We’re now safely back in Berkeley, and thought it would be worth a wrap-up post to review how far we went, the highs and lows, and things we learned. Total Distance: 2261km (see our daily distance, costs, and notes log) kms in Ireland 361.1 kms in France 664.8 kms in Italy 145.8 kms in Switzerland […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Aside: Differences Between Biking in France and Germany
We found that biking in Germany is different from biking in France. The French have a huge network of rural roads, open to cars but in most cases little used. There are signs for various villages, but none of them are specific to bicycles. We navigated by using Michelin maps (mostly 1:250,000 regional maps) and […]
Germany
From Strasbourg, we headed across the Rhine river, into Germany. This was the first time that we were biking across a national border – all the other times we crossed the border by train. Since it was entirely within the EU, though, it was pretty boring; there wasn’t even a “Welcome to Germany” sign. We […]