Day 12 – ViaRhona
A fresh wind pushed us southward the ViaRhona. This beautiful bike path follows the river Rhone. I learned that it starts in Geneve and ends at the mediterranean sea. https://de.viarhona.com must be nice to ride it, maybe next time It was an easy drive on that very well maintained path and we made good progress…
Day 11 – Voie Bleue 2
We started late and changed Thorbens wheels first, stopped at another Decathlon to buy a new thermarest, one was broken and went to Lyon. Google sent us again onto very bad ways and we decided to not trust that navigation anymore, we either take signed bicycle ways or „D“ roads as they are named in…
Day 10 – Voie Bleue
If one would have asked me after 5k how many km we could do today, I would have said 20. But after two Croissants, Pain au Chocolat, one Gatorate and half a liter of Cola (for each) we felt much better.The Voie Bleue is a bike path mostly following the river Saone. We followed it…
Day 9 – End of the channel
We were tired and started late, by 6pm we only made 100k. The channel we followed reached its top after 60k, this is where the spring of the river Marne is. The channel was going o to a tunnel and driving alongside the channel was not allowed anymore, so we had to climb a little…
Day 7 – Marne
This was a pleasant ride alongside a channel which follows the river Marne. The legs were still empty from the day before, so we took it easy and made a lot of stops. Due to two flats we arrived late at the camping site which was a „Camping Municipal“. This one was really down to…
Day 16 – Pyrenees
At 8am we left the camping site. After a quick breakfast we went into the mountains, we had a lot of respect, since there were a lot meters to climb and that with all the luggage Traffic was okay, the hills as well. We only realised the heat when we stopped and it was very…
Day 15 – EuroVelo 8
Leaving the village Agde was a nightmare, the first kilometers Google sent us on a way which nobody would call so. Anyway, we made it and where searching the bike path EuroVelo 8 again, to avoid navigation. We couldn’t find it, so we followed another route from bikemap, which was okay, but bad roads and…
Day 14 – Mediterranean Sea
Another fresh wind pushed us down south, we „sailed“ through the very nice country and enjoyed our fastest part so far. For lunch we wanted to go to Orange and had to leave the ViaRhona and tried to follow a local track, but the signs were hardly existing and we ended in nowhere. We went…
Day 13 – ViaRhona
Another fresh wind pushed us down south, we „sailed“ through the very nice country and enjoyed our fastest part so far. For lunch we wanted to go to Orange and had to leave the ViaRhona and tried to follow a local track, but the signs were hardly existing and we ended in nowhere. We went…
Day 8 – Tot ziens / Au revoir Belgium
Whilst the last days we „cruised“ through the countries this one was very sportive, the landscape was very hilly and the wind came from the south-east. It took us almost all the day for the first 100k to Reims. The rest was easy, but of course we were done when we arrived at the camping…
Day 6 – Brussels and Beaumont
We went on to Brussels, which is a beautiful city, but already in the morning packed with tourists. We visited the most important spots and had a quick breakfast. After two hours of sightseeing we continued our trip.There is a waterway from Brussels to Charleroi which we followed for roughly 30km. Then we had to…
Day 5 – The Netherlands
Tot Ziens Netherlands, Hello Belgium!Our way down to Antwerp was quite nice, a little wind from the north gave us support Even though it took longer than expected since we often had to stop to look for the way. Later afternoon we arrived at Antwerp and enjoyed nice fritjes with mayonnaise, calories we need Since…
Day 4 – The Netherlands
Amsterdam and Rotterdam I must say that the best bicycle path I ever rode is between Lelystad and Almere, see the second picture. The remaining part to Amsterdam was most of the time also very very good. Amsterdam was very nice to drive through but compared to other villages we have seen so far, very…
Day 3 – The Netherlands
Direction Amsterdam A nice wind from the north pushed us towards Amsterdam, we started early, it was very cold and enjoid an easy ride to a very nice camping site at Lelystad, which I really would like to recommend! By lunchtime the sun came out and we both got a little sunburn We went through…
Day 2 – The Netherlands
We started at 7:30 with a little and ans still strong wind from north west, only at lunchtime we changed the direction towards south west, that was better, but the legs are empty. We redifined the target of today and went only to Emmen in the Netherlands. The weather became better but no camping today…
Day 1
Strong wind from north west didn’t make it easier to ride 160k with a fully packed bike, but we made it almost to our planned destination. Whether should get better, it was really cold on the bike
Day 17, Wednesday BARCELONA
We have made it and have reached our final destination for this time. It took us 17 days and 2400 kilometer, we were calculating 2200 only. The difference must come from going to camping sites, detours and so. It was a very enjoyable trip, sometimes stressful and sometimes far too hot. The ways we took…