The start of a new cycling season in Europe: I collect my bike from my friend’s house near Wesel in the German Ruhr and head south to Aachen where I pick up the Vennbahnweg rail trail and then carry on through the Belgian and French Ardennes to the champagne capital of Reims.
Category: Belgium
#97 Kent, Flanders and the Ardennes
I collect my eBike from a friend’s home in Wanstead, London, and decide to go to Italy by skirting around the eastern rim of France. At map scale, it looks like an almost straight line across Kent, Flanders and the Ardennes, but when you drill down into it you’ll see there were quite a few…
#61 Across Belgium
After getting the rear pannier rack replaced in Aachen for the third time, I cross Belgium to catch a ferry from the Hook of Holland to Harwich, England, and cycle on to Norwich.
#52 Belgium west to east
The finale to my 5,100-km 2018 Grand Tour of Europe: a mad dash along the ‘Riviera’ of Belgium on the North Sea Coast, a stop-over in Bruges, through Gent and past Mechelen and Hasselt to Maastricht. Bruges is a great little city to spend some time in, but horribly expensive.
#45 The Vennbahnweg and the Moselle
The plan was to go back to Karlsruhe where I left off a week ago and continue on to the Loire River on the Eurovelo 6 cycle route all the way to Nantes, but I had some bike mechanical issues and only got as far as Nancy before having to return to Aachen to get…