Hello and welcome to my journal, it’s a real pleasure to have you here with us.

My name is Chris and I am a really big fan of bicycle touring. So big, in fact that I did it for over a decade, a decade that I will now summarize for you in two sentences. First, I rode around the world by myself for a good few years, having a good time, looking for girls. Then I actually met a girl I liked, and I rode around the world again with her. 

But what happened next, I hear you cry into your devices. Well, we settled down in Denmark, which is where the aforementioned girl, who we shall henceforth refer to as Dea, for that is her name, comes from. And then we had a baby!

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The baby’s name is Kevin, and I happen to think he is absolutely the most amazing thing in the whole entire world. Since he came out into the world at the start of March life has just not been the same. There’s been less free time and more poop in my life, but my goodness me when he looks at me and smiles, what a feeling!

Anyway, enough of that, the important thing is that Kevin is now almost five months old (and is the size of an average 10 month old) and it is time to announce the next phase of the cycle touring journey. I’ve cycled around the world by myself, I’ve cycled around the world with a partner, and now it’s time to cycle around the world with a partner and a baby!!!

That would be exciting, wouldn’t it? Unfortunately it’s not true, we’re just cycling to Belgium.

But that’s still pretty exciting, I think. It’s going to be so great to introduce our little man to a side of our life that is so important to us, a taste of the adventures we had riding bikes around the world, even if it’s mostly going to be taking place on German cycle paths.

The plan is to leave our home in Fredericia, Denmark on the 10th of August and to ride at a pretty leisurely pace across Germany and Holland and arrive in Belgium three and half weeks later. From there we will take trains to England to visit my family. If all goes well, we will return home to Denmark in much the same fashion. It would be great to cycle the whole way to England, but we think it’s best for our first tour with our precious little baby to stick to countries with segregated bike paths and avoid countries with narrow country lanes and blind corners. Sorry, England.

We have a Croozer bike trailer that is suitable for young babies and have already been transporting Kevin around with us in it. He seems to really love it, which is a major plus ahead of this trip, I would say. We have also tried camping together as a family, something that I would describe as ‘could have gone worse.’

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It also could have gone better, mind you. One lesson I learned is that when your baby pees in the middle of being changed, sans-nappy, it’s much worse when it happens in the middle of the night in the tent than it is on the changing table next to the bathroom. Much worse.

That’s the kind of excitement I’m anticipating a lot more of on this trip, so if you’re into that sort of thing, congratulations, you’ve found the journal for you. Welcome along.