THE RHINE CYCLE ROUTE
FROM SOURCE TO SEA THROUGH SWITZERLAND, GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS
by Mike Wells
JUNIPER HOUSE, MURLEY MOSS,
OXENHOLME ROAD, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA9 7RL
About the Author
Mike has been a keen long distance cyclist for over 25 years. After completing various UK Sustrans routes, such as Lôn Las Cymru in Wales and the C2C route across northern England, he then moved on to cycling long-distance routes in continental Europe and beyond. These include cycling both the Camino and Ruta de la Plata to Santiago de la Compostela, a traverse of Cuba from end to end, a circumnavigation of Iceland and a trip across Lapland to the North Cape.
While working for a travel company he made frequent visits to various parts of the Rhine Valley and saw the cycle-friendly infrastructure all along the river. This inspired him to cycle the route for the first time with his partner Christine. In researching the first edition of this book, Mike cycled the length of the river three more times, following cycle routes along both banks and exploring other alternatives.
Other Cicerone guides by the author
The Adlerweg
The Moselle Cycle Route
The Danube Cycleway Volume 1
The Danube Cycleway Volume 2
The River Rhone Cycle Route
The Loire Cycle Route
Cycling from London to Paris
© Mike Wells 2018
Third edition 2018
ISBN: 978 1 85284 899 6
Second edition 2015
First edition 2013
Printed in China on behalf of Latitude Press Ltd
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.
Contains OpenStreetMap.org data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. NASA relief data courtesy of ESRI
Updates to this guide
While every effort is made by our authors to ensure the accuracy of guidebooks as they go to print, changes can occur during the lifetime of an edition. Any updates that we know of for this guide will be on the Cicerone website (www.cicerone.co.uk/899/updates), so please check before planning your trip. We also advise that you check information about such things as transport, accommodation and shops locally. Even rights of way can be altered over time.
The route maps in this guide are derived from publicly available data, databases and crowd-sourced data. As such they have not been through the detailed checking procedures that would generally be applied to a published map from an official mapping agency, although naturally we have reviewed them closely in the light of local knowledge as part of the preparation of this guide.
We are always grateful for information about any discrepancies between a guidebook and the facts on the ground, sent by email to [email protected] or by post to Cicerone, Juniper House, Murley Moss, Oxenholme Road, Kendal, LA9 7RL.
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Front cover: The Rhine Cycle Route follows the river past Remagen (Stage 18)
CONTENTS
Stage 2 Ilanz to Chur
