About Us

In our normal lives Ed is a teacher and Helen is a geneticist. Last year, Helen finished her PhD, so we decided it was the best time to set off on a long dreamed of trip to China by bike. Ed reluctantly gave up a great job, but as he put it: "It's about time I went to see some of the places I teach about". In the end, we reached China and cycled over 15500 km. We are now back in the UK. Thank you to all the wonderful people who looked after us on our trip. We often felt humbled by the kindness of strangers.

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Austria 1

We are in Innsbruck and have found the internet!! It has been a while but here is a summary of Austria so far. We have also updated some of our other posts.

When we arrived in Bludenz, just across the border from Switzerland, we were quite suprised to find a monk and nun festival in full swing. They had come from all over central Europe to set up stalls selling "medicinal" spirits and to play rock music... so we stuck arround for the day!



The lure of the mountains was too great, so 1000m of ascent and 32 switchback turns later we arrived at the Silvretta pass. Sadly the weather was distinctly Scottish so we could not see anything!



The weather did clear for long enough to take this photo:



Determined to get a decent view, we camped for two nights and awoke on the second to a stunning temperature inversion and frost on our tent.



Needless to say the ride back down the other side was worth the wait!!!



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  1. Glendornie18 September 2009 at 07:18

    Wow!
    And you look so happy, Helen, on the fondue photo.
    This is better than David Attenburgh.
    MaD

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