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Bike Tour: Bohemian Rhapsody

Post author By jon
Post date August 11, 2019

1,402 km (871 miles) over 15 days between Aug. 11, 2019 and Aug. 25, 2019. Read the full account on CycleBlaze here.

Poland, Czech Republic and Germany: A journey back to the west through Mitteleuropa

In 2019, I visited Central Europe on my summer tour. Taking a train into the heart of Poland, I returned to the west by a meandering route through hilly Bohemia. Beyond the beer and bombs of Plzen I crossed the width of the old East Germany, to make it back to the west in Kassel.

The Czech republic is idyllic (if hilly) cycling country, and Poland is pretty good itself.

My planned route was fairly sketchy. In the end I was actually pretty free and easy – on a whim I got off the train before Poznan, and didn’t go through Wrocław at all. I did converge on Plzen, but cross back into Germany far to the east and called it a day in Kassel.

Some highlights of the tour: