Planning a 7-8 day ride through the Netherlands, while stopping in Munster to visit a friend halfway through. Looking for any advice, critiques, or suggested changes. This will be early May. Done many bike trips before with family, but this will be first trip solo + carrying my clothes/gear in panniers. Planning on staying at hostels/Warmshowers along the way.
Day 1: Pick up bike in Amsterdam, ride to Delft passing through The Hague.
Day 2: Delft to Den Bosch, passing through Rotterdam.
Day 3: Den Bosch to Nijmegen.
Day 4: Nigmegen to Borken/Regen.
Day 5: Regen to Munster, passing through the Dulmen Wildlife Park.
Day 6: Take train from Munster to Deventer. Ride from Deventer through Veluwe Park to Arnhem.
Day 7: Arnhem to either Utrecht or finish and return bike in Amsterdam.
Day 8 (If in Utrecht): Ride to Amsterdam to return bike.
Planning on riding about 80km a day. Is that reasonable, while still walking around the cute towns I pass through a little bit? In pretty good shape.
Missing any must-do cities/sites nearby?
by Thatcraftingfox
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i like the parts i know, the national park north of arnhem is pretty nice, so are the woods south west of münster and the area east of nijmegen.
two little changes i would make if it was my trip: go through xanten and check out the roman fort there, it’s also a nice small town with plenty of nice restaurants and cafes. in the netherlands on your first day, i would take the route through the dunes between katwijk and scheveningen – bike infrastructure is great either way, but the bike route through the dunes is much more relaxed as opposed to the direct route from leiden to den haag which is next to a highway if i remember correctly.