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Derelict buildings in Bordeaux
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Bordeaux
dst. (㎞) Today 0.0 Trip total ?? Odometer 1870.7 Hangover time, last night there were far too many Newkie Browns with Debra and Nick (Irish barmaid and Welsh traveller) at Dick Turpin’s — an English theme pub. Debra kept trying to embarrass guys by flirting with all the guys in the pub and making jokes about her exceptionally large bust. I’d met Nick and another Welsh guy a few days ago in Nantes, but didn’t recognize them at first.
Daytrip from Bordeaux to Arcachon
dst. (㎞) Today 0.0 Trip total ?? Odometer 1870.7 The English guys managed to flood our room three times this morning by overflowing the shower! Somehow the sign telling people not to turn the shower up too high just wasn’t getting through. They were going to the beach for the day and invited me to go with them. When I got to the station it all started to look too hard, the trains too infrequent, so I changed my mind and sat down to have a coffee.
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Looking out the cellar door at a Bordeaux winery
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Adrian tasting the wine at a Bordeaux winery
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Barrels in a Bordeaux winery cellar
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Le Monument des Girondes in the centre of Bordeaux
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The big fountain in the centre of Bordeaux
2001-06-08 … 2001-06-28 — South-west UK, Jersey Zoo, St Malo to Bordeaux, France
Scanned from APS film roll 711-119; to — 2nd of 5 rolls of film on my cycle trip around the southwest of the UK, Jersey, south through France then across to the Alps.
Bordeaux
dst. (㎞) Today 0.0 Trip total ?? Odometer 1870.7 I’m not sure if I’m getting better or not! There’s less phlegm, but more cough, maybe all that beer and wine and the smoky bar last night was the correct way to treat bronchitis!
I got in earlier today and paid my 160FF to take my chances on the winery tour. It turned out to be more of a chateau drive-by bus trip, with two winery visits thrown in.
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The big fountain in the centre of Bordeaux
Bordeaux
dst. (㎞) Today 0.0 Trip total ?? Odometer 1870.7 Bronchitis hit me hard this morning, coughing and wheezing and spitting for an hour or more when I woke up. I was feeling sorry for myself and equally sorry for the others sharing the room.
Spent much of the day being a tourist and walking around, by lunch time I wasn’t sure whether my aching legs were from cycling, walking, or just from being sick.
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Ruins in the fields between Saintes and Bordeaux
Saintes to Bordeaux
dst. (㎞) Today 151.09 Trip total ?? Odometer 1870.7 Good news or bad news first? The good news is that sometime during the night it finally cooled down and now is slightly overcast and around 20°C. Perfect weather for cycling. The bad news is that my cold is now much worse, probably bronchitis judging by the coughing and spitting!
Fantastic weather to ride in, cool and a light mist, so little that nothing stayed damp, just enough to keep me cool.
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Resting in a park in Saintes
La Rochelle to Saintes
dst. (㎞) Today 95.41 Trip total ?? Odometer 1719.6 I’d left La Rochelle with a vague idea of riding to Bordeaux today, optimistically managing to mis-read the map. At lunchtime as I neared Rochefort I saw that it was another 160 ㎞! Decided to make for Saintes instead, and only just made it there, during the afternoon the temperature just kept on climbing, around 35 °C I guess.
I found a bike track this morning that ran from La Rochelle to Rochefort, but as with bike tracks everywhere it didn’t seem to have enough signs and I managed to lose it a couple of times.
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Failed attempt at night photograph of Roman ruins in Saintes
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Statue of horse and rider (with beer bottle) in La Rochelle
La Rochelle
dst. (㎞) Today 0.0 Trip total 1455.0 It was nice to wake up and not have to pack up and move. Michael and I walked around for an essential visit to the laundromat, then spent the morning sitting on the beach watching the girls go by.
The beach and the bay looked fantastic, but as the tide went out we saw that the sand ended at the waters edge, and it was all mud and rocks from there out!
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Yachts in the “round the world” race in La Rochelle harbour
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La Rochelle harbour
Nantes to La Rochelle
dst. (㎞) Today 167.7 Trip total ?? Odometer 1622.7 My cold is growing, I’ve been sneezing all day, and my nose is running constantly.
Stinking hot again inland, later in the afternoon it cooled as I got the sea breeze, but there were then 30 ㎞ of head-winds across “Les Marais” which I think translates as “the swamp.” A flat, smelly, and very uninspiring ride!
It took me almost an hour and a half to get out of Nantes, I kept having to avoid motorways and zig-zag about, never seeming to make any headway.
Rennes to Nantes
dst. (㎞) Today 143.9 Trip total ?? Odometer 1455.0 I’ve had a sore throat all day, I think I’m getting a cold.
Rennes was nearly impossible to get out of on the bike, I ended up heading south on the main highway for a few kilometres before being able to escape onto the side roads.
Where? Rennes, N137-E3 to Chartres-de-Bretagne, Noyal-Chatillon-sur-Seiche, St Erolon, Bourgbarré, Chanteloup, le Sel-e-Bretagne, la Bosse-de-Bretagne, Teillay, la Thébaudais, Rouge, Châteaubriant, Issé, la Robertière, Nort-s-Erdre, D 26 to Sucé-sur-Erdre, Nantes.
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Mont St Michel
St. Malo to Rennes
dst. (㎞) Today 141.9 Trip total ?? Odometer 1311.1 A long day, but in some ways it didn’t really feel like it.
After getting out of bed and queueing for breakfast with hundreds of French school girls all on a school holiday trip, I headed out at 10 am along the minor coast road in the direction of Mont St. Michel. I hadn’t realised how far it was, so it was 64 ㎞ and 1 pm by the time that I got there, very hungry and hot.
Jersey to St. Malo
dst. (㎞) Today 48.11 Trip total ?? Odometer 1169.2 Young Sammie’s first birthday if I remember correctly…
I bummed around all day in the sun, riding out to le Corbienne lighthouse in the south-west. Once there I found a broken spoke, on the cluster side of course. Probably as a result of over-changing and dropping the derailleur into the spokes.
Rode back to St Helier and tried all three bike shops, all were too busy to change it.
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Sunset over the English channel from St Helier
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Sunset over the English channel from St Helier
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My lily-white feet on a Jersey beach
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Norky bike and I on a beach in Jersey
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Lemurs in Jersey zoo
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Flamingos in Jersey zoo
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Orang Utan in Jersey zoo
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Jersey zoo orang-utan enclosure
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Jersey zoo volunteer feeding the lemurs
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Zoo volunteer pointing out the lemurs
St Helier
dst. (㎞) Today 42.03 Trip total ?? Odometer 1119.5 I woke up this morning and couldn’t work out whether the clocks were right or not; I had no idea whether Jersey was in the same time zone as the UK or not!
I left the panniers in the B&B for the day and headed out on the bike. Riding into town after breakfast I was wobbling all over the place, its amazing how different the bike feels without the panniers on it, and how quickly you become accustomed to them.
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The white cliffs as we leave from Poole
Swanage to Jersey
dst. (㎞) Today 29.20 Trip total ?? Odometer 1077.1 Six weeks until I see Jo, and I’ve got a broken tooth. Feeling just a little depressed today, the grey English weather isn’t helping. On re-checking the calendar I found that it’s seven weeks, not six.
A lazy day, I rode the 12 ㎞ or so through Studland and the coastal park to the ferry then paid my 80p to cross to Poole.
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The ruins of Corfe castle
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WWII parade in Weymouth
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Lighthouse on the Isle of Portland
About
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…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
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