We met on a sailing boat in France (merci coco & alain) during the summer of 2016. Quickly after we developed our love for cycling & adventures together. Our first bike-tours were on shitty/rusty bicycles, sleeping in an old tent and carrying backpacks on our back (for more than 50-60 kilometers a day!) Throughout the years we started to invest in better equipment and do longer tours (more kilometers and several days). Our latest tour was a cycling trip through Germany, Switzerland and France in the summer of 2021. Below you can find a summary of our cycle-touring experiences, each of them contributed to making the decision to leave on this ~1.5 year EU-tour. (As we did not live at one place together for the past 6 years, we used to be in different locations/countries and used/owned several bikes, can you guess how many? 🙂 )
how we met – summer 2016 :
first bike weekend with a tent – spring 2017 :
second bike weekend with a tent – summer 2017 :
weekend with Camille and Tim – summer 2017 :
birthday weekend ChloĂ© – september 2017 :
Netherlands – autumn 2017 :
Netherlands – start of 2018 :
vacation Norway – summer 2018 :
Germany – autumn 2018 :
Groningen with minus degrees – winter 2018 :
ChloĂ© in Spain (study) – 2019 :
Oliver in England (work) – 2019 :
vacation Italy – start of 2020 :
several day trips in Germany – spring 2020 :
border weekend NL-DE no.1 (covid-19) ‘bounce bikes’ – spring 2020 :
border weekend NL-DE no.2 (covid-19) – spring 2020 :
changing weather in the Netherlands – summer 2020 :
border weekend NL-DE no.3 (covid-19) – summer 2020 :
Germany – summer 2020 :
Texel – summer 2020 :
15 day cycle-tour along the Donau – summer 2020 :
border weekend NL-DE no.4 (covid-19) – autumn 2020 :
border weekend NL-DE no.5 (covid-19) – autumn 2020 :
first real sun of the year – start of 2021 :
cold temperatures again – start of 2021 :
Germany – spring 2021 :
day trip Germany – summer 2021 :
weekend trip Germany – summer 2021 :
22 day cycle-tour through DE-CH-FR – summer 2021 :
froggi & co 