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Planning successful cycle routes: EuroVelo 19 as a best practice example – Part 1
Oct 9, 2020
Planning successful cycle routes: EuroVelo 19 as a best practice example – Part 1
Over the coming months our colleague Aleksander Buczyński, the ECF’s Infrastructure Officer, will be using EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycle Route to take a closer look at route planning. To provide some context, in this first installment he considers the different approaches that are often applied in deciding where cycle routes should go.
find out moreThe story of crossing Brittany by bike
If you need proof that you can cycle the EuroVelo routes any time of the year: Read the winter travel report of the Abicyclette Voyages travel agency team in this advertorial.
find out moreTheBigRecord:UK – Capturing the sound of the UK on two wheels!
British sound artist and cyclist Paul Cheese is not unknown to the EuroVelo Team. In April 2018, he cycled 2,650 km along Eurovelo routes 11, 8, 5, 7 through Greece and Italy, capturing the sounds of fantastic locations along the way and creating a song with this material – and in September of the same year, he spoke at the EuroVelo Conference about using cycling as inspiration to write and record music. In 2019 he went on a new musical adventure, this time in his own country, cycling 8,000 km to every region of the UK to capture the sounds of people and places.
find out moreJill & Florence’s Insider Tips: #RestartCycleTourism with a staycation
This year was a summer like no other. As our plans got cancelled, we had to improvise new ways of enjoying our holidays, often closer to home than originally planned. But new constraints can also give birth to new ideas; and for many of us, including ECF's co-CEO Jill Warren and EuroVelo team member Florence Grégoire, it was the occasion to rediscover our own countries and #RestartCycleTourism on two wheels.
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