A long haul through Germany’s industrial heartland of the Ruhr and a mad dash across the flatlands of north-east Netherlands.
Category: Netherlands
#60 Netherlands North to South
Well there were still 135 km of Elbe left for me to cycle after Hamburg (making 885 km in total: from Melnik in Czechia – where the Vitava joins the Elbe – to the mouth of the Elbe River at Cuxhaven in the Elbe estuary), so I was not finished with the Elbe yet. And…
#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…
#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.