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.

This new edition has been carefully research to take account of many changes in the terrain, routes, and accommodations that have occurred since the first edition of this book was published.

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).