CYCLING Netherlands to Germany & Luxembourg

Day 1: Amsterdam to Utrecht
Day 2: Utrecht to Arnhem
Day 3: BREAK
Day 4: Arnhem to Rees (Germany)
Day 5: Rees to Duisburg
Day 6: Duisburg to Dusseldorf
Day 7: Luxembourg

So I just arrived in Amsterdam and I received my bike on the met bike shop at the station and I’ve loaded all the luggage so I am heading towards the town called as you drenched which is about 40 kilometers away from here and right now

The weather is not really bad is a bit cloudy and the wind is about 8 miles per hour I’m just hoping that it doesn’t rain I’m just really hoping that so I’m gonna get on my bike right now and I’m gonna speed up boom straight to you

Thrust I’ll keep you updated as I go along don’t buy gold I’ve been anticipating descriptives last year and now today I finally get to live it so you Trust is actually a religious center of the Netherlands and apparently even though it is lost in Bishop ship very long time ago and since Amsterdam

Has taken over the title and also it is it used to be the most populous city as well but even now Amsterdam has taken over that as well more people come in here for obvious reasons I’m just kidding so yeah let’s see what the beautiful town holds for me I haven’t read too

Much about it but let’s go there and see what it has so last year I finished my tour at Amsterdam and this year I’m carrying on from Amsterdam and I’m heading towards düsseldorf in Germany and after that I’ll be getting a train from düsseldorf to a town in Belgium which is called

Wall Conrad and from world work and red I’ll be cycling for a day and I’ll be camping overnight and the following day are we taking a train back to Brussels and then back to the UK so my itinerary is as follows like today I’m cycling from Amsterdam to u Treach and then the

Day after I’ll be going from uterus to Arnhem and then from Arnhem I’ll be going into Greece which is in Germany and then from Rhys I’ll be going to do his birth from Duisburg I’ll be going to düsseldorf so it was you know this tour

Was a bit kind of a tricky to organize because there’s no Google Maps in Germany apparently they have disabled it so the only way I could see what Germany looks like on a bicycle is true search for YouTube videos and I saw that there are a few people who had made some

Cycling videos within Germany like with in düsseldorf and other towns as well so yeah this is one of the tips that if you cannot find a street view on Google Maps for a specific country try searching for the YouTube video and hopefully you will be able to find something so I’m sure

I’ve just talked outside of the main city right now I’m just catching my breath because I just stormed out like at a high speed it’s just the cities of it are congested with too many people is too noisy as well I want something like this nice piece

I have just entered economic I think logo should have the on separate lane and you know like us Michael should have our own name that’s the sharp corner I’m gonna slow down now this is my friend So I got more burdens over here these are very different kind of buzz but normally Bloods are by a lake or a pond so rather than being here they are actually on the cross lens they are feeding on grass as far as I can see that’s really this that’s something new

Because in the UK they do tend to go on the cross but the grass is close to the waters but in this case they are far away is like an entire farm only for them I just love this place it’s like in the middle of nowhere beautifully paved roads what more can

You ask you Tony I mean seriously I’m really surprised that not many people come here so one of the members from the group once told me that I love cycling along the canals because there is not much pollutions like the roads like you have so many

Cars and you know like the canals is more greenery you know more connecting with nature that’s true but how about in Netherlands were in the canals you get this thing polluting yeah so it’s no different than is it this is like the fifth time I’m overtaking the ship it’s

Just hilarious because I stopped for a bit just to drink some water or grab a snack and then he overtakes me and then I start cycling again and then I overtake it so I’ve just arrived in Brooklyn apparently the borough in New York which is called the Brooklyn is named after

This town Brooklyn and New York originally was called a new Amsterdam because it was a Dutch colony like back in the day before the British took over and then change it into a New York and Brooklyn just a different spelling so that’s the abrooke lane bridge down there and apparently during the 17th

Century like many wealthy merchants from Amsterdam came down here and they built dimensions by the banks of this river this river is called River wedge so I don’t see any mentions over here maybe some new buildings so the ventures must be somewhere out there so I just wanted to share that information

This is the 500th time that this ship is overtaking me again and this time I’m going to overtake it for once and for all I never had much rubbing the bad butts no skinny kids he can eat in my bag lunch and open junior high was just

Getting by and drive around my homies in young life I’ve never deep crap and even though I had pain so I’ve just arrived at the campsite and I’m gonna set up my tent right now and then I’m heading off for dinner I’m really really starving right now

I passed from a very narrow dark passage and as soon as I was about to enter the light there are two dogs by a nearby house and they barked so loud bloody hell they scared the living hell out of me I don’t think I’ll be taking

The same route back again I will look for an alternate route you can see how dark it is it’s not only on the camera but it is really really dark so I just finished my dinner see here there is some light I guess these guys aren’t feeling the love Wonderful morning I have two luxury items on this trip the first one is an air mattress which I bought from blacks it was an offer for only four pounds and I have a pillow as well we just made up a sponge and right now since the Sun is

Out I’m charging my power bank know if you can see it power all because a 10,000 milliamp hour power bank this is my I’m now heading to Arnhem I’ve just still unpacked my solar panel kind of laid it back like this so to go charge my follow bank as I’m cycling using the sun’s energy I saw some white berries over here some people are really big fans of eating

Berries from the world but I would never do that because you know who knows if some cyclists may stop here to your age and yeah here as well broken babies because they singing destruction for you see a human being weak remember get out there but you learn to break keep my

Families in sectors they are broken Wow ghetto bird stop somebody else call me girl’s mom if we can all make it change so I’m told but I haven’t seen your change on phone I’ll keep open please if you prefer to breathe communities in Sports Complex it’s called K and VB and they have a massive soccer ball out there I hope you can go and give it a kick I’m just entering the town of sharp until it looks like a small town lots of farmlands and a few people I am now entering a roundabouts So this is a chicken farm it’s so many chickens over there I feel hungry no they look so tasty I think they heard me say that but that place is called Dickens it is but dick is a very common name apparently in Netherlands do you see

What I see it is an elliptic bus actually elective dramas are not electric buzz so I was just arriving I made the campsite my body set up my tent I’m now gonna inflate my luxury air mattress Enough so I just finished my dinner and I’m about to enter my campsite it’s getting dark good morning so I’m just going to have breakfast right now the coffee place is about 20 minutes walk from here I can’t be bothered to take my bike today I just

Want to keep my legs a break it’s a lovely morning you know there is no sounds of any cars yes the open plain films yeah I don’t have anything much planned for today apart from this realistic and I might go to the town centre later on but I’m not

Sure I’m not really in the mood or fighting or anything it’s just so relaxing in here look I don’t want to go anywhere else [Applause] I never and even though I had pain in my I was hopeless from the start they couldn’t tell me nothing they all tried to help me the marijuana half my mark on wasn’t healthy i trapped plates go To the campsite I just put at this bench so I’ll be sitting here for a bit because on this trip I’ve been cycling all along but sit but you know cycling and you know sitting on a bench is not the same thing even though you are sitting and cycling

You need that backrest you know sometimes and even if you lie down that’s different it’s not the same yeah I don’t know how to explain but that’s the journey it’s not something today’s Monday don’t know why they are ringing oh yeah but another funny thing about

This town is and most shops are closed on Mondays so there’s really surprising because I went to a few breakfast places and they were all closed up but there was one which I found open it was a very small one but um but they serve but it served me a very good breakfast

So this games is called mr. big just by the river it is already put the entire bench just to myself so the Sun is out it is pretty strong so I will take this opportunity it’s lunchtime so I’m heading towards the town center there is a very nice kebab place it’s called Dominic’s

There are some very good reviews online so I’m hoping to to custom falafel over there today don’t enter you that looks like a watchdog Can swim here as well so there is a small pot over here where you can go down to the shore to the banks of the river we are white standard tonight for dinner I have two tortillas weight salsa and I am I I also bought the penis and super smoothie which is an

Anti oxidants which all the good stuff so that’ll be my dinner for tonight and for tomorrow breakfast I’ll be having one banana with two croissants and I also have an expresso drink as well It’s a cappuccino actually sorry [Applause] You you good morning I just woke up or more very nice slip I’m going to freshen up and I have my breakfast and then today I will be entering Germany [Applause] I have now left Arnhem and I’m heading towards Rhys which is in Germany so this is my first time that I’m visiting

Germany and I’m really happy that I’m going there on my bicycle so Destin that’s the river nether region and as it flows further down it then change it changes its name into River Rhine and that’s what it’s known for in Germany so this entire route most of it

Is on the banks of River Rhine it’s a good weather it’s a beautiful day and I’m packed and ready to go I just added a electrolyte tablet to my water so what this does is that when you drink this it will absorb the water straight up into your muscles and it’s really effective like when you are doing some training like I think the gym or if

You’re cycling like I am so I’m so I’ve already left to earn him and I’m just outside by the countryside and from here the route is just straight ahead so I know about the Android Germany this is officially the border line the unknown is special signboards apart

From one it’s a stall it’s regarding those huge trucks oh yeah it’s nothing special but yep finally in Germany [Applause] So I’ve just pulled into a town nearby it’s called Emory Chandran and there’s a very nice Turkish restaurant in this town and since I’m hungry I searched it up on Google and it has very good reviews like over 300 reviews all five-star so I’m just heading there

Right now I’m almost close I’m off the main highway and I’m in the inside role so I’m just about ten minutes away so I’m really looking forward I’m really really starving right now just of dismantled itself You you so this is my Airbnb place and it is a farm area anyway I am offered to shop at a supermarket I want to buy some food for tomorrow breakfast and hopefully I can buy something for dinner as well because I don’t want to be going out

Again I’m really exhausted oh yeah This morning I had a bit of a mess up I left my Airbnb to come to the supermarket nearby as a message to a small cafe as well over here over in circle first so in order to open the gates I laid my bike down on the ground

And then I opened the case and then I picked up my bike and I came here now it is only a three minute right to the supermarket and when I reached here I realized that my Airbnb room key is missing and then it hit me that because

I because I laid my bike on the floor it must have talked out of my own case so I picked up my bike and I ran back just to find the key on the ground saw that there was a lucky one last night I didn’t have any dinner because I was

Hoping that the coffee maker in the room would also provide hot water as well so I wanted to have like soup noodles but it seemed that it only accepts sachets so I didn’t have any deep I didn’t have any dinner last night apart from a Dorito crisps which I had left from the

Previous night so right now for breakfast I’m having a tuna sandwich and it’s delicious is lovely so I am outside of Greece and I’m heading towards Duisburg I’m hoping to arrive and the reason I have you know like warm I Orion tied up my neck lace

Two times a small to wake up in the morning my full of demons that are gonna hear a mini girl got me heartbroken fine to me baby screaming cuz they singing destruction for you see a human being but he thought smokey will never get out

There but you we learn to pray keep our families in shape check out this massive so I’m currently in a town called in Slaton and for a good half an hour I was actually on the main road that was really scary because the limit on here is 70 as you can see

The signboard over there yeah 70 so I’m finally happy you’ll see a cycle party over here it was quite a while right on the main road [Applause] Now obviously arrived at the town of boos bug my destination for today so far I’ve done 60 kilometers today given the fact that I stopped over for lunch at Brussels and also I stopped at like for a coffee break as well at the other town

Oh I forgot the name now but it was the one just outside Duisburg so it was a very tiring journey today given the fact that I’m carrying all this weight I will be err bein being I mean for three three nights in total so like yesterday was

The first night when I Airbnb today and tomorrow in düsseldorf but the final day in Vulcan rod I will be camping for that one night so yeah looking forward to my next Airbnb apparently this host has very good reviews and most people who wrote a review for him have said that he is

Better than X better than expected so let’s see apparently I did book a accommodation here or somewhere else but the order just concerned like two days ago saying that she had an emergency so I also got a bit worried because it’s not easy to find something like at the

City centre area you know like in a town like Duisburg but luckily I was able to find this apartment and I got the whole apartment to myself for only 36 pounds which is really a bargain if you ask me so I’ll show you on the apartment yeah

This is the a dining area and this is the kitchen you only require No Perfect the bedroom is right across from the bathroom perfect amazing apparently he’s closed the shutters because he say that the Sun rises from this site in the morning and he shudders he doesn’t have any curtains I am really exhausted today but I just want to go

Out and you know have a small tour my Airbnb host has actually designed this system over here so like he’s a software engineer so he told me that he designed that a keylock by himself and even programmed it by himself as well so every single time when a guest books his

Apartment they only have to enter the last four digits of their phone number and and that would give them access to the building and if they try to access it he will get in a notification why a email so he was like really showing off that ah you know I designed it I

Programmed it myself and you know I the good thing about programming yourself is that you are not bound by any restrictions because you can do whatever you want with it I’m like okay I mean what does get you do with it apart from excess you know it only looks the door

And unlocks the door that’s it well the worst thing he can do is it can actually capture the photograph of the person trying to enter but apart from that I can’t think of anything else with it it can do so anyway I am also down right now

I’m going to have a stroll through and see what’s there so far slighter kids are playing this city is the 15th largest city in Germany and in the Middle Ages it was the center for the steel iron and chemical industries and hence for that reason it was heavily bombed during world world world

So this is the final remains original install and this used to be that this one towel is to be Arkell but many other towers that you don’t enough for and this wall was built for defense purposes that was like more than 500 years ago but this is the only last remains left

Of the tower in arms on some of more sites historical sites this building right here also this fountain as well it’s really a very historic this is a very old church it was built like around the 13th events so this is a very historical site in the city of Lisbon

It is the Old Market Hall and this dates back all the way to the 16th centuries all the foundations of this market are quite old and these are the artifacts that have been recovered during the excavation so I can see some coins over there and there are some other artifacts

Like it’s the part of a plate or something or a was or something and some more here as well this place used to be buzzing back in the day and now he just lays it ruins how sad I’m sure people must be coming and facing down here it’s quite short as

Well I mean look at my friend please I reckon the people back in the day used to be quite short you good morning so I am headed to us düsseldorf right now and today is gonna be the shortest ride of my journey is approximately 25 kilometers which is

Like 15 miles so many sunflowers I think they get their name that like when they open up they face both the Sun and hence the reason you can see that all of them are facing in the same direction I am officially entering a düsseldorf now this is the signboard by the entrance of

The city There is a Rhine River I just woke up a while ago I’m going towards the old town in düsseldorf apparently just one of the main attractions in the city so I’m just headed towards there right now I am so exhausted and tomorrow is the final day tomorrow I’m getting the a train to

Wolken rod which is in Belgium and I will be camping there for one night and then the following day I will be heading towards Brussels and I will catch my train back to the UK this is the old town area is buzzing right now there are so many bars and restaurants but the

Medieval architecture is further down there from just walking towards there is a five minute walk long behold here we are so this area is called old studs which stands for old town and this area was built between 1570 and 1573 and the entire square is filled with like many

For the architecture so all the buildings you see around me all of these buildings date back to about 500 years ago yeah and also there is a monument as well behind with the horse I don’t know what it is I cannot find a description anywhere but yeah I mean this trick that

You see behind me let me just zoom focus on it that one over there this street has more than 300 bars and it is known as the street with the longest bar in the world because each bar connects to the one next to it and it’s filled with restaurants and

Cafes so if you want to have dinner or just a coffee apparently they their local speciality is the old beer and all beer is only produced in like some places across the world not everywhere so tourists who come here they normally try the alt beer which stands for old

Beer I got this information of Wikipedia so I’m just reading it out to you this is one of the ancient Roman buildings actually they are two of them one here and the other one on the opposite side of the road I’m just walking by this florists tea area and a rabbit just went

Past me like zooming in front of me and it really scared me and you know what is the inspiration for this bunny rabbits here is Bugs Bunny he’s the guy responsible for inspiring these people you know to just like zoom in in front of humans and scare the living hell out of them

You know it’s literally nighttime and you know it’s a forested area there’s the last thing you want walking the streets of Germany hunting for food so I just got this takeaway from a restaurant called gilt estaba I got some lentils curry with some naan bread because they didn’t have rice apparently

I was really craving Indian food today so I’m just heading towards my home which is seven minutes walk from here and tomorrow morning I will take a train to work on Drive good morning so I’ve had a change of heart I’ve decided that rather than going to Vulcan Road I would rather go

To Luxembourg a brand new country which have never visited before and I would and I would rather cycle over there and the the recent thing is that I mean my reason for going to work on God was to stay overnight and then egg and then

Be an route to Brussels but I can also go to process why I love comfort so that why not so this is very exciting I’m going to visit that some work only one day looking forward to me I am now in cobblers and my next connecting train to Luxembourg City is

Within 20 minutes I have to find out which to perform it’s 10 so I’ve just arrived at Luxembourg garden central and I booked my tickets for Brussels tomorrow since it will be raining heavily today I won’t be staying at a campsite tonight rather I booked an air

B&B and I got it as a very reasonable cost so that’s good I’m not going to go have some lunch at a operation restaurant and then I will head off to town to do some sights a Be solid I was intending to cycle today but the entire city center is filled with rod walks everywhere that you go you will see road walk so it’s not really you know a cycle friendly city I would say because they’ve already blocked off most of the routes I was following the route

Towards this lunch place um using Google Maps but every turned I took it always led to a dead ended and I had to get off my bike and then walk it a bit and then I resumed my route again so not really impressed but at the end of the day I I

Still go to visit a new country you know in a span of four days oh that’s amazing I can take that off my list so I’m just sitting here right now this is the main square in the town centre so ladies and gentlemen I am now standing on the most beautiful balcony

In the all of you I’m not lying I’m not just making it up myself this is officially the most beautiful balcony in the beautiful here you can get the entire view of the river and also the old town as well so it’s official like I’m not

Making it up I’m not saying it because I see that wait I’m saying it because it is officially recognized as such It started to rain all of a sudden now thankfully I had my own job so I just put it on I have parked my bicycle in the city outside the food place where I ate and I just carried my little string bag with me it literally rained for only five

Minutes but it was quite heavy when it rained and now it stopped raining so now I’m going to another site is called the Casa do mods and I was trying to look for an entrance but the first entrance was blocked apart but but now I have already found it

It’s right down there so that was actually built in the 1600s as a shelter for the World War two they say one euro free to go inside to visit the BOK classmates because it’s just like a series of tunnels it’s like wasps turn on this massive down there

But I just don’t believe paying 7 euros to see you know just tunnels and I did ask and there are the artifacts down there and it’s said that they are like numbers and then you have to carry a piece of paper and you have to like read

The numbers like what it says so that will give you a history or that particular area and if you want a guided tour then it’s 14 euros so I said nah I’m gonna pay 14 euros if it was like 10 euros and okay but come on man it is

It looks same as the aqueduct but rather it is specifically built for people to pass as a bridge Wow this house was built in 1738 there’s like almost 200 years ago just amazing so this is the Museum of the crown Duke and the Grand Duke actually he lives

Outside of the main city it’s getting late now there is a lot of rain forecasted for today’s evening it was meant to start an hour ago but it hasn’t started yet and hence the reason I’m still walking around what I can feel the droplets I can hear the thunders I mean

You can hear them from from a quite a distance like it’s not that loud but I can feel it that is coming you know a storm is coming I don’t know what’s the phrase behind these padlocks there are so many of them at the station like there are hundreds

Of them lined up so this is part tennis of Luxembourg a I’m just joking I’m I just made that up it started raining heavily right now right away hmm not bad so I just arrived in my Airbnb place over here and this landlord is absolute rubbish you know she’s telling me that

That you know the check in town is a seven o’clock and I said no it’s a six o’clock he said no it says on line is that it’s a seven o’clock so I said hang on a second why it’s my open the app and then I showed her that look it says that

It’s six o’clock so I think smells like oh so like then I must have made a mistake you know I’m like please could you give me like 10 15 minutes I said you know at 10-15 minutes it’s too much because it is like training outside heavily so like then she was like trying

To be like a bit nice at all you know I might just came back from work or could you please give me like you know 10 to 15 minutes I’ll just have prepare your room for you and I said okay then so I’m just standing in this park opposite my Airbnb

I hope this 15 minutes go very quickly because I don’t want to spin out of the minute outside it’s so windy morning I am just headed towards the Central Station to have my breakfast there is a nice bakery over there is called Katie’s bakery so these are the quiet neighborhood of Luxembourg

I’m really hungry I didn’t have dinner last night I went to bed at 7 o’clock and I woke up at like 3:30 in the morning I was like damn it’s already too late now but I’m hoping to have a heavy breakfast right now it’s so difficult to

You know ride my bicycle for the main road just arrived home right now I’m about to enter my apartment I just wanted to say that it’s been an awesome three years of bicycle touring in Europe and I would like to officially announce my retirement from bicycle touring the Sun

Has already set on my time and I’m officially retiring from bicycle touring I was the first person to start myself touring in my community and in the last three years I’ve done quite a few trips around Europe but I have found some new hobbies now where I know

Bicycle touring as I used to anymore and that’s because of course of new hobbies now I really enjoy snorkeling and I would like to listen to my body I would like to listen to my mind that I would like to do something which I do really really enjoy yes I do enjoy bicycle

Touring like it’s not that I don’t enjoy it at all he’s not like I dread it I do like it but but the thrill is not there anymore like it is for snorkeling it is a new hobby which I have recently adopted and I’m really so I don’t think

I will be cycling again or like such a long tour ever again I don’t think so if I was to do it then I would do maybe two or three days within the UK or I don’t know even though it is possible to do like a weekend trip to France but I

Wouldn’t actually call that bicycle touring I will just call that like a weekend away trip so this is officially my retirement