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Ed Gillis
Aug 25, 202210 min read
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...
Ed Gillis
Aug 15, 20227 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20228 min read
“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, 20226 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20228 min read
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...
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