Best Cycle Rides in Holland - Delft and Leiden

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4 жыл бұрын

Highly Recommended for a first foray into Dutch cycle touring. A weekend trip to Leiden via Delft town centre. We went in October 2019, but this wasn't the first time we'd done the trip; it won't be the last either!
The GPX file for the route can be found here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1eSyo...
The previous Weekend trip refered to in the film can be found here:
• Rotterdam to Leiden - ...
Enjoy!

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@Cl0ckcl0ck 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely how you guys just use our country as a theme park for cycling. More people should do that.

@OldButElectrified 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I believe “Velo Paradiso is the old Anglo Saxon term for The Netherlands (?) Can’t wait to get back there. Roll on Springtime

@duncanmclean5232 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. 8 or 9 of us go cycling in the Netherlands every year. We use the North Shields to Ijmuiden ferry. We have not been able to go for the last 2 years, COVID!!!!! but we have our fingers crossed for this year. I can recommend cycling down the east side of the River Vecht to Utrecht. Also the coastal route from Ijmuiden to Delft. In Delft try the Old Museum Hotel. If you ever stay in Edam try the Fortuna Hotel. We always use the “way point” numbered junctions. Best wishes.

@johnbateman6185 4 жыл бұрын

Just makes you want to do another trip to the Netherlands!

@weetikissa 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you guys had fun! You went exactly to all the places and through all the routes I would have recommended as someone who lives in these parts. But I do have to agree that the hiviz and the helmet are a bit over the top. One of the freedoms we have here is being able to dress for the destination and not for the journey, even if you're going across the whole province.

@Franziska_Nerlich 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but on the other hand you’ll look like a tourist anyways so I rather choose the helmet...

@OldButElectrified Ай бұрын

I know… a lot of our Dutch friends tell us this, but we have to pedal through some towns before getting to Hull and the hi viz looks better for us in the court case when drivers say ‘I didn’t see you!’ Don

@weetikissa Ай бұрын

@@OldButElectrified But we're not in Hull

@arthurhagen3826 4 жыл бұрын

You can also take the Beneluxtunnel to cross the Nieuwe Waterweg. The secundairy road or the special 'fietstunnel'. With elevators ... and the world's longest poem written in tiles on the side of the tunnel ... and being Dutch I feel I must mention ... it's free ;)

@OldButElectrified Ай бұрын

‘Hope you guys realise just how lucky you are. (No wonder the rest of the world wants to come and live in NL- tee hee😊) Don

@jsb7975 9 ай бұрын

Lovely trip ! If you ever come back you might concider biking in the 'land of Maas and Waal' a very old area where you ride on very old dikes with immense widening landscapes. One of the world-wide unique landscapes of the Netherlands. And you might come across very old castels and fortified old towns. From west al the way to Nijmegen.

@OldButElectrified Ай бұрын

Oh, we’ll certainly be back. Do you know if PnO Ferries do a season ticket?😊 Don

@boxie001 2 жыл бұрын

next time roll the pancake up after applying sugar or sirup or whatever and slice it, it makes it better and easier to eat.

@OetaKumara 3 жыл бұрын

So nice to see this video! Very familiar scenes as used to study in Leiden, commute daily by bicycle from Leidschendam (pancake scene) to Rijswijk (oversteekbrug), and regularly visit Delft and Zoetermeer. Even my kids recognized so much in this video :-)

@OldButElectrified Ай бұрын

Hope it made you smile Ceta😊 Don

@Keepcalmandpedalon 3 жыл бұрын

Loved it ! You actually passed my place of birth (Maasland)

@vanderquast 4 жыл бұрын

Great cycle journey through the Dutch west countryside 👍 Greatings from Holland.

@OldButElectrified 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jacobus, you’re a star!

@owensuckling1446 2 жыл бұрын

Love riding high it's an amazing experience ☺️

@djopdam199 4 жыл бұрын

Brillant you stayed hundreds of yards where I live and traveled all the routes I ride towards Rotterdam, het Geertje is a goatfarm not a café tough

@frankhooper7871 3 жыл бұрын

LOL - I was wondering why the start looked strange to me [I've also cycled to Leiden via Delft] then I realised the Hull ferry docks on the opposite side of Het Scheur from the Harwich ferry, which I take. You guys look like you cycle like me...slow enough to enjoy the journey and the sights along the way. I do agree about the litter; it's one of the things that struck me _more_ on the return trip when setting off from Harwich - litter everywhere in England. You just don't see that in the Netherlands, do you? I'll be glad when they finally get Covid under control and I get get across again; plan to visit Utrecht this time [Leiden in 2019, Etten-Leur in 2018 and 's-Hertogenbosch via Dordrecht before that]. Unfortunately, my friend's idea of a long cycle ride is up to 2 miles LOL - I consider anything less than 10 to be hardly worth it.

@OldButElectrified 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Frank, yeah we all live near the Humber so the Hull ferry is ideal for us. Don

@TheEssexSpurs 3 жыл бұрын

That ferry is the Dog's!!!

@owensuckling1446 2 жыл бұрын

Never mind the red wine where's the coffee shops for a big joint 😀

@tanjavde1124 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice to see you cycling on all the routes that are so familiar to me and visiting places well known! I live in Delft and cycle a lot in these surroundings. I read somewhere in the comments that you live around the Humber, so you take the Hull ferry to Rotterdam. I've done that too: in August 2019 I cycled from Delft southwards along the coast, through Belgium up to Calais in France. There I took the ferry to Dover, and followed British National Cycle Routes more or less along the east coast up till the Humber and Hull. In the bird reserve of Humber/Hull I stayed a few nights. And from Hull I took the ferry back home. Cycling in Britain is certainly a bit more challenging than in the Netherlands: not so many good cycle paths, and what you call "flat" is quite hilly for a Dutch woman 😉, but the friendly reception by your felliw countrymen more than made up for this! I think you will agree with me that cycling is the ultimate way of travelling: you go slow enough to see each detail, and fast enough to cover a reasonable distance. And on top of that you get a nice work-out!

@OldButElectrified 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this Tanja. Glad you came to England and visited my part of the world. There’s a town near us called New Holland, and one of the regions of Lincolnshire is called Holland. Its in the Fens around the Wash and is so flat it looks like its been crisply ironed😊 Don x

@tanjavde1124 Жыл бұрын

@@OldButElectrified Hi Cynthia, only now do I see your answer. And yes, on my cycle trip along the eastern English shore I passed through the Fens. Indeed it resembled the Dutch flat landscape 😄. I learned that in the 18th century a Dutch engineer had been hired to transform the then marshland there into "polders". So that explains the similarity!