I cut my trip from New Orleans to Canada short last year. Many reasons, but they can be summed up as, “Cycling in the US is not cycling in Europe”.<\/p>\n
I know a definite solution to that problem – cycling in Europe. It’s that time of year, and I’m starting to plan. I’ve had a number of thoughts for where to go; the southern coast of Spain and Taiwan have both been on my list of possibles, but this year I think I’m just heading back to Europe.<\/p>\n
The current thought is landing in Munich in May and cycling to Budapest (mostly via Eurovelo EV 6<\/a> – on a route I’ve followed before along the Danube, if in the opposite direction), before cutting back across Hungary (mostly on EV 14<\/a>) to Austria, and then down (literally, up figuratively) to Munich on part of EV 7<\/a>.\u00a0 That route is ~1800 km, both longer and shorter than my usual trips, filling in a hole in my overall map, and getting me back to Hungary, where I’d wished to spend more time in the last time I cycled there in 2015<\/a>.\u00a0 And the best part about returning to Hungary? No planned dental work<\/a>!<\/p>\n 2015! Good grief, that was 8 years ago! Covid has done a number both on the amount of touring I’ve done, and my sense of time. A lot of things have changed in my life since then.\u00a0 That was just the beginning of my retirement, with the intent to spend time every year touring in Europe.<\/p>\n Time to get back to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I cut my trip from New Orleans to Canada short last year. Many reasons, but they can be summed up as, “Cycling in the US is not cycling in Europe”. I know a definite solution to that problem – cycling in Europe. It’s that time of year, and I’m starting to plan. I’ve had a … Continue reading “Starting to think of Spring!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}