Home Page

Click on map to enlarge

Europe

This is Tom's journal of his solo 13,000 kilometer ride through sixteen European countries in 1992. As this ride was part of a larger journey of self-discovery, the journal includes entries from London and Turkey which both predate and postdate the cycling portion. Click on the links below to see the journal by country.

England, Wales and Ireland
     London preliminaries - Homage to Burton
     England/Wales - London to Fishguard
     Ireland - Rosslaire to Dingle and back
     Wales/England - Fishguard to London
     London II
Scandinavia
     Denmark - Esbjerg to Frederickshavn
     Sweden – Göteborg to the Arctic Circle
     Finland – Rovaniemi to Turku
     Sweden II – Stockholm to Malmö
Eastern Europe
     Eastern Germany – Sassnitz through Berlin to Czechoslovakia
     Czechoslovakia – Decin to Ostrava
     Poland – to Auschwitz
     Slovakian Republic – Trstna to Brukovina
     Hungary – to Budapest
     Slovakian and Czech Republics – Komarno to Studanky
Western Europe
     Austria – Salzburg and Gross Glockner Pass
     Germany – Munich and Freiburg
     Switzerland – Basel to Geneva
     France – Rhone Valley – Bellegard to the Spanish frontier
     Spain and Andorra
     France II – Ax les Thermes to Boulogne sur Mer
England
     Folkstone to London – completion of cycling portion of journey
     London III
     Turkey/Amsterdam/Luxemburg
     London IV