The start of my 2019 Grand European eBike Tour: a circular route of 3,500-km along the Danube and Elbe Rivers and through the Netherlands from north to south back to my starting point in Maastricht. In this episode, I set off from Maastricht and cycle east across the Rhine and Main Rivers to Frankfurt and…
Category: Germany
#46 The Canal du Rhône au Rhin
I’d had to interrupt my journey and return to Maastricht because of a broken rear pannier rack on my new bike. Four days later I got the call from Velo bike shop that the replacement rack had arrived so I quickly rushed over to Aachen to have it fitted and returned by train to Karlsruhe…
#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…
#44 Up the Middle Rhine
I thought I’d better do a quick trip up the Rhine to get used to my new bike, so I packed a few essentials into 2 Ortlieb rear pannier bags and took off for a week.