Home sweet home
On the last day of our trip, we woke to the sound of the bonkers church bells that had been ringing almost every 15 minutes during the day for the […]
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Last stop, bike city: Amsterdam
We set our alarm for the earliest time yet on our trip—5:30am (ouch)—and it wasn’t even to get up and make an early start on our bikes 😦 We had […]
Cycletramps go interrailing: Cycling the Berlin Wall
With the weather getting colder and wetter, we decided to ditch cycling for a while and reinvent ourselves as interrailers. We had booked our train online from Prague to Berlin […]
We plan an exit strategy: Barochov to Prague
From the farm in Barochov, it was only 31 miles to Prague. Luckily, the rain had stopped but it was a toe-numbingly cool 8 degrees and to make matters worse […]
Road closures and laughing cows: Tabor to Barochov
Leaving the movie-set-perfect town of Tabor and our cosy school dorm behind, we continued making our way along the hilly cycle route towards Prague. The weather was definitely taking a […]
Climbing clock towers and sleeping in schools: Jindrichuv Hadrec to Tabor
We knew it was forecast to rain today so when we woke at about 7 and couldn’t hear the pitter-patter or rain on the tent, we hurried to pack up […]
Behind the iron curtain: Znojmo to Jindrichuv Hradec
After a mostly sleepless night of wild camping in the woods, we were looking forward to getting to an actual campsite for a much needed shower and some quality wifi […]
Revenge of the Eurovelo and Czechvegas: Vienna to Znojmo, Czech Republic
With nothing much interesting us in Vienna other than the super duper zoo, we set off again after just one day there. Our plan was to follow the Danube cycle […]
Ahhh Vienna!
We didn’t really know what to do with ourselves in Vienna. We wandered around the city for a while, singing the Ultravox song a lot and visiting some of the […]
Americans and awful hangovers: Bratislava and on to Vienna
Along with Budapest, Bratislava was another one of the places along our route that we didn’t know anything about, well, apart from the fact that the film ‘Hostel’ was set […]
