Posts with description of trip
Before we depart on the 2nd of February we will have a few training runs on the bike. This weekend however had another important goal: giving my mum more information about our bike trip. By now she has seen our website, seen our movie about the Pyrenees trip and seen our bikes, though she still thinks we [...]
Backpacking is our favorite way of spending our summer holidays. But this year we were going to do it different. To prepare for our journey on the bicycle it is important we do a thorough test ride. Thus we would be cycling three weeks around and through the French and Spanish Pyrenees. Our plans were ambitious and [...]
Biking to me is a means of transport and travel. Travelling part of the world by bicycle will provide me with a lot of opportunities: The opportunity to go slow and to experience every meter; the opportunity to get close by, without the barrier of a glass window or a motor and the opportunity to challenge myself [...]
In May we visited the Eiffel region in Germany for a bike weekend. During the weekend in the Eiffel we were better prepared than in the Ardennes, but we were already heightening our goals. The highest ascent would be over 600 meters. Riding out of Heerlen we definitely wanted to avoid Aachen, but all the signs lead [...]
The Easter weekend of 2013 in the Netherlands had some cold weather in store for us. The temperature was below freezing and our gear was not really up to scratch at that point to deal with those temperatures. We made our way from Maastricht past Liege to Durbuy and then took the direction of Amay to ride [...]