There are two bike rides that I would like to do. One is from Geneva to Yvoire and back, and the other is from Thonon for a fifty kilometre loop in the Alps. Both appeal to me, and if it was any other week I would happilly do the Yvoire ride, despite it being challenging tomorrow.
The Disruptive Caribana Festival, Traffic and Noise Pollution
The reason that I do not do this ride is that the disruptive Caribana is taking place from tonight until Sunday. For the rest of the week, in the evening traffic will be awful as festival goers head to the event, and so will noise pollution.
In previous years the sound engineers (although I think they’re sound harlquins) will flood the area with such loud music that it will be impossible to do anything. The Caribana was so loud that watching television, sleeping, and more were impossible. It was unpleasant from 17:00 or so until 3am, when they finally stopped their noise pollution.
What angers me, more than anything, about Caribana, is that it’s for a few thousand people that we have to put up with the noise pollution and traffic jams. It should be illegal to make so much noise pollution for so many days in a row, especially until 3am.
Back to an Oppprtunity and Positivity
On the 21st of March a bike ride will be organised from Thonon. This will be a 50km loop heading into the Alps and back. The challenge is in finding a way to get to Thonon.
The simplest would be to take a CGN boat from Nyon to Yvoire and then cycle half an hour, to Thonons. The slightly longer option is to take the train to Lausanne, and then catch the boat from Ouchy to Thonon, do the bike ride, and then cycle back to Yvoire and then take the boat from Yvoire to Nyon. It would be a quick way of exploring new roads.
The issue is that boats seem to start at 09:20, fourty minutes after the event starts.