If you were given the chance to ride your bike from Istanbul, Turkey to Amsterdam, Netherlands; which route would you take and which cities would you stop in and WHY?
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>>1120490
then why start in Turkey?
>>1120489
I hitchhiked from London to Istanbul. If you don't have any time constraints, I'd suggest something along the lines:
>Istanbul
>Sofia
>Belgrade
>Sarajevo
>Dubrovnik
>Ljubljana
>Venice
>Milan
>sweep through Austria, maybe see some cities
>Munich
>Berlin
>Cologne
>Amsterdam
Don't know if that's good or not. You could go up through Romania and Hungary and the Czech Republic on the way to Germany as well. It just depends on what you're interested in doing. I basically suggested the reverse route that I did. I don't know if it would be practical for cycling, especially when you have to pass up through the Alps in Italy, Austria, and Germany.
It might be interesting to bike along the iron curtain trail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EV13_The_Iron_Curtain_Trail
You would have to branch off somewhere in (Northern)Germany. That's easy since Germany and Netherlands got extensive and well maintained cycling networks.
>greek shore
>macedonia
>serbia
>hungary
>austria
>germany
>netherlands
there is a reason why the migrant route goes like this
it's because it's the easiest and comfiest natural way and you avoid Albania and Bulgaria (for obvious reasons)
>which cities would you stop in?
Don't know, don't care, probably Thessaloniki, Skopje, Belgrade, Szeged, Budapest, Esztergom, Bratislava, Vienna, Linz, Passau, Nürnberg, Frankfurt, Cologne
