Bike Trip
Today we allowed strong winds to push us all the way from Domburg to Leiden. It was another windy day with the forecast calling 25 - 35 mph winds with gusts up to 50. When you are biking with the wind at your back it's quite pleasant. We
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Today we decided to stay in Domburg when we learned the hostel had an opening for all three of us. The hostel is in a castle so we couldn't turn that down. We had a lazy morning and left our mini-camping spot around 10, for a short bike
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Today we used the Knooppunt system to navigate from Antwerp to Ghent. You basically follow a graph of numbered nodes from one number to the next, stringing the numbers together for which ever path you want. The trip started out great. Everything was well signed and the route took us
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Today we left the wonderful country that is Holland and entered Belgium. No offense to anyone from the country but our best experiences have not been here. To make it to Antwerp in a reasonable distance (or unreasonable if you're Nate) we had to follow a large shipping
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Today we biked along the vehnbahn (the rail trail we have been following) through the Ardennes to Aachen, Germany. From there we biked to Maastricht, Netherlands to make for another long 120 km day. The rail trail made the route through the Ardennes very scenic and much easier than it
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Today Mark and Matt went to church and then met Nate in the city to explore the town. There were a lot of suggestions but we picked the American WWII memorial. The memorial was just outside the city but between a bus ride and short walk it was pretty easy
Today mother nature decided to turn her fan on us all day. It would've been a great day for sailing if you're in to that. Unfortunately we were mere land lubbers beating to windward. (Not sure if that expression is being used correctly but their is
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Today was supposed to be another day of heat so we got on the road by 9 to make it to our campsite before the sun got up. We did the first 70km non-stop and so don't have many photos. All we have is a picture of a
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Today we biked from Ettenheim to just outside Baden-Baden (thus the title of this post, also because we're not sure how to say it, but putting on a German accent and then saying it really fast is fun. We're pretty sure the dash is silent). We
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Sorry for not posting yesterday, we are finding it hard to keep our phones charged. The heat finally broke yesterday!! Which made for a much more pleasant biking experience. We biked about 125km from Solothurn to Zurich (with a brief stop in Baden for Doner Kebab). Upon arriving in Zurich,
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Today was a 100km ride from Estavsyer Le Lac to Solothurn. It was thankfully mostly flat along the Aare River but there were a couple unnecessary ascents into towns to test our thighs. We can't tell if we are just doing less hills or in better shape but
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Today was another scorcher with the high reaching 99. Mark and Matt found a English catholic mass which they attended in the morning. Being told from an early age to dress up for church they felt a little uncomfortable walking in with flip flops and shorts but when the Scottish