North Sea to Adriatic Cycle Tour: Ep 9 - Cyclovia Alpe Adria Radweg (CAAR) - Möllbrücke to Venzone

[@alirothwell4950]

Might be my favourite episode 🤔 all of your videos are such a pleasure to watch. Thank you!

[@daphnebehindbars]

Thank you for following along! Yes this section of the ride had amazing scenery - probably our favourite part of the whole trip

[@runderlusttours]

Thanks Daphne and Frank, fantastic video! So inspiring.

[@Martin-on2pp]

Thank you for another great video👍.

[@daphnebehindbars]

Thank you for still watching!

[@Martin-on2pp]

@@daphnebehindbars With pleasure!

[@lgrobby2144]

Daphne and Frank the Alpe Adria cycle route is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing this amazing journey.

[@daphnebehindbars]

Thanks for watching - you're right, it's a beautiful trail to ride

[@mikeconnor1402]

Hi Daphne and Frank. Awesome video once again. Thanks so much for the inspiration. I’m counting the days until I leave for Amsterdam. Can’t wait for episode 10😊

[@dimrrider9133]

Love your rides.

[@daphnebehindbars]

Thank you!

[@MrJx4000]

That was spectacular! The only way to see this route is on a bicycle or by foot--no cars allowed. I can't wait for the next video.

[@enricomarchetto8855]

splendido!

[@daphnebehindbars]

Grazie Enrico!

[@robw6447]

Very nice. Hoping to do Salburg to Grado at some point. My mother is from Cormons which is close to your endpoint of Grado. Retiring there in a couple years so nice to see your trip for a fun recreactional idea.

[@daphnebehindbars]

Thank you! I had to look up where Cormons is - looks like a great place to retire to! You'll have lots of great places to explore from there. I'm curious where you would be moving from?

[@gabzregan]

Hi guys, I'm new to your channel and loving it. I'm about to retire and embark on bike packing across Europe, starting with the main rivers of France and I find your videos very informative and inspiring. I know you're based in Canada, but Daphne, is that an Irish accent I detect? Enjoy!!

[@daphnebehindbars]

Glad you're enjoying the videos. Sounds like you're about to start your own great retirement adventures! And yes, you're quite right - it's an Irish accent!

[@memoarias2680]

Hello Daphne and Frank. With my wife we always enjoyed your videos, and you are an inspiration to us to do bike packing in Europe. We are in the process to retire and move to Portugal. Is any way that we can contact you for questions. Thank you

[@daphnebehindbars]

Sounds like you're at a very exciting point in your lives! Happy to hear we've inspired you with the cycling. You could contact me here, daphne walrath at gmail dot com

[@ppotz]

Hi Daphne My wife and I are starting to plan a trip much like yours. I’m wondering if you could post a link to your Strava rides so I could “steal” your courses. Thanks Paul & Marg

[@daphnebehindbars]

Hi Paul, Frank is the one who recorded our rides on Strava. Neither of us is entirely sure how best to share the daily rides this way...maybe you're more of a Strava expert than us and can suggest how to do it?

[@ppotz]

@@daphnebehindbars Thanks Daphne I tried searching for “Frank Irwin” on Strava but didn’t see any profiles that could have matched. Perhaps he’s got a different user name? I’ve found that the easiest way to poach someone else’s route is to go to the activity and “save route”. The route is saved in my own profile and automatically loads to my GPS the next time I sync activities. I usually re-name the route as I save it - to make it easier to find. (The Strava app’s route sorting function is rather weak) Before we travel to a new place with our bikes I try saving routes from other riders in the area - and then use Strava’s route editing function to “fine tune” (work around excessively-steep climbs etc.) So if I can find Frank’s profile on Strava, the rest is easy. Cheers! - Paul & Marg p.s. we’re really enjoying your videos (although I think we’re more B&B than camping) ;)

[@daphnebehindbars]

Paul, the name is Frank Vorel. Sounds like if you can follow him, the rest is easy!

[@ppotz]

Thanks @@daphnebehindbars … I’ve found Frank’s profile and will get started copying the routes. Cheers! Paul

[@pb8484]

Why is Frank keeping all those secrets

[@daphnebehindbars]

Clearly you'd like to hear more from Frank! But believe me, he talks plenty off camera!

[@ce17ec]

I like your excellent videos. But the action at about 13:30 was not a very clever thing to do. Taking that main 80km road and tunnel. Very clearly forbidden for cyclist. And so unbelievable dangerous. Cars and trucks don't expect you there and no room for them to go around. We don't have many tunnels in the Netherlands but some times we see East-european or US/Canadian bikers riding here on the four lane high ways. Police will take them off asap and often give them very expensive fines. It is really playing with your life.

[@daphnebehindbars]

You make a fair point - definitely some risk associated with this. However both other options were blocked so we had little choice. All we could do was make sure we were visible with flashing lights. And we were lucky as there was hardly any traffic.

[@ce17ec]

@daphnebehindbars Indeed you were lucky that traffic was very calm and that this tunnel was only 440m long. But I think it's more then "some risks". Car and semi drivers can't see you at all because they come from the bright sunlight in the darker tunnel and above all, they don't expect you to be there. And because you can't move out of the way yourself, you are completely depending on the drivers reaction. I think if Dutch people would go trough this tunnel they would go to the left side and walk on that side trough the tunnel. Then you can see what's coming towards you and if necessary save yourself against the wall of the tunnel. In the Netherlands we learn children: when walking along a road in the dark, take the left side so you can see what's coming. I saw another KZbin video of an American guy who biked from Rome to Amsterdam. He did the same thing in another tunnel in the Alps. That tunnel was very long and very busy so after a few hundred meters he was terrified. He then was rescued by the road service who saw him on camera going in that tunnel. Didn't get a fine but he could have. When in such a situation an accident does happen this is of course a disaster for you and your partner (if you even survive it) but the trauma for the car/semi driver must be for life. Can imagine how such an experience can haunt them and give them a life long fear for tunnels.