Category: Cycle Tours

B2B Day 4 – Lichtenfels to Eltmann James didn’t sleep so well last night as his bed wasn’t too comfy but I felt very refreshed when I woke up. The Hotel, despite being fairly new, has a rather 1980s fake bamboo look to the furnishings which didn’t make for a comfortable headboard to lean against.… Continue reading B2B Day 4 – Lichtenfels to Eltmann

Day 3 – Monday 13 June (Pfingsten Bank Holiday), Bayreuth to Lichtenfels After a good night’s sleep we went down to breakfast and enjoyed a vast variety of goodies. They had even painted happy faces on the boiled eggs! We paid our bill and were presented with a jar of jam (apparently our hotel was… Continue reading B2B Day 3 – Bayreuth to Lichtenfels

Day 2 – Sunday 12 June James and I both woke up fairly early as the curtains in the room couldn’t exactly be described as blackout. We were down at breakfast at 7:30am when they started serving and partook of the traditional German cyclists’ breakfast – cereal (corn flakes and muesli with chocolate balls), a… Continue reading B2B Day 2 – Spay to Bayreuth by train

The weather forecast for today was a significant electrical storm but it looked OK out of the window (dark clouds but dry) at 7am so I decided to go out riding straight away to try to avoid the worst of the weather. I decided to go alongside the Rhein on the good cycle path to… Continue reading Düsseldorf – Around Neuss

Despite the weather forecast last night suggesting we were in for more rain this morning, when I looked out of the window at 7am it looked reasonable, so I decided to venture out a bit further afield today. I decided it would be nice to redo my Erft Valley ride, but this time the other… Continue reading Düsseldorf – Erft Valley

Today’s trip was to Venlo, Holland, by train, cycling back. The train to Venlo is one of the new Eurobahn trains which have loads of room for bikes and are very comfortable. However there’s this weird issue where they’re not allowed to be used in the Netherlands (something to do with validating the type of… Continue reading Venlo – Düsseldorf

Today, being Saturday, was a chance for a longer ride. But not too long, as I’m planning to go to Venlo (Netherlands) by train tomorrow and cycle back which will be a 50 mile day. I decided this morning that I’ve been unfair to the north part of Düsseldorf after my less successful visit to… Continue reading Düsseldorf – Krefeld

Short 15 mile ride this morning as I ended up doing 15 miles yesterday after my lesson, thus did 45 in total. I re-did a route I’ve done twice before, this time the other way round and cutting out some more off-road sections. I left at 9am and arrived at the Unterbacher See at 9:45am… Continue reading Düsseldorf – Unterbacher See again

The first cool day since I’ve been in Germany, a very comfortable 22 degrees and overcast so it felt colder. After last night’s rain I fitted my front mudguards (thinking the routes might be a bit mucky) and set off for the Helter Skelter bridge, which is north of the Altstadt. I arrived at the… Continue reading Düsseldorf – the Altstadt and the Helter Skelter bridge

Forecast was for mega rain this afternoon and this evening so I planned to put the rack and Vaude panniers on the trike after my morning constitutional ride. I decided to redo the route that crosses the river to Neuss on a bridge and then crosses back over at Zons with the little ferry. It’s… Continue reading Düsseldorf – Neuss – Zons again

I got up a bit later this morning and had planned to just do a vague ride but in the end decided to plan something a bit more interesting with the maps that Redfalo from CycleChat lent me. I crossed over the more northerly bridge and made my way into Neuss, following a rather lovely… Continue reading Düsseldorf – Neukirchen

After yesterday’s longer trip I didn’t want to venture anywhere too exciting today so just cycled along the cycle paths to the Altstadt and then back again (I’ve done this route a few times before). The only thing of note was that they were having some chaps examine one of the bridges from a hanging… Continue reading Düsseldorf – A short Altstadt visit

Today was my long ride day, seeing as I don’t get a chance to do long rides during the week and I went to Arnhem yesterday. Last night, after a bit of general googling and looking at railway timetables, I decided I would get a train somewhere this morning and then cycle back. But train… Continue reading Overwinter – Düsseldorf

Today was my day to travel to another country (Holland) to meet up with my chum Marieke. I woke up early enough to go out for a ride before setting off (I was due to leave at 10am for Holland) so I extracted the Trice from the car, where it had spent the night (we… Continue reading Düsseldorf South

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The plan for today was to re-do one of my original rides, the one round Elbsee and Unterbacher See, but to see if I could avoid the very off-road section that had been a bit awkward last time. I trotted downstairs and got the bike out of the car. Puncture. Same wheel. Clearly I hadn’t… Continue reading Düsseldorf – Unterbacher See

I fully expected to have a puncture this morning. This is because last night I attempted to get the buckle out of both front tyres (this is when they’re not seated on the rim absolutely correctly so that the reflective strip around them squashes in at one point – and when you ride you feel… Continue reading Düsseldorf Altstadt again