Home – Route 76km – Route 60km – Route 54km – Route 41km – Asphalt Only – Gallery The Gö Feldweg Omloop (Flemish word for a circuit or runde) is a ‘road’ based bike ride linking together asphalt and Betonweg field roads (Feldweg) with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads into what… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home Feedback is great and thanks to Sandra M for hers. Thus, we have revised once more the 54km Gö Feldweg Omloop (soon the 41 will follow) by taking out the cobbles adjacent to the railway at Obernjesa. Although the cobbles at the Obernjesa railway are fun especially where the rusting rails remain from… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home A shorter version of the Gö Strade Bianche held to the southwest of Göttingen heading through Rosdorf to the high ground above Volkerode. Whereafter, we descend back into the Leine Valley via Sieboldhausen. Keeping it all Westside. Gravel sector 15 (of 19) was especially poignant for me because this is where… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home – Manifest – Video/Links – Galerie – Gutingi Rides 30km Route – 40km Route – 56km Route (DE) – 56km Route – 76km Route – VISTA Tour (52km) Brevet Card Schließ´ die Augen und stell Dir vor, Du seist in der Toskana, und mach´ sie erst am Ende der Radtour wieder… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home The Gö Feldweg Omloop without the gravel and cobbled sectors – riding the asphalt farmers roads, cycle paths and public roads. We start and finish at Geismar and visit Sieboldhausen six times! You might get a bit dizzy as you switch back and forth. Riding a local circuit, runde or in this case… Continue Reading
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During a flying visit to Germany by Tom and Irene from the Netherlands, we ate lots of cake, toured Göttingen and then went walking in the Harz Mountains (close to Gö). I have visited the Harz many times but after a year’s gap it was shocking to see large swathes of dead trees. It is… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home The Feldweg Omloop (circuit oder runde) 50km ridden on a road bike on a revised route (September 7 2022). Volkerode/Obernjesa/Stockhausen/Wendebachstasse/Reinhausen/Appenrode/Diemarden. The village at Reinhausen features an amazing rock face lining the road. More gravel and cobbles at the start plus we have cut out the public roads at Bremke. 53KM – 12.6 km… Continue Reading
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With just a few days before the end of the nine Euro ticket valid on all regional transport we decided to cross state lines and revisit Kassel some 50 kilometres from Göttingen. Tickets deals for internal travel within my home state of Lower Saxony will remain. Kassel sits upon the Fulda River in Hesse (some… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home Friedland/Bisenhausen loop – 60km (revised 28 August 2022) A revised route for the 60km Go Feldweg Omloop riding via Volkerode, Obernjesa, Friedland, Besenhausen, Reinhausen, Ballenhausen, and Diemarden. This version of the Omloop (Flemish word for a circuit or runde) has a new route out from the velodrome featuring a section of gravel and… Continue Reading
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The plan was to make use of our nine Euro rail ticket and visit Hannover, but the train was delayed because of a defect, and we opted to go instead to Kassel as that train was scheduled to leave much sooner. Hann Münden On board the train we decided spontaneously to jump off to visit… Continue Reading
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Bad Harzburg is not a ye oldie German town and has very few signs of life before the 18th Century when it developed into a Spa Resort (it was called Neustadt until 1892). The town situated to the north of the Harz Mountains and is overlooked by them, drew people from across the German speaking… Continue Reading
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At this time of the year the landscape is brightened by pink and white and, on this ride, we followed the blooming Cherry, and the apple blossom the latter now emerging at the end of the April. In Germany the cherry trees will be harvested in July and the yield is expected to be down… Continue Reading
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I ventured out to ride a ´road´ based bike tour that links together asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. Feldweg Home The long Göttingen Feldweg Omloop without the gnarly gravel sections above Volkerode. Living the dream – Flanders and Paris Roubaix. Bravo! – Tanja Erath for… Continue Reading
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The small Gö Feldweg Omloop ridden on a majority of Betonweg, or mixed surface farm/forest roads and cycle paths closed to general motor traffic. A homage to the Spring road race classics. It felt like riding in the Low Countries – I was head banging a wall of wind. Thankfully no rain! It was great… Continue Reading
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The majority of the ride was on Betonweg or mixed surface farm/forest roads and cycle paths closed to general motor traffic. On this ride in my head, I was riding the Gent Wevelgem cycle race, but not at their pace! This version of the Feldweg Omloop misses out the southern stages to Bisenhausen. Feldweg Home… Continue Reading
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Hallo to Jan, Margorette und friends. ENG The tour included asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. A shorter sister tour of the 78km. DE Die Tour beinhaltete Asphalt- und Betonweg-Feldwege mit Kopfsteinpflaster und Schotter, dazu Radwege und öffentliche Straßen. Die zweite kürzere Tour. Feldweg Home Tour… Continue Reading
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I ventured out to ride a ´road´ based bike tour that links together asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. Feldweg Home To my mind an inanimate bike can be given life by being ridden and the roads you may choose to follow can also imbue your… Continue Reading
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When we went into Covid lockdown in 2019 I began writing letters from my new home in Germany and it’s been a while since I wrote my last one. By writing these letters I hoped to understand Germany better and my home country the United Kingdom. Covid/Letters Home This letter was spurred by a plaque… Continue Reading
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We rode out from Göttingen onto the defunct Gartelbahn to Waterloo, and no, we did not pedal as far as Belgium or London. I had for many years lived in London close to Waterloo and the Station, and now by some odd quirk of fate I find myself living a short bike ride from another… Continue Reading
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March 2019 saw me in my new home city in Central Germany and two years on I am living in a time of a pandemic. I began writing these letters at the start of the pandemic in an attempt to understand Germany better and to get to grips with my relationship with the United Kingdom.… Continue Reading
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