Flight Chch - Paris

Paris

Early check-in at Ibis Gare du Nord. Solo walking tour of Montmartre. Afternoon walk w Bruce through the city to Jardin des Tuileries.
Lausanne

Two nights in Studio Si Eva , Rue Madeleine while we retrieve bikes and have them serviced.
Cycle tour starts

We arrive in Basel after day 1 of cycling and a stressful train trip. Stay in Dreiländerbrucke Best Western.
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parkrun day!

Train from Basel to Freiburg to run Dietenbach parkrun, then train to Müllheim near Rhine. We start biking here, crossing the Rhine, to Alsace. Destination Thann. Old fashioned Hotel Rangen.
Thann

Train from Freiburg to Mulheim then bike to Thann in Alsace. Hard day!
Alsace wine trail to Riquewihr

With a break in beautiful Eguisheim
Riquewihr

Off bike day
To Molsheim

Hotel Diana. Fancy, with spa/pool and restaurant. In suburbs, so we just stayed put, out of the rain. Expensive!
To Offendorf

Au berceau du loup agile
B and B with v eclectic decoration. V kind hostess, Brigide.
To Vater Rhein hotel, Wörth am Rhein

Unexciting venue, dinner of huge schnitzel in restaurant
To Speyer , Gästehause am Rhein

Some mechanical drama but all ok.
Hotel just over bridge from parkrun.
parkrun Speyer Leinpfad

Cycle to Mannheim

Central Hotel Mannheim

Train to Bremen

Cycle to Oldenburg

Meet up with Tricia and Ken Graham, CycleBlaze
B & B Hotel
Cycle to Leer

Hotel Sophien-Café
Cycle to Nansum

Lovely and v old B&B in countryside. We're in loft. Alpacas down below.
Cycle to Anjum

Hotel Restaurant Toxopeus
Cycle to Oude Bildtzijl

Accommodation De Witte Klok
Dinner at Het Graauwe Paard - the grey horse
Cycle to Leeuwarden

Staying at Oranje hotel opp train station
Good cheap dinner at Wok Now
Train Leeuwarden to Sneek Noord

then cycle to parkrun
De Potten parkrun at Sneekmeer
