Interesting how, in SW Switzerland, there are French speaking towns and German speaking towns very close together. For the most part, they don't seem to be bilingual. In general the Swiss have been pleasant and of good humour, especially noticeable after the, more often than not, serious and grumpy Germans. We now left Yverdon-les-Bains and headed south to Lausanne (pronounced, for some reason, by Jackie as Lucerne). This is on the centre of the north coast of ...

The Rhine has swung right/west into France. We put in a big day. Starting at 0810hrs, we pedalled hard and made it to Strasbourg by late afternoon. 110 miles. I had hoped that we might have got to Basel by Monday for the England qualifier. But it was a bridge too far. Would've finished us off. She wasn't keen either. The route was very scenic. There was not a breath of wind in the morning. And a light headwind on the afternoon. For much of the day we tracked ...