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[email protected]>, William Dennehy
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>Anyone done it? Ideas? Advice? I would like ot visit a friend in Basel and go on from there, maybe
>to the NL? I "hear" it's flat and kinda boring, from more experience ccylists, but I just love to
>ride and meet people. Always interested in hearing opinions. Thanks, Bill
I don't know if you speak German but the Bikeline guidebooks Rhein-Radweg 1 and 2 cover
Basel/Rotterdam and have been recommended on rec.fahrrad.de. Apart from detailed maps they contain
accommodation lists. Esterbauer is the publisher.
http://www.esterbauer.com/
Although a cyclist isn't going to encounter many hills riding along the river this isn't to say that
the landscape isn't interesting. The Rhine gorge between Mainz and Koblenz is spectacular and a
complete contrast to the more open sections above and below it. Even the cities are interesting -
Basel, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Arnhem.
Crikey, writing this is making me interested in this trip!
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Michael MacClancy