Our morning started with a lovely breakfast outside at our Gasthaus with everything a biker needs for a great start to the day plus our great host added in lunch for us. Alas though, there was the butter dish incident. One of those travel moments that will stick with the four of us. Let us … More July 18   Zell em Main to Schweinfurt

Our first day of our bike trip, so we were all pretty excited. We had a distance of 30k to go today. The sky looked slightly threatening but the forecast was for no rain. Fraser, Di and Elfi, headed off on the bikes whilst Horst drove to our next accommodation in the village of Zell … More July 17    Bamberg to Zell em Mainz.

Awfully early start as Fraser and Elfi needed to bike down to the railway station in Aschaffenburg on Di’s rental e-bike and Fraser’s bike. Horst dropped Di off at the station to meet up with Elfi and Fraser and then he drove to Bamberg with the two small e-bikes that Horst and Elfi own – … More July 16     Aschaffenburg to Bamberg

What was meant to be a relaxing day catching up on washing, talking and planning our next bike ride together turned into something quite different. We bought two bikes in the Netherlands back in 2017 to do our six week biking trip around Austria, Switzerland and Germany. At the end of the bike rides, we … More July 15     Aschaffenburg and Bikes

Travel day today. We will be travelling from Wolfgang and Marlene’s boat Old Gilly, which was moored just on the southern outskirts of Schipol Airport over night to Aschaffenburg in Germany. It was an early start for us all as we needed to pack up our bags, have our final breakfast together and move the … More July 14    Schipol  Airport to Aschaffenburg, Germany

All good plans of mice and men go astray and that is certainly what happened today. Our intention was to get to the town of Halfweg, after 27k of cruising and moor up for the evening. Unfortunately, a rather pivotal bridge on our route was out of action today and not planned to be back … More July 13 OuderWetering to Schipol Airport

On the “high seas” by 9.30am towards our next destination. Our luck very much continues when it comes to the clear skies but today there is a true bit of Dutchness about the weather – the wind!! Our route has been following a rough circul over the last five days. We are now getting very … More July 12   Gouda to Oude Wetering

Another beautiful summers day cruising the Dutch waterways. It is hard not to make comparisons between what we know so well of the English canals and what we are experiencing on the Dutch canals. Everything is much bigger to begin with. The canals are wider and deeper; the water craft that ply the waterways are … More July 11 Oudewater to Gouda

It was just a touch on the cool side this morning. Breakfast partaken and then headed out of Utrecht by 8.45am. It is indeed a pretty city situated amongst the canals and presents its particular challenges to the local council in tasks such as picking up refuse. Unfortunately, was not able to capture the floating … More July 10  Utrecht to Oudewater

Awoke and after a leisurely breakfast at our picturesque mooring we headed off to the city of Utrecht. The weather is exquisite at 21c. The area we are cruising is obviously very affluent with many mansions on the canal. We cruised about four hours enjoying the vista along the shoreline and contemplating just how many … More July 9 – Weesp to Utrecht