ON THE ROAD AGAIN

2009-06-21T12:50:00.000-07:00

i swear the rest will come soon ...

2009-06-21T12:32:00.000-07:00

But ... why so much Hate ???

and its last pass befor Christchurch ( wich one is only a little hump not realy a PASS ...)

Its old fashion cars ...

New zealand is a nice place with its Mouse Point...

2009-06-21T12:19:00.000-07:00

but quit hard road 'till Hamner springs

beautiful scenerie at least in the begining

befor the next camp ground on the other side ... that has been my coldest night ...

the same day i passt the lewis pass ...perfectly on midday...

2009-06-21T11:38:00.000-07:00

Camping in a quiet place on the SH65 a few ks befor Spring Junction
It's may the cold and wet weather near the west coast gives me a few problemes to handle with ... the days are short the mornings and the evenings are cold and the clouds are low the weather is not predictable but i have to find enought time each day to cycle at least 60 ks ... (the more ,the better cos' you'll never now what tomorow is made about...)

Maruia Saddle ... not a big elevation but because not short and on a gravel road...

The Lake Rotoiri in St Arnaud

2009-06-21T11:19:00.000-07:00

After almost one year i finished my trip ( from time to time i'm thinking back to all thi s good time ... sometimes a bit hard because of the wind ... the rain ... the cold weather ...the over dose alcool ... not enought sleap ... too much sleap ... the sikness ... the flat.... ENOUGH ) well it's been nice but it's gone ... but soon or later ... to leave its room to Another one but not yet ok enough speaking let me show you the pictures

2008-10-26T09:56:00.000-07:00

not GMO cows...

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this is not a nuclear explosion (it's better ...) but a nice sunset

A week end on the Wharariki Beach

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let's go to the beach...
(PS (for Justin ) do you remind the NUDE beach ?)

on a canoo trip by the tasman national park

2008-07-16T02:40:00.000-07:00

Is'nt it ,????

the next mornings wiew

it's heavently nice

my house for this night in the middle of nowhere

there's no heater but at lest no wind either
Humid and cold i will not sleep correctly all the night but ... hey that's adventure...

hi guys yes i know a long time has gone by since the last time but hey... i'm still alive.

and here are my last stories, since Australia i cycled from Christchurch to Takaka (N.Z) (pictures lost ... SORRY) to my (old) friends pete & moni where i spend a nice time kayaking, sunbathing cycling (yep cycling again) and fisching, unfortenatly i didn't catch a fisch so i had to eat mussels 3 days long (for breakfast, noon and diner ...) on a beach i don't hide you i was happy to turn back into the civilisation ... then i tavelled to the Cobb Valley to see a bit of nature ... in fact only the way up there has been really hard with all my luggage on a gravel road and 8 kms of 10% .

As i came to the top, totally exausted, walking and pushing my bike for the last 3 kms with no more power in my leggs, cold and wet, the dusk brock in and i decided to spend my night in a little information house with a strong cold snowy wind outside ( for a few hours i had the good feeling to still alive...). But i had at least a nice wiew the next morning with snow on the mountains just over my hed sunnshine and cold ........ And now i had to go back cos' i've got cold enought for the two next weeks...

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and now , guys i'm back in chch. with a sun burn on my face (cos' of to much surfing) like i didn't have one since ages but happy i enjoyed what i enjoyed...

come back for the next adventure to see how fred crossed the southern alps ...

take care

2008-02-29T17:32:00.000-08:00

australian Pink Horn...

a kind of ... yep that's right...

a tipically australian Swan...

don't remember the name...

don't remember the name but it sounds like a monkey ...

had no time to ask ... had to run for my life...

2008-02-29T16:58:00.000-08:00

my family in australia
from left to the right
Michael
Marcel the father
Petra the mother
Madae (his birthday is the 13. of march... just like me ... good boy...)
a great family thanks guys

the mother is away ... the father forgot telling her we're going to the beach ...but he's got a funny way to let her know where we are ...

is that not a nice stand up... well... for almost a relatively long time for me...

surfing in australia on elisabeth beach

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on the chch. airport...

the same boat...

the sky tower...

welcome to SYDNEY
this time it's another boat...

2008-02-21T15:58:00.000-08:00

so here i am ... after 3500 kms

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and that has been the waterfall ... lovely isnt it

2008-02-19T15:24:00.000-08:00

dangerous waters....

2008-02-19T13:46:00.000-08:00

and then i came down to Wellington to a nice familly where i spended a few days without (well praticly without ) cycling

concentration befor the last big hill in fact after all it has not been as BIG just dangerous because of the bad drivers (wich are in constantly growing number ... becoming more stupid aswell...) the wind ( sometimes strong up here and its power is even multiplied in the courves)
i would not cycle it again ... to dangerous guys if you are up here to cross on one or the other side ... take the train it's saver...

after that i had to begin the trip to my last destination on the north island...

2008-02-11T19:25:00.000-08:00

and than GUYS ... try to get your lips around that ... the longest place name of the world... yes even of the entire universe

i always knew ... we are not alone ... but i didn't now they are driving cars aswell

a nice dog liking cycler ( witch is the most of the time unlikely)

and than i had to climb bib mountains and to cross big rivers untill Napier but not on the highway, cos' in a bad day, when everything goes wrong, the car drivers and especially the truckers would be able to kill a pushbyker like a possum on the road so.... i choised the hilly roads nice and quite but like the name says it ...HILLY... And after my last big hill just befor Napier a car stopped on the side of the road... it hsa been brigitte and frank ( unfortunally he hasn't been here for the picture) and an hour later i have been in a nice house with a lovely garden and had a LOVELY meal... thanks guys (they belong to the cycler familly aswell ...)

2008-02-11T19:21:00.000-08:00

the FIRST picture with my NEW camera ... cool isn't it

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and now guys lets have a minute of silence ...just befor entering the nice town of Hawai... yes Hawai in New Zealand ( i'm not bull shiting you ...)... my picture camera decided to leave me alone , thats why ,and i'm sorry, you won't see any pictures from there until Gisborne... it's not my fault sorry again it has been beautyfull but ... come see yourself...

bayof plenty..

Mount whanganui

2008-02-11T18:59:00.000-08:00

further down mount manguanui...

...after what i landed on mister cooks landing from 1769 (only 20 years after we had a big changing beginning in france, but that's an other story...)...

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and a nice water falls on the old highway (Gravel road ) going from coromandel town to whitianga

nice hills ... not to bad...

with a few nice beaches...

direction the coromandel peninsula...

and than i cyycled away from auckland ...

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and now guys i'm sticking here in Auckland waiting for my new fork since a week 'cos there not f...... able to do there job and to find a simple bycicle fork where are we i'm asking you ???

enjoy ...till the next time

fred

2008-01-10T16:15:00.000-08:00

guess where is this made this picture ...?? ok i give you a clue ... it's in New Zealand

do you remember on this same blog i told you a story about my friend Friday on Hawai... i found it backon the rest area from Moana beach... how did he make that>>>???

2008-01-10T16:00:00.000-08:00

and than i meet this funy guys on a camp ground for the 31 of decembre eve. it's been funny over all after midnight when i was going to the beach taking my new years WASH and i lost my cell phone ... it took me a while but thanks to a torch from this guys (i'm sorry GUYS but i've already forgoten your mames but not your hospitality)i found it sticking in the sand but still working ... yep

2008-01-10T15:53:00.000-08:00

and then ...once i've been down the hill (easy job, but i think i deserved it...) i tryed to make a competition with another two wheel engine ... but i soon found out ... it's not fair so i had to give up... you know ... but in a good day ... i think i could make it ....

2008-01-10T15:34:00.000-08:00

a nice fredom camping ...well tou'll say ..."but it's on the road "...the good thing about that is the fact that those tourist drives are praticlly empty after 9 or 10 pm...so ... it's more then ok and for free...

after one of the steepest hill i cycled yet on the north island well it seemed even too bee steeper 'cos it's been a gravel ( also called unpaved, mettal road or f...... sh.. )

And then on the next on yu'r back on the see ...but ... where is the water...?

2008-01-10T15:25:00.000-08:00

sometimes behind a corner from the road you got the sensation you'r inland ... but...you'r not

well guys i'm back with some other stories to tell
After Whangarei i cycled a road not to steep (well im NZ such affirmations are more than relative if you see what i mean...)

2007-12-26T16:31:00.000-08:00

ok guys thats it for this time i wish ya all a merry christmass and a happy new year ... i not gonna sing it for you ... so i wish you a nice time and ... till the next time for new stories from far far away...

2007-12-26T16:27:00.000-08:00

The ugge Whangarei waterfalls

donald's familly on the campground

2007-12-26T16:21:00.000-08:00

really often in N.Z the bank and the nice tree, on the rest areas, are only on the sign... did ya get ya ??

NO TREE...

2007-12-26T16:18:00.000-08:00

Same as below...

2007-12-26T15:59:00.000-08:00

BLUE MOON ...remember ??????

2007-12-26T15:48:00.000-08:00

a nice car in Whananaki north ... isn't it ... i said to the guy i were a car magazine journalist from france ...

2007-12-26T15:42:00.000-08:00

Otamure bay and Whananaki north

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and then this one... 50 meters further... what's the problem ... and it's not the only time...

her we go ... first i saw this sign on the road

2007-12-26T15:32:00.000-08:00

Parekura and taupiri bay

2007-12-26T15:27:00.000-08:00

it seems like everybody is triyng to fly here in Pahia and sometimes it WORKES

2007-12-26T15:13:00.000-08:00

once upon a time there was a sad and mad man named hook and he .... but that's another story

maybe not he's boot ... hein? but a nice one

2007-12-26T15:11:00.000-08:00

somewhere's waterfalls (i forgot the name but as soon as i get it back i'll ... you know ! )

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Wainui and Matauri bay

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Tauranga bay

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Whangaroa bay

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tokerau beach and doubtless bay

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nice evening sky on the matai bay (karikari peninsula) ... tomorow will be FINE...

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dinner is served...

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karikari peninsula

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a pinguine on taputaputa bay...

2007-12-26T13:27:00.000-08:00

hi guys

it's a long time ago but here you'll get some NICE

pictures from the north island from the north cape down southwerth cos' the first part from auckland to there has not been realy interesting... it's still one of the most hilly country of the world ( i'd like to say THE most hilly country of the world ) just to give ya an iddea for each 80 to 100 kms. i've to make 2000 meters climbing and sometimes when you got no wiewpoint (scenic i mean...) it's HARD to do
but it's over
so here we go

wiew from the cape reinga down to the sea as you can SEE

taputaputa bay

the light house from cape reinga

2007-12-04T19:48:00.000-08:00

that's raoul and his dog the camping owners from ushuaia "la pista del andino"

2007-12-04T19:44:00.000-08:00

another freestyle story...

after...

befor...

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a special foto... for special guys

..."make the picture QUICK ... it's heavy..."

the definitive end of the road...

my friend Woody...

freestyle on the cerro Guanaco

2007-12-04T19:20:00.000-08:00

The Rio pipo cascade it seems very big like that but believe me it's NOT... they are just kidding

watching for the train to come...

... i hope it will not come TO fast...

The train freom the end of the world ... pretty expensive ... but the tourists have the money...

oh what is that guy making on the railway ? i think he's lost and hope he will not have bad intetions ... the people inside this train have the pockets full sticked of money...it would actually been a good opportunity... LETS GO !!!!

2007-12-04T18:42:00.000-08:00

On a nice sunny day we've gone to the national park from ushuaia hopping we'll have sunshine for the next two days ... but the sun turned away home... snowfall, rain, fu----- cold but we had at least beer and cigarettes (3 to 4 times more expensive than in ushuaia 20 kilometers from where we've been) so we spended all the day in the tent (eating , smoking,sleeping and all this stuff and sometimes the weather seamed to go to the sunshine ...but if you go down there you will find it out soon ... it's the world of the four seasons each day...)

The last day beginned with sunshine ... but not for a long time we were allready on the way to the cerro guanaco (975 M) it should be nice up there when the sun is shining .... but ... that's the point ... it has been cloudy with a little bit snowfall and a lot of wind on the top

2007-11-15T14:16:00.000-08:00

it's a fackt not each pinguin speaks french but this one did it realy good ...

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Monte olivia

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no comments... (no NEEDS...)

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and on the end we have the landing...

2007-11-13T12:55:00.000-08:00

PARIS no bull shit.... but you know

I don't know who is it but i guess strongly ... he's dead...

after fresch snow...

the malvinas islands and always remembre when you come to argentina ... las malvinas son argentina

no it's not the french one...

2007-11-13T12:38:00.000-08:00

USHUAIA...( what else to tell) and that's Silvio my privat pilot you
have to thank him if you enjoyed this
pictures cos' he took me back to the
Earth ... SAVE and with a big SMILE
come on guys ... la holla for our friend
SILVIO

2007-11-13T12:13:00.000-08:00

in the center in the background (but you can't see it ...) the martial glacier

by folowing this way you can go to the cap horn... good luck...(you'll need it)

monte ... guess ... forgot the name ... ............................................................... GOT IT Monte Olivia ... (it remembers me the cartoon POPEYE... if it means something to anyone .... no .....ok .... forget it )

you see that island ?... yes ?
you dee a lighthouse on its top ? ...yes ?

well... that's the

" faro des eclaireurs"

a french man made its restauration witch was done in 1998

cocorico les amis

and here is long beach ... no bull shit

by the way i still looking for Pamela ... anybody saw here ????

and here are the PICTURES

2007-11-13T12:05:00.000-08:00

guess what ? this morning i said to myself " it's a nice day to go visiting USHUAIA by the air"

sitôt dit sitôt fait ...

and here is the PLANE .-..

2007-11-10T12:50:00.001-08:00

but i've pictures from all the way to ushuaia...

2007-11-10T12:44:00.000-08:00

hello my friends

it's done i'm here USHUAIA ... (actually since 2 days) but i don't have the pictures for the moment
as i wanted to take the pictures from the ushuaia sign the camera said "low battery" but i'll go back to get them... promise

2007-10-25T10:54:00.001-07:00

this have been the news after 3700 kms in Chile and Argentina

2007-10-25T10:15:00.000-07:00

on the Chile side just befor Tierra del Fuego

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HEY i'm here...

2007-10-25T10:08:00.000-07:00

Wherever you go on our world ... you'll always find THE Swiss signature...

2007-10-25T10:00:00.000-07:00

After a few days strong winds on the campground from Puerto San Julian i've gone in the radio station to know the weather forecast for the next days ... and something... said to me

'' this is the right day to cycle further '' ... and you know what guys ??... it's been true ... so always follow your intuition

2007-10-25T09:40:00.000-07:00

the other day (again) just after the Argentinian town called gobernator costa a mann with a Berlingo (it's a french car ...) full of biscuits , gived me some energy for the road... i didn't have more space ... he wanted to give me more of such things ....

the other day the wind has been so strong i could'nt cycle ... came a man on the road with his pick-up (i'm sorry ... forgot he's name) and offerd me to travel with him for a few hundred miles after what his friends from the Argentinian gas transportation offerd me to travel a bit more with them ... it helped me a bit further in this strong winds region

Hey guys you are the BEST

2007-10-12T12:54:00.000-07:00

hello my friends i crossed the BORDERLINE between Chile and Argentina again (and ´ll do it again) and i´m now in Argentina and still have 200 kms ´till the atlantic ocean further i´ll go direction south to make the 1500 kms to ushuaia in witch city i´ll likely be in 3 or 4 weeks

j

i got the right number but am a few hundred years late.... shitt can happen

2007-09-28T12:31:00.000-07:00

in a restaurant a 100 miles from Santiago

(and that picture is especially for you J-Luc!!!)

2007-09-28T12:28:00.000-07:00

an evening with the Family Roth Schleyer

it was funny!!!

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I´now like i said here on the island near the continent witch i'll join on sonday and then you may not here a lot from me untill Ushuaia

wish you all teh best

hasta luego

2007-09-28T12:08:00.000-07:00

e few news from the chili (quikly)i´now on the km 1200 from Santiago

chris and me are NO longer cycling togheter

saw beautiful landscapes and and and ...

2007-09-13T14:56:00.000-07:00

hi guys since this morning, as i came to Santiago da Chile and where i meet chris again since so many month we didn't see each other, i didn't loose the big smile on my face for all the day long
we made the first 15 kms. on the Freeway witch acctally is forbiden for us cyclers but ...
tomorow is the big start direction the end of the world where we should arrive in about two month
i don't have pictures yet but... hang on ...
i hoppe you feel fine TO

FRED

2007-09-08T01:59:00.000-07:00

AND THE BEST IS STILL TO COME...

2007-09-08T01:52:00.000-07:00

a hot spring in bolivie 4300 meter alt. 35°c water air 5 °c

tucan and crocodile in Pantanal national park

iguazu waterfall

2007-08-31T04:08:00.000-07:00

But DESERT ENOUGH to NOT find a byc. shop...

CHRIS meeting friends in the same desert (it seems not to be TO MUCH DESERT...)

Chris in the Salar de Uyuni Desert (don't ask me where it is ...)

Chris on the Abra del Acay ( ARGENTINA), the highest pass in south amerika

now i'd like to tell you a story of my travelling friend Chris (or jessie, chrigu, chrigel, christian... or whatever...) anywayby the moment he's in Chile ... but lets take a U TURN, back to the time where we travelled together.We came down from alaska until the mexican BORDERLINE and then i've gone to Hawai,tahiti and NZ (but that's done).in the time i made my senic trip ( well not all the times) anyway he made mexico guatemala honduras colombo... brasil argentina bolivia... and of course i have a few pictures for you ...ENJOY

2007-08-28T04:04:00.000-07:00

Les Baux de Provence After 45 minutes ascension under a sun standing on the nirvana with 33°c and NO clouds NO schadow.... but once you are on the top ... you just feel free... and enjoy yourself...

2007-08-28T03:56:00.000-07:00

parc cath. de Médicis ( i think so... not sure... don't remember...)

2007-08-28T03:41:00.000-07:00

a wiew over the city from Nîmes in the centre of the pic. you can see the Arênes

the Arênes ( But i didn't see "Ben hure")

2007-08-28T03:19:00.000-07:00

1.la maison carrèe

2.la maison carrèe today a nice threedimentional theatre

3.la tour magne ( almost destructed by a crazzy french man, because Nostrdamus said there's a big tresor in this building ... but the words had another meaning...)

4. The or "A" cathedral from Nîmes next to the Arênes

2007-08-28T03:12:00.000-07:00

Salon de provence the hometownof the famous NOSTRADAMUS

2007-08-26T01:08:00.000-07:00

New Storys comming SOON so HANG-ON...

2007-06-03T03:34:00.000-07:00

Occasionally the band's commercial vehicle...

The Studio in the middle of the country realy cool to not disturb anybody

from the left to the right : Romain, Fabrice, Marco, Fabien, Monique, Louis the singer of the band

2007-06-03T03:17:00.000-07:00

Hell House is the name from that Band who has everything to become a famous Rock band, if you are on the way in the south of France ... i'm pretty sure you'll hear something from them ...

2007-05-31T04:53:00.001-07:00

rrdrdytrrtr

2007-05-31T04:30:00.000-07:00

Casis, in my opinion, a little sister from St Tropez

2007-05-31T04:14:00.000-07:00

La Ciota

2007-05-31T04:06:00.000-07:00

somewhere on the coast

2007-05-31T03:51:00.000-07:00

The Lighthouse from St Tropez

2007-05-31T03:16:00.001-07:00

and now guys let me introduce a city, well, a nice village, that you all should know from a certain movie " the gendarme from St Tropez" ... Did i say to much ? Nice ... very Nice ( no... that's another town) that's St Tropez and the people are even the friendliest i experienst yet on the coast... in fact the ghost from "CRUCHOT" is still turning around here...and even the sun is always shinning a bit more down here

2007-05-31T02:48:00.000-07:00

St Raphaël... (still on the south coast)

2007-05-30T13:23:00.000-07:00

the Area around Cannes (to remember , we are on the cote d'Azur°)

2007-05-30T13:10:00.000-07:00

wiew point from my first campground in france abow Nice ... from the " grande cornichon"...