Maybe it’s too early to write this post. Maybe not. I’ve been home for eleven days now and things have been quite busy. I went to a three-day music festival last weekend and I’m already planning something new. In other words, since I arrived back home I haven’t really had time to think about and reflect…
This is going to be my last post in journal-style. I’m home again. In the past and last six days I traveled from Bath in England to home in Belgium. I cycled, took a train and got on a ferry across the Channel. Oh yeah, I also went to Stonehenge! That was the perfect ending to…
In the past eight days I crossed the North Sea on a cargo ship, which was totally awesome, and cycled (almost) across England. That’s 1828 kilometres in total. Day 72: North Sea – Thornton Curtis, UK 1316km by boat and 14.04km by bicycle. 20.23h. Wonderful day on the ship. There’s not that much to do,…
This is a video summary of my time spent traveling across northern Norway. The images and shots in this video are made in Finnmark, the absolute north of Europe, on the Hurtigruten coastal steamer and on the Vesterålen and Lofoten Islands.
This post is a roundup of my last five days in Scandinavia. Five perfect days. The cycling was phenomenal, amazing weather, fun roads and great bike paths. I’m writing this post on a cargo ship bound for England, which is where I will continue my journey home… Day 67 (June 6): Moss, Norway – Strömstad,…
Let’s start with a confession. I haven’t really biked in the past nine days. I had always planned to take a break somewhere in Norway and this was the perfect time. My parents had a holiday as well and drove up to Trondheim to meet me. I myself took a ten-hour train down to Trondheim….
I can’t even remember the last time I made a travel video! During the four weeks I cycled across Sweden I took hundreds of pictures and dozens of videos. I spent a few hours editing and cutting and that resulted in this short video. I think it’s a nice summary of a challenging, but great…
I’d like to start by apologizing for the lack of updates lately. I’ve been camping a lot and that’s not the ideal place to blog. I’ve kept notes everyday, as always, and what follows is going to be a brief summary of the past ten days. I’ve covered quite some distance in that time. I…
Today is a day of superlatives, as you will see in this post. It was a truly spectacular day. I woke up to a blue sky, comfortably warm sunshine and calm water in the fjord I was camping by. After a basic but big breakfast and packing up camp I was on the road by…
So many different things have happened in the past five days, I don’t know where to start. I went to a museum, visited Santa on the Arctic Circle, took a bus across northern Finland, cycled while it was snowing in Norway, slept in a kitchen and camped by a fjord… Day 42 (May 12): Rovaniemi,…
After 26 days (22 days of cycling, 3 days of rest and 1 day of bicycle troubles) and 1980km I made it across Sweden. It was challenging and frustrating at times, but the natural beauty and surprisingly nice weather definitely made up for that. There’s no denying that it’s a breathtaking country, but to be…
This week in a nutshell: empty hostels, short cycling days, great roads and nice weather. It was another fairly good week in Sweden. I cycled six out of seven days and moved 502km north. Day 30 (April 30): Sundsvall – Ramvik, Sweden 90.04km. 21.10h. This was a good day. There was some tough climbing and a hail…
This has been a difficult week. For starters, I didn’t fall in love with Stockholm. After having to fight fierce headwinds in Holland and getting soaking wet in Germany and Denmark, this time I got lost and wet on the Swedish roads… I also had one particularly bad night and a miserable afternoon. On the…
What a week! From Monday to Monday I cycled from Copenhagen to Stockholm, totalling 752km in eight days. This was a target before, but now that I have actually done it, it feels awesome. Can barely believe I made it this far so easily. I have had my worries and troubles (remember the knees?), but…