One map to serve them all! Spanish project to connect the country through cycling routes
Nov 30, 2020
Exploring Spain by bike has just become easier with a new tool developed by Funbici.
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Planning successful cycle routes: EuroVelo 19 as a best practice example – Part 2
Oct 27, 2020
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…
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Planning successful cycle routes: EuroVelo 19 as a best practice example – Part 1
Oct 9, 2020
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…
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The story of crossing Brittany by bike
Oct 8, 2020
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.
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TheBigRecord:UK – Capturing the sound of the UK on two wheels!
Sep 30, 2020
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 …
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Jill & Florence’s Insider Tips: #RestartCycleTourism with a staycation
Sep 17, 2020
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…
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Here comes the sun: cycling from Paris to Amsterdam to raise awareness about solar energy
Sep 16, 2020
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.
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Summer sees boom in cycle tourism in the Netherlands
Sep 16, 2020
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…
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Wanderlust? This new website helps you plan a cycle trip on the EuroVelo 8 – Mediterranean Route in Croatia!
Sep 16, 2020
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…
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Announcing the 2020 EuroVelo Summer Photo Contest Winners
Sep 10, 2020
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!
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Tall chairs in the low country
Aug 11, 2020
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…
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Circumnavigation of the Baltic Sea along EuroVelo 10: Part II
Aug 6, 2020
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.
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Take Time to Discover London on the Capitals Route
Jul 6, 2020
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…
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Together, let's #RestartCycleTourism this summer!
Jun 29, 2020
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…
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Circumnavigation of the Baltic Sea along EuroVelo 10
Jun 29, 2020
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.
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New platform for the EuroVelo routes in Hungary!
Jun 29, 2020
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…
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Win a cycling holiday with the EuroVelo Summer Photo Contest 2020!
Jun 24, 2020
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…
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EuroVelo 14 – Waters of Central Europe joins the EuroVelo network
Jun 15, 2020
We are delighted to be able to present the seventeenth route in the European cycle route network: EuroVelo 14 – Waters of Central Europe.
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Dreaming about Cycling Holidays: EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycle Route from your bedroom
Jun 3, 2020
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…
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Re-Certification confirms EuroVelo 15 remains a high-quality route
May 18, 2020
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.
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Part II: What to read and watch for cycling tourism inspiration during lockdown
Apr 29, 2020
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.
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Dreaming about Cycling Holidays: EuroVelo 15 – Rhine Cycle Route from your bedroom
Apr 27, 2020
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…
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Cycle 2 Recycle: fighting plastic pollution, one bike trip at a time!
Apr 27, 2020
“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…
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Borderlands: A young landscape architect looks at the Turkish-Bulgarian border area along EuroVelo 13 - Iron Curtain Trail
Apr 20, 2020
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.
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What to read and watch for cycling tourism inspiration during lockdown
Mar 30, 2020
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 …
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ADFC’s Bicycle Travel Analysis identifies growth in short trips
Mar 30, 2020
The ADFC again presented its traditional Bicycle Travel Analysis this year. It is already the 21st time! The ADFC’s figures are among the best available data on bicycle travels and the popularity of individual routes in general. EuroVelo routes again featured prominently among the top routes this …
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Bicycle Route Planner Germany: New website makes planning your next cycling holiday much easier!
Mar 16, 2020
Eight of Germany’s 16 federal states have developed a Germany-wide cycle route planner. This new tool facilitates tour planning by bringing together the individual cycle route planners of each state in one website.
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The new EuroVelo Overview Maps have arrived!
Mar 2, 2020
Over 86,000 km or 53,000 miles of cycle routes across Europe are now summarised in one map. On a scale of 1:5,000,000, the map now includes the recently-added EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycle Route and the extension of EuroVelo 8 – Mediterranean Route in Turkey.
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A ride on EuroVelo 1 – Atlantic Coast Route before conquering the world!
Jan 31, 2020
Last summer Ben van Baardwijk and Linda Reimersdahl went on a 30 day test ride in Ireland to prepare for an upcoming round-the-world adventure.
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EuroVelo 19 - On the banks of the Meuse
Jan 29, 2020
Lukas Sentner is a European slow traveller and cycling enthusiast. Since 2018 he has covered over 10,000 km around the globe powering his bike on passion! His longest journey led him across Scandinavia for the UNICEF charity action Dreams are borderless. This month we are happy to share Lukas’ expe…