Edinburgh to Lyon

Ride 9 – Edinburgh to Lyon – Sept/Oct 2026

Here are the posts written about St Albans to Edinburgh:

• 20260915 Planes, Trains and No Automobiles
• 20260917 Galashiels and Bonchester Bridge in sunshine and mist
• 20260918 Last Day in the UK
• 20260919 Ferry to the continent
• 20260921 Canals, canals, and more canals. We’re not complaining!
• 20260922 Gorinchem to Breda, on to Antwerp
• 20260923 Antwerp
• 20260924 Arriving in Brussels
• 20260925 Brussels
• 20260926 Namur, Belgium. Seriously why have we never heard of this beautiful place?
• 20260927 Rochefort
• 20260928 Bastogne. The Ardennes forest and The Battle of the Bulge.
• 20260929 Redange. Highs and lows. And we arrive in Luxembourg for our first visit ever.
• 20260930&1001 Luxembourg
• 20261002 Thionville, France. A bunker. A power plant. A haircut!
• 20261003 Metz, France
• 20261004. Day one of our visit to Nancy, France, wherein we arrive. We art. We eat hamburgers.
• 20261005 Nancy, Day 2. Protests. A guided tour.
• 20261006 Nancy to Golbey. Canals canals canals. Jacques the Heron. And terrible Wifi.
• 20261007 Golbey to Corre. Canals. Gites. And sometimes your dinner plans just don’t work out. That’s what baguettes and cheese are for.
• 20261008. Corre to Scey-sur-Saône-et-Saint-Albin. WET. Wet. Wet. Wet. I definitely need to update my raingear game.
• 20261009 Scey-sur-rainy-Saone to Gray. Canals. Cold. And cats.
• 20261010. Gray to Dijon. RAIN. Bring on the mustard!
• 20261011 Dijon, Day 2. Owls. Grotesques. And a fabulous Indian food meal. Sadly, no moutarde.
• 20261012 Dijon to Beaune. NOW you’re talking. Bring on the vines. Bring on the wines. (We randomly meet a Burgundy influencer.) And the Hospice de Beaune is humbling.
• 20261013and14. The push to get to Lyon involves stops in Saint-Marcel and Macon.
• 20261015 Macon to (what we thought would have been Villefranche but) our final destination – LYON – and some “manifestations”. Ooh la la. OUR LAST FULL DAY OF RIDING.
• 20261016 LYON. We stow the bikes for the winter and start walking in brilliant sunshine.