Yeah, yeah, I know I’ve been doing a terrible job at offering up some birds for this month’s challenge.  It’s not like I don’t have a few stored up, but I’m just getting behind.  It’s not so easy being a vagabond cyclist, don’t you know?  Eat, bike, blog, eat, sleep, repeat.  It all takes time, … Continue reading "A meet-up in Burgundy"

Finally we’re done with graffiti and ready to move on to the May challenge.  I’m sure Greg thought I’d never get with the program and will be forgiving, not noticing that this great white bird shot was taken on the last day in April, not May, on our ride to Chambéry.

After all this time I’m still terrible with the French language.  I’m still struggling with the basics, like simple pronunciation.  So I thought Claix was pronounced to rhyme with checks, and was pleased with the cleverness of my rhyming title for this post, something Greg would undoubtedly be proud of me for. But no, Claix … Continue reading "Claix collects graffiti too"

What a promising title for a pop song!  I did the hard part; now all we need is a composer/lyricist team. This is two days late for the April wall art/graffiti challenge, but under the extenuating circumstances (namely, the lack of a functioning website) I’m confident that our current Challenge Czar will grant a waiver … Continue reading "They’ve got an awful lot of Graffiti in Grenoble"

First, to clear up some possible confusion, since some of you may have had high school physics or chemistry and already be familiar with valence.  We’re talking today about Valence, not Valence.  It’s a small city in France on the Rhone river; and being French, it has a French pronunciation.  Something like Vahlawnce, maybe. Anyway … Continue reading ""

So I’m not doing so hot on this month’s challenge.  I totally failed on the four elements, although I did have my eyes open for it.  I saw smoke a few times, but apparently it’s not always the case that where there’s smoke there’s fire. I’m finally on track with this graffiti thing though.  Here’s … Continue reading "On not rising to the challenge"

That fiendish Czar, he’s gone too far. I’m not a bard, it’s just too hard! Until this Causse I’m at a loss-a But this grand Cirque drives me berserk. I’ve found my rhyme, and just in time! That isn’t dull, men; it’s a dolmen! There are no men here, just this Menhir!

Well, probably not the last fence in France, since we’ve still got a few more months ahead of us in this country before hopping the English Channel to the UK.  But it is the last fence we’ll see in France in March, and hence the last for this month’s challenge. So we might as well … Continue reading "The last fence in France"