My second week cycling in Germany was the picture postcard old castles overlooking the river. South from Cologne I first came to Bonn where the UNESCO world heritage section starts, on to Remagen, Bad Breisig, Koblenz, St Goar, Ingelheim am Rhein, Mainz, Oppenheim, Gernsheim and to Hamm. On the opposite side of the river was […]
These photos were off my first week in Germany after I crossed the border at Millingen aan de Rijn. I passed through the old Roman town of Xanten, then on to Rheinberg, Duisberg, Neuss (over the river from Dusseldorf), Dormagen, Leverkusen before arriving in Cologne. I stayed in Cologne with a friend (Thomas and his wife Gaby) […]
I said I wasn’t going to go to Basel. It was pointless. I would be doing it for the sake of it sounding cool. There was another reason. I had been to that spot where France, Germany and Switzerland all meet before. It was 1992 and our last family holiday, mountain biking in the French […]
There is a mountain in my head that I constructed sometime ago to frame my philosophy on life. I created it when I wanted to explain to a like-minded friend about how I was feeling after an extended period of travel. There are two parallel worlds that are separated by a mountain. One world is a […]
I arrived by overnight ferry into the Hook of Holland, around 30km from the centre of Rotterdam. I followed the course of the Rhine passing through Dordrecht, Gorinchem, Zaltbommel, Beneden Leeuwen, Nijmegen (amongst others) and finally the border town of Millingen Aan de Rjin. Below is a collection of my photos from that part of […]
Paul is a very nice man. There are many like him. You just need to find them. I had never met Paul before. He invited me to stay in his apartment. Paul fed me, let me use his washing machine, his shower and a spare bed. In return he got my company and lasting gratitude. […]
A snap shot of the journey from Watford to Harwich by bicycle, the first week of my grand cycling plans.
I managed to leave on the day I had set a month previously, although just an arbitrary date it provided a focus to getting out of the front door. Part of the reason I waited so long in telling close friends and family what I was planning on doing was so the background noise it […]
I don’t (really) believe in fate but sometimes life has a funny way of reminding you of exactly where you are. I’ve been out on the bike with all the gear on a fair bit recently, replicating what I will do when I leave, to quieten the demons in my mind that say ‘your body […]
I can summarise what I’m about to embark on in a brief paragraph which bodes well for focusing on the objective, the explanation of why will take considerably longer! I am going to cycle from my front door in Watford to Spain, via The Netherlands, Germany and France, where I will base myself for a month or […]