Category Archives: Bicycle touring

Bicycle touring Latvia: Pilsrundāle to Valmiera

Wow, Latvia was great — good riding, excellent sites, friendly people, nice forests. Rīga turned out to be one my favorite cities, and I also really enjoyed Rundāle Palace and Gauja National Park. Crossing a border without any border posts … Continue reading

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Bicycle touring Lithuania: Vilnius to Kriukai (Joniškis)

Bicycle touring in Lithuania was fine. There was some nice scenery, a few kind of interesting sites; we swam in some reservoirs. But it was hardly spectacular or amazing. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising. I never heard anyone say, “wow, … Continue reading

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Bicycle touring the Baltics: The Upper Daugava to Vilnius

It wasn’t surprising that there weren’t so many bicycle tourists in Belarus. But then we crossed into Schengen, into the EU, into Latvia’s Upper Daugava River valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a marked bicycle route all the way … Continue reading

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Bicycle touring Belarus: Minsk airport to Maladzyechna, Polatsk to Grigorovshchina

Years ago (like 30?!) I was on a Tashkent-Moscow Aeroflot flight that landed on a clear winter day in Minsk. All I could see was endless forest — “what’s it like down there?” I wondered. That day we spent about … Continue reading

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Bicycle touring Crete: a short loop west from Heraklion

The ferry from Santorini arrived in Heraklion at 3am. Charming. Oliver and I pedaled out of the city and slept for a couple hours in the large paved Knossos parking lot. Also charming. In addition, of the month I spent … Continue reading

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