
i all, this is my rough plan I made on Komoot. For those of you who have experience cycling around Europe, what would you change slightly to make this trip even better? I don’t want to miss out…
Bike = gravel bike hybrid tyres cheers 🥂
by DarkDugtrio
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You should see Mona Lisa.
The address is Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France.
What don’t you want to miss out? Cities or nature?
If the latter, I would suggest to change the Benelux part for more hills. Something like Amsterdam-Utrecht-Arnhem/Nijmegen (see the Green Divide by Erwin Sikkens on Komoot) -Maastricht (see routes by For The Love of Gravel on Komoot and check the Voerstreek as well)-Liège-Namur (the Ardennes are worth riding through) and then into France towards the Champagne region.
Take one of the ferries that don’t go through Calais (either leaving or entering the UK) so that you can vary up the UK lap of the tour. Now you’re riding the same section twice. I would also take Northern coast of Spain over the current sections of Spain and make changes accordingly. Plus I would hit a more eastern route on the way out of the NL and through Belgium.
I’d cycle up to Newcastle instead and get a night ferry to Amsterdam. There’s not much on that coast up that way from Calais anyway. Then you can spend more time in the Netherlands.
I’d include the Alps or Central Pyrenees, maybe Central Massif or Sierra de Guadarama. You’re missing out bigtime on sights by circumventing all the altitude.
Don’t do it on a fatbike and get frostbite in the Pyrenees.