4unterwegs english version

This is Beaky-Boo -
it is always on tour with us and best friend of our daughter Sophie and our sun Jakob.

Welcome !

This is the page for all English-reading bicycle-tour-web-surfer.

We are Sophie (7), Jakob (now 2 year old), Bettina and Rainer from Germany. We enjoy family bicycle tours in several countries like Norway (Fjordland, Lofoten), England, USA, Sweden, Spain , Finland, Germany and other countries, which we visited before Sophie joined our company. We want to encourage all families, who may still hesitate to go on bicycle tour with their children.

First: all is possible, if you take the time and don´t push the children. They will thank you, maybe not right away, but maybe if they are 38 of age.

Good equipment is advantageous, but not definitively. You will find out yourself. Read the hints if you want.

To take children along is not a problem anymore. There are trailers, trailer-bikes, tandems and if they are able to go 25 miles buy them a very good bicycle.

We believe, it´s the best way of travelling with children and healthy for yourself. A Sheraton night is a thousend times less exiting compared with a night in Andenes (Norway), sitting in front of your tent , whalewatching, looking to the sun, which never falls below the horizon during the summer mounth. Show the kiddies the world. It´s slow enough to understand

In the summer of 1999 on June, 15th we started from Boston, US. We were going to cycle along Cape Cod and then we were going to carry on along the Eastcoast to Halifax to hade afterwards 3 more days on Iceland. That time, if you wanted to follow us, you could open the latest tour page and had a look what was happening.

Last Summer 2002 on July the 22h we started from Stockholm to Stockholm via the eastern coastline of the Baltic Sea. About 300 miles of Stockholm we took the ferry for Vaasa (Finnland). Than we cycled southbound to the Aland island and than back to Stockholm.

Below you will find the report about the routing we´ve made in summer 1999 in USA, Canada and on Iceland. It´s at this time the onliest report in English.

Our messages from USA/Canada you can find here (in English).
Thanks for masseges and e-mails - look here!!!

Fahrradtour / bicycle-tour Boston (USA) - Halifax (Kanada) - rund um Reykjavík (Island) Bosten (USA) - Halifax (Canada) - Reykjavik (Iceland) Sommer / summer 1999, 15.06. - 18.07.
Datum / date	Tag / day	Ort / location

		Düsseldorf (airplane)
15. Jun	Tuesday	Frankfurt (airplane)
		Reykiavik (airplane)
15. Jun	Tuesday	Boston
16. Jun	Wednesday	Boston
17. Jun	Thursday	Marshfield AP (we fly around)
18. Jun	Friday	Marshfield AP
19. Jun	Saturday	Plymouth
20. Jun	Sunday	Nickerson State Forest
21. Jun	Monday	Provincetown
22. Jun	Tuesday	Harold Parker State Forest
23. Jun	Wednesday	Salisbury Beach
24. Jun	Thursday	Moody
25. Jun	Friday	Gorham
26. Jun	Saturday	Freeport
27. Jun	Sunday	Wiscasset
28. Jun	Monday	Boothbay
29. Jun	Tuesday	Monhegan Island
30. Jun	Wednesday	Lobster Buoy Campground
01. Jul	Thursday	Northport Travel Park
02. Jul	Friday	Bucksport
03. Jul	Saturday	Mt. Desert Campground
04. Jul	Sunday	Mt. Desert Island (Independence Day)
05. Jul	Monday	Yarmouth (Canada)
06. Jul	Tuesday	West Pubnico
07. Jul	Wednesday	Shelburne
08. Jul	Thursday	Rissers Beach PP
09. Jul	Friday	Rissers Beach PP
10. Jul	Saturday	Lunenburg
11. Jul	Sunday	Glen Margarets Wayside Camping
12. Jul	Monday	Halifax
13. Jul	Tuesday	Halifax
14. Jul	Wednesday	Kevlafik (Iceland)
15. Jul	Thursday	Grindavik
16. Jul	Friday	Kevlafik
17. Jul	Saturday	Reykjavik
18. Jul	Sunday	Düsseldorf (airplane)

see you later

Sophie, Jakob, Bettina and Rainer

Some hints for bicycle trip with children. (after several trips)