With just shy of 1000km now travelled on our bikes this summer, we’re heading into the final few days of the tour. We’ve got two days to get to the Hook of Holland and todays ride has put us on the outskirts of Rotterdam, so things are looking promising. It was a good but gentle… Read more

With 200km still to go before reaching our ferry and three days to get there, we set out into the cool of the morning feeing refresh and psyched to be back on the road. We had 65km to travel today, so there was no time for stopping for any of these! The town of Cuijk… Read more

Without a fixed tour itinerary, we’ve been able to chose our route each day, deciding on how far we’d like to go and what places to stop and see. Being on the road for this long, we knew we’d need a rest stop at various points and the campsite at Gennep has presented us with… Read more

Today really typified all that is good about life ‘on the tour’ and travelling by bikes. Last nights campsite owner gave us an App which has all the cycle paths in the area, so Clare linked up a whole bunch of this to use the best bits of the area. We’re still roughly following the… Read more

The streets had dried from the overnight rain, but it was a dull grey start as we left the hotel and made our way through the industrial landscape of Duisburg. Guidebook descriptions compare the region to Venice. To be fair, as it Italy, there were lots of canals and it all seemed to generally be… Read more

A change in the weather was certainly afoot last night as we got into the tent, with clouds gathering and rumbles of thunder in the distance. It was still warm enough to need to leave the tent door open though! I stayed awake just long enough to see a few flashes of lightning before falling… Read more