Holy Cow, this is Crazy! _ Bicycle Touring France

We're now here at the Lidl and around 500 meters before the Lidl my inner tube got flat again. Eric is now trying to see what it is. It looks like it's exactly on the same place as before, close to the valve. We're now looking what the problem is. If it is just like a hole we can fix it but it could be a problem with my rim too and then yeah that's like a little bit bigger problem. Then we have to go to a bike shop today. So hey guys it seems to be the same problem as before. The inner tire got sliced just at the valve on the rim side. The rim tape doesn't seem to be installed very good so I think that somehow pinches the inner tube and causes this slice. We're gonna look for a good bike shop and hopefully they can help us to install some proper rim tape so this problem doesn't occur all the time. I fixed it with some duct tape at the moment. This is only a temporary fix. Dear god of the inner tires please don't give us any more flat tires coming here. I pray it didn't work unfortunately. So the slice in the inner tube it ripped until the valve and it's impossible to fix now so we're going to discard this one. Always strange in these urban situations. Just gotta live through these things. Man oh man sometimes you have so many setbacks in one time and it's really easy to get grumpy and frustrated but you kind of have to seize the moment. I made some sandwiches, I made some coffee doing what I'm good at and let's get back on the road. Relax, fish. This is a great example of just randomly meeting people here out in the field we were just about to look for a camp spot and oh there he goes. Merci! Super nice man. Yeah and we are never sure if it's okay to camp but if we meet people like this we just ask and most of the time like 99% of the time they think it's just okay so there he goes. People are so cool. Morning guys. We had just an amazing camp spot this night. Look at this valley it's so gorgeous. I'm pretty happy that we were standing a little bit higher because yesterday this man that we spoke to already told us that if we go and stand lower it would be pretty cold and it also attracts a lot of mosquitoes. Until now we absolutely love France. It definitely earns a place in our list of favorite European countries that we discovered by bike so far. The weather was still on our side though it was getting colder quickly and leaves were changing into their warm autumn colors. The hills were also getting steeper and our fitness wasn't yet up to par. Slowly but surely we made our way through the beautiful Jura region and when we were cooking our dinner somewhere on a small children's playground a couple invited us to stay in their garden. We were very happy to have a place to pitch our tent but little did we know. Everybody come in to our small cabin. We have a small cabin here in the woods and we were eating dinner and there were people walking by and they asked us if we wanted to sleep in their garden and yes of course we did and they gave us this little cabin to sleep in tonight so that's fantastic. No fussing with the tent and a lot of space so it's great. All right what a fantastic place Mary and Valentine have here. If you see this thank you so much for letting us stay in your little cabin and yeah Marty's sitting here there. So we had a good night's sleep. A little bit of stuffy nose because sometimes we're sleeping inside or actually what I have to say is when you sleep outside you have all the fresh air and inside here is a little dusty so it gets into your nose a little bit and then your nose gets full so but yeah these things happen. We are very happy to be here. It's a beautiful natural place. It looks like a kind of a wild garden and yeah super cool. So out on the road again. See you guys later. The first leaves are turning their colors and it's so special time of year to be out. Fall is approaching and it's a great season with a lot of opportunities for edible plants and of course the animals are gathering their food for the winter. It's moody. It's like yeah the summer is over and things have passed again and yeah new times are coming. Oh man wonderful to be out in this yeah for me kind of magical time of year. My name is Flo. So I am also like you a traveling cyclist. I rode my bicycle six years around the world. Europe, America, Australia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia and because of the pandemic situation I flew back to France and I bought a little apartment in Saint Claude and then another apartment and two weeks ago I received a message from you on Airbnb and it was a coincidence that we know each other. After our little encounter in Oman we met for a brief moment only for 10 minutes then we separated our ways and now we find each other again here in Saint Claude in France. That's a great thing about traveling. It's a lot of surprise when you travel you discover new things and you meet people then you meet again and you don't expect to meet it again and that's just a great moment to share. For you what was the highlight in your world traveling experience? My favorite highlight I think it was the cycling under the northern lights the whole night with beautiful colors and shapes in the sky and good weather with good condition and so the night cycling under this sky was just amazing with my memories. What is for you like an experience you had in your life that's changed the course of your life? I created my own company 15 years ago I created my business by teaching mathematics online with a free website that brings money with ads so that's changing my life because after a few years of hard work I could be my own boss and I could travel the world and still work so it was a big change for me and also a lot of freedom and happiness to have to be successful in what I did and work it. The area where we are right now what kind of area is it what is some of the interest for people? This is mountains of Jura so we are north of the Alps. Alps are young mountains Jura are old mountains but still high and there is a lot of nature it is a national park here and so we have a lot of mountain wildlife a lot of waterfall and water coming from everywhere and if you like the nature you should come to Saint-Claude and stay in my Airbnb maybe or if you are I'm sure a person you can stay for free at my home forget everything go on a bicycle and pedal and you will be happy. Thank you so much All right we're now heading for the next stretch of our journey super exciting it's pretty mountainous here and the weather is getting colder and colder so it's becoming more adventurous for sure it's a good test for the Pyrenees that are to come and before we leave you here we want to give a shout out to one of our fellow cycling friends and creators Saddle Stories they have awesome videos you should check them out we will put a link after this video they're awesome storytellers and cool people and with that I will leave you here and I will see you in the next adventure bye