Cycling the North Sea Coast - Amsterdam to Dunkirk - Episode 20

[@pedalpowerfamily]

See all videos in our 5000+ km cycling trip in chronological order here: kzbin.info/aero/PLHipvnq23SNrd7ZJDMvqVRpKPdptd1DIE

[@Jetty-e6f]

???? this does not work, ???????

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Fixed it, thanks.

[@Jetty-e6f]

@@pedalpowerfamily thank you

[@omervandenbelt]

By taking a car to Dunkirk you would have missed all those beautiful sceneries. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@alexsandrasvlog2252]

top thanks

[@marcobreur.]

Was a fun watch, thank you :)

[@Jetty-e6f]

we would like to see not just the cycling, but als: preparing food, do shopping , the tent and how it"s bild up and putting up the tent, e love to see that

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Now that the playlist link is fixed, you can see a bit of our time off the bikes in the videos in Portugal, towards the beginning of our trip.

[@MLWitteman]

Awesome video! Loved seeing my hometown of Haarlem featured in your journey. I must say, that this trip has inspired me to do a similar trip in the future!

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Go for it!

[@markhammer060]

I was cycling the other way round from Ostend to Breskens that week thinking how glad I was with the wind in my back

[@pedalpowerfamily]

I'm glad we were relatively fit by then. We were able to power through it after 4 1/2 months of cycling.

[@frazergoodwin4945]

Lovely cycling along this coast. I've ridden in both directions many times - and it never disappoints. If you ever ride it again I'd ride down the river from Hoek van Holland to get the ferry between Maasluis and Rozenburg - that way you miss most of the more industrial Rotterdam Port area on the south bank of the estuary.

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Good tip! It was neat to see the container ships, but seems like your way is easier if we go back.

[@OP-1000]

You captured some amazing Dutch skies ⛅️🌤️☀️⛈️🌩️💨

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Agreed! Haringvlietdam was my favorite 8:46

[@mandyfarmer8735]

Lovely video. We’re cycling it in August. All your videos are fantastic. Have really enjoyed watching your European holiday. Always look forward to the next one. Thank you

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Thanks so much! Are you headed the same direction as us or will you have the benefit of a tailwind?

[@youtubeurevil]

I bet the Bike paths changed quite a bit after leaving the Netherlands... Super video made me Homesick for Holland and Zeeland..

[@pedalpowerfamily]

We rode on many great bike paths all over Europe but the Netherlands definitely has the most extensive network.

[@dimrrider9133]

Flaanders is catching up but still decades behind like every country in the world ;) and its not even arrogant but the hard truth.

[@DDG010]

Wind in the Netherlands is usually coming from the southwest so you were up for a challenge!

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Yes, it actually wasn't quite as bad as we feared. I'm sure it can be worse than what we experienced.

[@rudolphpeter9464]

Amazing

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@johngorentz6409]

That's the word I've been using since the beginning!

[@bike4two810]

Wonderful family footage.

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Thanks, we'll have to return to see the all the flowers that you saw.

[@bike4two810]

@@pedalpowerfamily your routing along the North Sea helped us figure out how to get up that way coming from Bruges. Also, how are you able to pull off the repeated cycling vacation, do you live abroad?

[@pedalpowerfamily]

It was one 5-month trip while on sabbatical. The kids finished their school year from the road.

[@cebruthius]

@@pedalpowerfamily Including remote exams? That's some discipline, they're going to go far :D

[@ianluscombe]

Looks like a great trip

[@pedalpowerfamily]

It was super interesting despite the lack of mountains.

[@KhurshidsChannel]

Nice video. Thank you for sharing.

[@andreasmiraglio2268]

Un viaggio molto interessante...chiedevo quando avete fatto questo video.Grazie😊

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Thanks! We biked this section in the end of July 2023.

[@bendunselman]

Good job! At the Haringvlietdam there's a yearly bike contest called 'tegen de wind in fietsen' - riding against the wind.

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Love it! Cycling against the wind is fun in small doses.

[@OP-1000]

On a ordinary bike with no gears!

[@KeesAlderliesten]

That is held on the Oosterscheldekering en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Headwind_Cycling_Championships

[@ivowalvis9228]

You got some strong kids, even if one is used to cycling 50 km a day, 160 is still tough.

[@Mazil_5]

5:59 yeahhh my hometown, nice video btw

[@frankteunissen6118]

Amsterdam to Katwijk and then 140m up and 140m down? No way! The highest point you may have been would have been +30m and the lowest -6m or so. Oh, and some advice to people who want to do this trip: do it the other way round. That’ll give you the best chance to have the wind coming from behind you most of the time. A couple of hours cycling straight into a fresh breeze will quickly convince you of the soundness of this advice.

[@pedalpowerfamily]

The elevation figures are cumulative climb and descent, as recorded by my tracker, not max/min elevation. Eastward would have been easier, but we were headed to England.

[@michaelwilkinson9159]

Pedantic or what?

[@dimrrider9133]

We have no mountants but you met our headwind lol nice trip. Greetz from Breda (the Netherlands)

[@pedalpowerfamily]

With mountains you always get a nice descent but not with a headwind!

[@dimrrider9133]

@@pedalpowerfamily And you have it in any direction ;p Our parents always say: your not made of sugar and hop i had to cycle 16km to school and back in the rain with headwind allways haha

[@pedalpowerfamily]

We have a similar saying in America except it's walking uphill both ways :)

[@dimrrider9133]

@@pedalpowerfamily LOL

[@ohjajohh]

Nice trip! I recognize a lot of bike paths. 6:30 interesting to see you took this ferry, most local people take the ferry from Maassluis, that one is 7 times cheaper

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Good to know. I overlooked that one when planning the route. That would also explain why there were so few people on our ferry. But it was pretty cool to see the container ships being loaded and unloaded.

[@mandyfarmer8735]

We’ll be heading the same way!!!!

[@Jetty-e6f]

i, am going soon, from den haag to duinkerk, almost the seem route, did you have good camping /tent space on your way? if it is possibel , can you put some here? i am biking on my own, for the first time , and i love to do that, but it is also a bit : scarry, and, strange to go (for me ) so far

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Here are the places we stayed on that section: Molecaten Park Waterbos, Minicamping Hoeve het Tij, Camping Memling Brugge, Camping Kindervreugde. Hope you have a great trip!

[@Jetty-e6f]

@@pedalpowerfamily thank you very much

[@afitlife]

Not the easiest weather conditions but hope you liked it. Ask for some specific trails in advance and we can help you.

[@pietkeizer5279]

Born nearby Vlissingen and living nearby Rockanje …I saw you enjoyed our cycle patch in The Netherlands. Next year the other side of our country? Greetings from the Netherlands

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Still undecided about where to go next time out but it's possible. Cheers!

[@arthurhagen3826]

Cycling in Holland is easy, flat ... but it's allways windy, putting Chicago to shame :)

[@pedalpowerfamily]

Yes, our first thought was that we'd cover lots of distance each day compared to our time in the Alps, but the flat, smooth bike paths were definitely offset by the headwinds. Luckily we knew about the winds beforehand and planned accordingly.

[@lws7394]

@@pedalpowerfamily ok. I was already thinking you went the wrong direction, because usually in NL there is southwestern winds ..☺

[@cebruthius]

That's why I ride a recumbent, problem solved :D

[@cebruthius]

Is your wife of Indonesian descent by any chance?

[@eduardveres3501]

Why helmets ??

[@pedalpowerfamily]

We were often on bike paths away from cars on this leg of our journey but that wasn't always the case. My wife and I have both been saved by helmets in the past.

[@sonnylatchstring]

They weren't commuting from home to work, but on a long journey with a lot of bagage. Always keep safety in mind. Especially when cycling in Belgium with far lessers cycle infrastructure.