GERMANY – The northern edge of Berlin is a very nice place to go for a bike ride when spring is coming into full bloom. So in this post, I will take you on through the fields and forests from the former east to the former west, through an area Berliners definitely consider part of…
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GERMANY – In this post, I will take you on a bike ride from near Pankow station to the neighbourhood of Weissenssee (which is now part of the borough of Pankow). Like much of Pankow, Kissingenstrasse, which goes east from Pankow station, is spacious, green, and lined with stately looking buildings: A building in a…
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GERMANY – To fully understand Berlin, one has to understand how spacious it is. This means that some districts are so far from each other that they could almost be in different countries, both visually and culturally. To many Berliners, this also means that many other parts of the city are full of the wrong…
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GERMANY – On another short holiday in Berlin (little knowing that I would move there a mere three months later), I decided to continue my exploration of the surrounding countryside. So I picked another random destination that looked nice on Wikipedia (Neustrelitz), borrowed my friends bike and took a train there. In contrast to my…
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BELGIUM – One Sunday, when it was exeptionally nice weather, I decided to cross one more town from my list of Belgian towns I haven’t visited yet: Borgloon. To do this, I cycled north along the N20 from Liège to Tongeren, where I turned west on to the N79 to Sint-Truiden. I didn’t make many…
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GERMANY / LUXEMBOURG – A friend of mine was at a small festival on a campsite in the German Saarland for a weekend in May 2017, and I decided to go there by bike and spend the night. Day 1, 2017-05-26 I took a train to Luxembourg City, and from there headed mostly downhill to…
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GERMANY – While on holiday in Berlin in December 2015, I borrowed my friends bike and started to explore the part of the former DDR (the former communist East Germany, for those of you who don’t know) just outside the city, starting in Brandenburg an der Havel. It was an interesting experience, due to both…
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GERMANY / THE NETHERLANDS – In the southern province of Limburg, on a narrow strip of land between the Meuse river and German border, lies the part of the Netherlands that somehow feels the least Dutch. I don’t know this region very well, and have gathered the photos of two of my rare visits to…
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BELGIUM – When I worked as a freelance language teacher in Liège, I sometimes taught adolescents in the village of Dalhem. As it was a good 17 kilometers uphill from my house, I would often go there by bus, and back using my folding bike (which was mostly down hill of course). I made pictures…
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BELGIUM – There’s always a turning point in autumn, after which it suddenly feels more like winter. And sometimes that turning point is in the middle of the day. It was on the bright and sunny morning of such a day, October the 19th 2014, that a friend and I set for a bike ride…
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BELGIUM – Having shown you you the Land of Herve, one of my favourite parts of Belgium, in the snow, I will now show you what it looks like in high summer. These pictures were taken on June 13 2013, during a bike ride that took me north along the river Meuse before cycling back…
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THE NETHERLANDS – The Achterhoek, which roughly translates as ‘Back Corner’, is a region in the eastern Netherlands that borders Germany to the south and east. Relatively empty by Dutch standards and mostly known for agriculture, it has a reputation in the rest of the country similar to that of the Midwest in the United…
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BELGIUM / FRANCE – A week’s excursion in what has to be one of the most picturesque corners of the Ardennes.
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THE NETHERLANDS – In this post, we will follow the Vecht river, which was the main course of the Rhine when the Romans built Traiectum, which would later become the city of Utrecht. …
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THE NETHERLANDS – The Netherlands is a country that was shaped by water. Not only by the sea, which made it possible to trade with far corners of the world, but also by the rivers that connect its neighbours to its ports. Much of the country surrounds the delta of the Rhine and Meuse, two of the most important rivers in Western Europe. …
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