On November 4th 2016, Google destroyed most features of Panoramio, a photo sharing website and community of which I’ve been a member since 2007. Today, only our photos remain, on borrowed time until the full closure of Panoramio in November 2017.
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No mandatory TV fee !
The Swiss Federal Council wishes to make the TV fee mandatory for all residents in the country, even those who do not own a TV nor watch TV programmes. Please allow 5 minutes to read and support our petition against this unfair project. Continue reading
Looking for a bike route ?
Updated October 2023.
Here are the links to the already published bike routes, together with basic information, such as countries and essential figures (total distance, total time, daily climb, date of travel).
These links are referring to the French section of the website, but if you’re just looking for a bike route, this might for the time being suit your needs : you’ll get a detailed map of each itinerary, photos, connections between routes (allowing to plan your journey along connected sections of different routes), road map & guidebook references, links to interesting websites, plus download links for GPS and Google Earth files. Continue reading
Major and chaotic update on bikemap.net !
Important note to my visitors.
Yesterday, the website I use to map & publish my bike routes (www.bikemap.net) underwent a major “update” and, as it usually happens, became very bugged and unstable, which triggered a massive protest among users. I’m very thankful to the persons responsible for this useless chaos. Continue reading
Europe by bike’s first birthday – and still much to do !
A year has passed since I started this website in April 2012.
So far, 29 bike routes across 11 European countries have been published in the French section, totalling 22’091 kilometers. These itineraries can be classified as follows :
– 6 international routes, of which 5 are long distance (13’661 km)
– 7 medium and long distance routes in France (6339 km)
– 8 medium and short distance routes in Switzerland (1510 km)
– 5 day tours in the Geneva/Switzerland-France area (413 km)
– 3 MTB tours in Valais/Swiss Alps (168 km)
The eleven countries are : Switzerland, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Denmark and Norway. Continue reading