The idea to bike trough Netherlands appeared because of many circumstances. It is not something extremely special what we did but we decided to at least make it special by using minimum of resources. What do I refer at when I say this? Well, let’s list some of the things we made economy with:
- second hand bikes with no gears or special equipment;
- cheap map for car routes;
- no special bike clothes, just some sport clothes we had around;
- one 3 euro bike bag and one borrowed bike trailer for carrying our things around;
- no hotels or restaurants.
For sleeping we decided to use Couchsurfing but not only because of financial reasons but because we love to use Couchsurfing every time we are travelling. Couchsurfing really gives you the opportunity to meet great people and to feel at home everywhere you are around the world.
We planned our route using this website and our car map. The website is in Dutch but with a bit knowledge of German it is understandable.
Our target was to get from Amsterdam to Boxtel, near Eindhoven in 4 days. The reason we wanted to get to Boxtel is because we planned to stay there for 2 days in an eco village and work together with a team from France in building a sustainable house. After Boxtel we planned to take the train back to Osnabruck, but the plans changed a bit on the road, as you will se in the next blog posts .
If our plan worked and what problems we had you can read further in the detailed description of our trip:)
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