Everything from the big stuff (bringing a bike from the U.S. and finding a route) to the little stuff (laundry sheets!).
I love our bicycle adventures in Europe. All DIY, all different.
And we’ve learned from each one.
Continue reading “9 important lessons I’ve learned about biking in Europe”The final 55 miles in France, weighed down by a large can of cassoulet.
It’s our last day on the Avenue Verte in France. We have 55 miles to bicycle from Gournay-en-Bray to Dieppe, there’s a climb with a 7% grade, we’re now carrying a heavy can of cassoulet au confit du canard for someone in England, and we need to make the 6 p.m. ferry across the English Channel.
Can we do it without stressing?
Continue reading “Avenue Verte Day 3: We reach Dieppe and take the ferry to England”Just how bike-friendly is Strasbourg? And what about the food?
Strasbourg calls itself the most bike-friendly city in France (and fourth in Europe). So of course I had to check it out.
Continue reading “On and off the bike in and around Strasbourg”We based ourselves in Strasbourg and bicycled through cute half-timbered towns.
Time to base ourselves in Strasbourg for a few days and do some biking.
Continue reading “EuroVelo 5 in Alsace: A bike ride through the vineyards”For me, the highlight of this route is Claude Monet’s gorgeous garden at Giverny. Rouen was a lovely surprise.
France’s Seine a Velo cycle route stretches more than 400 kilometers between Paris and the English Channel (Le Havre or Deauville, take your pick). We chose to ride between Rouen and Paris, so most of it. Here’s what we found.
Continue reading “‘Seine a Velo’ cycle route: 3 days between Rouen and Paris”Just getting a reservation on a local train was cumbersome.
When we planned our bike vacation along France’s Loire River, part of Eurovelo 6, I hadn’t expected that the train would be the hardest part.
Continue reading “Biking the Loire: The hardest part was the train”Saumur, Villandry, Chinon, Chenonceau and more.
It took us more than an hour to get out of Saumur, a town of 26,000 along the Loire River in France.
Continue reading “Biking the Loire: 5 day trips from Tours”A different way to tackle Eurovelo 6.
On this bike trip to Europe, we decided to try something different: Rather than biking from point to point along a castle-laden section of Eurovelo 6 in France, we would base ourselves in one town and do day trips.
Continue reading “Biking the Loire: Why staying in one town was the perfect choice for us”It’s no longer just downhill along the Adige bike path. Plus tips for your own DIY trip.
Remember the tunnel the train went through as we headed up to Bolzano and beyond? Now we find out how we will will get across that mountain — and it’s not with a bike tunnel.
Continue reading “Day 4 on the Adige bike path: One giant climb before we end the ride in Verona”Another 60 miles of bike path in Italy as we go from Bolzano to Rovereto.
This is the day we leave the Italian province of South Tyrol and the German speakers.
We’re still going downhill, but at an ever-slower rate. On this 60ish-mile day from Bolzano to Rovereto, we will lose about 60 meters in elevation, as much as we did over the 24ish miles between Merano and Bolzano.
Continue reading “Day 3 on the Adige bike path in Italy: Hey, we’re on the Eurovelo 7 route”
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