Week 22: Packing it in Before Packing it up
Copenhagen to Oslo, 510km; final total (read on to find out!) It’s nice to cruise to the finish line. We usually punctuate our annual...
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Ed Gillis
- Aug 15, 2022
- 7 min
Week 21: Not Ready for This to End
Klitmøller to Copenhagen, 491km; total 9,500km Denmark just keeps getting better. From what we see to what we eat, where we sleep to the...
Ed Gillis
- Aug 7, 2022
- 6 min
Week 20: Denmark’s Wonderful Cozy Feeling
Sylt (Germany) to Klitmøller (Denmark), 384km; total 9,009km It was pure misery. Or at least as close as one can get while on a six-month...
Ed Gillis
- Jul 30, 2022
- 6 min
Week 19: Pushing through Headwinds in Friesland
Amsterdam to Sylt (Germany), 870km; total 8,625km Bike touring, like life in general, sometimes throws you a nasty headwind. The...
Ed Gillis
- Jul 23, 2022
- 7 min
Bikes, More Bikes, Rainbow Buses and a Pet Crow: The Many Sides of the Netherlands
Duisburg (Germany) to Amsterdam, 440km; total 7,755km For a while, we thought maybe the marijuana just wafts permanently through the...
Ed Gillis
- Jul 14, 2022
- 6 min
Week 16: Riding High on Low Expectations along the Rhine
Kaiseraugst to Bonn, 640 km; total 7,315 km “I’d be okay with a little church vandalism,” was the only-half-joking suggestion one early...
Ed Gillis
- Jul 6, 2022
- 7 min
Week 15: Falling Apart but Getting By in Switzerland
Andermatt to Kaiseraugst, 425km; total 6,675km A bicycle is a pretty impressive machine - simple compared to modern wonders like iPhones,...
Ed Gillis
- Jun 25, 2022
- 5 min
Week 14: Sweet Adieu to the Mediterranean on the Albanian Riviera
Vlorë (Albania) to Corfu (Greece), 133km; total 6,250km “This is a very important event. Get these bicycles out of here.” Disdain is...
Ed Gillis
- Jun 23, 2022
- 8 min
“Together we will succeed”: Albania’s Remarkable Resilience
Week 14 - Dubrovnik to Vlorë, 548km; total 6,117km (new family tour record) As parents, one quality you hope most for your kids to...
Ed Gillis
- Jun 15, 2022
- 6 min
Week Twelve: “Once in a lifetime, every day”
Zadar to Dubrovnik, 434km; total 5,569km Most dads get goosebumps of pride watching their kids score a goal, rock a recital or (in the...
Ed Gillis
- Jun 13, 2022
- 8 min
Week Eleven: Hot and Chill in Croatia
Trieste to Zadar, 581km; total 5,135km “I love you, baby.” - Required Croatian marital expression Over almost twenty years of marriage,...
Ed Gillis
- Jun 1, 2022
- 6 min
Week Ten: Exchanging two wheels for two feet - Our Mid-Trip Backpackers’ Whirlwind
Venice to Venice (via Malaga, Rome and Naples by train, plane, bus, tram, taxi, Uber, Venice canal airport water taxi, and 29km on foot)...
Ed Gillis
- May 24, 2022
- 7 min
Week Ten: Biking from One Fun Thing to the Next - and Knowing When to Stay Longer
Varna to Verona, 387km; total 4,554km Wedged between two massive dolomite slabs, hands gripping with all their 12-year-old strength,...
Ed Gillis
- May 19, 2022
- 5 min
Flat and Chill vs Mountains and Awesome: leaving France’s Canals for Italy’s Alps
Paris to Varna, 531km; total 4,167km Maybe we should’ve stayed in France. For the past six days, we’d floated blissfully alongside...
Ed Gillis
- May 10, 2022
- 8 min
Week Eight: Castles, Caves and Fluent Conversation: Reveling in our Francophonie along the Loire
Saint-Brevin to Paris: 465km; total 3,636km Another week, another mad dash to a must-reach destination. This time, however, there was no...
Ed Gillis
- May 2, 2022
- 7 min
Week Six/Seven: Beautiful, blustery bike-touring with a teenager on France’s Atlantic Vélodyssée
Pamplona to Saint-Brevin-L’Ocean, 767km; total 3,171k “Il y a toujours ce vent d'inconnu et d'aventures qui nous talonne tous.” We were...
Ed Gillis
- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min
Our first podcast!
Thank you Karin at 10Adventures for this super-fun opportunity to participate in our first podcast. We talked about our favourite moments...
Ed Gillis
- Apr 23, 2022
- 7 min
Week Five/Six: Our divine Semana santa on the Camino de Santiago
(Credit: Joce’s fabulous cousin @redsandsam) Santiago de Compostela to Pamplona, 784km in 8 days - a new family record! Trip total to...
Ed Gillis
- Apr 11, 2022
- 7 min
Week Four: Let the Kids Plan
Porto to Santiago de Compostela, 341km, total 1,620k “Six-point-nine!” The kilometre countdown was getting more precise and frequent as...
Ed Gillis
- Apr 5, 2022
- 8 min
Week Three: A Tale of Two West Coasts
Setubàl to Porto, 563 km - total 1,279k “Here comes another cove climb!” Our shoulders would slump each time one of us uttered the...
Ed Gillis
- Mar 28, 2022
- 6 min
Week Two: Portugal’s Awesome Off-Season
Vila Real de San Antonio to Setùbal, 454km (total 716k) Algarve is a rising vacation mecca for wealthy Europeans - rivaling Ibiza, Nice...
Ed Gillis
- Mar 22, 2022
- 6 min
Week One: Finding our Feet on Spain’s Costa del sol
Malaga, Spain, to Altura, Portugal - 262 km cycling That first sleep after a long travel day is always sweet and deep - which is why we...
Ed Gillis
- Mar 14, 2022
- 3 min
Europe Epic: Getting There (or, Ode to the End of Covid)
It wasn’t only us who had been waiting for this moment. The 5am check-in line at Erik Neilson Airport in Whitehorse was packed with March...
Ed Gillis
- Jan 29, 2022
- 2 min
European Epic 2022 !
Our next family adventure begins on March 12, with a 10,000km bike tour from Morocco to Norway It began on a beach in the middle of the...
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