Laura Birchenough in Figures
Laura Birchenough has just returned home from a cycle ride that took in the last part of the Eurovelo 5 – she stayed with Massimo Mazzone in Benevento – and then most of eastern / central Europe back...
View ArticleVelo Marathon To London 2012
Kate Belcheva is from Bulgaria, a country that has escaped the web of the Eurovelo network of routes. Routes 6 & 11 pass through neighbouring Romania to the north (route 6) and through Serbia and...
View ArticleMatt Krog & The Eurovelo 6: Days 27 – 30 (Munich)
Wednesday 8th August Rest in Munich “In the morning Andi wrote down some things I should check out in the city. I decided to head to Englisher Gardens, the largest city park. The river that runs...
View ArticleCycle Tramps… From Calderdale
I received a message this week on the Facebook page from Neola Kay Wilby; “I’ve just been looking at your route for the summer. My boyfriend and I will be cycling from northern Spain to Croatia then to...
View Article“The Best Cycle-Related Travel Book I’ve Read”
A few months ago I wrote about Neola, a cyclist from Halifax who is planning a trip across Europe this summer from Santander to Romania. I may well bump into her and her fellow touring cyclist as I...
View ArticleEurovelo 15 / The Rhine Cycle Route
I used to regularly post extracts from emails that I received on here but recently I seem to have stopped doing so. For no particular reason. It’s a delight to be asked about the routes that I have...
View ArticleCycling Day 43: Aachen To Cologne
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Yesterday I made clear my (self-inflicted) frustration at not being back on a campsite but couped up in a small hotel room in Aachen. As I...
View ArticleMeanwhile In The Civilised World…
A couple of European cycling-themed videos from Brut Nature FR, a French ‘new media’ company that seems to exist on social media but nowhere else. Anyway, I digress. Both are short and […]
View ArticleCrossing Europe On Trains, Ferries… And A Bike Called Reggie: Part Three
The cycling-public transport mini-series of posts continues… It kicked off with my own story of how I managed to transport myself and Reggie the bike back from Nordkapp in August 2015 using […]
View Article5 Amazing Mountain Bike Trails In Eastern Europe
By Oliver Devon Nothing beats the fresh air, breathtaking view, and the thrill of riding your bike on a new barely touched trail. The adrenaline of rushing down that unknown path makes the hair on the...
View ArticleCycling Europe: ‘A Time Of Birds’ By Helen Moat
Spring 2020 will forever go down in the annals of history as the time of the Coronavirus. We don't yet know how the story will end - this is history in the making - but we do know that the pandemic has...
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