Welcome to my channel! Most of the content you will see here is about cycle touring, which my husband Frank and I took up in our retirement in 2018. We first posted a video on RU-vid after a friend watched one of our trip videos and suggested it would be of interest to a wider audience. Since then, we've loved hearing how our videos have inspired others to plan a ride or follow a similar route, or simply enjoy being an "armchair" traveler, seeing places they otherwise wouldn't see.
We hope you enjoy following along with some of our rides!
This is so relaxing to watch you enjoy all of Europe's beauty. I actually am from Doorwerth where you visited the castle. So cool to see you riding on my hometown roads. Hope you had a blast. It's my dream to visit Vancouver and the west coast some day. Should be great.
@@DJKLIBRA that's so cool to "meet" someone from Doorwerth! As you can probably tell from the video, we loved our time in the Netherlands. Hope you make it to Vancouver and western Canada sometime - I'm sure you'll love it. Thanks for taking the time to comment 😀
Thanks Daphne and Frank, I really enjoyed all ten episodes of this fantastic series, way to go! I was attracted to your videos because I have ridden a number of times in the Netherlands, and also along the Rhine from Mainz to Dusseldorf. My NL trips have mainly been relatively short day or so trips from Amsterdam. My German trip was along the path that hugs the Rhine over the course of five days, with short forays into some towns and cities along the way. I was thinking of maybe simply following the Rhine from its source in Switzerland to Rotterdam and the North Sea and touring Zealand and the coast, but will now think more about ranging farther afield now that I see how it can be done! Cheers, and safe travels!
@@Boswell365 Thank you so much! We love it when we hear that these videos inspire others and give ideas for a future ride. Appreciate you sending the comment, and happy riding!
Thank you Daphne and Frank for the very informative and well filmed and produced series!! And most of all very inspiring I’ll be heading off on this route. Like you I have discovered cycle touring later in life and LOVE it! Happy cycling. 😊
Hi Paul, it's so good to hear that you too have taken up cycle touring "later in life", and that we might have inspired you with this route! Glad to hear you enjoyed the videos and I hope you have a great time whenever you head off. Would love to hear how it goes. Happy Trails!
We generally leave the panniers on the locked bikes when going grocery shopping or visiting a museum/chateau etc, just bringing our valuables with us. If we're spending a whole day exploring a town, we try to stay somewhere that the bikes can be stored somewhere more secure. For example when we visited Amboise and stayed 2 nights, we booked a lockable tented cabin in the campground where we were able to put our bikes inside. We do have little cable locks attaching our panniers to the bikes, so someone can't just lift the panniers off - a small deterrent.
@@victorfoxweddings That's very exciting for you! And a good time of year too I'd imagine. Fire away if you have any more questions, and have fun planning!
Daphne - thanks for sharing these super videos. They provided me with inspiration and guidance to tackle EV15 myself from Rotterdam to Basel in 2023, when I cycled from my home in Yorkshire, UK to Basel, Switzerland where my wife works. It made a great change from the regular flights by easyJet, although I have to say it cost a lot more! So pleased that I tackled the challenge and now I am re-watching your videos to remind me of my own journey. Thank you for re-kindling my love of cycling.
@@VictorPogson Hi Victor, I'm so chuffed to hear that the videos helped inspire your own journey. It's a great way to see the countryside, isn't it. Enjoy the memories as you rewatch the route!
Hi Daphne and Frank, greetings from Cork in Ireland. Finished my solo journey from Basel to Amsterdam. The weather wasn’t as good as the weather you had in your trip but had a fantastic time meeting some wonderful people along the way. I had a lovely stop In Bacharach and actually stayed 2 nights. It took me around 17 days going at a leisurely pace. Took your advice on campsites and really enjoyed 1000 mile camping in Remagen. I have a huge interest in history so soaked it all up. My wife Rena joined me in Amsterdam which was great. Again thanks for your fantastic videos, they were a huge help. Planning my next trip to Brittany in 2025 to celebrate my 70th birthday. Look forward to hearing more of your travels Liam
Liam it's great to hear you had a successful trip and found it so enjoyable. Yes there's certainly lots of places to keep a history lover entertained along the route. Really great to hear back from you, and now you'll enjoy planning the next one. No better way to see in the next decade!! Cheers!
Marvellous! My wife and I cycled from Belgium to Bretany last August, after seeing this we feel like going back and doing the Southern area...It's a bit far for us , we live in Australia, but it's worth the trip...
Great to hear you got more inspiration from the video! Yes, you certainly do have a lot further to travel than we do to get to these European cycling routes, but the riding is so appealing there, isn't it! We haven't cycled in Belgium yet, but that does sound great. Good luck planning you next trip 😄
If you mean a gravel bike, I have no personal experience riding gravel bikes, but from what I've seen on videos, people ride them on this type of trail. As I mentioned in the video, there's a couple of rough, rocky spots, but mostly it was pretty smooth when we did it.
We were riding our full suspension mountain bikes. However, you could ride it on a gravel bike or hardtail, at least based on trail conditions when we did it.
As far as I can recall there’s actually some really sketchy bridges on the 3A that you guys missed. There’s literally no option except to “take the lane” with racing semi-trucks and other crazy drivers. You may have actually dodged a bullet
Just kooked your home page and Wow! What a great resource. Thank you for taking the time make and upload these, especially the Canada one! Looks like your living the dream :)
Having another view of your trip, thanks for all the help and advice. Flying from Dublin to Zurich on the 13th of May, train to Basel and cycling north from there. Hope ye have more cycles to show us over the coming months Liam🇮🇪🚴
Sorry for a late comment here but I only just now discovered your channel. First of all, thanks for the great videos! EV15 has been on my bucket list since I first heard about it and I expect to do bits of it this summer as part of a "Rhine-Maas-Venn-Kyll-Mosel-Rhine tour. Second, the gentleman who was guiding you about 10 minutes into this video was warning you about stinging nettles, not mosquitoes.
Thanks - so glad you enjoyed the videos! I do hope you enjoy the ride you have planned - it sounds great. And thanks for that translation, good thing we were already quite familiar with nettles! Happy Trails 😃
I have watched many of your videos. They are beautifully filmed. Simply stunning scenery. Do you mind if I ask what camera you use? Thanks for sharing your wonderful tours with us. They're an inspiration to another retired guy!
Thank you so much Daniel! Glad you found our videos. Most of this 2022 series was done with a GoPro Hero 10. It has a very good stabilisation feature that takes care of all of the shaking. A few stills and short video clips were done on our phones. Cheers to retirement 😀!
@@daphnebehindbars Thanks so much, Daphne! I’ve got an old GoPro but want to upgrade and your videos are simply stunning as well as your editing. Your itineraries lend themselves to beautiful pictures/videos but few capture them as well as you. Truly inspiring. I just picked up cycling again after half a century on motorcycles and enjoy your videos so much. Thanks! Dan
Great videos. Myself and 2 friends backpacked the same route in 1970 , as far as Koln. The people in the Netherlands and Belgium were very friendly and hospitable, but Germany was a challenge 😂
Wow! Excellent show. I've cycled in frant's just about every summer since 2005 and went through lot's of your towns. You've revealed quite a few points that I missed though!
Huh? You must be joking! From st Brevin les Pins it's a straight ride along a fucking straight canal to Nantes!!! Been there, horribel ride. Whu no fenders...?
Great video. I want to thank you for showing that it IS possible for all groups (motorized and otherwise) to share and enjoy this trail. A lot of other bikers look down on the moto-riders...especially along the KVR. We hope to travel this exact section in June of this year. We already cycled a few km's from Christina Lake northwards, but got turned back by the rains...hoping to complete the entire trip to Castlegar and back!
Hi Anjo, if you mean in terms of flat terrain, yes the Netherlands is easy riding. However, the rest of the Rhine route in Germany/Switzerland as far as Lake Constance is also pretty flat, since it's generally along or close to the river. It's more hilly between Lake Constance (Bodensee) and the Danube, but then quite flat along the Danube to Passau. We got into more hills in Austria. In terms of route-finding, the Netherlands section was straight-forward as other than Rotterdam, it doesn't go through any big cities. Some sections in Germany were more confusing through the bigger cities. Of course cyclists using gpx devices wouldn'y find that a problem. In terms of finding campgrounds, it was quite easy in the Netherlands, not so easy in the industrial part of the Rhine in Germany (Wesel to Cologne), easy in France and Austria, and they weren't as plentiful in Italy. Pathways and road surfaces were good throughout our route for the most part. That's a long answer to a short question! But I wasn't exactly sure what you meant
Burg Hohenwerfen was used in the film "Where Eagles Dare" as the fortress "Schloss Adler". I go past it sometimes and can't help humming the films soundtrack....... silly I know. 🙂
Thanks for that bit of info Ivor - we would not have known that! Don't believe either of us have seen that movie. Although after looking it up, I see it featured a couple of fine actors - might have to track it down!
I followed many cycling adventure on RU-vid…YOU ARE THE BEST ONE !. I have a question for you: which mapbook or guide you used on you ride from North to Adriatic Sea….from a fan from Quebec,Canada 😊
Wow, what a wonderful compliment, thank you Alain! We're delighted that you enjoyed our journey. Of course for this trip, because we used parts of a few different routes, we had several different guidebooks and maps. If you wouldn't mind going back and looking at the description blurbs of Episodes 1, 5 and 10 you will find, under "resources", the names of the maps and guides we used for EV15, EV 6 and the Alpe Adria Radweg. Hope that helps 😊