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Baths 6: Bath, Scotland

Posted on 30 May 20002 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

[A lot happened after our final European twin, Aix-en-Provence, in July 1999. We returned home with the cycling leg of the Baths tour completed, and spent a few months backpacking round places called Bath in Canada, the US, Barbados, Jamaica and St Kitts-Nevis. We managed to cycle in a few of them. We then spent…

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Baths 5: Aix-en-Provence, France

Posted on 28 July 19992 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

[After Káposvar, we cycled out of Hungary and through Slovenia and Croatia to meet up with a friend. We then found our way across Switzerland to Lyon, and followed the Rhône down the final European twin: Aix-en-Provence, once the home of van Gogh, whose images strikingly illuminate the place.] Thanks to the generosity of the…

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Baths 4: Káposvar, Hungary

Posted on 30 June 19992 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

[From Braunschweig we dawdled our way through southern Germany, dropping on friends in Miesbach south of Munich, and followed the classic bits of the Danube riverside cycle path from Passau. We got as far as Esztergom before turning south to Budapest, and then headed for our third twin, Káposvar, via the flatlands of Lake Balaton.]…

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Baths 3: Braunschweig, Germany

Posted on 22 May 19992 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

[We spent so long in the Netherlands, having such a good time exploring the sandy (and sometimes car-free) islands in the North Sea, that we had to get a train to our next twin, Braunschweig. We kept quiet about that.] Braunschweig seems to have little in common with Bath, its twin town, at first glance….

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Baths 2: Alkmaar, Netherlands

Posted on 14 May 19992 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

[From Bath, Netherlands we rode along the coast via Delft, where we stopped off for a few days. All the way to Alkmaar, the first twin, we enjoyed the seaside scenery of the LF1 cycle route.] Alkmaar is Bath’s twin in north Holland. The twinning started after the war when a fundraising project in Bath…

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Baths 1: Bath, Netherlands

Posted on 6 May 19992 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

[We set off from our home in Bath on 29 April, and followed the Kennet and Avon canal to London and then Dover, camping and staying with friends. From Calais we headed east along the coast to the first alternative Bath, in an unexpected place…] Bath, Netherlands? Most Dutch shake their heads and deny knowledge…

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