Martha takes an ice cold bath.

gulls in the snow

rockdove

Grumpel you beautiful bastard, why don’t you shit on my projector.

Martha looking for some extra padding even though they should be sitting in a nest somewhere already for a good week. Winter’s coming.

splish splash

Got this poor little pigeon at home, hopefully we’ll soon find a shelter that’ll take her in. Since i showed her some pigeon videos, the monitor is her favorite place to perch on.

hustle and bustle at the train station

trying out a new spot to sleep 🙄 don’t think this will work all night. I wish him and his brother would go find a sleeping spot other than my balcony.

Alfie looks rough. But good to see him again, missed this legend.

Sharing the last of my nut mix with some fellow creatures.

#ilovenice That’s what the sign says, can’t say I do. Looking forward to leave for home again. Sorry, les niçois!

The trip is coming to an end.

On the way to col de la porte from roquebillière.

This is Amma from the netherlands, sniffing flowers. She is 15 years old and has been blind for the last 3. She is currently on her last ever bicycle tour. She rides in a velolab gravel cargo bike, no motor, doing the route des grandes alpes. Incredible. The owner […] [Original post on drmpls.net]

love. bike. rock. On the way from sospel to col de turini.

leaving the beautiful roya valley via col de brouis towards sospel

Wow, wow, wow. What an amazing descend this was down the casterino valley to saint-dalmas-de-tende, and what a spectacular valley. Total highlight.

Riding up from col de tende to baisse de peirefique, the down via casterino.

Refilling water in Vernante, last stop in Italy before I head back over to france again.

Some crazy moonscapes from colle del preit to colle valcavera.

Black chicken at colle del preit. That climb beat my ass with some really mean grades.

Descending form the varaita maira ridge road here into the maira valley.

View from the varaita maira ridgeridge road.

at colle di sampeyre, looking towards agnel.

Focaccia break on the way to colle di sampeyre. Bought double the focaccia than i had planned to, because the slices were so big. Dinner for the day is save too then.

A benefit of creeping up passes all slow like me, you get the nice evening sun on the descend 😅 Saw a bunch of marmots and chamois, beautiful pass, col agnel, what a gorgeous descend into Italy. Pizza time.

oh yes, please.

Riding out oft guillestre towards Italy, along the gorges du guil

Descending from col des guérins. I stayed on the camp site up there, really only to crack my record for the cheapest camp site. 3 € + 66 cent taxe de sejour. Former record was 4 € in La Bastide, Pyrenees last year. I had dinner there in the Pizzeria and got […] [Original post on drmpls.net]

Riding up the route forestière de Chatillon le Désert to Col des Guérins. Actually last corner before the col really.

Riding down from Pommerol to have some breakfast in Rosans.

what a lovely place this area is

Plants on a rock in the diois

Siblings preening each other. But they now also started fighting over a sleeping spot in the evening, the checkered one loses the fight, guess it’s a day younger.

Flower pot chillers. But they are flying a lot now too.

folding bike race

two little loafs.

alfie the legend.