by Karl Zeiner | Oct 24, 2024 | Adventure, Cycling
See here for Day 5. This was an excellent day for a number of reasons: great weather, great scenery, nice climbs and descents and lots of quiet roads and tracks. I was still a bit apprehensive about getting away late so asked the B&B owners the previous evening if...
by Karl Zeiner | Oct 23, 2024 | Adventure, Cycling
See here for day 4. This day would take me from the cobbles of Belgium to The Ardennes National Park which is both in France and Belgium. I spent the night an Airbnb in an old townhouse in Ellezelles. It was a pretty fancy setup. In a somewhat risky move I decided to...
by Karl Zeiner | Oct 20, 2024 | Adventure, Cycling
See here for Day 3 Another day, another ferry and a dash for it. I was staying in a B&B in Burgh Haamstede and was going to have breakfast before heading off to catch the ferry (approx. 40km away). After having had a rush to get to Burgh Haamstede I felt a bit...
by Karl Zeiner | Oct 18, 2024 | Adventure, Cycling
Find day 2 here In my head this was going to be a relatively easy day although with just shy of 140km it was pretty similar in distance to Day 1 but it had significantly less ascent (around 400m instead of 1500m). Problem was it wasn’t exactly an early start, but a...
by Karl Zeiner | Oct 17, 2024 | Adventure, Cycling
Day 1 report is here Day 2 was planned as the shortest day of the trip as I only had to get to the ferry port at North Shields and the ferry to Ijmuiden/Amsterdam was only due to leave at 5pm. It was just over 50km to get there and that wasn’t the most direct...
by Karl Zeiner | Oct 16, 2024 | Adventure, Cycling
It was misty and dull morning with some light drizzle as I rode away from the house just after 9am with the final destination, my parents house in Austria 13 days and 1600km away. wet start The early miles were on roads and tracks very familiar to me as I headed for...
