We apologize for the delay in this post! It has been a busy past week or so since rolling into Amsterdam for the last time.  The final day of riding was a modest 60km to Amsterdam. You don’t need any reminder of the tremendous Dutch bike paths, so we’ll spare you the glowing reviews. However, […]

Today’s 60km from Arnhem to Utrecht was almost exactly as we were hoping – well-paved, beautiful bike paths leading us the entire way through forests and quaint small Dutch towns. The only surprise of the day was the semblance of “hills” (still relatively minor) in southern Holland near Arnhem. Not used to those in the […]

As mentioned in the previous post, we walked around Strasbourg for a while in the morning. It was nice to relax after yesterday’s difficult ride. We checked got started out of Strasbourg around 11:30am and headed toward the German resort town of Baden Baden, a leisurely 60km away. It was going to be another hot […]

Today we left Switzerland and cycled into our fifth country on the trip, Germany. We were again disappointed to not have a country crossing sign at the border, but so it goes. This day was pretty tough – it was about 97 degrees and the Rhine bike route (at least on the German side) was […]

The 70km from Lucerne to Zurich definitely ranked as our least picturesque day of riding in Switzerland, as we rode through a decent amount (by European standards) of urban sprawl. It wasn’t unpleasant or ugly, just not the stereotypical Swiss countryside from the prior days.  The first part of the ride out of Lucerne was […]

Today was the best as far as our point-to-point rides have gone! It was a beautiful day that included riding around three alpine lakes and over a mountain pass. Interlaken and Lucerne are both very well-known towns, but the best of Switzerland may very well be the in between. We set off along the very […]

We probably had our easiest day of riding getting to Interlaken from Bern. It was only ~70km on perfectly sign-posted Swiss national bike path, with minimal elevation gain.  Leaving Bern, we went through a city park along the river, then found ourselves in Swiss farmland. The bike route was mostly on quiet farm roads or […]

Caitlin’s bike chain was in dire need of cleaning and oil after the torrential downpour in Seyssel, so we decided to take it to a bike shop in Lausanne in the morning. It was an interesting shop. It had a bunch of good reviews and was a large store, but 90% of the bikes were […]

We had some ground to cover from the prior day’s short ride. While mostly following the ViaRhona into Switzerland(!), we needed to rely on Google Maps for a detour into Collonges, the town where Caitlin spent part of her childhood while her dad was at CERN. The first part of the ride out of Seysell […]