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In Adventure, Cycling tour, Euro bike 2016, Europe On  15/07/2016  No comments

Route of the 6th day: Uithoorn – region near Amsterdam airport – Amsterdam
Total km/day: 32.48 km – (gpx)
Accommodation: hotel near the airport

• It was our last day of the cycling trip. Well, my father’s last day, I would still have many days of cycling through the Netherlands and Germany until I arrived in Strasbourg, France.
• The road was calm. It was Sunday morning and the road not crowed with cyclists going to work or school. We passed by training cyclists, with race bikes.
• We stopped at the airport hotel to leave our bags, check in and headed for the city center. There, we returned my father’s rental bike and left mine in a public parking lot. It gave me a little pain in the belly to leave her there alone in the crowd of bicycles for a week…
• Our bike trip ended well, we had no accidents, nor did the bikes got damaged, no flat tire, everything went really well. Relief.

Do hotel onde estávamos em Uithoorn, podia-se ver (e ouvir) a passagens dos aviões chegando no aeroporto de A...

In Adventure, Cycling tour, Euro bike 2016 On  10/07/2016  No comments

Route of the 1st day: Amsterdam – Badhoevedorp – Zwanenburg – Haarlem
Total of the day : 25 km – (gpx)
Accommodation: hostel private room

• In Amsterdam, I chose a hotel close to the airport because it was easy to get out the bike bag since it had an airport transfer. And it would also be much easier for my father to go cycling straight on the road and not having the city’s bicycle traffic. This was his first bike ride, better off on a quiet road.
• For the first two days, we strolled around the city, rented a bike for my father, and set mine up. I dismounted almost all of it to have the least risk of damaging the flight.
• My bike got damaged, the frame tightened on the flight and did not enter the wheel. I called a mechanic I found on the internet, instead of tidying up, it spoiled more. As th...