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Bicycle Touring Holland
With Excursions into Neighboring Belgium
and Germany
Katherine Widing
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5½ x 8½
inch softcover |
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296 pages
with 50 2-color route maps
and 50 photos |
| ISBN: |
1-892495-46-5 |
| Price: |
US$18.95 |
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A detailed guide to bicycle
touring in one of the best
places on the planet. With
routes in all 11 provinces
and short excursions across
the border into neighboring
Belgium and Germany.
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A clear guide to bicycle
touring in the best place on the
planet |
About the book
Holland, it’s probably the
world’s most popular country for
bicycle touring. It’s the place
where you can get literally
everywhere by bike—just like the
natives do. This book highlights
more than 50 delightful bike tours
into every corner of the country,
and sometimes beyond into some of
the most picturesque destinations in
neighboring Belgium and Germany.
Each route is described in extensive
detail and illustrated with 2-color
route maps. Several of the routes
make extensive use of the remaining
pedestrian ferries that have carried
people across Holland’s river delta
country for many centuries
About the author
Katherine Widing is an
Australian-born travel journalist,
living and working in the United
States. She has been bicycle-touring
in the Netherlands for many years.
Her earlier writings include several
Lonely Planet cycling guides for the
U.S. and Europe and her earlier book
Cycling the Netherlands, Belgium,
and Luxembourg, published in
1998 by MBI Publishing (now out of
print).
Table of Contents
Introduction: How to Use
this Book
1. The Netherlands and
Bike Touring
2. Pre-Departure
Planning
3. Country Information
4. Food & Lodging
5. Facts on Cycling in
the Netherlands
6. Amsterdam &
Environs
Schiphol to Amsterdam or Haarlem & Back
Amstel River Day Trip
Lakes and Rivers Day Trip
Waterland Day Trip
7. North Holland &
Texel
Tour of North Holland
Dunes Day Trip
Texel Day Rides
8. Friesland
Elfstedenroute (Tour of 11 Towns)
9. Groningen & Drenthe
Groningen and Drenthe Tour: Megaliths, Memorial, and
Mini-Venice
10. Overijssel & Gelderland
Hanzeroute (Hanseatic Town Route)
Seven Hills Day Trip
Veluwe and Het Loo
11. Utrecht & South Holland
Witches, Windmills, and the West Coast
12. Zeeland & Brugge
Islands of Zeeland
Domburg Day Trip
Northern Belgium Excursion
13. North Brabant
South of the Big Rivers Tour
14. Limburg
Tour of Two Limburgs
Tour of South Limburg (including “Three
Countries in a Day”)
Appendix
I. Glossary of Terms
II. General Vocabulary
III. Cycling Vocabulary
V. Weights and Measures
V. Further Reading
Index
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From the contents |
A group of touring cyclists admiring a
windmill near Amsterdam.
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Sample route map
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Pedestrian (and cyclist) ferry near Delft.
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