I didn’t sleep too well, was up in the middle of the night, and got up before 5 to leave by 6. The excitement was getting to me, and now also the lack of sleep. Today was a cycle through the haze in my mind and the grey skies in the heavens.
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Day 2. 128 km. Sythen – Bad Essen
Posted: June 9, 2013 in Cycling, GermanyTags: Bad Essen, Cycling, Deutschland, Fahrrad, Germany, Sythen
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Day 1. 166km. Eindhoven – Sythen
Posted: June 8, 2013 in Cycling, Germany, NetherlandsTags: Cycling, Eindhoven, Germany, Hochwasser, Netherlands, Rhein, Sythen
A cycle trip like the good old days with Ed – singing as we go. Sun, blue skies, strawberries, Rhein River in flood, motor bike cafe Schnitzel, everyone friendly. Ideal start to my cycle trip.
Autumn bike trip Eindhoven – Münster
Posted: October 23, 2012 in Cycling, Germany, NetherlandsTags: Cycling, Eindhoven, Germany, Münster, Netherlands
Probably the last warm weather weekend of the year had to be taken advantage of. A bike trip in the autumn orange light, through forests of bright red and yellow leaved trees, their colours raining on me down as I cycled past. A 315 km trip from Eindhoven to Münster in Germany.
The plan was to cycle with Volker (who joined me on some of my cycle trip in Norway this summer) from his parent’s house in Rheine to Münster: the bicycle Mecca of Germany. On Saturday I put my head down and aimed at maximum kilometres in order to amble to Rheine on Sunday by noon, and then to Münster on Sunday afternoon.
I left Eindhoven on Saturday at 06:30 in the dark and headed north east. It was an overcast day as I cycled through the cow studded fields, and through the bright red forests with the trees shedding their leaves.
The bright red of the autumn forests
Enschede in the Netherlands was my distant destination, and I made it just before nightfall at 1830.
But Sunday was the gem of the trip. Starting misty, the autumn day turned sunny, warm and perfect. The mid afternoon light made highlighted beautiful contrasts in the forest and river surroundings. As the afternoon turned into evening, and the light softened to its mellow departure, the colours became rich and orange. What a lovely light to experience this beautiful nature.
Me near the Ems River
The Ems River
The Ems River
Orange tree in the mellow late afternoon light
Cycling in the soft evening ilght
Münster
Aachen – Andermatt, 2000
Posted: June 27, 2012 in Cycling, Germany, SwitzerlandTags: Cycling, France, Germany, Switzerland
The first leg of my cycle from Aachen to Sicily is now online. I cycled in 2000 from Aachen to Andermatt in central Switzerland just before the Gottard pass over the alps. Later legs of this trip are to follow.
Veloland Route 3
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