Cycling Netherlands & Germany 2024

An 11 day cycling holiday including 3 Dutch hansa towns (Zwolle, Doesburg and Deventer) and following the river Vecht into Germany, then curling back into the Netherlands. About 425 km altogether (8 cycle days). So lucky to have dry weather, except for a 10 minute heavy downpour at the end! (And night showers, but they …

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France 2023

Road tripping through the west of France by car and bicycle for almost 3 weeks in September 2023. I drove to an idyllic B&B in the Loire Valley. After 3 nights there I left my car at this B&B and spent a week cycling eastbound along the river Loire, visiting lovely towns and castles along …

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Cycling in the Ruhr area, Germany 2022

In May / June 2022 I spent a week cycling (on my human-powered bike, not an e-bike ;-)) and seeing surprising sights in the former industrial area Ruhrgebiet in Germany. Most of the city centers are quite ugly but there are cool industrial sites all over the place. Many former mines and factories are now open for visits. The whole region is very green, has picturesque old villages with half-timbered houses and some excellent bike paths.