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(Belgium 7: St Vith to Spa)

Posted on 18 May 202222 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

With the End to End completed, today I cycled from St Vith to the train station at Spa to head home. To my delight, I realised I could do the entire 35-mile trip on the RAVeL network: Belgium’s excellent paved, wide, smooth, car-free cycleway system, generally on towpaths or railtrails. Most of the day there…

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Belgium 6: Sankt Vith to Krewinkel

Posted on 17 May 202223 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

I completed my Belgian End-to-End with a 17-mile hop to the border this morning. Well, Belgium’s pretty good at handling hops. It was all very German feeling, of course: the look and feel of the houses, chalets and forests, hilly landscapes, and car dealerships. The ‘official’ easternmost settlement is Krewinkel, a village that was described…

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Belgium 5: Liège to Sankt Vith

Posted on 16 May 202223 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

A sandwich of a route today: two bread-and-butter railtrails on the outside, with a meaty middle of Belgium’s highest point. All of this took me from the French-speaking heart of the country to its German-speaking minority eastern fringe. So instead of un sandwich, make that ein belegtes Brot. The forecast wasn’t anything to write home…

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Belgium 4: Wavre to Liège

Posted on 15 May 202223 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

A colourful day of mostly riverside riding today, the colours being forest green and cement factory grey. Yes, the Meuse is a grand waterway, but like most of Belgium, industry is never far away. But first I went through the Centre of Belgium. The country’s exact centroid – as determined by their equivalent of the…

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Belgium 3: Gent to Wavre

Posted on 14 May 202220 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

A functional day today, all on good main-road-cycle-paths, through Brussels and across the great linguistic divide. And all in perfect weather: sunny but not glaring, warm but not hot, breezy but not windy. I glided along canalsides from my Gent hostel with a continental buffet breakfast inside me, with a Dutch twist, in the shape…

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Belgium 2: De Panne to Gent

Posted on 13 May 202220 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

It was too early to explore De Panne’s adventure park, Plopsaland, as I left. In a cartoonishly Belgian touch, it’s named after a gnome called Plop. Not a real gnome, obviously, but a character from a children’s TV series. I wonder what effect this sort of thing has on shaping national character. Belgium was, after…

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Belgium 1: (Dunkirk to) De Panne

Posted on 12 May 202221 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

Ah, Belgium. Where beer, chips and chocolate are culture. And three countries for the price of one – the Dutch-, French-, and German-speaking ones. Which may explain why it feels so expensive. But I’ve been here many times, always enjoyed myself hugely, and now I’m doing the place properly with an End to End. Which…

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Slovakia 14: Snina to Nová Sedlica

Posted on 20 April 20226 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

The final day of the Slovakian End to End proved perhaps the most enjoyable cycle-touring of the lot. Especially for fans of wooden churches, such as Eastern Slovakian Orthodox adherents, termites, those with an aversion to nails, and now, cycle bloggers. Indeed, I saw three fine full-size examples in situ today, as well as several…

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Slovakia 13: Vranov nad Topľou to Snina

Posted on 19 April 20229 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

Another short, easy, mostly flat day in scenery that could have been Lowlands Scotland. Especially for the frequency of Co-ops: yes, shops are open again after the Easter break, so I could buy proper food on the go from the ubiquitous village potraviny. After a miserable day of petrol-station crisps and biscuits yesterday, my usual…

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Slovakia 12: Prešov to Vranov nad Topľou

Posted on 18 April 20221 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

It’s Easter still. And everything was. Still, I mean. All shops closed, all roads (almost) empty. The only refreshment possibilities were on petrol station shelves, in packets or with ring-pulls. I set off from Prešov through silent, echoing retail parks and through silent, echoing villages. In one village, though, I did see a curious Slovak…

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