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Cycling Day 74: Kvikne To Viggja
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Again, a day on which I expected only to cycle a modest number of kilometres but which in the end turned out to be significantly above...
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Cycling Day 76: Trondheim
It’s just before 9.30am and I’ve returned for the final time into the centre of Trondheim. Steven and Anita have been good hosts for the past two nights; I’ve eaten and drunk well, I’ve learnt a little...
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Cycling From Tarifa To Nordkapp In 235 Blog Posts
Finally, here it is; the complete list of posts from this summer’s cycle from Tarifa to Nordkapp. In the reorganised framework of CyclingEurope.org you can find it under the ‘European Routes’ menu...
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Tarifa To Nordkapp In 66 Campsites
Between the nights of April 8th (Tarifa) and July 28th (Nordkapp), I was on the road for 111 days; 96 cycling days and 15 rest days. I stayed in at least 66 campsites for one or occasionally two...
View ArticleOn Your Bike Abroad: Cycling The EuroVelo 3 From Trondheim To Santiago
CyclingEurope.org often veers off topic, but here’s a story that is bang on topic. It starts with an email from Harry: Hi Andrew, I’m planning to cycle EuroVelo 3 in September this year, and was...
View ArticleCycling Tarifa To Nordkapp In 24 Questions
Last week I was contacted by Nicholas Waite, a cyclist who is planning to travel from Tarifa to Nordkapp by bicycle in 2018. As with anyone attempting such a feat, he has done the wise thing and read...
View ArticleBob Jones: On The Road Again…In Portugal And Spain
Originally posted on Pedalitis: My last two really big rides were to celebrate my 60th and 65th birthdays, so they were five years apart (O-Level maths, 62%, Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, 1967). I...
View ArticleThree Years Ago Today: Santo Domingo De La Calzado To Logroño
Originally posted on CyclingEurope.org: Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Not long before I get to the French border and today’s modest 50 km nudged me a little closer. The...
View ArticleThe Social Side Of EuroVelo
In the ten years that CyclingEurope.org has existed in this little corner of the worldwide web, one major thing has changed online; social media has taken over, or so it sometimes seems. Not that I’m...
View ArticleCycling The EuroVelo 1 And The Camino de Compostela
I wish this would happen more often than it does… Back in January I received an email from a cyclist called Paddy Ducey. He told me about how he had read the books that I have written about cycling...
View ArticleCycling Day 33: Orléans To Montargis
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. An average day in several ways but most obviously In that I cycled 75 km, my target average (which is currently exactly 74 km). I was out of...
View ArticleCycling Orléans To Paris
From Clare of Mon Vélo Et Moi: “Earlier in the year I bough a French book from Chamina publishers which plots the route from Tours to Namur along the, as yet unrealised with signs, Eurovelo 3. The...
View ArticleCycling Day 34: Montargis To Fontainebleau
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. A short cycling day – just 56 km – but it was planned that way and puts me within a normal cycling day’s ride of the centre of Paris. But...
View ArticleCycling Day 38: Seraucourt-le-Grand To Maubeuge
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. It was a late finish today – back in Maubeuge! – so I’ll write the prose tomorrow or later tonight. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures… I’m...
View ArticleCycling Day 39: Maubeuge To Chapelle-Saint-Lambert
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. A little delayed, here’s the write up… I set out all my bits and pieces of paper on the an outside table of a café in central Maubeuge to...
View ArticleCycling Day 41: Borgloon To Maastricht
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Tonight has been chuffing cold! I have now crawled into the tent at the campsite a few kilometres south of Maastricht wearing four upper...
View ArticleCycling Day 69: Oslo (South) To Langset
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Data is still an issue so just one picture tonight but I will update with others later in the week once my 10gb monthly allowance is...
View ArticleCycling Day 70: Langset To Redalen
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. I was woken this morning by the sound of raindrops on the tent. As I pondered whether to get up immediately or wait for a while I reflected...
View ArticleWarning: Detailed (And I Mean Detailed) Maps Of The EuroVelo Network
One for the maps geeks. (Of which I am one…) You may wish to turn away if you have a dodgy internet connection as clicking on the links below is likely to test your patience in terms of download time,...
View ArticleEuroVelo Extra: The Facts And The Figures
The ECF have just published a 'press pack' of information about the EuroVelo network. Here are a few snippets. They complement perfectly what Ed Lancaster said on the The Cycling Europe Podcast that...
View ArticleI’ve Been Thinking… Time For A Small Change
I spend more time doing that than doing, if that makes sense. The focus of my recent thoughts has been the Spanish portion of my 2015 ride along the Eurovelo 3 from Santiago de Compostela to Trondheim...
View ArticleCycling In Norway
When I cycled from Greece to Portugal in 2013, I spent most of my time pre-trip thinking about Greece, Albania and, to a certain extent, Croatia. I didn’t spend too much time considering the western...
View ArticleCycling In Sweden
Last weekend I wrote about cycling in Norway, the final country on my 3rd pan-European quest next year. I’m purposefully starting at the end and working backwards so as to avoid falling into the trap...
View ArticleCycling In Denmark
I have arrived at country number three – in a reverse sense – after previously writing about Cycling In Norway and Cycling In Sweden. Denmark will, of course, be country number five after Spain,...
View ArticleCycling In Germany
I was managing to write one of these country commentaries at the rate of one per weekend earlier in December but I’ve had a break for a few weeks over Christmas. Remember that they are not a complete...
View ArticleEurovelo 1/3: The Complete Route!
So impressed was I yesterday with my ability to trace a nice blue track upon the German section of the Eurovelo map of Europe in my post Cycling in Germany, I decided to do it for the rest of the...
View ArticleCycling The Eurovelo 1/3: The Maps
While maps are on my mind (see previous post)… I have a newly discovered love for Marco Polo maps. But before I get on to them, let’s back track a little. I can’t imagine there will ever be a day when...
View ArticleCycling In Belgium
My journey across the continent continues… I have already posted planning notes on cycling through Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Here are my planning notes for Belgium after which only France...
View ArticleHold The Front Page! “Teacher Quits…”
UPDATE: You can now read the Henley Standard article referred to in this post online by following this link. It’s not often you make it onto the front page of a newspaper for bad reasons let alone for...
View ArticleCycling In France
So, after Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Belgium I arrive in France on my pre-Eurovelo 1/3 quest to have put at the very least a bit of thought into the planning of the route. Only one country to...
View ArticleThe Spanish Plan: February / March 2015
It’s been a busy few days since relocating back up to Yorkshire but I’m delighted that the whole process is now complete. I first started to plan my return to the county where I was born, brought up...
View ArticleCycling In Spain
So finally, after Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium and France… I arrive at the beginning (if that makes sense), in Spain. If you remember, my posts about cycling through each of the countries...
View ArticleEurovelo 1/3: The United Maps Of Europe!
There is a moment in the film Raiders of the Lost Arc when Indiana Jones places a sacred staff in just the right place inside a newly discovered ancient cavern and magically a blinding shaft of light...
View ArticleCycling The Eurovelo 1/3
If you hadn’t noticed, I’ve posted these country-specific commentaries about the upcoming Eurovelo 1/3 trip from southern Spain to northern Norway: Cycling in Spain Cycling in France Cycling in Belgium...
View ArticleCicerone Cycling Guides: The Rhine And The Danube
I’ve been sent a couple of cycling guides to review by Cicerone: The Rhine Cycle Route (ISBN: 978-1-85284-797-5) and The Danube Cycleway (ISBN: 978-1-85284-722-7). The Rhine guide is an updated version...
View ArticleCyclingEurope.org: An Apology To Readers
So it’s Monday 9th March and I’m just about to start my second week at the language school here in Cádiz. Perhaps first of all I should apologise to all those people who are desperate for me to start...
View ArticleReady To Take On Europe (Again)
Tomorrow morning, Tuesday 7th April, it’s a relatively short ride to Gibraltar and a final night of luxury in a hotel. On Wednesday it’s an even shorter ride to Tarifa and a campsite just to the west...
View ArticlePrologue Day 1: Estepona To Gibraltar
So, not the first day of cycling from the southernmost point of Europe to the northernmost point, but the first day of cycling any kind of distance on a fully loaded bike. It was a straightforward...
View ArticlePrologue Day 2: Gibraltar To Tarifa
The plan this morning was to first spend an hour or so meandering my way along the edge of the rock so as to complete a full circumnavigation. OK, it’s not perhaps the British Isles but it would at...
View ArticleCycling Day 7: Zafra To Mérida
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. The day kicked off with a visit to the post office in Zafra to post the documents, clothes and zoom lens back to Britain, all 2.2 kg of them....
View ArticleCycling Day 10: Plasencia To Salamanca
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. [Saturday evening: Too tired to write the blurb tonight but come back tomorrow for the full story. The stats and pictures will hopefully...
View ArticleCycling Day 30: Saumur To Tours
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Most days I fight the urge to focus (quite naturally) upon the destination rather than the journey but I’m afraid yesterday and today, when I...
View ArticleCycling Day 31: Tours To Amboise
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Did you follow that link? Yes? Thanks. No? Why not? If you are into your statistics you might enjoy finding out all about the quantative side...
View ArticleCycling Day 32: Amboise To Orléans
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. One of those days where, when I set off, I really had no idea where it would end. I guessed somewhere between Blois and Orléans, the former...
View ArticleEuroVelo: The State Of The Network Address
Like Chris Packham of Springwatch fame, I love a good graph or visual that says something in one glance that would take a thousand words to explain. And the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) - the...
View ArticleEscaping Europe… In Europe: France / Albania
In a week when the news here in Europe has been dominated by... well, let's not go there other than to note that Putin needs to ride his bike a bit more often and shed the macho persona he so loves, I...
View ArticleThe Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 044 – The Canal De La Garonne & Canal Du...
Declan Lyons trained as a zoologist but after several years working as a journalist and management consultant he started to research and then write two Cicerone guides for people interested in cycling...
View ArticleThe Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 048 – A Mountaineer’s Guide To Cycling...
The Cycling Europe Podcast mainly features, well, cyclists. The interviewee in this episode, however, is first and foremost a mountaineer. But he’s not just any mountaineer. His name is Tim Ralph and...
View ArticleThe Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 051 – Freewheeling In France With Lyn Eyb
France is a top destination for cycle tourists and, with its great diversity of landscapes - from windswept cliffs in the north to vast swathes of forest in the west to sun-drenched villages in the...
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