Category: Cycle Tours

I slept well last night, Klaus needed to worship before the air conditioning unit in the middle of the night because he overheated, but overall it was a restful night after the hard day’s cycling. And today dawned, 18 June, which was my 48th birthday. I had lots of lovely messages on Facebook, WhatsApp etc,… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 4: Speyer to Appenweier

Despite the threat of rain last night it had remained dry. I woke up early as always (5:00am) and read most of the Internet before Klaus woke. We decided to go for a short walk to the Rhein before breakfast. Just a few metres from our hotel was this bicycle ferry landing stage; I liked… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 3: Walluf to Speyer

Day 2 of our tour started with a slightly cloudy sky but no sign of rain. Breakfast at the hotel started officially at 9am, which was a bit late as we were both up and dressed by 7:30 and keen to get going as we had 150km to ride today. So instead we packed everything… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 2: Drachenfels to Walluf

So our summer Velomobile tour starts here! Long in planning (I think the first tracks were prepared in January), our first day of the tour would be a trip along the Rhein to Drachenfels, just south of Bonn and on the other side of the Rhein. We posted a list of our day stages on… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 1: Kempen to Drachenfels

As mentioned in my blog post from May 2019, Klaus and I planned to take part in the Grensland Tour organised by the Dutch Grensrijders on the 1st June. The tour would start from Posterholt in the Netherlands which is about 50km from home. We decided this was a bit far in one day, as… Continue reading Grensland Tour, May/June 2019

The Easter long weekend of 2019 turned out to have a rather good weather forecast. Rather good for bike touring!! Unfortunately, before the thought of touring had had much of a chance to get established, Emily (Klaus’s Quattrovelo) broke yet another weld in her rear suspension/axle/frame whilst we were out on a ride together. It… Continue reading Easter 2019 Netherlands Tour

Each year on 28 December there is a gathering of velomobiles for a group ride. I attended Oliebollentocht in 2016 in Dronten, 2017 in Rotterdam and then this year’s was just round the corner in Roermond. So of course we had it in our diaries for months! Klaus and I were joined by Fritz and… Continue reading Oliebollentocht 2018

Having toured now for two weeks, we thought it would be good to give an update on some of the equipment we have used and our experiences in the Netherlands. My report is first, then Klaus’s in German below. Helen’s Report The Milan GT Velomobile The Milan is not a touring Velomobile. It is designed… Continue reading NL2018 – Thoughts on Velomobile touring in the Netherlands

Saturday 23 June 2018 Here is our planned route for the day: And here is the actual route we rode: We slept really well in the very lovely B&B de Pingerhoeve and enjoyed a tasty breakfast. Our ride today would be just 90km so there was no major rush to get going. We packed the… Continue reading NL2018 Day 15: Nuth to Kempen

Friday 22 June 2018 Three weeks ago I planned our route for the day: However, due to my broken spoke and dislike of hills, I decided to do an alternative much shorter route that avoided the worst of the hilly bits. Klaus wanted to try the original route. There will be a ride report from… Continue reading NL2018 Day 14: Maastricht to Nuth

Thursday 21 June 2018 This was our planned route for the day: We had a good night’s sleep and then enjoyed an excellent breakfast in our little B&B. everything was really well presented. We had contacted the Vrienden op de Fiets place where we would be staying tonight and they had said we couldn’t arrive… Continue reading NL2018 Day 13: Weert to Maastricht

Wednesday 20 June 2018 Here is our planned track for the day: Today was planned as another shorter day at 80km. After a good breakfast with John and Marieke we headed off at just past 9am. Today was another day of mixed road surfaces. We had some fast roads but also lots of bumpy cycle… Continue reading NL2018 Day 12: Tilburg to Weert

Tuesday 19 June 2018 This was our planned route for the day: After a hearty breakfast we packed up all our belongings. Unfortunately the clothes we had washed yesterday afternoon hadn’t dried and overall our clothing is getting a bit whiffy. This isn’t the end of the world but it is one of the discomforts… Continue reading NL2018 Day 11: Roosendaal to Tilburg

Monday 18 June 2018 This was our planned route for the day: A short report for today as it’s my birthday and I want to enjoy a relaxing evening with Klaus! We left our brilliant B&B at 9am and headed off in a light drizzle towards Burgh Haamstede itself and then further south towards Middelburg.… Continue reading NL2018 Day 10: Burgh Haamstede to Roosendaal

Sunday 17 June 2018 This was our planned route for the day: However, Alex had sent us an updated route a few days before that he thought might suit us better. Through the marvels of technology we were able to get this new route onto our Garmins. We had an early start today so had… Continue reading NL2018 Day 9: Den Haag to Burgh Haamstede

Saturday 16 June 2018 This was our first and only rest day on the tour. We probably didn’t actually need it as we were well into the rhythm of cycling and life is simple when you are on a bike tour – eat, sleep, ride – but we had planned to stop here and it… Continue reading NL2018 Day 8: Rest Day in Den Haag

Friday 15 June 2018 Spotted by a friend this morning, our tour is mentioned on Ligfiets.net: This was our planned route for the day: We slept well and had a bit more of a lie in as breakfast didn’t start until 8:30. Although there were some odd things about the hotel, the breakfast was very… Continue reading NL2018 Day 7: Egmond to Den Haag