Travel

bika
bika
Aug 28, 2017 · 2 min read

In this part of the hemisphere summer is coming to an end. While preparing to bike to work, here’s a resume of my cycling holidays.

Cycling for girls isn’t as quite the same as for boys, as everything else in life. Travelling on bike forces everybody to identify priorities in everyday needs. Big exercise. What I cannot live without, what I do not want to leave behind, pajamas as a treat. Pack up your life and go.

In France there’s this beautiful river, the Loire, where Renaissance and Baroque castles seem to have grown up as mushrooms.

This trip has been a “girly” one: romantic, dreamy and easy-going.

Isn’t it the sweetest place?
We biked hard from Paris following the Eurovelo 3.

Biking out of Paris by the Seine, into evergreen woods, romantic little towns, until the Loing Channel has been fantastic, especially for the sunny days we were blessed with.

Croissant fueled!
Shadow selfie it’s a classic.

From Loing Channel to the Loire it’s all bike lanes, sweet hills and romantic landscapes. It also rains heavily but that’s a nuance when you get to cycle all day around.

Dedicated semaphore
The Loire
Chenonceau
Azay le Rideau

When I come home from a cycling trip I’m usually extremely tired, the experience pours gently in my mind during the coming months, when like dropping honey comes back to ordinary life as flashes of pleasure.

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on the many ways cycling changes life

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