This thread made me dig out my France touring pics from 1990. Enjoy:

Me and my best friend back then in Germany were doing a trip through southern France.
Here are a view pics:
Sleeping right at the Mediterranean Sea. Next morning everything tasted like salt. Bleh. But it was beautiful to sleep right at the beach. No tent, just sleeping bags.


Stopping at the top of a mountainpass. I was the one always taking pics so I'm not in any of them
My bike was the red mountain bike. It was hell to climb in the Central Massif with such a heavy bike. But I was 17 and I didn't know any better back then. The panniers were mostly filled with water and food. Very little cloth for two weeks riding. Clipless you ask? Him and I were apprentices, we had barely any money.


I have some more and post a view more bike pics, but I'm far away from done scanning hundreds of slides.

Thomas