This will possibly be the last post in this blog. Everyone is now back in Geneva, except for Fred who's driving the car back. We had a great trip, and the rain and cold of the first few days have already been forgotten. We covered a distance of 1790 kilometres, for an elevation gain of 18,858 metres. In other words, we climbed more than twice Mt. Everest in twelve days!Porto is a beautiful city, even though we didn't get the chance to visit it as thoroughly as we would have liked. Partying and the need for sleep curtailed the acts of tourism, although we did manage a 50 minute bus trip to see the bridges of Porto. People might find those pictures more interesting than the backs of the other cyclists!
When I get Vincent (check out the size of his left knee!) and Marc's pictures, I'll add them to the existing albums. I'll also get the geo-tagging sorted out. I should probably create a compilation web album by removing the rubbish pictures and adding some captions; we'll see whether I find the time...
My heartfelt thanks to coach Marc and my fellow cyclists for a memorable trip, and also to all our friends for their messages of support and encouragement throughout! Thanks also to Damien for the loan of the suitcase used to transport my bike safely back to Geneva!
Cheerio for now!
-John
P.S. if you haven't already figured it out, if you click on the "view details" link at the bottom of each of the (slightly truncated) Garmin maps, you'll get to the Garmin site where you can use the player tab. You can also, thanks to Google, switch to satellite view and drill down to see details of the regions that we passed through.
