Claire and Olivier are two young French cyclists. After discovering bike travelling in 2018, they caught the bug and in summer 2019, they embarked on their first “big” trip: two and a half months to travel from Greece to Estonia along EuroVelo 11 – East Europe Route.
The EuroVelo network provides great opportunities for unforgettable adventures. The way becomes the journey. Swiss-based Canadian Brian Roodnick used the network this year to follow a call for volunteering to teach in the refugee camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesvos. Read here the first part of…
Throughout the last weeks, our colleague Aleksander Buczyński, ECF’s Infrastructure Officer, has been taking a closer look at the EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycle Route. In this fourth and final instalment, he explains how it fits into the EuroVelo network.
Throughout the last weeks, our colleague Aleksander Buczyński, ECF’s Infrastructure Officer, has been taking a closer look at the EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycle Route. In this third instalment, he focuses on different ways used to cross the river, an inherent challenge and at the same advantage for rout…
Exploring Spain by bike has just become easier with a new tool developed by Funbici.
Throughout the autumn our colleague Aleksander Buczyński, the ECF’s Infrastructure Officer, is using EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycle Route to take a closer look at route planning. In this second instalment, he highlights EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycling Route as an example of good practice of the backbone app…
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 deci…
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.
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 …
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 membe…
Between 17th and 28th July 2020, Anuj Karkare and Sushil Reddy from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay completed a cycle journey of more than 700 kilometres in 10 days from Paris to Amsterdam, as a part of the cause The SunPedal Ride – a solar energy awareness initiative.
Over the past few months, we have been raising awareness on cycle tourism with the #RestartCycleTourism digital campaign, aiming to grab the attention of key stakeholders, policymakers and decisionmakers to achieve greater funding and investment in cycle tourism. Now that the summer – but not the c…
Good news for those wanting to cycle the Croatian section of EuroVelo 8 - Mediterranean Route: there is now a new website where you can find all the information cycling tourists need for exploring this popular route. Our Croatian National EuroVelo Coordination Centre, the Croatian Tourist Board, re…
This year, as part of #RestartCycleTourism, we encouraged cyclists to explore their local surroundings and share the best photo of their cycling holidays along EuroVelo 15 - Rhine Cycle Route or EuroVelo 19 - Meuse Cycle Route for the contest. These are the winners!
During lockdown, everybody was talking about “The world after”. The world after lockdown; after the coronavirus pandemic is over; after country borders open again…the list goes on. But this summer, as it becomes clear that the pandemic is not going to end anytime soon, one idea is starting to becom…
Regional partners in the Netherlands have developed a unique initiative to draw extra attention to the Limburg section of the LF Maasroute (the Dutch part of EuroVelo 19 - Meuse Cycle Route). In collaboration with artist Patrick Kusters, the Province of Limburg and ten municipalities have placed st…
Bernd Schadowski (47) is an enthusiastic long distance cyclist, blogger and author. He loves bicycle touring. The proximity to nature. The unforeseen encounters with exciting and unconventional people.
Blogger Jei V. Bi explored EuroVelo 2 - Capitals Route in London earlier this year and sent us a story of the journey, showing that EuroVelo routes can also provide a nice cycle ride for a one-day city trip. Follow the route across the capital of the United Kingdom, take in the sights and don't for…
Throughout the summer, we will use the #RestartCycleTourism hashtag in relation to the various initiatives popping up to revive cycle tourism. The campaign aims to highlight these actions and connect them together as an answer to this year’s unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. We want to build on the cu…
Bernd Schadowski (47) is an enthusiastic long distance cyclist, blogger and author. He loves bicycle touring. The proximity to nature. The unforeseen encounters with exciting and unconventional people.
The Hungarian website www.EuroVelo.hu was launched a few months ago, following the structure of EuroVelo.com. This website offers detailed information and news about the EuroVelo routes crossing Hungary: EuroVelo 6 – Atlantic-Black Sea, EuroVelo 11 – East Europe Route, EuroVelo 13 – Iron Curtain Tr…
Summer is here again, and with it, the latest edition of the EuroVelo Summer Photo Contest! Share the best picture of your cycle holidays along EuroVelo 15 - Rhine Cycle Route or EuroVelo 19 - Meuse Cycle Route and win a cycle tourist package along a section of these routes. Our Instagram followers…
We are delighted to be able to present the seventeenth route in the European cycle route network: EuroVelo 14 – Waters of Central Europe.
While lockdown measures are progressively being eased all around Europe, travelling is likely to remain limited in the coming weeks and months. Planning the summer holidays is therefore proving a bit of a challenge this year. With #EuroVeloAtHome, we would like to let you know that it’s okay to dre…
Following a detailed survey based on the European Certification Standard (ECS), a significant section of EuroVelo 15 – Rhine Cycle Route has been re-certified as being a high-quality route within the European cycle route network.
Are you keen for some more ideas for films and books to inspire your next cycling adventure? During our research into our first article we discovered many more films and books about exciting journeys on two wheels, so we thought we share these with you too.
The COVD-19 pandemic and the lockdowns currently happening in most parts of the world make it difficult for many of us to plan cycling holidays in the summer. Times are uncertain and we do not know when it will be safe to travel again. With #EuroVeloAtHome, we would like to let you know that it’s o…
“There’s nothing I like better than coming up with challenges that other people consider crazy, impossible, or simply too difficult and tiring to be fun.” In 2019, Myra Stals decided to make a statement against plastic pollution by picking up as much plastic waste as possible while she was on her b…
In this period of lockdown, which provides a good opportunity for learning new things, we invite you to discover the work of Mégane Millet Lacombe, a landscape designer who graduated from the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles, France in 2017.
In many places in the world right now, we are facing an extraordinary period confined to our own homes in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Although we might not be able to undertake cycling adventures far from home at the moment – indeed some of you may have had to postpone or …