This weekend we had the great pleasure of hopping back on our bikes again with the Wereldfietsers – probably the world’s best bicycle touring club! They have 2,500 members and about 50 of them turned up in a small town between Utrecht and Arnhem this weekend to do a tour of the local countryside. Read More »
We love numbers. Throughout our trip, we’ve logged thousands of them. How far we went. How much we spent. How many nights in our tent. And you must love them too since a lot of questions we get are about ‘how many’ or ‘how long’ so while we’ve been preparing for our move to Holland […] Read More »
672km St. Bruno to Rimouski Our circuit around the world ends in St. Bruno but the next morning, after Michael has gone to work, we carry on as if nothing has changed at all. We eat our breakfast of cereal and fruit, lug our bags downstairs and load them on the bikes like we’ve done […] Read More »
993km Garson to St. Bruno The end of our round-the-world trip happens so quickly, we barely see it coming. In the logical part of our minds we know it’s getting closer. Anyone can see that on a map. But emotionally the last pedal strokes towards the point where we began feel much the same as […] Read More »
923km Cedar to Garson We’ve heard a lot of bad things about the Trans-Canada Highway through Northern Ontario. Wild truckers. Plenty of traffic. No shoulders. “They’re all true,” says one cyclist we meet in Michigan. “I stuck a hacksaw out the side of my bike to make the cars give me more room. You should […] Read More »
