Easter bike ride.

Just approaching a tea stop

Although we have lived in Drenthe for seven years now, it never fails to surprise me. We went out for an Easter Day bike ride yesterday, beautiful weather, beautiful scenery. Endless km of quiet, car free paths.

Book a holiday with us. I'm sure you will enjoy yourselves.

Dogs also enjoy riding bikes in Drenthe !!

Beautiful countryside

Unusual art

Led Ladies Bike Ride

I led a bike ride yesterday for local friends, it was lovely. We met at 9am and spent the whole day out in the sun, cycling and chatting, taking photos, eating our picnic and just enjoying ourselves. We also came across an outdoor summer craft market selling all sorts of local crafts, old books  and locally produced foods. We followed one of my cycling holiday routes, about 44km in total.

Group photo with Lise, Louisa, Judy, Sabah and Yanzi

Accordion players in the open air market

A short history lesson from Lise. The statue is in remembrance of the  psychiatric patients who were evacuated from the local hospital in WW2

Chatting to the goats at the city farm

A sunny day in Drenthe

 A few photos from sunny Drenthe.  

Flowers along the cycle path

Motorbike statue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Who's this in the forest

A photo opportunity

Checking routes.

Enjoying the view, sitting on potato sacks !!

Lovely Eliza.

Beautiful day here today in Drenthe.  Eliza and I decided to check one of our holiday routes, 37km on car free, quiet paths, through heath and forests.















Eliza will be one of the guides on our upcoming Ladies Only cycle weeks.

Storks guarding their eggs.

                                                                                                                                                       








You can see the storks in their nests in April, May and June.

Out and about in beautiful Drenthe

Statue on the canal bank. I've ridden past here many times before, this time I finally got around to taking a photo.

David and I have spent a lot of time this spring out and about in the beautiful Drenthe countryside checking and planning routes for our summer visitors.  All sorts of people were out on their bikes enjoying the sunny weather. Why not be one of them this summer ? Book a holiday with us.

A well used cycle path with all types of cyclists riding on it.

Beautiful blossom in the forest

Other users of the cycle path

Photos from May planning rides

Baby storks waiting for food

Tjasker, a wind powered water pump, in the Drents countryside.

Cycle racers

All age groups enjoy cycling in the countryside

These photos were taken last week whilst out route planning for our cycle holiday customers.

Cycling non-stop in Assen (including winter)

In the Netherlands, cycling continues in winter. The cycle-paths are regularly swept and people who have formed a habit of cycling for their everyday journeys continue to do so.

Mothers continue to take small children by bike (note extra seat in front for a slightly older child)

Children continue to ride home from school by bike.

Fathers do it too. In this photo you can see lines either side of the cycle-path. It was ploughed and completely clear earlier in the day, but snow more fell.

More adventurous people can be found riding out of town.

This winter took a long time to arrive. However, this week it's arrived at last. The temperature at mid-day today was about -5 C.

Of course it's rare that people come on holidays at this time of year. However, the same cycle-paths that provide pleasant cycle-routes for holidays in the summer remain in use through the whole year.

Once the snow stops, the ploughs come out again and clear the paths, which then look like this: