I started bike touring in 1993, rode nearly every year until the summer of 1999… and then stopped for 16 years. Long story…
Since I restarted bike touring in 2015, I have done a number of short and long bike tours, and written up a few of them to serve as inspiration/ information. For some of the others, I have put up a photo gallery with a rough description of where I went and what I thought.
I am happy to answer questions on the others and over time will put up a map and photos.
- Ostend to Istanbul over a number of years, passing through Aachen, Strasbourg, Lake Constance, Innsbruck, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia;
- Riding North across Europe in stages (2019 – present)
- A number of short trips in Provence around Avignon and Aix-en-Provence.
- The Baltic States: Tallinn to Vilnius via Riga 2018
- Northern Brittany: a two week trip from Rennes, 2020 during a lull in the pandemic
- A round trip through Tuscany, Umbria and the lakes from Milan 2020
- A two week trip from Basel to Geneva to Lyons including along parts of the Upper Rhône (2021)
- A round trip from Seville through Andalusia, passing through Cordoba, Granada, Malaga and Ronda. You can read about my trip here, here and here.
- Bristol to Penzance through the British West Country 2022
- Oslo to Stavanger in Norway 2023
- Lagos to Lisbon along the Portuguese coast 2024
- A two week round trip from Bergen 2024
Riding North across Europe
Since 2019, I have been riding north across Europe in stages from the tip of Crete to Nordkapp in Norway, starting each year in the city that I arrived in at the end of the previous year’s trip. The pandemic interrupted things but I got going again in 2022 and am slowly writing up my experiences.
I rode the first part in 2019, riding from Ierapetra to Tirana up through Greece. You can read about it here.
You can read about the second part in 2022 from Tirana to Ljubljana via Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Croatian coast here,
You can read about the third part in 2023, from Ljubljana to Prague through the Austrian Alps and upper Danube here.
I am slowly writing up the fourth part, from Prague to Copenhagen via Berlin.