NETHERLANDS – This is a bike ride with a start and destination (almost exactly) equal to those of bike rides that i used to make a lot when I was about 15 years younger and more then now. The ride goes through the so called “Groene hart”, which means green heart in English. This is…
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BELGIUM / NETHERLANDS – The title is slightly incorrect, because we didn’t hit the Vehnbahn for one second on this first day of our bike ride holiday. We took off in one of the most southern villages of The Netherlands, named Mesch, to drive our bikes to Eupen, Belgium. This bike ride goes through a…
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The Netherlands – For me, this bridge – Haringvlietbrug – is very characteristic for the specific Dutch water landscape of the western parts of the Netherlands. I often drive over this bridge by car when I travel from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Brussels (Belgium). Sometimes I use it as a resting place, because of its…
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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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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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BELGIUM – A day trip to Sint-Truiden (FR: Saint-Trond), a town of approximately 20,000 in Belgian Limburg. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised, and that I liked it most of the towns in the region I have visited so far (Aarschot, Tienen, Hoegaarden, Tongeren, Maaseik and Hasselt, all of which I liked…
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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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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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BELGIUM – Tubize (NL: Tubeke) is a French-speaking municipality just south of the Flemish town of Halle, and less than 20 kilometers south of Brussels. I have been there often with my dad since I was small, not only because of the pleasant countryside that surrounds the town itself, but also because of something that triggered an interest that I still have today.
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BELGIUM – Early morning walk on the northern edge of Liège, through an area that was pretty new to me at the time, but where I would later live for eight years.
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BELGIUM – My mission to visit every town in Belgium also brought me to places I probably won’t go again without a reason. One such place is La Louvière, which I visited with my dad on 2006-04-04. Wallonia’s fifth-largest town, La Louvière (pop.: +/- 80,000) is a bit like a smaller version of the former…
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