01-14-2018, 12:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2018, 12:46 PM by danbrotherston.)
About two years ago I went a bike tour in the Netherlands, it is truly spectacular. We biked a similar distance, but a different route:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kTXLUp...sp=sharing
The infrastructure just makes it so easy. I didn't plan a route before hand, I knew the cities I was going too and the highlights, and a general route, and barely even looked at a map during the day.
Also, we did as the locals did, we bought dutch bikes when we landed from a used shop for about 300 Euros, and rode them across the country, no helmets, no repairs. Amazing.
The other thing we did was we found lodging through "Vrienden op de fiets" Friends of the bike, which is a network of people who will put up who are bike touring in their homes. Its pretty inexpensive, but much more importantly, you get to meet tons of people along your route. It's actually targeted at locals (being in Dutch, and locations being largely confined to the Netherlands itself), but they occasionally get other Europeans, we were the first Canadians any of our hosts had met through the site.
https://www.vriendenopdefiets.nl/en
I'd highly recommend the trip, but a word of caution, you may not want to leave.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kTXLUp...sp=sharing
The infrastructure just makes it so easy. I didn't plan a route before hand, I knew the cities I was going too and the highlights, and a general route, and barely even looked at a map during the day.
Also, we did as the locals did, we bought dutch bikes when we landed from a used shop for about 300 Euros, and rode them across the country, no helmets, no repairs. Amazing.
The other thing we did was we found lodging through "Vrienden op de fiets" Friends of the bike, which is a network of people who will put up who are bike touring in their homes. Its pretty inexpensive, but much more importantly, you get to meet tons of people along your route. It's actually targeted at locals (being in Dutch, and locations being largely confined to the Netherlands itself), but they occasionally get other Europeans, we were the first Canadians any of our hosts had met through the site.
https://www.vriendenopdefiets.nl/en
I'd highly recommend the trip, but a word of caution, you may not want to leave.