We did our trip around the Netherlands with our parents. It is the perfect destination for cycling in family. Cycling routes are everywhere and altitude is not a challenge. However there are other challenges: the wind and the weather. We all ended up equiped with waterproof capes.
If you want to make a budget trip we recomend staying with inhabitants. You can join the association: http://www.vriendenopdefiets.nl/ and for a symbolic membership fee you can benefit from a very good tarif in their network of inhabitants who accomodate cyclists.
We only had a week and wanted to cover a big part of the country without carrying our lugage. Therefore we opted for the car and bicycle model. We drove to a place did a day cycling and moved forward.
We followed the national cycling roads and we bought the Landelijke fietsroutes maps: http://www.fietsplatform.nl/routes/
This was really helpful.
you can find our tour on: http://maps.google.be/maps?hl=fr&tab=wl but note that this is only approximate given that the roads we followed were often only very small paths.
Here is the itinerary :
Day 1 - Maastricht - 20,5km
Day 2 - Maastricht - Sibbe - Elsloo - Rekem - Maastricht - 56,4km
This was the only hilly part of our trip. We strongly recommend to see Maastricht and its surrounding hills.
Day 3 - Park Hoge Veluwe - 59,8km
This national park with its sandy dunes and heather was a very nice surprise to us.
Day 4 - Meppel - Giethorn - Sint Jansklooster - Meppel - 58,6km
Giethorn is a touristic attraction but worth the trip.
Day 5 - Grooningen - Haren - Oudemolen - Norg - Groningen - 72,7km
The tour in the Drenthe countryside was very pleasant and Groninghen is a nice town.
Day 6 - Niekerk - Lauwersoog - (Schiermonnikoog) - Vierhuiwen - Niekerk - 60,4km
I have to say that the trip to Schiermonnikoog was a bit expensive for what you get. You have to pay 14€ per person and the same price for your bike and the countryside there is not very different from the rest of the coast.
Day 7 - Alkmaar - Heiloo - Wormerveer - Wijk aan Zee - Egmond - Alkmaar - 88,9km
Day 8 - Middelburg - Zoutelande - Westkapelle - Domburg - Veere - Middelburg - 55km
In both last two days we followed the coast for at least a part of the trip and cycling in sandy dunes was very pleasant though it can get boring. Veere is a nice town among those we saw in our last round.
TOTAL - 472,3
If you want to make a budget trip we recomend staying with inhabitants. You can join the association: http://www.vriendenopdefiets.nl/ and for a symbolic membership fee you can benefit from a very good tarif in their network of inhabitants who accomodate cyclists.
We only had a week and wanted to cover a big part of the country without carrying our lugage. Therefore we opted for the car and bicycle model. We drove to a place did a day cycling and moved forward.
We followed the national cycling roads and we bought the Landelijke fietsroutes maps: http://www.fietsplatform.nl/routes/
This was really helpful.
you can find our tour on: http://maps.google.be/maps?hl=fr&tab=wl but note that this is only approximate given that the roads we followed were often only very small paths.
Here is the itinerary :
Day 1 - Maastricht - 20,5km
Day 2 - Maastricht - Sibbe - Elsloo - Rekem - Maastricht - 56,4km
This was the only hilly part of our trip. We strongly recommend to see Maastricht and its surrounding hills.
Day 3 - Park Hoge Veluwe - 59,8km
This national park with its sandy dunes and heather was a very nice surprise to us.
Day 4 - Meppel - Giethorn - Sint Jansklooster - Meppel - 58,6km
Giethorn is a touristic attraction but worth the trip.
Day 5 - Grooningen - Haren - Oudemolen - Norg - Groningen - 72,7km
The tour in the Drenthe countryside was very pleasant and Groninghen is a nice town.
Day 6 - Niekerk - Lauwersoog - (Schiermonnikoog) - Vierhuiwen - Niekerk - 60,4km
I have to say that the trip to Schiermonnikoog was a bit expensive for what you get. You have to pay 14€ per person and the same price for your bike and the countryside there is not very different from the rest of the coast.
Day 7 - Alkmaar - Heiloo - Wormerveer - Wijk aan Zee - Egmond - Alkmaar - 88,9km
Day 8 - Middelburg - Zoutelande - Westkapelle - Domburg - Veere - Middelburg - 55km
In both last two days we followed the coast for at least a part of the trip and cycling in sandy dunes was very pleasant though it can get boring. Veere is a nice town among those we saw in our last round.
TOTAL - 472,3
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