Backpacking is our favorite way of spending our summer holidays. But this year we were going to do it different. To prepare for our journey on the bicycle it is important we do a thorough test ride. Thus we would be cycling three weeks around and through the French and Spanish Pyrenees. Our plans were ambitious and [...]
Biking to me is a means of transport and travel. Travelling part of the world by bicycle will provide me with a lot of opportunities: The opportunity to go slow and to experience every meter; the opportunity to get close by, without the barrier of a glass window or a motor and the opportunity to challenge myself [...]
Cranks, ‘derailleuroor’, ‘balhoofdstel’, spokes and bearings. These terms were all part of our bike repair course that we followed in Kiel-Windeweer in the neighbourhood of Groningen. For Susanne it is possible to fix a tire. Luckily Martin is a little bit more handy. But for both of us it was good to gain more knowledge about our [...]
In May we visited the Eiffel region in Germany for a bike weekend. During the weekend in the Eiffel we were better prepared than in the Ardennes, but we were already heightening our goals. The highest ascent would be over 600 meters. Riding out of Heerlen we definitely wanted to avoid Aachen, but all the signs lead [...]
The Easter weekend of 2013 in the Netherlands had some cold weather in store for us. The temperature was below freezing and our gear was not really up to scratch at that point to deal with those temperatures. We made our way from Maastricht past Liege to Durbuy and then took the direction of Amay to ride [...]
Biking and Bicycle touring as a means of travel is somewhat new to me (Susanne). When Martin moved to the Netherlands in 2009 I mentioned that he should buy a cheap bike so he could move around town easily. He decided to invest in a Cube Delhi, a modern touring bike and I was stunned. After a [...]
Do you know the feeling that at some point future plans feel so far far away? And then, there is this kind of realization that actually it is not so far away in time anymore. Time is perceived to go faster and, before you know it, planted seeds have fully grown and ideas and dreams become reality. [...]
