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Re: Alps are still so beautiful !
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2017, 16:39:21 »
I was there too this summer :)

It is not too bad...

Still waiting for your report ...  ;D
Well, I have been there several times since that posting... but lazy to take photos and report without photos is like house without balcony...
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Re: Alps are still so beautiful !
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2017, 23:34:38 »
Aarch!!! Your pics made my skin itch every where, Gilles!
Soo badly I want to revisit (especially) the French Alps. They are simply great.

Well... the Pyrenees will do for next year @ VIM20...  ;D


There is always the opportunity to detour on the way down or back or both  ;D
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Re: Alps are still so beautiful !
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2017, 23:59:09 »

There is always the opportunity to detour on the way down or back or both  ;D

So you've planned to come back to Europe, David  VCIF_ThumbUp , seems you've said VIM19 was the last ....
 ;D Great idea ! IMO Alps are greater !  VCIF_salut
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Re: Alps are still so beautiful !
« Reply #18 on: July 18, 2017, 01:14:13 »

There is always the opportunity to detour on the way down or back or both  ;D

So you've planned to come back to Europe, David  VCIF_ThumbUp , seems you've said VIM19 was the last ....
 ;D Great idea ! IMO Alps are greater !  VCIF_salut

No not me next year, I was merely pointing out to Bernard his options, not that I needed to...

I'm not back for at least three years, I have other trips planned. It is back to the UK next year with my wife for her cousin's wedding - that will be a car trip around the England and Scotland plus some time in Ireland, then north America (USA, Canada and Alaska) in 2019 on a bike for about then weeks. After that I have not planned.  But, I may yet take you up on the offer of riding through the Alps at some point in the future. I loved the little bit I did and I'd like to spend a lot more time doing those passes.
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Re: Alps are still so beautiful !
« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2017, 15:00:15 »

There is always the opportunity to detour on the way down or back or both  ;D

So you've planned to come back to Europe, David  VCIF_ThumbUp , seems you've said VIM19 was the last ....
 ;D Great idea ! IMO Alps are greater !  VCIF_salut

No not me next year, I was merely pointing out to Bernard his options, not that I needed to...

I'm not back for at least three years, I have other trips planned. It is back to the UK next year with my wife for her cousin's wedding - that will be a car trip around the England and Scotland plus some time in Ireland, then north America (USA, Canada and Alaska) in 2019 on a bike for about then weeks. After that I have not planned.  But, I may yet take you up on the offer of riding through the Alps at some point in the future. I loved the little bit I did and I'd like to spend a lot more time doing those passes.
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Re: Alps are still so beautiful !
« Reply #20 on: July 24, 2017, 09:38:41 »
You'l Be Back, David!  8) ;D
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Re: Alps are still so beautiful !
« Reply #21 on: July 24, 2017, 23:53:40 »
You'l Be Back, David!  8) ;D


Yes more than likely, I can't get the images of the Alps out of my head from the tiny bit that I rode (nor do I want to). So my planning and scheming mind is at work trying to figure out a means to make it happen. When I do come back it will be to ride those mountain roads in Europe, I've had enough of flat Europe  ;D
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