http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Bourg-en-Bresse/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , France , Rh ne Alpes , Bourg en Bresse en-us Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:33:29 BST Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:33:29 BST Le Bressan Sarl les Girolles 34 rue de la RepubliqueNot expensive either. We had the 17 euro set menu. Help youself h'ors d'oevre buffet chicken with cream sauce we could have had snails or lamb with a very good pommes dauphinoise and choice of dessert cheese or fromage blanc. The cheese board was excellent and they gave us more bread. We had a creditabe bottle of Muscadet for less mone http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Bourg-en-Bresse/blog-285155.html I think tomorrow we will make an attempt to get into Italy. The weather is not looking great the prediction seems to be a rise in temperature to over 20C along with thunderstorms patchy rain and the occasional sunny period. This is so much better than anything recently or what we experienced getting here. After tomorrow the weather is set to get worse for a few days so I think it worth the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Bourg-en-Bresse/blog-285039.html Having finally found an internet connection...5th JuneThis morning we went to work. Met up at Ashley's office and got onto the road at around 1330. Caught the 350 shuttle to Calais traveled chatting to another motorcyclist who was traveling for work. After Calais we drove down the motorway. The countryside gradually grew less English looking. Mostly the proportions of different types o http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Bourg-en-Bresse/blog-284739.html In december 2007 hebben wij Dirk Deneve Bart Van Ham Erik Cammaerts en ikzelf een algemene conditie en materiaaltest gehouden voor onze expeditie in Juli 2008. Het werd 4 dagen stappen in de Jura op sneeuwraketten. Het was een prachtige omgeving met een uitgestippelde piste voor de sneeuwraketters. We hebben n nachtje in de tent geslapen waardoor we alle vier besloten om een lichtere ten http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Bourg-en-Bresse/blog-283411.html So other than being frugal with my money the only thing keeping me from going to a movie theatre and watching the new Harry Potter movie that opened the day before was the fact that today was the day for me to watch a bunch of cyclists fly by in a middle leg of the Tour de France.It should be noted that when I initially started planning this trip it was a planned vacation to go to the British http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Bourg-en-Bresse/blog-201308.html So it turns out that there were benefits to sitting on a fence for 8 hours over 2 days in Pamplonathe random people you befriended. So yeah the second day of the running of the bulls found me sitting next to 2 girls who go to Purdue and were doing a program in Lyon over the summer and would be heading to BourgenBresse the same day as I to watch a leg of the Tour. After 4 hours of rail time http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Bourg-en-Bresse/blog-201300.html