Join me for a 2-hour cycle ride around the perimeter of Leuven.
In my last post I introduced you to how to use RouteYou to create your own walking or cycling route. Just to show you how easy it is in practice, I made this simple 27 km cycle ride from my (ex-)home around the outskirts of Leuven. As I mentioned, it’s just a matter of selecting the distance and direction, choosing a recreational cycle route, and you get a proposal for a route. I had to pull it to the south a little as I wanted to go through the Heverlee woods to the south of Leuven, but that was all the tinkering necessary. Here’s the map of the route, followed by some pictures.
So that was my cycle ride around the outskirts of Leuven and the route I took. Feel free to join it anywhere along the route, where it’s most convenient for you. You can download the map and the GPX track from my page over at RouteYou. Any questions, just contact me or comment below.
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Lots of interesting stuff on this tour, I’ve never seen a portable milking shed before. The abbey looks beautiful, especially the mill. The trees along the River Dyle look so odd – – someone must prune them into that shape (?)
Yes Robert, the leaves are growing back after being pollarded. And I’m looking forward to when the abbey is renovated. Sometime mid 21st century probably!
I’ve never seen a milking shed before! Your photos are stunning, especially the one with the poppies in the field.
Thanks Joy. Yes I guess it’s sometimes easier to take the shed to the cows rather than the cows to the shed.
If we got to Stella Artois that might be the end of our cycling tour. This is a lovely scenic route, with so much to see along the way.
Well that would be a good place to end it Carol, especially as they do guided tours.