Category: Cycle Tours

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride My cycle ride is featuring on the Help For Heroes website at the moment: Berlin to London on a recumbent trike If you think what I’m doing is pretty cool, perhaps you might sponsor me to give me some encouragement and,… Continue reading B2L – Delft to Hoek van Holland, Harwich to Great Bromley (Day 16)

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride My cycle ride is featuring on the Help For Heroes website at the moment: Berlin to London on a recumbent trike If you think what I’m doing is pretty cool, perhaps you might sponsor me to give me some encouragement and,… Continue reading B2L – Utrecht to Delft (Day 15)

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride My cycle ride is featuring on the Help For Heroes website at the moment: Berlin to London on a recumbent trike If you think what I’m doing is pretty cool, perhaps you might sponsor me to give me some encouragement and,… Continue reading B2L – Duiven to Utrecht (Day 14)

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride My cycle ride is featuring on the Help For Heroes website at the moment: Berlin to London on a recumbent trike If you think what I’m doing is pretty cool, perhaps you might sponsor me to give me some encouragement and,… Continue reading B2L – Oeding to Duiven (Day 13)

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride My cycle ride is featuring on the Help For Heroes website at the moment: Berlin to London on a recumbent trike If you think what I’m doing is pretty cool, perhaps you might sponsor me to give me some encouragement and,… Continue reading B2L – Münster to Oeding (Day 12)

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride My cycle ride is featuring on the Help For Heroes website at the moment: Berlin to London on a recumbent trike If you think what I’m doing is pretty cool, perhaps you might sponsor me to give me some encouragement and,… Continue reading B2L – Gütersloh to Münster (Day 11)

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride My cycle ride is featuring on the Help For Heroes website at the moment: Berlin to London on a recumbent trike If you think what I’m doing is pretty cool, perhaps you might sponsor me to give me some encouragement and,… Continue reading B2L – Nieheim to Gütersloh (Day 10)

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride My cycle ride is featuring on the Help For Heroes website at the moment: Berlin to London on a recumbent trike If you think what I’m doing is pretty cool, perhaps you might sponsor me to give me some encouragement and,… Continue reading B2L – Einbeck to Nieheim (Day 9)

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride My cycle ride is featuring on the Help For Heroes website at the moment: Berlin to London on a recumbent trike All sponsorship greatly appreciated! The link to my sponsor page is here: Auntie Helen’s sponsorship page Friday 4 May 2012… Continue reading B2L – Bad Harzburg to Einbeck (Day 8)

Click here to see my progress so far: Auntie Helen’s Berlin To London ride It was very exciting last night at about 11pm with a really impressive electrical storm – the sort where the flashes of lightning light up the entire room and the thunder actually rattles the windows. The forecast for this morning was… Continue reading B2L – Nachterstedt to Bad Harzburg (Day 7)

Unfortunately this is my second attempt at this blog as the WiFi at the hotel in Nachterstedt didn’t work properly and consequently I lost most of the text, so this has been a bit shortened (a relief to my readers, no doubt!) I slept really well last night and my back felt a lot better… Continue reading B2L – Oranienbaum to Nachterstedt (Day 6)

Click here to find my current location: Auntie Helen’s Berlin to London track I was up bright and early this morning, ready for breakfast at 7:30am. I had wondered if I was the only person staying in the Hotel but there was a German couple also at the breakfast table. The lady was wearing cycling… Continue reading B2L – Borkheide to Oranienbaum (Day 5)

Click here to find my current location: Auntie Helen’s Berlin to London track Today is the start of my tour proper! I arranged to meet my friend Ines in Starbucks by Friedrichstraße station. Ines was cycling to meet me and was a bit late so I had a text from her at one point which… Continue reading B2L – Berlin to Borkheide (Day 4)

Day 3 – Düsseldorf to Berlin The CVJM offered a good breakfast (I took my own teabags, of course). I have brought 110 teabags with me, knowing that 40 wasn’t enough for a week in Austria; I’ve only used three so far so I think I might be bringing some home with me. Anyway, after… Continue reading B2L – Düsseldorf to Berlin by train (Day 3)

2 – Hook of Holland to Düsseldorf I slept reasonably but the wake-up call always seems way too early, what with the hour time change as well. I redistributed some of the weight in my panniers (the port side pannier is just clothing and lightweight, the starboard side pannier is the one with valuables (gadgets,… Continue reading B2L – Hoek van Holland to Düsseldorf by train (Day 2)

Day 1: Home to Harwich So everything was finally ready! Alfie had been cleaned, serviced, had a new chain and was generally looking shiny. I had my last German lesson of my University course (I’m missing one of the final exams, the oral, as I’ll be somewhere near Münster on that day). I finished off… Continue reading B2L – Home to Harwich (Day 1)

Preparations… My Berlin to London trip is now just eight days away! So what has been done in preparation? Alfie the Trike The trike has had new tyres, the hub gear has been serviced, a new chain has been fitted and everything generally cleaned/oiled/polished as appropriate. Helen the cyclist Since the beginning of this year… Continue reading B2L – preparations for the trip