I have compiled a video with all 1.500 pictures taken by Marcellus and myself during the tour.

There is to conquer quite a distance. First I ride to Ammersee lake close to Munich to Marcellus. There the bikes get on a trailer and we proceed into Switzerland to pick up Beat and his bike and to change cars. We ride through the night to our starting point in Ille-sur-Têt in France

I start in the morning in the rain during Berlin rush hour

The bikes are on the trailer

Beat's bike came to the others

Arrival in the morning at Hotel Le Buis

Garage entry

Offloading

Room and hotel are decorated quite nicely

My room

360 view arround my room

The hotel lobby

Ille-sur-Têt is a little French city meeting all clichés

Some breakfast

I have never seen a an age group parade before

The oldest parade participant

Achim has arrived and we have a bottle of wine before dinner

Great dinner in the city

We find this message from the hotel in the room

We start with the coast line of the Mediterranean Sea before we turn into the mountains.

Brilliant breakfast in the hotel. Even the bread is home-baked.

Hotel Chambre d'Hôtes les Buis - Getting ready

Palm trees

Vineyards and mountains

Coastal Road

Banyuls-sur-Mer

Cap de Cervera de la Marenda

A classic car parade passes by

The 240 feet motor yacht Excellence passes by

Cap de Cervera de la Marenda

We enter Spain

Morning coffee

View at the coastal road GI-682 at Salonic

The gang

Lunch

A diving station next door

Independence signs everywhere

Southern ramp of Alt de la Trona

Col de la Creueta

Hotel Solineu - Arrival beer

The first highlight in the morning. We watch the sunrise on Coll de la Creueta. After breakfast we ride very nice roads through France and Andorra back to Spain.

7.20 am - First sunlight

7.40 am - it gets brighter

7.46 am - just before sunrise

7.58 am - first sun beams on the other side of the pass

We pass a solar power plant

Main reflector - the world is upside dowm

Port de Pailhères

Port de Pailhères: Fall colors glow

Port de Pailhères

Port de Pailhères

Port de Pailhères: Eastern ramp

Port de Pailhères

Lunch

Col d'Ordino

Col d'Ordino

Port del Cantó

La Noguera Pallaresa valley

We get on the passes of Tour de France. And there are plenty of them: Col du Pourtalet, Col d'Aubisque, Col du Tourmalet, Col d'Aspin, Col du Peyresourde and Col du Portillon. It is quite foggy in France and on Col du Tourmalet we have to find our way downhill through 2.400 feet of elevation in less than 60 feet visibility

Marcellus has a walk in the morning through Benasque

Hotel Ciria in the morning

Gorge of river Ésera

Morning coffee

Col du Pourtalet

Col du Pourtalet

Col d'Aubisque

Lunch on Col d'Aubisque

Col du Tourmalet

Heavy fog on Col du Tourmalet

We stay in Spain and move on to Seu d'Urgell. We see a new pass Coll de Montilobar and we get homemade Paella for lunch.

Coll de Montilobar

I have to have a flight here

Coll de Montilobar

Olive trees

Coll de Bóixols

Coll de Bóixols

Marcellus

40 km (25 miles) turns

Coll de Boix

Coll de Jou

Lunch in Cantina de Llinars

Paella for lunch

Mirador de la Trava

Mirador de la Trava - View to Seu d'Urgell

We have Tapas for dinner and get a local herb liqueur with a chestnut base

We stay in Seu d'Urgell and have a southern loop on very empty roads. I have my flight day and will be in the air in three different locations.

Gorge of river El Segre

Col de Bóixols - Eastern ramp

Col de Bóixols

Coll de Bóixols

Col de Faidella/Col de Bóixols - Western ramp

Olive trees

Coll de Comiols

Coffee break at Cal Petit

Hotel owner is race driver Isidre Esteve Pujol

Lunch at Cal Majoral

C-26 and Alt de les Llosses

Castellar de n'Hug

Coll de la Creueta

Again Tapas for Dinner

We try another local herb liqueur

The last day in Spain. We return via Andorra, France and Spain back to Ille-sur-Têt in France, the starting point of our tour.

Marcellus explores Seu d'Urgell in the morning

Col d'Ordino in Andorra

We look around and I have to fly

Col d'Ordino

The group

The spectacular outlook Mirador Roc del Quer

Col d'Ordino

Roc del Quer from below

We have our morning coffee on Port d'Envalira

Port d'Envalira

Col de Puymorens

Solar thermal power plant Thémis Solaire

Paragliders pass by

Lunch

Col d'Ares - The last pass in Spain

Back to Ille-sur-Têt we need to load the trailer

The journey back is also quite long. We start in the morning and are back to Ammersee lake in the late evening. The next day I ride home in very cold but dry weather.

Breakfast in Hotel Le Buis

Hotel Le Buis

Farewell

Back to Berlin