Touring Blogs

Ruminate over these:

Tough means a hefty col at least every other day; 

Not so tough - one or two cols over a week; 

Bit hilly here and there - hills rather than mountains;

Flat, more or less - the only elevation is a step into a café or two.

Tough
Geneva - Aosta - Provence 444 miles
Geneva - Vars - la Bonnette - Nice 350 miles
Annecy - Galibier - Agnel - Nice 302 miles 

Not so tough

Toulouse - Marseilles (Cevennes and Ventoux) 417 miles
Malaga - El Chorro - Ronda - Malaga 168 miles

Toulouse - Barcelona 305 miles

Le Mans - Marseilles 602 miles

Toulouse -Tourmalet - Les Landes - Bordeaux 470 miles

Munich - Pfunds - Stelvio - Como - Milan 236 miles
Geneva - Flumet - Annecy - Seyssel 210 miles

Bit hilly here and there

Calais - Dieppe 217 miles
Dieppe - Dunkerque 142 miles
Dieppe - Albert - Serre Rd - Somme - Calais 196 miles
Givet - Luxembourg - Semois - Meuse - Givet 230 miles
Dieppe - Bayeux - Beaches - Ouistreham 210 miles
Dieppe - Paris - Dieppe 160 miles


Flat, more or less.

Dunkerque - Ypres - Cadzand - Dunkerque 171 miles
Dunkerque - Ypres - Somme - Arras - Dunkerque 200 miles

Calais - Neuve Chapelle - Vimy - Ypres - Dunkerque 196 miles

Hook of Holland - Zealand - Dunkerque - Canterbury 171 miles
Hook - Antwerp - Oudenaarde - Dunkerque 240 miles
St. Malo - Coutances - Utah Beach - Cherbourg 225 miles