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Sep 11, 2022, 7 tweets

I’ve been to Lago di Garda in northern #Italy—spectacular! (olive trees and lemons on a blue lake with the Dolomites looming).
Seeing the bicycle route they've built since makes me want to go back.
🧵 global bike path #bucketlist

Submarine cycling.
In Limburg, #Belgium, the Bokrijk bike path takes you below the surface of a lake in a national park...from a distance, it looks like bike riders’ heads are plowing through the water at speed.

Another Belgian stunner.

Fietsen door de Bomen, "Cycling through the trees," a corkscrewing bike path that takes you up to the treetops in a park in Limburg, #Belgium

A favourite in my own backyard! The 200 km P'tit Train du Nord in #Quebec's Laurentians. Here's 23 seconds of Zen from the last time I did it...

Come to think of it, we're due for another ride on the P'tit Train du Nord. Autumn leaves will soon be out!
Here's a feature I wrote for @WSJ Travel about riding it with my son...
wsj.com/articles/bike-…

I'd definitely bring my #frostbike (my winter bike with studded tires) for this one.

Oulu, #Finland, where traffic signs are projected directly onto snowy surface of bike paths.

(Too bad all the travel editors of the world seem to have gone AWOL lately. A few years ago, these would have been the foundation for a great feature...)

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