Holland

The Tour de Nederland is complete, and has taken me, literally, around an entire country! I couldn’t be happier with the trip, as it introduced me to family members and friends who I have never met or haven’t seen in way too many years. Thank you to everyone who made […]

The End of Holland

12 Jun, 2013 in Europe tagged adventure / End / Holland / Nederland / New / Tour by thealexanderharmsen

Now my bicycle odometer says I’m about 700km into the Tour de Nederland…phew almost done! The last couple days I took a ferry across to some islands in the northern part of the Netherlands and rented a bike there that I could use for some cycling. The 5 Wadden, or […]

Holland vs. Nature

25 May, 2013 in Europe tagged dike / dikes / Holland / nature / Netherlands / polder / storm / vs / water by thealexanderharmsen

Biking in Holland looks amazing on paper: no hills, no mountains, all flat ground, tons of bike routes and directional help along the way. And it is amazing. The only thing they don’t tell you about is the wind. Somehow it is always blowing as a headwind, making it a […]

The Wind in Holland Sucks

10 May, 2013 in Europe tagged adventure / Biking / cycling / Europe / Holland / meteorology / Netherlands / sucks / trips / wind by thealexanderharmsen

Very similar to the Tour de France, I will be making a roundtrip bicycle journey around the Netherlands in the next 27 days. In India I realized that I know very little about the country I was born in, and about the family I have spread out over the country. […]

Tour de Nederland Explained

8 May, 2013 in Europe tagged Biking / cycling / Holland / Netherlands / tour de France / tour de Nederland / Trip by thealexanderharmsen