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General Category => Rides and Touring => Topic started by: sg37409 on 08 June, 2010, 03:51:13 pm

Title: Suggestions for short tour from Rotterdam ferry port ?
Post by: sg37409 on 08 June, 2010, 03:51:13 pm

hi - Anyone got any suggestions for a short family tour from Rotterdam or Zebrugge ferry port ?
Am thinking anything form 4-5 days to 7-8.  Camping and not big mileages.  Is there a website that has possible tours on posted ? I tried but I cant be very good at google 'cos I didnt find much.
thanks in advance
SG

Title: Re: Suggestions for short tour from Rotterdam ferry port ?
Post by: roddalitz on 08 June, 2010, 04:18:13 pm

I have done a similar our from Zeebrugge, but since that went through Rotterdam, you could do either. The key is two map books:

Bikeline Rhein-Radweg 3, ISBN 3-85000-001-X at scale 75K which gives cycle paths from Rotterdam to Mainz

Vlanderen Fietsroute, ISBN 90-5934-050-7 at scale 50K which gives cycle paths essentially right round Belgium.

These don't quite join up, but the roads and cycle paths are friendly enough, and you can make up whatever you like based on these two resources.

Bikeline, see Verlag Esterbauer (http://www.esterbauer.com) has hundreds of brilliant cycle tour map-books all over Europe - mostly in German but if you can't handle some German you are likely to have a hard time anyway - you can cycle all the way from Rotterdam to the Black Sea on their cycle path maps.

Possibly further than you wanted just now.

regards,   Rod

Title: Re: Suggestions for short tour from Rotterdam ferry port ?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 09 June, 2010, 09:00:27 am

If you'd like, I can email you a scan of the Fietsideeënkaart that shows the main long distance that exist across The Netherlands. And here's some links that may be useful:

Landelijke Fietsroutes - LF-routes (http://www.landelijkefietsroutes.nl/routes/)

Nederland Fietsland - Fietsknooppuntroutes (http://www.nederlandfietsland.nl/fiets-knooppuntroutes/)

Recreatieve fietsrouteplanner (http://www.nederlandfietsland.nl/fietsrouteplanner/)

Title: Re: Suggestions for short tour from Rotterdam ferry port ?
Post by: vorsprung on 09 June, 2010, 10:27:13 am

Quote from: sg37409 on 08 June, 2010, 03:51:13 pm

hi - Anyone got any suggestions for a short family tour from Rotterdam or Zebrugge ferry port ?
Am thinking anything form 4-5 days to 7-8.  Camping and not big mileages.  Is there a website that has possible tours on posted ? I tried but I cant be very good at google 'cos I didnt find much.
thanks in advance
SG

I am doing a similar thing..see here.  But we are using "Stay OK" Hostels

Easy riding in Holland: is my route ok (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=34112.0)

Title: Re: Suggestions for short tour from Rotterdam ferry port ?
Post by: sg37409 on 13 June, 2010, 11:34:18 pm

Thanks all. I like the Hostel option and am looking into that.
SG