If one person shows how it’s never to late to complete your dreams, it must be Dutch cyclist Frank van Dijk. His 7,000km cross-America tour in 1976, from Oregon to Virginia, was cut short in Kansas when an old lady crashed her Buick into Frank’s bike. Now Frank is going back to the U.S. to […] Read More »
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Going Dutch: The First Snow
The temperature has dived over the past few days here in Den Haag. It’s regularly been below freezing when Friedel leaves for work about 8am and this morning we walked out our door, down the steps and saw everything covered in white. Read More »
World Bike Touring Fair in Rotterdam
Now this is why we moved to The Netherlands – they have conferences on bike touring! As regular readers might guess, this one was organised by the fabulous Wereldfietser club and their great work meant that 650 people came through the doors last Saturday in Rotterdam to learn all about travelling by bicycle. Here are […] Read More »
Going Dutch: Eating Herring The Traditional Way
How do you like your herring? We can now confidently say that we like them raw! Yes, you read correctly – raw. Well, it’s traditional in Holland, you know and of course tasting Dutch herring the traditional way was on our list of things to experience here so today we went with our friend Mark […] Read More »
Show 27: A new podcast and Dutch Cycling
After a prolonged absence over the summer, when we were too busy soaking up all the joys of our last few months on tour to be glued to our laptop, we’re excited to say that the TravellingTwo podcast is back! http://media.blubrry.com/travellingtwo/p/travellingtwo.com/AudioClips/travellingtwo-show27-netherlands.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Read More »