Summary: Amsterdam to St. Petersburg by Bicycle

Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:08 Last Updated on Monday, 24 August 2009 18:35 Written by Billy van Graan

Name: Amstercow
Type: Bicycle Touring
Distance: 3300km
Countries: Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia
Date: 28 May 2008 – 2 July 2008
Team: Myself, Claudine du Plesses and Lance Smit

Amstercow is a 3300km bicycle tour from Amsterdam in the Netherlands across Europe to St. Petersburg in Russia. It was first planned to end in Moscow rather than St. Petersburg but since getting visas for Belarus is nearly impossible for South Africans we had to change our route.

New Route - Click to Enlarge

The trip was Claudine’s idea and at first I would have not gone with. But when Lance decided he would go with Claudine and I realized the trip would actually happen I was in.

The highlight of the trip was using couchsurfing.com for the first time and all the people we met through it really made the trip and memories special.