Like most French, we planned to make use of the Ascension weekend, end of May, to take a Road & Bike trip. The religious holiday always falls on a Thursday. We wanted to “Faire Le Pont” or “Build the Bridge” as what a French would say. That is, to extend the holiday by taking the …
30 July 2017. Despite the forecast of hitting low 30s°C, and the cloudless blue sky at 11 in the morning, we decided to take my new mountain bike (3rd bike in 12 months) in Romania out for a spin. It’s a 14kg BTWIN 340 mountain bike that we bought yesterday, to replace the child-size DHS …