Gemünden is a town of some ten thousand people, located 42 kilometers downstream from Würzburg on the Main Valley Bicycle Route. Two smaller rivers, the Sinn and the Fränkische Saale, flow into the Main at Gemünden. I have cycled through Gemünden three times so far, once along the Main River Read More …
Würzburg is very nearly in the middle of the five-hundred-kilometer Main Valley Bicycle Route (Maintal Radweg). From here you can cycle 246 km upstream to Bayreuth via Ochsenfurt (top sign in the photo) or 243 km downstream to Mainz by way of Zellingen (bottom sign). The middle sign points to Read More …
As a fan of both operas and cycling, I of course wanted to see the show Orphée et Eurydice à bicyclette (Orpheus and Eurydice on bicycles) that was playing in Paris at the Lucernaire in January 2018. This “musical fantasy” was written by Pierre Lericq, who also performed it along Read More …
Nancy has a small self-service on-street bicycle rental system called vélOstan’lib, with 29 stations, 250 bicycles and 560 docking points. These numbers have not changed since 2015, so either they haven’t expanded the system since then or (more likely) they have neglected to update the numbers on their website. The Read More …
If you did a Destination Search for “Kassel” on the now-defunct website VirtualTourist (VT), you got four entries, the first two of which looked completely identical: Matches Found For “Kassel” Europe > Germany > Land Hessen > Kassel Europe > Germany > Land Hessen > Kassel Africa > Senegal > Read More …
My cycling map showed a bicycle route along the right bank of the Seine River leading southeast out of Paris towards the place where the Seine is joined by its tributary the Marne. For some reason I wanted to go there (even though this is not exactly the most picturesque Read More …
One of the things I really love is cycling home at night after the opera. This is even more magical in Paris because you not only have the opera going through your head, you also have Paris all around you. You do have to look out for the taxis, though, Read More …
After a two-year absence — caused first by a long transit strike and then by the much longer coronavirus pandemic — I finally returned to Paris for two brief visits in the summer of 2021 and was relieved to find that the Vélib’ bike sharing system was still working fine. Read More …
The city of Paris has been building new bicycle lanes since 2001. An especially big push came during the transit strike of 2019 and the Covid-19 pandemic starting in 2020, both of which led to greatly increased bicycle use — except during the ‘confinement’ periods, of course, when people had Read More …
Bad Orb is easy to reach by bicycle from Frankfurt, provided you feel up to riding a distance of about 60 km. Just take the regional cycling route R3, which follows the banks of the Main River to and through Frankfurt, and then goes up the Kinzig Valley starting in Read More …