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France On Two Wheels

by Adam Ruck

France On Two Wheels

CONTENTS

  • Home
  • Introduction
  • Route 1
    Lake Geneva to Caen
    • Dinner with Marc Meneau
    • Guédelon
  • Route 2
    Massif Central (Loire 1)
    • The serial killer hoteliers
    • Troisgros
    • His finest hour
  • Route 3
    La Bastide to Arcachon
    • Roquefort
    • Yquem
  • Route 4
    Biarritz to La Charité-sur-Loire
    • A pelota champion
    • Aymeric Picaud – the pilgrim’s guide
  • Route 5
    Moulins to St-Brévin (Loire 2)
    • Hornblower on the Loire
    • Turner’s Loire
  • Route 6
    Paris to Avignon
    • The recipe road
    • Wine tasting in Tain L’Hermitage
  • Alsace Tour
  • Corsica
  • Brittany Tour
  • Ridgeway Rides
  • Travel Notes, Updates, Feedback
  • Hotel Archive
  • Contact Adam
  • Adam’s Blog
    • All Blog Posts
    • Skiing Posts

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The only way is ethics

Posted on September 6, 2013 by adamruck

Waiting for the article to appear is a difficult time, especially when you have gone to bed with a publication for the first time, as was the case with me and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine. After the coupling, polite … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, writing and editing | Tagged Adam Ruck, Alsace, auberge de l'ill, cycling, France, storks

To Italy by bike mostly with Eric Newby

Posted on August 29, 2013 by adamruck

Made my annual visit to the Dyfi Valley Bookshop in Machynlleth in case any of the 100-odd novels written by my great aunt Berta have fetched up there in the last 12 months; or (less likely, since he is much … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, French hotels, Uncategorized, writing and editing | Tagged Adam Ruck, cycling, Eric Newby, France

La Croix-Fry: honeymoon sweet

Posted on July 19, 2013 by adamruck

  Any minute now, the Tour de France cyclists will be toiling over the Col de la Croix-Fry and passing the world’s most stereotypically delightful Alpine chalet-hotel, in the post-card prettiest part of Haute Savoie.  Ugly ski resort development lies … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, French hotels, Skiing, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ruck, Croix Fry, french hotels

Alpe d’Huez: la montée mythique

Posted on July 18, 2013 by adamruck

So … just a short stage today for our cyclist heroes: a mere 168km to Alpe d’Huez finishing with 30km of ascent in two bits, totalling 2500 vertical metres of uphill at an average gradient of about 8% with 42 … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, Skiing, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ruck, Alpe d'Huez, cycling, France, Tour de France

Embrun Solaire

Posted on July 17, 2013 by adamruck

@rosiesimpson writes rather a brilliant blog in the form – for the moment at least – of a wine guide to the Tour de France.  I haven’t read enough of it to know how she handled the time trial at … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, Skiing | Tagged Adam Ruck, cycling, Embrun, France, Les Orres, Skiing, Tour de France

Crocophile years

Posted on July 17, 2013 by adamruck

As any fule kno, our world divides into two kinds of people: crocophiles and crocophobes.  It is not a division down the middle, because the angry mass of phobes vastly outnumbers the oppressed minority of philes.  Croc Monsieur I once … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ruck, crocs, cycling, France

Watching the Tour de France, or not

Posted on July 5, 2013 by adamruck

“A big picnic, with a cycling race attached,” is how Nadia of @foothillsfrance describes the Tour de France, from the spectator’s point of view.  In July 2011 we met up with the Tour on our way back from cycling down … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France | Tagged Adam Ruck, cycling, France, Tour de France

Ferayola – a victory for the thin red line

Posted on June 13, 2013 by adamruck

  Auberge Ferayola, Argentella, Corsica 00 33 4 95652525 www.ferayola.com I’ve moved this post to the hotel archive  page   … Continue reading →

Posted in Corsica, cycling holidays, France, French hotels, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ruck, Corse, Corsica, cycling holidays, Ferayola, Michelin, Tour de France, velo

Notre Dame des Cyclistes

Posted on February 23, 2013 by adamruck

On the day of the mother of battles at Twickenham, a delightful contribution to Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent about Notre Dame du Rugby, a romanesque chapel in France’s south-western rugby heartland, near Grenade sur L’Adour.  “We pray for … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ruck, cycling, France, Notre Dame des Cyclistes, Notre Dame du Rugby

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