ear plugs in and hadn't heard the rain. It was only when the thunder exploded overhead that he realised it was lightening he could see on his tent not tourch light. For almost an hour we were confined to quarters, packing up what we could while the rain poured down outside. Just before 7am it eased off and we started to emerge.  Having to break camp in the rain at every stop I'd done on my way to the Alps, I just followed the same procedure; pack everything into the waterproof bags while in the tent, get my bike gear on, throw the bags out, pull the tent down, stuff it in the big seat bag, strap everything on, have a big drink of water, a couple of breakfast bars and get going. Find a bakers/cak...
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(E) Bourg-d'oisans 🇫🇷

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(E) Bourg D'Oisans 🇫🇷 Today's mileage : 76 miles. Total mileage : 953 miles. Updates : Friday 👍 ............... Saturday 👍 ............... Sunday.   👍 ............... Monday.  👍 ............... Tuesday.  👍 Friday  Leaving Chambéry was pretty straight forward but of course I had to complicate things. I needed oil for the bike. Having done almost 1000miles in the heat I knew she would have used some as vapour from the hot engine, getting fed back into the air box. All part of the emissions control system on the bike. There were a couple of bike dealers but they were buried in industrial estates and it took a while to get to them with the sat nav. When I finally had oil and tried to make my escape the road system, geared up for wagons and such like using the industrial estate, pushed me straight onto the motorway heading for Grenoble....not what I wanted to do. I wanted to go the scenic route today but it wasn't to be.  The journ...
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