Cambridge to Andermatt
Once more into the breach...but this time it's different! After the "challenges" of the Danube ride last year, I really felt that I wanted to do a long-distance self-supported cycling trip which didn't involve nearly dying on multiple occasions. I thought about doing the other half of EuroVelo 6 which would have gone from the Atlantic to Budapest or maybe cycling round Spain...although Spain in August might have been a hot and dangerous mess. I settled on cycling from the source of the Rhine all the way back to Cambridge. This is broadly the Eurovelo 15 route and (a) is downhill all the way and (b) Lichtenstein and Germany aren't likely to be as challenging as, say, Serbia and Bulgaria. However, this year the trip was going to be different. Rather than doing a solo, self-supported long distance cycle, I was going to do a self-supported long-distance cycle but with my lovely wife. Two bikes, two beans and two people ...